The Delta Shores shopping center in Sacramento is using all legal means necessary to make sure car meets don’t happen on their property.
It used to be that as long as you patronized the local stores in and around where you had your car meet, that was enough to keep the stores happy and property owners at bay. But it looks like even some business isn’t enough to keep this Sacramento shopping center happy. According to Sacramento Car enthusiast and car meet organizer Victor Lim A.K.A. @Hard_Park, police served him a “Notice to Trespass” on any Delta Shores properties.
Check out his posts showing the letter he received and his calls to action below.
If you’re a car enthusiast in Sacramento you’ll know who @Hard_Park is. Just like his name screen name suggests, one of the main things he does is park…hard. As far as I’ve seen, Victor does not condone or promote any street racing, street drifting, takeovers, burnouts, or speed contests of any kind.
Victor does mainly organize car meets. When I say organize, I mean that in the highest sense of the word. His Instagram account launches a full-blown marketing campaign to get the word out, trophies are made, and locations scouted out beforehand, oftentimes with helpful parking maps posted days before.
A handful of Victor’s most recent meets were organized on Delta Shores property. Being a new development with plenty of parking and nighttime lighting, it’s the ideal car meet location.
When you hear about how “some people ruin things for the rest of us” this is exactly what they’re talking about.
Apparently a few individuals attended Victor’s car meets and pulled off a couple of donuts, burnouts, and acted like idiots.
Posing a hazard to store patrons and the general public, Delta Shores Property management responded the only way they know how, through legal channels. Since it’s a waste of time to go after individual cars breaking the law, they simply named Victor Lim persona non grata.
By “cutting off the head” so to speak, it’s one way they’re making sure car meets that attract car owners who want to act like fools, don’t show up in the first place.
This Notice to Trespass only affects Victor.
This does not mean other people can’t hold car meets on Delta Shores property.
According to Victor, he feels he’s being profiled as a car enthusiast and this notice is going one step too far.
California Penal Code Section 602(k) defines tresspassing as
(k) Entering any lands, whether unenclosed or enclosed by fence, for the purpose of injuring any property or property rights or with the intention of interfering with, obstructing, or injuring any lawful business or occupation carried on by the owner of the land, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession.
If Victor wants to fight this claim, the property owners will have to prove that Victor’s actions caused physical damage to their properties.
And it’s clear from @Hard_Park’s Instagram posts that his car meets weren’t organized to explicitly cause damage to their property. On the contrary, Victor brought traffic to Delta Shores property, traffic that brought paying patrons.
Being issued a Notice to Trespass is an understandable move by Delta Shores management but it would’ve probably been more productive to just reach out to Victor personally, instead.
If you have wide, open spaces with good lighting, you’re going to have car meets.
Sure, keeping Victor Lim out will probably squash a handful of car meets for now, but it does little to build community or solve the greater problem at hand, mainly some drivers being a nuisance.
For now, let this situation serve as a warning to car meet organizers everywhere, if you want to return to a location, a zero tolerance policy to anyone who does burnouts, donuts, and the like is probably a good idea.
Check out this video from a Cars and Coffee in SoCal to see what I mean.
