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Footage of undercover cops in rather pedestrian cars busting expensive, incredibly fast supercars has drawn a lot of attention. This crackdown at a recent enthusiast meet in the UK happened recently, echoing other times in the UK and other countries authorities have decided to end car meets for a variety of reasons.
They should see the supercar meets held in California.
Nestled 12 miles south of Manchester, the affluent village of Alderley Edge has been the meeting place for supercar owners for years. However, police have vowed to end the supercar meets after residents have reportedly claimed they’re disruptive and damaging local businesses.
Attendees of the meet were reportedly warned they would face charges after Cheshire Police put a dispersal order in place, reports the BBC.
Predictably, some supercar owners still showed up. Perhaps they were confident there would be too many of their peers for everyone to get in trouble. It’s apparent police only pulled over some of the participants, so they would have been right to assume that.
If any were thinking they would just outrun police, we don’t see any evidence of a supercar driver just taking off.
What’s even more likely is people who can afford such expensive rides can also easily afford to pay a fine. Some probably consider it the cost of admission to a meet or even wear the citation like a badge of honor.
We don’t expect some normies to understand how that works. But we also know how supercar owners who like to attend meets can behave.
With hundreds or more flocking to the supercar meets, some people really hate the rowdy, unusual behavior on display. Plus, many of these vehicles have loud exhausts, something residents in Alderley Edge have complained about. Authorities even installed noise-enforcement cameras to combat that part of the problem.
But the most effective enforcement tool appears to be undercover cops catching supercar drivers behaving badly.
Image via Cars of England/YouTube
