Editor:
I love the Sleepy Hollow Rod Run. Classic vehicles come from all over to join in the festivities, and folks sit out on their front lawns and driveways to cheer on the drivers. It’s a good-spirited, well-organized community event.
Banning burnouts during the Rod Run is just some uptight idea to spoil everyone’s enjoyment of big-motored power cars doing their thing, right?
Wrong.
A few years ago during the Rod Run, I watched a vehicle that had just left Hackett Park and was heading along the stretch beside the elementary sports field – still very much in downtown Sechelt.
The driver gunned the motor hard, released the brakes, and his car fish-tailed madly out-of-control. It missed hitting a small child standing on the roadside by mere millimetres.
There’s a reason burnouts are banned – they really are dangerous, except in wide open spaces.
Let’s hope the few who think the rules are not made for them don’t spoil it for the rest of us.
Heather Till, Sechelt
