Embarassed to be a Mini Trucker!

Edited: 6/24/2009 7:07:39 AM by 1redchvy

Edited: 6/24/2009 7:06:32 AM by 1redchvy
This is why we are losing so many good shows! Pick up after yourself! Props to Greg Miller for an awesome event!  Lets keep this one around!  Pick up your trash! 
http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/1429674.html
 
Scrapin The Coast has rolled out of town, but some people feel they have been left to pick up the pieces
 
BILOXI -- Biloxi — While vehicles were Scrapin The Coast over the weekend, fans parked along U.S. 90 to admire the low rise cars and trucks were making a mess. “They expect somebody else to pick up after them,” said Bobby Weaver, director of the Harrison County Sand Beach Authority. He shifted most of the department’s operations Monday to collect the bottles, cans and other trash left behind. His crews said the last time they saw litter on this scale other than Mardi Gras and the Fourth of July was Black Spring Break, held on the Coast before Hurricane Katrina.
 
TIM ISBELL/SUN HERALD A Scrapin The Coast participant heads home Monday morning as trash from the event lines U. S. 90. Although the event is popular, some Coast residents don’t like the trash that is left behind. “Cruisin’ (the Coast) gets a large crowd but it doesn’t generate this kind of trash,” said Weaver. “The promoter really went out of his way to head off as many problems as he could,” said Biloxi public affairs manager Vincent Creel. Ronny Tolar, one of five organizers, met with Biloxi police, the Sand Beach Authority and the mayor’s office months ahead of the event. Creel said the number of tickets issued during the event was down considerably from last year. Of the 149 tickets written during the event, 31 were for careless driving, two for stunting and the majority of the others for failing to wear a seat belt and not having insurance. Creel said only one person was arrested for driving under the influence. No tickets were handed out for littering. Tolar said more than 2,500 vehicles registered for the two-day event. “It was more than we expected. This was our largest year,” with more paid spectators on Saturday than both days last year. “We try to bring more people to the Gulf Coast,” he said, “especially this year seeing how bad the economy was.” They created a two-site show and when space was filled at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, the drivers were directed to the Gulfport Dragway. “People went in between the venues all day,” he said. “They hit restaurants, gas stations and convenience stores all the way from Biloxi to Gulfport.” The past two years were challenging for the event with the Convention Center and U.S. 90 under construction, he said. Next year a new parking garage at the Coliseum and Convention Center will be complete. Tolar said many of the cars will be displayed inside the new section of the Convention Center and Scrapin The Coast will expand to a 3-day event. Coliseum Executive Director Bill Holmes said there wasn’t any more or less trash on the Coliseum grounds than during the recent Crawfish Festival or Summer Fair, and the area was clean by Monday morning. “Whenever you have large crowds come down you anticipate some of that,” he said. People were having a good time and the hotels and restaurants were filled, Holmes said, and the economic impact for many businesses was greater than for Mardi Gras. Tolar didn’t know who left the trash but said, “A lot of people on the side of the road had Harrison County tags.” He arranged for Advance Disposal to provide trash cans to the hotels along the Biloxi strip and said the hotel owners were grateful for the containers and the event to fill their hotels. Weaver said Tolar asked him to put extra trash cans at the parking areas along the beach, but organizers didn’t know that people would park on private property on the north side of the highway. He hoped spectators would take a little personal responsibility and carry their trash back to their cars or at least bring a garbage bag and put their empty bottles in the trash cans. “There’s not much more I can do other than pick up the mess after them,” he said.

i never understand why people litter??? sometimes i feel lazy, but never that lazy. black spring break sounds racist. lol

Edited: 6/24/2009 8:02:09 AM by garagebuilt

that sucks they called out mini truckers. at least they point out other events are just as bad.

My wife asked me why our club stays at a casino instead of at a lower end hotel like we used to. i told her to wait and see. we rode down the strip on friday night and saw everyone out enjoying the cruising,partying,and drinking.then i told her how would she like to be trying to sleep while all this was going on. we had our 2 lil ones with us also. then we rode down the strip sat morning and saw all the trash. it looked like people were putting a lot of trash in bags,but then there was also a lot of trash on the ground. that is why we stayed in a casino. i enjoy the cruising and partying. people get drunk and dont clean up. that is what is going to happen every year. the county should know it is coming and be more prepared. i hope it dosen't look bad on greg or STC. the show is bad ass and people are going to liter. i think the cops should be on the strip telling people to pick up or pay a littering fine. at least no one got hurt. and there was only 1 dui ticket given.

Whew...It is just some trash. I thought maybe you had been caught somewhere out of uniform (i.e. No Dickies shorts, black T, and tall black socks in your skater shoes).

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by idrgbdyblack spring break sounds racist. lol ---------------------------------------------haha it does sound bad

Sounds like good problems to have, I am sure it can remedied with a hired crew to help keep the show in the area and keep locals happy.   I know David did a financial study in Austin on the positive impact THW does for the area, at the scale of 2500 entries, maybe it makes sense to go down that route to make sure politically you have the city in your pocket.   My two cents.

a lot of the severed crew was hanging out in the parking lot across from treasure bay most of the weekend, every night we made the effort to pick up after all of us. then after everyone started thining out at the end of the night i would just look around us at where all the locals were hanging out, there was nothing but trash everywhere! we new the city would try to blame it on the show, but at the same time its bad when someone that lives a thousand miles away cares more about the town then the people that live 5min down the road. so what do they expect, all of the show goers to pick up after the locals all night so were aloud to come back every year?dont get me wrong i know not everyone thats there for the show is sure to clean up there mess, but we should not be called out and get blamed for something that is not entirely our fault. maybe the city should try to help them out by putting more trash cans along the beach side of the strip where the locals were hanging out to enjoy the cruising. it needs to be a give and take situation from what i can see!  theres also a black biker week at myrtle beach (but hey theres also black entertainment tv, so they are choosing to segragate themselves)

Most of that article talks about the show in a possitive manner. It speaks to the impact the show had on the local economy and how happy local business owners are. It sounds like the town was really impressed with the job that Ronny Tolar did. While I dont condone people not picking up after themselves the show sounded like it went off without a hitch. There is no meantion of people fighting or being distructive, which is an imrovement compared to past shows. While people should have been more responsible about picking up after themselves that is something that would happen anytime you get a large group of people together. It speaks more to the views of society as a whole that people should make their life easier and not really to the fact that minitruckers are "disrespectful". It seems like people in the mini truckin community as any publicity being bad publicity.

It is definitely irritating to see all the trash, and watching people crumple up beer cans and just throw them down cause they are lazy or just don't care. The only precaution I could see to do is put out a tun of cans at all the hotels and down the beach side. Or even maybe the city could see about taxing certain things to pay for the labor of clean up. Regardless it is going to happen no matter what. The good guys will eventually be out of a show, cause of the worthless people with no respect. SCT is one of my favorite shows and I myself would be pretty pissed to loose it.