Strategies to Stop Car Meet Ups in Neighborhoods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood, which is largely residential and generally quiet, has a small shopping center with an oversized parking lot on its edge. On the weekends, large groups of cars (maybe 60) have started to meet in this parking lot (usually empty after 8pm), rev their engines, blast music and basically hold the neighborhood hostage to noise. The shopping center owner has been notified but can't seem to do anything about it. The police are called every weekend and they eventually show up but do nothing (not even giving out citations for the noise).

I live several blocks away and I can hear the cars inside my house with the tv on. I can't imagine what it's like for the folks who live on the street near the shopping center.

If the owner and the policy won't or can't do anything, is there any other recourse?

(I'm really looking for concrete strategies, please.)

Bollards on either side of the entrances and heavy chain across is a start. Or do his homework for him and find out if he can post and enforce notices closing the lot at 8pm or whatever. If you're in a small locality, get the police on it. Even if you're not, get the police on it based on loitering ordinances or the like.

[Anonymous]

Some ideas:

Blast country music

Put stadium lights on

Speaker system with loud fart noises

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are a knucklehead it is most likely Cars and Coffee. They are organized and have permission from owner. They usually move around. We had them in Potomac shopping center for awhile Sunday morning at 8 am.

The owner liked it as everyone met had coffee and breakfast and broke up around 10am before a lot of customers came.

I'm pretty sure this is not the same thing.

[Anonymous]

The unfortunate part to me is that the people doing the car meet-ups do not seem to mind that their activities (especially the noise) are imposing on other people. It seems like people are more selfish these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happens every Sunday night near my neighborhood. Then they street race. It's so obnoxious, police do nothing about it. The cars are modified to be extra noisy including exhaust modifications that sound loud and like gunshots. Idiots and morons.

It is selfish of people to have noisy cars and engage in these behaviors. Do they not care that their actions are imposing on others?

In schools, we should teach children about how to be respectful members of a community. ("I try to be respectful to you, and you do the same for me.")

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The unfortunate part to me is that the people doing the car meet-ups do not seem to mind that their activities (especially the noise) are imposing on other people. It seems like people are more selfish these days.

They want attention, but people really think they look like idiots who blew their scarce money on pimping their rides. They ruin perfectly good cars, to make them loud and obnoxious, in order to get attention. Then they respond with "racism" - but they look foolish more than anyone commenting looks racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happens every Sunday night near my neighborhood. Then they street race. It's so obnoxious, police do nothing about it. The cars are modified to be extra noisy including exhaust modifications that sound loud and like gunshots. Idiots and morons.

It is selfish of people to have noisy cars and engage in these behaviors. Do they not care that their actions are imposing on others?

In schools, we should teach children about how to be respectful members of a community. ("I try to be respectful to you, and you do the same for me.")

Well in civilized society, one is expected to be civil.

[Anonymous]

Contact the insurer of the shopping center. This kind of activity can leave the shopping center owner open to legal liabilities is someone is injured/kill or damage to property. Insurance would step in at some point to defend the property owner.

Send in lots of evidence, including copies of registered letter sent to the property owner with copies of photographic evidence.

Always hit a person or entity in their wallet. That's the most effective means of getting what you want. You need to align their monetary incentives.

[Anonymous]

Where is this, I might be able to help

[Anonymous]

Maybe get everyone in the neighborhood to park their cars in the lot to fill it up?