Re: Parx SuperCar Show : 26th - 27th January, 2013 Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy there are baracades to keep the people away from the cars. There were adiquite security at the event. |
True, there were barricades. But, sincerely, they were not very stringent and holding people back. Some people dared to venture inside unnoticed. Some VIP people having passes/associations were roaming freely inside the barricade near the cars and again behaving as if own properties and also blocking views for the common public sincerely trying to take look at the cars from outside the barricades. Security people were not too strict and were not able to contain a lot of people. Additionally, if you remember, there were some beauties parked in the open arena in the middle of the barricaded area where people were roaming freely around them, touching them, resting upon them and giving poses for snaps with them. It was such a sympathetic sight of the beauties, the way people were treating them. The security was helpless not able to stop many people from doing what they did. Quote:
Since its a public event it would not be possible to avoid the crowd or the people. The idea of the Static display a day in advance is to try and reduce the crowd on sunday and frankly i dont think the crowds would be less as people want to hear and see their favorite supercars drive by.
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True. In fact I anticipate to see quite an ocean of people out there this time around. Its going to be a tougher challenge requiring more stringent measures and people should respect that it is for their good only to let all enjoy the show. Quote:
That is something i noticed last year and it made it difficult for car owners too. I do hope this is taken care of this year. A very good suggestion by you.
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Yeah. This not only was a grave problem for the precious cars, the crowd gathered at the drive departure gate was also holding the public inside the arena and not letting them out. I saw quite a few kids getting sandwiched in this crowd and it was difficult for the parents to pull them out of there, and the people were so enthused that they would not even listen to giving way to these people stranded in arena and sandwiched in-between. There is euphoria amongst people at that moment which needs to be contained and there are these other human aspects they should think about while enjoying the same. Quote:
I do believe it was done last year too and in the briefing the drivers were asked to drive in a convoy. There were people driving into the cars in order to get their exhaust video and driving video which made it difficult to maintain the convoy. I am sure you must have seen the nomber of people thinking their cars are supercars and driving rash and also not paying attention to whats in front of them in their eagerness to get pictures and videos. We also faced people standing on the islands at Worli and other places and jumping in front of the cars to take their pictures..this got really dangerous.
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I got to know about that later too. But as said earlier, I was standing amongst the crowd at the Worli sea face later to enjoy the parade and nobody there knew about such a provision and that they should park their vehicles elsewhere to make way for the drive. The traffic police were probably also not knowing or they should have made these people drive off their vehicles. In fact people were like competing with each other to get a better view and going forward on the road unhindered causing grave problem for the drive. In event we got to see and hear many grave damages to the beauties. Quote:
Every effort has been put in by Super Car Club to make thinks enjoyable for the people but one thing even the club cannot achieve is changing the attitude of people. I do hope this time around the people do not behave as though the supercars would never be seen again or would not be driven again in their lifetime.
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Absolutely. I agree SCC is doing its best to put up a superb show just for the people's enjoyment. I just hope good sense prevails in people and lets spread word for people understand the gravity of the situation and show some respect to the event and cars. |