The greater majority of those complaining about the cops being there are not on this forum, no one here is whinging that cops rocked up, i knew there would be some along the way. The whole point is shit got out of hand in some groups at some parts of the hills, i.e corkscrew, and the cops were alerted, caught up with one group, then he brought his buddies down, doing their job. Sitting on the corkscrew doing burnouts is not only dangerous, pointless and reckless, its completely f**king stupid.
the WHOLE disappointment of the cruise was the lack of an intelligent driver behind the wheel of some cars. Ok, granted, it was an NS.com cruise and everyone knows a bit of reckless shit happens sometimes, but from my perspective, it got way too out of hand real, real quick. Otherwise, it would have been a great cruise for a great cause, with no problems, and you wouldnt be calling us all fools I have been on a few NS.com cruises now, and people have done some stupid shit, but nothing to the level i witnessed yesterday. No disrespect, but i dont know why im a fool for attending.
It doesnt matter whether the olds or your grandmother organised the cruise, you can have a bunch of awesome guys with awesome cars doing some hills runs and raising money for charity, it only takes one skid (on purpose or not) or loud exhaust to alert locals and they WILL contact the police, Mike Rann has flooded the media with so much hoon bs that each and every supporter of him is now sick of "hoons", whether they have ever witnessed hoon activity (loosely defined) or not.
Mark has now created a thread in the SA section of NS asking the community for a solution to this problem. He obviously believes some of the track cars/drift oriented drivers are to blame for the skids and stupid behaviour. I dont know of the solution, but i can guarantee you, the BSM cruise will have a huge amount of cars, some will get defected, taken back to stock, regency, then back on the road with their former un ADR approved modifications. Its the, as Dave has said before, loose nut behind the steering wheel who needs to grow the f**k up.
Then JAck and Jill went tumbling down the hill with an ADR approved bucket, and we all lived happily ever after.
The end.