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A red, lowered GMC Sierra stopped in the middle of a busy road to rip a fat burnout. Right behind it, a plum-colored Ford Mustang followed suit, thick plumes of tire smoke erupting from its rear tires. A white Hellcat attempted a drift across a busy intersection during ongoing traffic, nearly slamming into a neighboring Nissan. All of this happened before a watching and (largely) cheering crowd, two of whom had a “FULL SEND” flag wrapped around their legs.
This was the scene that rubbed shoulders with the otherwise peaceful Houston Coffee & Cars meet up that happened on Saturday, Jan. 4. A video uploaded to YouTube the same day and claiming to be from that meeting showed a compilation of the antics. A quick Google maps search confirmed it was shot on the corner of Interstate 10 Frontage Road and Gessner Road—right outside the parking lot of the Memorial City Mall in Houston, Texas, where the event took place.
Four days later, on Jan. 8, Houston C&C organizers took action. On both their Facebook and Instagram pages, which have substantial following (53,800 and 26,800 followers respectively), they announced a two-month hiatus and upcoming “drastic changes” in both the types of cars and people allowed that have been deemed intrusive to the event.
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A red, lowered GMC Sierra stopped in the middle of a busy road to rip a fat burnout. Right behind it, a plum-colored Ford Mustang followed suit, thick plumes of tire smoke erupting from its rear tires. A white Hellcat attempted a drift across a busy intersection during ongoing traffic, nearly slamming into a neighboring Nissan. All of this happened before a watching and (largely) cheering crowd, two of whom had a “FULL SEND” flag wrapped around their legs.
This was the scene that rubbed shoulders with the otherwise peaceful Houston Coffee & Cars meet up that happened on Saturday, Jan. 4. A video uploaded to YouTube the same day and claiming to be from that meeting showed a compilation of the antics. A quick Google maps search confirmed it was shot on the corner of Interstate 10 Frontage Road and Gessner Road—right outside the parking lot of the Memorial City Mall in Houston, Texas, where the event took place.
Four days later, on Jan. 8, Houston C&C organizers took action. On both their Facebook and Instagram pages, which have substantial following (53,800 and 26,800 followers respectively), they announced a two-month hiatus and upcoming “drastic changes” in both the types of cars and people allowed that have been deemed intrusive to the event.
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It always seems start this way: a nice, passion- and enthusiast-driven community event gets ruined by a few idiots with heavy feet, so starved of attention that they’re willing to endanger others to get it. And it seems more and more so to be a pattern rather than an anomaly.
