Damn I have to say this was a Shi^*y way to conduct an event. You pay for parking go around the corner and get harrased by the police. I am working on writting a letter to HIN staff, expressing my dissapointment. We rolled in with a few Z's and 350Z7K got popped for 7 violations. I mean come on almost every car that pulled in had something that was modified. The show well needless to say was just ok. When you pay $8.00 for parking, possibly getting a fix a ticket, and $30.00 to get in you would expect to get a pretty good show. Maybe I just have high standards.

 

This (**** traffic cops who have nothing beter to do) is one of the primary reasons why I never go when invited by friends to these kind of events.

Unfortunately, I don't think that HIN can do anything about the cops being as that the cars need to use public roads to get to the event unless HIN cn work out some kind of 'treaty' with the various police departments.

Car shows are boring anyways.

 

wow that is bullsh!t

 

Reminds me of a thread on 350zmoting. The guy went to an HIN and made it inside the parkin garage but snapped pictures out onto the street of LAPD or some agency pulling-over two cars.

 

YEAP thats how car shows are usually now these day..cops are usually down the street or right by the exit waiting to pull people over...

i entered my car back in 05ish with my kandy blue del sol in the show...after the show (about 2am) everyone was exiting the building..once my tire hit the street all i saw was lights behind me..got pop and ref ticket!!

 

this is why i don't attend these HIN events anymore. They started doing this couple years back in San Mateo.

 

wow sad to hear about that. Its pretty shady to have the cops run people down inside the parking lot

 

They don't do this kind off crap when they have the Goodguys All "AMERICAN" GTG Shows... I go all the time and the cops are around but they are directing traffic. I used to take my 99 Z28 Camaro with a lopy cam and no cats right next to them at the light and they never once popped. They only do this kind of thing to import cars. If any body is writing a letter it should be to the city and ask why they don't do this to the "American" muscle car guys

 

I got a story to tell too. As we (Me, dphoenix and tbg35c) left the parking lot, Matt(tbg35c) was ahead of me by 3 cars, while David(dphoenix) was 2 cars behind me. From afar, I saw 3 cops on a bike waiting on the corner across the lot. I then saw one cop jumped on his bike and followed a car. Luckily me and David got off without a hitch. Turned out, it was Matt and another G35 whom the cop pulled over earlier.
That sucks!!

 

isn't that called entrapment by the PD? and i know thats illegal

 

PD can't catch ....drug dealers, murderers, terrorist, car nappers, kid nappers etc.... so to make it easy on them, they catch us.... which I think is a waste of time. Car enthusiast should be left alone with our hobbies, except for those who act retarded burn tires, street drift, street race etc. blast their music (all you hear is vibrating license plate)

I know some PD's are car enthusiast and some have no life.... (that's the one who gets you)

They could be racist also, if you drive a muscle car they'll let you slide... (trust me I witnessed it)

 

i saw the ss z getting a ticket that day.I was trippin that i might get pulled over too, not having my front bumper license plate number.oh btw it was the 20th so cops would pull you over for some stupid *** **** so they can get their quota.

 

They just go after the Z's and G35's because they know it's money in their pockets. Working on their retirement investment. And watch JDM Theory also coming up. Same thing will happen again. Palo Alto, S.F. and areas around there same thing. That's the reason I don't go to them either. I heard too many stories just like the ones above. from last year too.

 

Yup, Ed was spot on. I got caught coming out of the parking lot around 10:30pm. The cop was targeting spectators on the way in and on the way out. I got lucky coming in, but coming out was different story. They were clearly using the amber light as an excuse to nail you on the way out since it was easy to spot sidecorner light at night. They will then look for other violations. Sorry to hear about that guy with 7 violations. Hope he can get it sorted out soon.

 

yea my friend got a BS ticket for ****ing tail light tint. wow thanks officer DOOFY! mean while somebodys house is getting robbed, women getting raped, children molested because all the criminals know the cops are at HIN

 

F THE POPO!

 

personally, i would look at this situation as a part of the risks/rewards being a car enthusiast. is it fair? hell to the no, but it is what it is...

 

I also would like to comment regarding the police situation. That was one of the problem i was hoping to avoid that day. Thank god that two of my boy's told me about the cops when they left, and suggested an alternate route home. So my boy and I left and took the suggested route without any incidents. But I did see three motorcycle cops came into the staging area, circled a couple times, then left. So they were clearly trying to scout the remaining cars and were just waiting to give out additional citations. The thing I don't understand is that the city knows that HIN is there that day, and yet they did nothing to prevent the tickiting incident from happening. Rather than allowing the import car enthousiasts to have a good time at the show, instead, we have to worry about whether the cops will harrass us after we leave the premisis. To me, that is total BS. This is clearly a stereotype by the city and the police department; and this needs to be brought to the attention of the city. If this problem does not get resolved, I'm not sure how much longer HIN will stay in business.

 

I am surprised that no one called in a phony bomb threat to keep the cops busy while everyone drove away.

Not that I would do that. But I am surprised no one did.

 

I would think HIN staff would've worked something out with the city. If this continues to happen and no one shows up, HIM may end up following Nopi out the door. I guess that's the one good thing about the east coast, we dont get harrassed by anyone not driving a SRT-4.