OCEAN CITY — With the arrival of the unsanctioned pop-up car rally, resort officials this week braced for its annual arrival and claimed they were as ready as they have ever been.
In the months since another troublesome unsanctioned pop-up car rally last September, plans on how to combat the lawlessness and reckless behavior associated with the event have been discussed at various levels, including the police commission, the motor vehicle task force, among law enforcement agencies and with the Mayor and Council. On Tuesday, the special event zone with lower speed limits, higher fines and other restrictions went into place, not only in Ocean City, but throughout the county. This is the first year the county has adopted the special event zone.
By midweek, a stronger law enforcement presence was clearly felt throughout the resort as some of the early unsanctioned event participants began arriving in the resort area. The Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) will be assisted by hundreds of additional police officers from allied agencies all over the Eastern Shore and around the state during the potentially troublesome weekend.
Resort officials have promised a strong police presence, altered road patterns at different times during the weekend and other initiatives, including a strengthened towing ordinance with increased hefty fines.
The special event zone, along with the expanded law enforcement presence, a stronger towing ordinance with stiff fines and penalties and the growing partnership with the private sector was successful in putting a lid on last September’s pop-up rally until the event reached a crescendo on Saturday night with lawlessness reaching new heights on the streets.
Yeah Rickie Beerinhand ready to vanish and come out Sunday saying all is well. His PSA with that golf shirt under armour logo. Cmon. Nov 2022 is right around the corner. Why he didnt embrace the pop up SUCK is beyond comprehension. On u Rick.
SHOULD have BANNED the Pop-up Riff -Raff years ago !!!! Just BAN it from happening !!!!!
Anual pop up BS.. OC…is run by morons havent you figured it out yet. GO WOKE AND STUPID..GO BROKE & back to sleep.
You deserve it morons..oc has not gotten one dime from me for decades!
I will be the first to throw down the Bull $hit flag on this one. Ocean City really screwed up last year and I’m pretty sure it’s overkill this year because there won’t be many people their due to rain and bad weather!
Pssst, rain is gone, sun has been out…cool crisp nites and the long train of cars has already started. Anyone at 94th street parking lot today? Bananas are back, cows and some pretty revealing other costumes. Gonna be interesting indeed.
Wow what a clown world we live in. With all the true crime going on….this is all you can muster for? State and local government leaders violating Constitutional and Human Rights for weeks and months, mandating unlawful orders, hospitals pimping harmful drugs and cooking the numbers of deaths and case numbers…all for money…terrorism at the very least! Murder by vaccine is worse than heroin pushers yet all you can find the courage to do is muster for traffic tickets and petty crime?!?! Look deeply into the mirror…get past your fear to do the right thing, to go after the real and powerful criminals….find your Honor and Courage! Stop competing to be the shiniest clown. Looking the other way and not upholding your Oath makes you just as low and criminal as those destroying this Country! Few will say it but We ALL see it! The emperors have no cloths!!
Ocean City is all about having festivals and taking tourists money. If all those Vin Diesel wanna be’s didn’t act like fools the town would have no problem with them. A bunch of self entitled brats will get what they deserve. It is a shame that some of them ruin the experience for the others.
With a 90% conviction rate from last year, I think the vast majority got the message. Go look at twitter…there a few idiots upset because they can’t wreck the place and act foolish. Beyond that it’s MUCH quieter and I’m loving the fact that I don’t have to deal with their juvenile antics!
kops doing the right thing? honor? lmmfao kops have no honor. All they have are big lips from sucking at the political’s teats! Surprised the aussies havent started draggin them out of their beds and dealing with them as they should. Same should happen here! it’s coming!
You are a flake – do you even know what went on in the past here?
You are a nut job.