The one thing that strikes you about Perth as soon as you start living here is how moderately people drive.
Strict road laws such as reducing the speed limits on the metropolitan freeways to 100kmh, 40kmh in school zones and enforcing strict demerit points penalties have driven down the carnage on the roads.
The cops take policing the roads here very seriously.
Just recently they have unleashed a range of new legislation, what they call "anti-hoon" laws to clamp down on errant drivers.
One the hoon laws that are grating people is the one where if a person is caught driving without a license their cars will be confiscated for 28 days.
The car do not necessarily have to be theirs. The cops have confiscated company cars, mom and dads cars.
One of those anti-hoon laws snared a rare Ferrari California.
The R3.5 million Ferrari (there are only two of them in the world) has been confiscated because it was doing twice the speed limit on a country road in Western Australia.
The car was being driven by respected Financial Review motoring writer Rod Easdown who was clocking it at a staggering 231 kmh. Easdown had taken the car far, very far from civilisation and was merely doing what the car was made for - speed.
Unfortunately, even rare Ferrari's can only go at 100kmh in Australia. So Easdown was arrested and the car brought into Australia by Ateco Automotive is locked up in a police pound somewhere.
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