Cruise night cancelled, too many dumbass's

We had a similar problem over 10 years ago here. There was a "street machine weekend". Everyone cruised up and down our local "strip". Lots of burnouts. Revving engines. Little races through the lights. Cops were handing out hundreds of tickets. Stunting. Dangerous driving. Etc etc. But I rarely recall there being any accidents of any kind. And I don't recall any serious accidents at all. In all honesty, the strip was SO packed you couldn't really get into trouble beyond a burnout. There was no room to get any kind of crazy speed. It was bumper to bumper for hours on end. But every year the police complained about how many tickets they hand out. How dangerous it was. How uncontrolled it was.

Eventually after pressure from the police/city the car club decided to do a "controlled" cruise. They blocked off a portion of the strip. You had to register. You could cruise your car up and down it. But there were rules. First it was no standing burnouts. Then no burnouts/tire spin of any kind. Then no revving your engine. Then it was no smoke from your diesel. Then no diesels at all. One year allows bikes, the next doesn't. So now it's just a bunch of cars, idling up and down the strip. When I went last year, I saw one guy rev his engine and squawk the tires a little. They immediately kicked him off. He was smiling, he obviously didn't give a **** and had enough of the rules.

The controlled cruise is nice but boring. It's a lot of the same cars. They allow a lot of newer model cars. So many new challengers, mustangs and camaros. And I get that they are nice cars. But I'm out to see the classics and interesting cars. One year they turned away a guy with an all original 71 GTX air grabber. I mean original paint even. But they let in a ton of newer stuff. So their thinking seems weird to me. It's mostly either new 60k+ muscle cars, or 100k+ restored muscle cars. Most of the cars I see in the cruise I hardly see any other time of the year. And certainly not daily driving like myself. Which is fine. I get that guys that have dumped that much money into their vehicle wanna keep it safe. But watching cars idle by just isn't really my style I guess. And they have so many restrictions on cars. And turn away so many cool cars.

And the cruise itself? Hasn't really cut down on the tickets or problems. People still cruise up and down the other half of the strip. Where they still do burnouts, rev their engines, gun it at the light. Etc etc. And cops still hand out tickets. Over 200 this year. And there was a minor accident. So the controlled cruise hasn't really "helped" that situation. Just as many people line the old strip as the new controlled cruise part. And when the controlled cruise is over, a lot of them head right onto the old strip anyways.