“SEND IT!” the kid next to me screamed into the night, as three cop cars tore through the intersection where a slammed Volkswagen had done a front-wheel drive burnout only moments before. A police helicopter buzzed over the bay nearby. H2Oi was technically cancelled this year. But 78 arrests, 2,735 calls to police and one charge for attempted murder later, it’s clear that the most ticketed car show in America only got rowdier than ever before.
(Full disclosure: We went to H2Oi to shoot an episode of Car vs. America, premiering Oct. 18 on Fusion. You should watch it.)
Every year at the close out of summer, tuned and stanced Volkswagens, Audis and youth cars of all types descend on the hokey little beach town of Ocean City, Maryland.
The Instagram-famous cars that the show is known for are illegally low, and every year the cops come out in force to rain down tickets on every chrome-wheeled vehicle that cruises the town’s one long main street.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the main article "But the idea that Ocean City was ravaged by outsiders doesn’t square with what I saw that week; the worst offenders in terms of street racing and next-to-the-sidewalk burnouts came from Mustangs and lifted pickups with Maryland license plates."
ReplyDeleteThis is so true. For many years these shows(including the classic car show in May and October) have attracted a bunch of idiots in lifted pick-ups who act like a bunch of drunken hillbilly rednecks. On second though they aren't acting they're just being their low IQ selves.
Cops covertly organize the event, then cancel it to make it more popular. Its their biggest revenue generator of the year!
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