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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Mayor On Cruisin Weekend: ‘I Know You Will Be Seeing Some Changes Next Year’

OCEAN CITY – Local residents stood strong this week in demanding Ocean City officials make a difference when it comes to increasingly rowdy behavior associated with car rally events.

Last month Cruisin hit Ocean City with 3,400 classic cars officially registered for the event and an in-kind number of hangers-on, or “wannabes” as the event promoter refers to them. While the officially registered participants appeared to be well behaved for the most part and attended the event’s official activities at the Inlet and Roland E. Powell Convention Center, the latter group raced up and down Coastal Highway and other streets, dumped trash in parking lots and left a considerable amount of rubber on the roads.

Cruisin’ has become one of the biggest weekends of the year in Ocean City, according to promoter and organizer Bob Rothermel and many business owners. While local residents bristled at the steady roar of the hot rod engines and the consequences of the large convergence, special events drive the economy in Ocean City, especially in the shoulder seasons. Balancing them with the quality of life has always been a challenge.

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

We will see if there are changes next year. I doubt it.

Anonymous said...

Make changes and I hope the car show will boycott OC.

Anonymous said...

We should be so lucky 3:29

Anonymous said...

These chronic complainers need to shut up. OC was a resort town long before they were born. What in the hell do they expect?
If you want peace and quiet you don't move to OC.
The lack of common sense is astounding.

P.A.L.S. group said...

I think CARS contribute to Climate Change...

I hate CARS...so Ban them with Guns too!!!

Anonymous said...

My wait staff friends tell me they are the cheapest group that comes to OC. $75k toys and they stiff the wait staff. Oh thats right they are from PA.

Anonymous said...

The cruisin crowd are a low IQ bunch.All of the noise they make is to compensate for a lack of formal education.Squealing tires is an obvious cry for help.

Anonymous said...

7:59 Big hot rods to compensate for small down under rods.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Make changes and I hope the car show will boycott OC.

June 4, 2015 at 3:29 PM

In your brittle mind you think the citizens of Ocean City care if your cheap cars boycott OC? I say bring a Spring Bike Week to Ocean City. At least you will get more civil people to OC and more money spent. Who wants those little punks driving their cheap wanna be race cars speeding and wrecking all the way up and down Coastal Highway.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
The cruisin crowd are a low IQ bunch.All of the noise they make is to compensate for a lack of formal education.Squealing tires is an obvious cry for help.

June 4, 2015 at 7:59 PM

Well put! Nothing but a bunch of uneducated grease monkeys with ugly girlfriends.