[Anti_Rice_Guy]

Originally Posted by Hammersmith

Someone pointed this post out to me yesterday and since I'm the person that organized and ran the VW event you wanted to "invade" I felt obligated to post a response.

You seemed to know an awful lot about the event, where it was starting, what time, where it was ending and that the route was not published. Knowing that you knew all those details it seems to me that if you legitimately wanted to come out and join us that you would have had no problem getting a hold of me so that we could have worked something out. You didn't do that so I can only assume that your intent was to cause problems, and yes I saw you roll in Sunday morning, park your car, and rev the motor trying to get attention, hooray for you, mission accomplished.

What you didn't seem to post in here is that event was for charity and that we had collected over 3500lbs in canned and non perishable food donations and over $600 in cash from T-shirt sales for local area foodbanks to help those less fortunate. You also failed to mention that we were meeting at 8:30AM in hotel parking lot, a hotel that doesn't have to let us use their lot to park 150+ cars every year (especially when they have guests that are paying good money for a room and might not want to woken up at 8:30 by the sounds some moron revving his engine) but they do because they understand the cause and what we're trying to do and year after year the people that show up to this event are respectful to their facilities and their guests. Hell they even let us come in use the bathrooms and send guys with cameras up to the higher floors so they can take pictures from a cooler angle.

You may think that this is all a big joke, and that's fine but next time you try and organize some half hearted attempt to invade or disrupt someone else's event make sure you tell them that they are on their way to cause a problem at something that's sole purpose was to give back to the community and help those than are unable to help themselves. Make sure they understand what you're trying to get them in to.

I only knew about it because two of my friends told me about it and participated. I didn't realize it was a charity run until I got there at 10 am. I just thought it was a car cruise and figured on tagging along for a bit. I hadn't planned on really "disturbing" your event and throwing it to pieces. My friends had not told me the whole thing, thus I could not give any details to the members here, and admitted that. I was not trying to keep my intentions or details of the event a secret.