I'm sick of people into cars thinking that we can build some sort of 'cool cushy happy' relationship with the police. It will never happen. They hate us, they know what we get up to in our cars and they have free reign through australian road law to ream us with defects etc at every and any oppurtunity. So they do.
Time and time again you see people trying to do it when notifying police about cruises etc and they just defect people and block off car parks or set up on the cruise route with a laser gun and pop people for 5km/h over. Maybe im just a bit older and jaded but ive seen the 'police cooperation' cruise/meetup thing end in tears In Adeliade when people are told 'they wont be defecting its a cruise for charity'. Dreamers.
I know it sucks and i wish it wasnt like this but if you dont want the attention you need to meet up in smaler groups in less conspicuous areas unfortunately. I think its only going to get worse as the years go on especially with these bullshit anti association laws coming in now which are a fucking joke.