I am so perturbed (sp?) by all this bike rally stuff. It drives me insane that every single year, there were talks about scaling them back and now after years of threatening to do so, they have finally done something and it is to the detriment of the community. There are businesses that closed due to the fact that their main part of the money making year is during the three bike rallies that come to Myrtle Beach. It has alienated a couple of groups of people with the potential to bring in some serious tourism dollars each year.
Further, I happen to believe that the city wants to end only the Memorial Weekend bike rally but cannot do so without eliminating both Harley rallies. That would be a form of discrimination and nobody wants to mess with the NAACP and I dont rightly blame them. Yes, the people who come to the Memorial Day weekend rally do happen to be a little louder or rowdier but one incident that happened during that week spurred this whole thing. I understand the whole situation surrounding the Coastal Student that was shot was the beginnig of this whole thing. But there are some fundamental flaws here: (1) He was living on Flagg street which is known for drugs and prostitution (2) He should have taken a better approach to the parking situation instead of yelling at the person parking in front of his apartment (or room, whatever it was.) I understand that he has his rights to peacefully live but why should the city take this one event to spur a whole bunch of bad decisions. Our economy is in a serious world of hurt in Myrtle Beach and it is not getting any better. What do you think?
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