It's sad that meets are in danger through "enthusiasts" actions, and it's something that's been going on for years, back in the early 90's local police started using an obscure law to ticket young lads who were driving like idiots in a town centre at night, it was one that dated back to the days of the horse and carriage, was called "furious driving", and ended up in a £400 fine and plenty of points on your licence, once a few had been dished out (I managed to get one for driving lick a fluffy bunny, fair play) things calmed down.
Maybe it's time people either accept responsibility for their own actions rather than mess things up for everybody (I don't include myself in that, I don't get time to attend meets these days), you only have to take a look on Youtube to see that sooner or later someone is going to get hurt, people pulling out of car parks into traffic doing burnouts is an accident waiting to happen, watch a few of these clips, see the evasive action that traffic, and in some case pedestrians have to take to avoid these idiots, and you can see why people are complaining.
As for the landlord at the pub where cars are filmed regularly going sideways towards the pub wall, customers cars and some badly out of control as they head towards the bend in the road, that poor sod must be pulling his hair out, at the end of the day it's his living, if the meets are stopped his income goes out of the window, if you turned up where these people work and started annoying the neighbours something would soon be said, so why not show some common sense, and a bit of courtesy, towards him, and people who live close by, it shouldn't be down to the police to turn up and make sure people leave sensibly, once you get to the stage where you need them there you've admitted the idiots can't be controlled, and that's when things aren't looking rosy, similarly why should a pub landlord have to look at getting speedhumps put in the road, wouldn't it be easier if people didn't drive like Apple Pies, ?
No doubt things will carry on as they are until a point is reached where meets are shut down, then the first to moan will be those who do the burnouts for the cameras, but it's hard to claim you're being victimised these days, especially when you have people standing filming your actions and uploading them online, self policing is the answer, maybe take a second to think how your actions reflect on "the scene" and act accordingly, it's called behaving like an adult...