[MPTness]

Burnaby car-meet clamp down (http://www.burnabynow.com/news/burnaby-car-meet-clamp-down-1.2280906)

:badpokerface:

Hope this was not revscene.

Regardless, looks like Thursday meets will be happening elsewhere.

[XplicitLuder]

youre like, 3 years late here EleGiggle , yes thats an exaggeration

[PDA_86]

Why am I not surprised....

[GS8]

Good

Just end it already

[bluejays]

As much as I enjoyed going every once in a while, I'm glad it's shut down. Too many young kids with shit boxes and buddy guys with their 5.0's ruining it for everyone. It got completely out of hand

[SpartanAir]

Sooo for those still interested in meetups...is there a new location?

[rps13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzw5RpakvH4

found this on youtube

[radioman]

I love how one of the "admins" of the FB page comments saying how they tried to get in contact with managment and that they are all customers of tims but yet he takes the signs that were posted by MC at the parking lot and posts it on facebook like he stuck it to the man. That ladies and gentleman are the people "running" the event.

[DragonChi]

The article says that the meets were organized through a facebook group. Thursday night meets.

[tegra7]

Meets are now at Queensborogh landing.

[The_AK]

Meets are now at Queensborogh landing.

^this, and it was relatively quiet when I checked it out last week

[fliptuner]

It'll get shut down before July, for sure.

[XplicitLuder]

i went by last thursday for the first time to any thursday meet in a good 1 year +

it seemed more tamed than what i used to see at byrne, which was quite nice. But there was still your typical dbag here and there doing their "cool" stunts, specially some old volvo i think, i forget lol

Quite a bit of police presence from what i saw, but ya like fliptuner says, dont expect this to last

[meme405]

I don't attend these often at all anymore, Been to like 3 in the last 2 years, For exactly the reasons listed. Whereas the summer before I was out there almost every week.

With that said I watch the drama on FB groups and just laugh. QB got shut down abruptly from what I understand tonight, lol.

It's funny cause I've watched meets like this move around vancouver for 10 years now, and I know exactly which parking lots you can and can't meet at, for example Lougheed you won't last 10 minutes, which is another venue the "organizers" of thursday night tried. It's honestly pathetic, these people took over a meet which established itself over the last 5 years, and ruined it in 1 summer, and now have proceeded to make a complete debauchery of everything for 2 more years after that.

[westopher]

You get a group of 18-25 year old males in a group somewhere, especially with a culture thats as buddy guy as young car enthusiasts and the testosterone just makes everyone go full retard. Thats why I like cars and coffee, everyone is too old and tired to act like that.

[Inaii]

Are you in vcc meme?

Some of the rotary guys want to hold the 7s meet at this :heckno: no thanks, I don't want to be associated with a bunch of hooligans.

[ilvtofu]

Wow writer shouldn't quit his day job, flow of the article is so erratic
- picture of stock Miata wheel couldn't be less interesting or relevant to the type of cars that show up at these meets
- "Market Crossin shopping centre"
- "some of the customers felt intimated by the crowds"

[snowball]

- "some of the customers felt intimated by the crowds"

The car community is a very sensual group let me tell ya

[Akinari]

Meet got too intimate for them to handle :lawl:

[Matsuda]

hopefully this doesn't make it harder to have an actual official Revscene Summer/Spring Meets in the future.

[underscore]

Not really surprising, these small cars meets have been getting ruined and moved in cities all over the world for years.

[yray]

you need boobs to manage this

[Expresso]

Disappearing like Jack's Loft and the street racing days.

[dat_steve]

cringe so hard

[ZN6]

Throw them off. Cops on one side at the Tim Hortons? Boob meat on the other side where Staples and BP is. Check out some pay less shoes while there.:troll:

[trollguy]

Disappearing like Jack's Loft and the street racing days.

wow............................................

[smoothie.]

Theres a reason we moved boob meats back to tuesdays.

It's been fun watching this gongshow, but the people that run and attend have no concept of what private property or keeping something low key is.

[Expresso]

Theres a reason we moved boob meats back to tuesdays.

It's been fun watching this gongshow, but the people that run and attend have no concept of what private property or keeping something low key is.

They are kids what else can you expect? Were you much different at 19-25?

[smoothie.]

They are kids what else can you expect? Were you much different at 19-25?

Yeah.

I went to car shows, and I started the boob meats before I was 25.

We didnt tolerate any of the bullshit that happens at thursday meets, and we picked up our trash.

[ZN6]

They are kids what else can you expect? Were you much different at 19-25?

Sorry, but that excuse is bull shit. If you were a parent and if your kids trashed the house, would you excuse your kids because they are just being "kids". Habits form and they are lasting. If you let your kids trash someone else's house and leave it for someone else to pick up, what then?

Guess what? If they don't behave something's gonna get taken away. I expect people to clean up after themselves, is that really something so fucking difficult to expect these days?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EzDs_din3g

[swiftshift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EzDs_din3g

:nicethread:

[meme405]

They are kids what else can you expect? Were you much different at 19-25?

Many on here are younger than 25, and not all act like idiots.

[Expresso]

Sorry, but that excuse is bull shit. If you were a parent and if your kids trashed the house, would you excuse your kids because they are just being "kids". Habits form and they are lasting. If you let your kids trash someone else's house and leave it for someone else to pick up, what then?

Guess what? If they don't behave something's gonna get taken away. I expect people to clean up after themselves, is that really something so fucking difficult to expect these days?


Maybe I'm alone but I have a very cynical view of millennials. I would wager and say the "mature" crowd is pretty much a minority.

[punkwax]

I thought I was mature when I was 19-25 and now that I'm 35 I realize how much of an idiot I could be back then..

Sadly I'll probably look back at my 35 year old self in 10 years and feel the same way LUL

[tegra7]

Queensborough meet was shut down by police last night. Culprits were ass hats in Mustangs revving according to fb

[Mr.Money]

they were 1 second away from starting a burn-out contest...srs.

[SpuGen]

Lol

I often stop by Market Crossing on my way home from work to get groceries, ice caps, or smokes at LD. Got sick of getting stared down like I was some fuckboy who attends those meets, and made a mini rant on fb about it.

Someone screen shot it, and posted it to one of those fb groups to throw me under the bus. Bitch is crazy. I think meme405 and entrax replied to it. Don't know what came of it since I'm not in that fb group.

Does make me curious though. If someone could screenshot it and post it here it'd be greaaat. I wonder if it's the same kids who complain that there's not enough notice given before a RS spring/Summer meet. Last Sunday of March, same with August depending on show season. Its been like this for 15 years.

[Inaii]

Do you remember what group it was?

[SpuGen]

It's either Thursday night meets or van city meets.

Dunno.

[Inaii]

Ahh ok, nvm. I'm not a member of either of those groups. I was going to see if I could find it for you.

[kross9]

Lol

I often stop by Market Crossing on my way home from work to get groceries, ice caps, or smokes at LD. Got sick of getting stared down like I was some fuckboy who attends those meets, and made a mini rant on fb about it.

Someone screen shot it, and posted it to one of those fb groups to throw me under the bus. Bitch is crazy. I think meme405 and entrax replied to it. Don't know what came of it since I'm not in that fb group.

Does make me curious though. If someone could screenshot it and post it here it'd be greaaat. I wonder if it's the same kids who complain that there's not enough notice given before a RS spring/Summer meet. Last Sunday of March, same with August depending on show season. Its been like this for 15 years.

Done

[nns]

Done

I think he wants you to find the FB post he was originally referring to and post it here on RS so that he can see what the comments say.

[meme405]

Lol

I often stop by Market Crossing on my way home from work to get groceries, ice caps, or smokes at LD. Got sick of getting stared down like I was some fuckboy who attends those meets, and made a mini rant on fb about it.

Someone screen shot it, and posted it to one of those fb groups to throw me under the bus. Bitch is crazy. I think meme405 and entrax replied to it. Don't know what came of it since I'm not in that fb group.

Does make me curious though. If someone could screenshot it and post it here it'd be greaaat. I wonder if it's the same kids who complain that there's not enough notice given before a RS spring/Summer meet. Last Sunday of March, same with August depending on show season. Its been like this for 15 years.

I remember that, It was on either Thursday Night meets or VCC. Good luck finding it though, it was months ago, and the only way I can think is to just keep scrolling back until you see it. lol. Maybe someone can try to search using the original post and see if FB can find it, but if it was a screen shot then you are probably not gonna be lucky.

As for it being the same people that complain about the RS meets timing, it almost definitely is partly the same ones. Realistically it's like the same ~20 people posting and commenting on every post on VCC, and it's those same people that are always critical of RS. They will learn eventually, most of the active people on these groups are brand new to the scene (like within the last couple years).

Honestly the slow decline of forums, and the new age of FB car groups taking over makes me ache for the future. Gone are the days of solid DIY's, people helping each other out with detailed information, and interesting forum topics. These days it's all just people who have nothing useful to add, or post something they did with their car, but don't want to help anyone else with anything. It's fucking disgusting. It honestly all stems back to this social media crazed world we have created, where E-Fame trumps having actual friends.

I remember driving around for hours, or spending weekends helping someone with something on their car, most of the time someone I had originally met through the forums. I remember when I fried a fuel pump on my Sierra, and had someone I only knew through the forums, come get me, went to lordco picked up a new pump, and then helped me install it on the side of the road.

I hope this next group of enthusiasts who come up on Instagram and FB learn the value in helping each other out, instead of just focusing on "Killing the game" < a saying which I absolutely dread.




EDIT: On a slightly related note I saw this:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s52/meme405/Capture23_zpssboabnab.jpg (http://s149.photobucket.com/user/meme405/media/Capture23_zpssboabnab.jpg.html)

Now I don't know if this is true, but I bet it is given how most people know RS more than they know other local sources.

What exactly did the kid posting this want RS to do? Of course their gonna say they want nothing to do with it, the meet has nothing to do with this site, and it has been the bain of their existence for the last two years. This community spends an awful lot of time trying to be better, and reduce the fear among non-enthusiasts when 1000 cars pour into their neighborhood for some meet, and these meets went in the completely opposite direction, they made the community look terrible, so why would RS want to associate itself with that?

[kr4l]

I don't get why anyone thinks there entitled to have any meets in these public places. Doesn't matter if you do dumb shit or not, if they say no, it means no.

"The management at market crossing are a bunch of idiots".

No, you're a fucking idiot. Now go cry somewhere else

[jackp0t]

Lol

I often stop by Market Crossing on my way home from work to get groceries, ice caps, or smokes at LD. Got sick of getting stared down like I was some fuckboy who attends those meets, and made a mini rant on fb about it.

Someone screen shot it, and posted it to one of those fb groups to throw me under the bus. Bitch is crazy. I think meme405 and entrax replied to it. Don't know what came of it since I'm not in that fb group.

Does make me curious though. If someone could screenshot it and post it here it'd be greaaat. I wonder if it's the same kids who complain that there's not enough notice given before a RS spring/Summer meet. Last Sunday of March, same with August depending on show season. Its been like this for 15 years.

I think he wants you to find the FB post he was originally referring to and post it here on RS so that he can see what the comments say.

Here you go it got bumped back to the top lol

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x374/jackp0t_/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124742_1.png (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/jackp0t_/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124742_1.png.html)


http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x374/jackp0t_/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124758.png (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/jackp0t_/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124758.png.html)

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x374/jackp0t_/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124804.png (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/jackp0t_/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124804.png.html)

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x374/jackp0t_/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124811.png (http://s1178.photobucket.com/user/jackp0t_/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20160618-124811.png.html)

[CorneringArtist]

I remember that, It was on either Thursday Night meets or VCC. Good luck finding it though, it was months ago, and the only way I can think is to just keep scrolling back until you see it. lol. Maybe someone can try to search using the original post and see if FB can find it, but if it was a screen shot then you are probably not gonna be lucky.

As for it being the same people that complain about the RS meets timing, it almost definitely is partly the same ones. Realistically it's like the same ~20 people posting and commenting on every post on VCC, and it's those same people that are always critical of RS. They will learn eventually, most of the active people on these groups are brand new to the scene (like within the last couple years).

Honestly the slow decline of forums, and the new age of FB car groups taking over makes me ache for the future. Gone are the days of solid DIY's, people helping each other out with detailed information, and interesting forum topics. These days it's all just people who have nothing useful to add, or post something they did with their car, but don't want to help anyone else with anything. It's fucking disgusting. It honestly all stems back to this social media crazed world we have created, where E-Fame trumps having actual friends.

I remember driving around for hours, or spending weekends helping someone with something on their car, most of the time someone I had originally met through the forums. I remember when I fried a fuel pump on my Sierra, and had someone I only knew through the forums, come get me, went to lordco picked up a new pump, and then helped me install it on the side of the road.

I hope this next group of enthusiasts who come up on Instagram and FB learn the value in helping each other out, instead of just focusing on "Killing the game" < a saying which I absolutely dread.





But bro, how else is the new crop of "enthusiast" going to kill the game with their "build" of eBay coilovers set as low as they can go, with wheels that have incredibly questionable fitment, and their instagram handle as a windshield banner.

Frankly, this new crop of people constantly referring to social media and relying on follower count to validate their popularity is like you said, disgusting. It used to be getting to know the person behind the car, now most don't care who you are unless you have 300 million followers on Instatwitterbook.

[GS8]

Said it 25 years ago and I'll say it again today

I'd much rather talk to the friendly smart guy who shows up in a rusted out Ford Taurus than the douche who shows up in the 993 Turbo and only wants to talk about his car, and himself.

---

The car just becomes the extension of the owner's already blatant narcissism. I waste no time on these bitches.

[ae101]

Anyone watch CTV news, just watch the late night news and we looks like we made the news lol

[SkunkWorks]

Said it 25 years ago and I'll say it again today

I'd much rather talk to the friendly smart guy who shows up in a rusted out Ford Taurus than the douche who shows up in the 993 Turbo and only wants to talk about his car, and himself.

Frankly, it's quite the opposite. Feel free to show up to any Weissach/Porsche of Langley Cars & Coffee event and find out yourself.

I found the Thursday meets were filled with your douchebags in the rusted out Taurus who only want to talk about themselves, thinking they and their cars are *the* big thing.

Fuck that. There's a huge group of genuine enthusiasts who stopped going cause of this exact bullshit and asshattery.

[TouringTeg]

Anyone watch CTV news, just watch the late night news and we looks like we made the news lol

Controversial Burnaby car meet cancelled | CTV Vancouver News (http://bc.ctvnews.ca/controversial-burnaby-car-meet-cancelled-1.2952612)

[yray]

Frankly, it's quite the opposite. Feel free to show up to any Weissach/Porsche of Langley Cars & Coffee event and find out yourself.

I found the Thursday meets were filled with your douchebags in the rusted out Taurus who only want to talk about themselves, thinking they and their cars are *the* big thing.

Fuck that. There's a huge group of genuine enthusiasts who stopped going cause of this exact bullshit and asshattery.

Cuz those guys in the rusted out cars 25 years ago are driving porsches now :badpokerface:

[Lomac]

Man, I remember those meets when it was only a dozen or so people. Hadn't been in a couple years and randomly decided to show up one night last year., mainly because I was in the area and needed to pick something up at Canadian Tire. Thankfully it was in my winter beater (stock Acura EL) because there were roadblocks at every entrance and it took forever to get into the parking lot. It looked like a gong show, watching half the modified cars get denied and turned around.

No, it was never a Revscene meet even though members from here would attend. As far as I can recall, the only actual Revscene meet there was the Connor's Day meet I put together at the last minute a couple years ago. All those other meets were not affiliated with us. That said, as we're the largest visible car club in Vancouver, our name tends to get attached to quite a bit of stuff even if we didn't know about it.

[CP.AR]

The original Thursday night meets were great. Family friendly and just generally a very pleasant crowd to hang out with and shoot the shits.

Then the crazies started rolling in...
I'm glad it's finally been put to an end.

[underscore]

Frankly, it's quite the opposite. Feel free to show up to any Weissach/Porsche of Langley Cars & Coffee event and find out yourself.

I found the Thursday meets were filled with your douchebags in the rusted out Taurus who only want to talk about themselves, thinking they and their cars are *the* big thing.

Fuck that. There's a huge group of genuine enthusiasts who stopped going cause of this exact bullshit and asshattery.

If they're anything like the Langley Porsche opening meet thing I'd rather remove my nipples with a blowtorch.

[meme405]

The meet has happened every week for four years at Burnaby’s Market Crossing Mall. Car enthusiast Chase Nicholson said the gathering steadily grew in popularity over the three years he’s participated.

“It started with five people meeting up there Thursday nights to grab coffee and hang out, talk about cars,” he said “And it’s grown up to the four, five, 600 cars we get weekly now.”

The last three years of this meet are exactly the worst three years. Sure they were the years with the most attendance, but they were also the years where the meet and people got out of control.

If you have only been going to this meet for 3 years, I guarantee you have no recollection of the days when it was only 5 people. Nice try. Even when I started going to those meets which was later in the summer of 2012 and into 2013 the number of people and cars in general was already into the dozens.

People want to front about originating or having been the catalyst of this meet seriously need to go away. No single person can claim fame to this meet. It's a central location and people slowly caught wind of it. I guarantee the beamer/audi/mitsu or whatever other group wants to claim they were there first either were not the first.

There's a handful of people throughout this entire events history we can actually commend for doing the right thing, and two of them are members on here (the others probably are as well, but I'm not sure). Those two people are SWFK and Calbee, they ran the original FB page, and they shut it down when the meets started to get out of control and backed away. That's exactly when the meets were taken over by the goon squad. The original FB page was actually full of pictures and videos people posted, instead of just being a hub for all the latest rumours and drama.

[ZN6]

I just wanna take a minute to reminisce one of the best meets I ever had. It was a summer meet at Riverport Silver city. They called out a sushi eating contest and my buddies were like, " You should totally do it!", I'm like Naaah. They egged me on and I finally caved and went up to take my place to eat two cali rolls against 4 other guys. I thought I put those summer school Richmond Sushi raids behind me, but it was calling me back. The raging roll destroyer broke loose and returned.

It started and I ripped through my styrofoam box full of cali rolls and the competitor beside me kept looking at me. The announcer said "Hey stop looking at your opponent and keep going". He said back to the announcer "Dude, the guy's already done!!". The announcer was like "wtf? umm, yeah we have a winner, 4 other guys were still about 3/4 of the way through their first caliroll. I raging demon'd that mother fucker to oblivion, 29 hit combo finisher. One of my university buddy's was like FUCKIN' MONSTER KILLLLLLLLLL.

Then I won 2 gift vouchers for Ebisu. Those were the days. Those were awesome days. I miss those days where it was about having fun. It's like, car enthusiast pull together to focus mainly on other things besides how much they modded their car.

[SkunkWorks]

If they're anything like the Langley Porsche opening meet thing I'd rather remove my nipples with a blowtorch.

I will admit, there are a lot of pompous asses with that circle.

But while douchebags are irritating, the self-jerking heatscore is even worse.

[Kure GS]

Actually Market Crossing is infringing on our ancestoral lands. My Pobi ran a welding shop (Hobarts) in that area in the 1950's.

[westopher]

If they're anything like the Langley Porsche opening meet thing I'd rather remove my nipples with a blowtorch.
That opening thing was brutal, because they want people to come that are going to blow 150k on a new loaded cayenne turbo, because thats how they make real money.
The cars and coffee at porsche langley I've been to, I've probably had as many people come up to me to talk about my shitty 90s purple z24 lookalike as I have approached to ask them about their caged gt3s and early longhood 911s. These guys aren't who I'd call elitist, they are a lot more welcoming than a bunch of buddy bros vaping in front of their clapped out 240s.

[AzNightmare]

Well that sucks. Just when I finally got a car ready to bring to meets, the whole scene gets shut down. That being said, never been to a meet in my life, and big crowds usually aren't my thing.

I rather have a small car/coffee meet. Less people, less chances of douchery.
Not sure where to go for meets now. I'm not even in any meet group. Got no leads :okay:

[smaggs]

Maybe now that the Thursday night Byrne meets aren't happening, we can finally get some people together at Byrne to grab a drink and chat cars.

[westopher]

I rather have a small car/coffee meet.
I'm not sure if you'd like cars and coffee then.

[AzNightmare]

I'm not sure if you'd like cars and coffee then.

How many cars are there?

[swfk]

Lol good times when the meet was small enough that we'd meet on rainy nights. If we had 8 cars we'd say "Yo guys great turn out!"

Me, Jack, Calbee, and David
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/894531_10151360671042939_387402757_o.jpg?efg=eyJpI joidCJ9

Old fb group was great. The current one is like Craigslist and the suggestions they have for new locations are hilarious.

I think BC Bimmers were there before us but they met up at McDonalds while we met up at Tim's. Was small enough to be separate.

[lilaznviper]

Potato picture of when we use to meet at starbucks on the other side and then moved to the other starbucks when that one closed for the night.
May 2009
http://i.imgur.com/UFetvvZ.jpg