A Browns Plains woman has been living in fear after hoons repeatedly targeted her home over the past two months – ramming her front gates and even tearing them from their posts.
Meanwhile, the city’s state MPs are urging the Queensland government to invest in more anti-hooning infrastructure as reports of dangerous driving on local streets reaches “unacceptably high rates”.
Police say they are investigating the repeated targeting of the Browns Plains woman, aged 68, and last week released footage of the hoons damaging her property’s front fence.
The footage shows that at around 9.20pm on 14 September, a blue Ford Falcon with no registration plates reversed up to the Downing Street home.
A male passenger can be seen exiting the car, attaching a chain to the front gate, and jumping back into the car before accelerating away, ripping the gate and fence from its posts.
This marked the fourth instance of what police described as “wilful damage” and hooning to the woman’s home since July.
At around 12.15am on 5 July, a small hatchback reversed into her front gate, causing “significant damage”.
At 3.55pm on 27 July, a car with no bonnet or registration plates hooned outside the property.
And just after 3am on 24 August, a car was doing burnouts out the front of her home before ramming the gate, forcing it three metres up the driveway.
This woman is not the first in the city, let alone Browns Plains, to be personally targeted by hoons.
Another local family of five who complained about repeated hooning last year claimed they were “doxed” and deliberately targeted by hoons driving erratically outside their home.
“In the last two to three years it has become quite bad,” the family’s father said at the time.
The family’s mother said hooning directly outside their home, occuring at all hours of the day, had been so loud her children “thought they were fireworks”.
As of 19 September 2025, more than 1900 people have signed a petition calling on the Queensland government to follow through on an election commitment made by Logan City’s state MPs at the last election.
They want a $1 million commitment to fund more anti-hooning cameras equipped with automatic numberplate and facial recognition technology to be installed across the city, and to help develop technology capable of detecting cars without license plates.
“I have always taken a very strong stand against hooning and the negative impact it has on our community,” Woodridge MP and deputy opposition leader Cameron Dick said.
“It’s why the former Labor government took strong action to crack down on offenders trying to get away with hooning, passed laws to make activities associated with supporting hooning illegal, funded a mobile anti-hooning camera trailer for Logan and made it easier for local residents to report hoons to police.
“It’s also about time the Crisafulli government committed to investing in more frontline police to stop hooning, something they have failed to do since coming into office.”
