Eurowerkz Presents [EUROFEST] 4/29/2012 at Metlife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ

[Earlskey]

I did not know the blue tickets were pulled intentionally. That is now messed up to me. There should have been a disclaimer "if you purchase tickets, you are more likely to win better prizes" rather than say its one equal raffle.

Whatever, besides the fact that they were trying to trick a few bucks off us, I still had a great time.

[DJOUTOFSIGHT]

I did not know the blue tickets were pulled intentionally. That is now messed up to me. There should have been a disclaimer "if you purchase tickets, you are more likely to win better prizes" rather than say its one equal raffle.

Whatever, besides the fact that they were trying to trick a few bucks off us, I still had a great time.

Blue tickets were NOT pulled intentionally. We went through a TON of red tickets and we kept coming up with blanks. The raffle was going for well over an hour and nobody was claiming the tickets. They either had left and or were at the dyno. We even had Eurofest staff go to the dyno and let them know raffles were taking place. WE believe that either people didn't know about the large prizes and or didn't care.

We do this because we love cars, Euro community, friends, our team, and our charities. We will fix the issues with had with Eurofest 2012 going forward.

That said, Eurofest 2013 will mark an event that will make history....ONCE AGAIN!

[Run L1ke H3LL]

Blue tickets were NOT pulled intentionally. We went through a TON of red tickets and we kept coming up with blanks. The raffle was going for well over an hour and nobody was claiming the tickets. They either had left and or were at the dyno. We even had Eurofest staff go to the dyno and let them know raffles were taking place. WE believe that either people didn't know about the large prizes and or didn't care.

We do this because we love cars, Euro community, friends, our team, and our charities. We will fix the issues with had with Eurofest 2012 going forward.

That said, Eurofest 2013 will mark an event that will make history....ONCE AGAIN!

I went to a small show close to home a few weeks ago. They had a good idea for the raffles. They would give you both sides of the raffle ticket and if you wanted to enter the raffle you had to fill out one side with your NAME and PHONE NUMBER and then enter it into a box with all the other raffles.

This solved the problem of people leaving before the raffle was held, since the winners could be contacted by phone. Also, this resulted in less throwaway raffle tickets from the people who don't care about winning. Just a thought.

[gmoneyR32]

what does that say? lol Idk how to read... cool sticker

[eudorrra]

Throw The Vee http://www.facebook.com/throwthevee

[vweatsvtec]

What about that kid who took the hood that was being "thrown out" lol fool feel bad for the guy with the BMW whos hood got scratched from stuffing it into a gti trunk

[mk1happy]

it says throwthevee its my friends blog his name is josh hit him up on facebook if you want some stickers we have a bunsh of different ones

[joshGOLF2.5]

Why hello there!

[mk1happy]

Why hello there!

this guy is gayy...

[Run L1ke H3LL]

it says throwthevee its my friends blog his name is josh hit him up on facebook if you want some stickers we have a bunsh of different ones

Why hello there!

this guy is gayy...

Free stickers?

[Eastc0astr3bel]

What about that kid who took the hood that was being "thrown out" lol fool feel bad for the guy with the BMW whos hood got scratched from stuffing it into a gti trunk

he didnt steal it, the guy whos hood it was had it on the little dumpster thing and it was moved away from there cars. my friend asked a **** load of people about it wondering why it was on the trash and every one kept saying the same thing, it must be garbage. granted his thought process was still ****ing outrageous i mean who throws a hood out? but when we walked over to the dyno we saw owner filling out a police report and we asked him if it was for a hood. when told we have his hood and we'd get it right away for him he immediately acted like a child over the whole thing instead of being happy that he's not out of a hood. he blew things out of proportion and caused a scene and wasnt even the least bit happy to have his property returned to him. he demanded 300 cash up front or he was going to take this to court. in reality he has a terrible case even a ****ty layer could get that **** dismissed and my layer in the end of the day could have me owning his car. but enough about that, just goes to show what happens when you try to do the right thing. the cop even told us we would have made it out of the event with the hood but we decided to be nice and got dealt a headache.

[wtbcody]

he didnt steal it, the guy whos hood it was had it on the little dumpster thing and it was moved away from there cars. my friend asked a **** load of people about it wondering why it was on the trash and every one kept saying the same thing, it must be garbage. granted his thought process was still ****ing outrageous i mean who throws a hood out? but when we walked over to the dyno we saw owner filling out a police report and we asked him if it was for a hood. when told we have his hood and we'd get it right away for him he immediately acted like a child over the whole thing instead of being happy that he's not out of a hood. he blew things out of proportion and caused a scene and wasnt even the least bit happy to have his property returned to him. he demanded 300 cash up front or he was going to take this to court. in reality he has a terrible case even a ****ty layer could get that **** dismissed and my layer in the end of the day could have me owning his car. but enough about that, just goes to show what happens when you try to do the right thing. the cop even told us we would have made it out of the event with the hood but we decided to be nice and got dealt a headache.

Thanks man, knew it was only a matter of time before this popped up. Here is what happened, posted the same exact thing on e46fanatics and audizine the other day

This is my car, the name is Cody. Let me clarify what had happened with that hood before anyone thinks I am a thief trying to undermine a meet and screw over a BMW enthusiast.

SOOOO let us begin. I had just walked by the dyno machine and just signed up. I then walked behind it and towards the food vendor. On the way I had saw a hood sitting on top of a trash can with no vendors within 150 feet. I asked a couple people if they had seen anyone put this there or if they thought it was trash. They had no clue and basically said they thought it was trash. We basically agreed it was fair game so I took it. I mean, the first thing that had popped into my head was this would make an awesome coffee table with pistons as legs. Seemed legit. I actually walked right through the entire event with this hood. Which seemed like a decent idea, seeing as a hood can't be hidden no matter how you tried and I honestly thought it was trash laying around. No one said a word to me, or even batted an eye. Hell, someone even offered to help me carry it to my car and load it up. When I got to my car no one said anything, I was trying to load it for a good 15 minutes to not damage it or my car. After this I started walking around again, probably for 45 minutes. Which put us at about 3 o'clock. At that point I was walking back to the dyno to see if I had moved up the list or it was my turn. The PowerCeptz (think that is the right name) vendor was now talking to a cop. I saw his M3 and then it hit me, this guy must have put it on a trash can it got pushed away. Like I said, I found the hood at least 150 feet from his area. So I walked up to him and asked if he was missing his hood. Once answered yes, I told him right away that I had it in my trunk. Now, I honestly thought I was being a good samaritan by returning the hood the rightful owner. I easily could have just left with it, I was far into the parking lot and near the exit. That could of been the end of it, but I did the right thing.

The second I told the guy, I realized this wasn't going to be taken lightly and I was in for a lot of trouble. He then demanded I bring him back the hood. I asked if he would mind driving to my car since it was fairly heavy and it wasn't a one man job to get it out. Instantly replied no, and there was no reasoning with him. So the cop came over to and said to me that he would bring me to my car to make sure I was being truthful. Very nice and cooperative cop actually, didn't cuff me or treat me like I did steal the hood. So we get to my car and I open the trunk to show him when another cop came over. Once again, very nice and polite to me. They both asked me what I was planning to do with a hood since I was clearly driving a car that it wouldn't fit on. So I told them I had plans on turning it into a coffee table. They chuckled a bit and said that was a pretty interesting plan. The one cop then proceeded to call the owner of the hood and asked him to come over to my car to identify the hood and to get it. The man then refused to and demanded I bring it back to him since I had taken from its resting spot. Both cops had no luck trying to reason with him so they gave me an escort into the vendor area. (Which was pretty cool considering I never thought my car would be in an area like that for any reason.)

We then arrived by the owner and I once again popped the trunk for him. He instantly identified it and asked me to remove. But not before he started going on about damages done to the hood. Apparently I had chipped the paint on one corner. I told him it never touched the floor and the interior was entirely cloth so I didn't see how that could have been possible. He wouldn't hear it, and said it was my fault. Then came the daunting tasking of trying to get it out of the car. It took quite a while to make it fit so I new this would be the hard part. Also, at this time a large crowd of people started surrounding us. I asked the owner to help me get the hood out of the car but he refused to since if there was any damages he was going to make me pay for them. So I asked around for aid, and eventually someone did help me. We managed to get the hood out after 45 minutes of trying. Almost broke my pinky in the process, but that really isn't important. So now the hood is out, the owner is pissed, and I'm standing in a crowd of people recording the shenanigans that have unfolded.

The owner then had some of his workers/friends look over the hood. Pointing out "scratches" and "dents," all while they kept calling me a thief and not letting me explain what had happened. There was probably 5 or 6 guys accusing me of stealing this and calling me a terrible person, not that pleasant. The cops then come over and ask me my side of the story. I explained how I found, my intentions, and that I had no clue it wasn't trash. At this point, a couple that I had asked about the hood hours ago came by and gave a statement. They were very nice and explained how I asked if this was trash or not. They thought the same as me, that it was trash and it was fair game. Now I had to talk to the owner and see what he wanted to do about it. (The cop said this could be chargeable with criminal mischief but it was up to the owner if he wanted to do anything.) So he says either pay him 300$ cash right now or that he will take me to court. That was the end of it basically, my car sat in the area till the end of the show until I left. I had to drive by the vendor and I felt the daggers they were staring into me.

Cops said understood where I was coming from and were very nice. They said they were going to check the surveillance cameras to see if I was telling the truth.

tl;dr I didn't steal the hood. Giant misunderstanding. Lots of details blown out of proportion. Being a good samaritan doesn't always work in your favor.

And apparently someone on the E30 forum turned me into a meme or something. So enjoy this pic.


If you want to message me about this more, try contacting me on the vortex with the same name. My friend sent me the link to this thread and I registered just to explain what had happened.

Also, back story on the tape. I was really bored and didn't have any mobile detailing supplies. So bought a two pack of painters tape and had fun. Was completely a joke to get people to see the lighter side of driving and show that fitting in isn't necessary at these larger shows. Would I tape of my car again? You bet.

[Run L1ke H3LL]

Lesson: nothing in life is free.

[Eastc0astr3bel]

Lesson: nothing in life is free.

truth unless you decide not to do the right thing and just leave with the hood lol

[Run L1ke H3LL]

truth unless you decide not to do the right thing and just leave with the hood lol

Lesson two: no good deed goes unpunished.

[Eastc0astr3bel]

Lesson two: no good deed goes unpunished.

also very true, but if it was me in that situation id be more happy to have my hood back then to try and find or make up things in my mind wrong with the hood

[ShadowWabbit]

If that was me, i could of guessed the hood belong to some dbag who couldnt decide how to better show off his "whip yo".

But no theif shows up in front of the cops and admits he has the missing stuff and willing to give it back too.

Not guitly.

BWM owner should take the lesson from this too. Like: don't leave anything of value unatended in a croud of about a thousand strangers.

[nemo1ner]

I'm sorry, but that explaination doesn't make much sense to me.

On one hand, I don't think you actually thought you were stealing a hood since no one that you asked stated that it belonged to someone. Also, it is not like you can be sneaky about walking around with that thing.

On the other hand, it was an M3 hood that was in good shape. Why would you think it was free for the taking, regardless if it was next to trash. When was the last time you came across a car part in good shape that someone did not want money for?

Although people said it was trash, you should have assumed that it belonged to someone. You should have looked to see who actually owned it so that you could have confirmed that you could have the hood.

[HYDE16]

Cody is that a GSE sticker on your car? NJ white outline with VW logo inside?

[nemo1ner]

Cody is that a GSE sticker on your car? NJ white outline with VW logo inside?

The GSE logo looks like the parkway logo, so I don't think that's it.

[Grn_16v_GTI1987]

sooo if i left my car next to a dumpster i guess it means its trash and someone should just take it?

your at a car show where ppl take their hoods off, i mean you mastermind this whole idea of turning it into a coffee table but you couldn't look around the area to see a car without a hood!

[wtbcody]

I'm sorry, but that explaination doesn't make much sense to me.

On one hand, I don't think you actually thought you were stealing a hood since no one that you asked stated that it belonged to someone. Also, it is not like you can be sneaky about walking around with that thing.

On the other hand, it was an M3 hood that was in good shape. Why would you think it was free for the taking, regardless if it was next to trash. When was the last time you came across a car part in good shape that someone did not want money for?

Although people said it was trash, you should have assumed that it belonged to someone. You should have looked to see who actually owned it so that you could have confirmed that you could have the hood.

I did look around for a car with a missing hood. I actually found a few pictures of where it could of possibly been at the time. 1) It was at the dyno, which was about 250 feet from the hood 2) At one of the other vendor's area, not sure of the name but the area was at least 300 feet away. I mean, anyone could have easily said something to me, considering most people on the BMW forums knew instantly whose hood it was and I walked past/through an entire lot of BMWs.

Cody is that a GSE sticker on your car? NJ white outline with VW logo inside?

Yea, I bought it off you last year at one of the Lowe's meets. Its the only sticker that I haven't removed to be replaced with something else.

sooo if i left my car next to a dumpster i guess it means its trash and someone should just take it?

your at a car show where ppl take their hoods off, i mean you mastermind this whole idea of turning it into a coffee table but you couldn't look around the area to see a car without a hood!

Figured their would be a reaction like this. I got the same reaction from the one guy, John. "If I left my car in the street over night, does that mean you can take my wheels?" You're taking a very extreme example and trying to fit it to my case.

Also, it was the only car out of thousands there with no hood on to my knowledge. The rest had the hoods propped up or just down.

[Grn_16v_GTI1987]

ok so the only car with out a hood and you couldn't realize that the hood belongs to him?

[wtbcody]

ok so the only car with out a hood and you couldn't realize that the hood belongs to him?

Reasoning with you isn't going to be easy. So let me break it down completely. Hood was somewhere between 150-300 feet away from car and the car was always changing location (which is established due to amount of pics of said car in multiple locations), had to walk the hood from trash can to my car which was in the back of a lot, which is easily over 600 feet away (I wasn't to far into the lot, but I most definitely wasn't close.) I then found said car when walking back to the dyno when he was finally by his own vendor booth.

[Grn_16v_GTI1987]

so let me get this straight owner of the hoodless car moves his car and hood to multiple locations, and you notice this....then you grab the hood walk it across the show knowing there is a car without a hood near by and you stuff it into your tits+turbo car to make a coffee table with pistons as legs.

ah yes its clear now

[wtbcody]

so let me get this straight owner of the hoodless car moves his car and hood to multiple locations, and you notice this....then you grab the hood walk it across the show knowing there is a car without a hood near by and you stuff it into your tits+turbo car to make a coffee table with pistons as legs.

ah yes its clear now

You've got the entire story completely wrong. The hood was laying out on a trash can over 100 feet away from the vendor booth it should have been at. The car kept changing positions so I didn't even know it was there to begin with. The only time I actually saw his car was when I went to return it to him. In all honesty, you've taken a straight forward story and turned it into some mellow-dramatic story.

In the end we agreed it was a huge misunderstanding and wet our spectate ways.

[Grn_16v_GTI1987]

hmmm....tru at the end of the day if your at the same show i'm at i'll make sure not to leave my car parts laying around you might think its garbage.

btw also try not creeping on grls with blue Rs and TH lines her bf might just be around to hear the dumb comments your boys make

[wtbcody]

hmmm....tru at the end of the day if your at the same show i'm at i'll make sure not to leave my car parts laying around you might think its garbage.

btw also try not creeping on grls with blue Rs and TH lines her bf might just be around to hear the dumb comments your boys make

If we're at the same show, try to actually talk to me and get to know me. You'd be surprised and understand that I would never intentionally steal from anyone, let alone a fellow car enthusiast.

And now I see why you are being rude to me, at least she thought it was funny and saw it was all in good humor. My girl was even trying to talk to her. So have a nice day and stay calm, no need to cry over spilled milk.

[romayayo]

Why is everyone making a big deal about this?
He gave the hood back and apologized. End of story. What more do you want from him?

[Eastc0astr3bel]

Why is everyone making a big deal about this?
He gave the hood back and apologized. End of story. What more do you want from him?

Exactly and then butt hurt the boy wonder hopefully was acting dumb t irritate my friend over some girl like I said hopefully he was acting dumb but his points of interest weren't proving that

[Eastc0astr3bel]

There's no need to be a keyboard warrior of it bothered her or him that much something would have been done that day and not days later over a forum so take it easy killah it was a at show people talk to other people and there's always people that stupid **** it's not breast cancer don't take it to the tit sorry if I offended anyone with that last line just seemed like a good analogy

[eudorrra]

bad analogy is bad.

[Eastc0astr3bel]

bad analogy is bad.

Sorry about that didn't mean anything offensive I'm trying to quit smoking so I'm on a edge

[nemo1ner]

bad analogy is bad.

I thought the same thing.

Any MK6 kids have a hood laying around? I need a coffee table.

[eudorrra]

Sorry about that didn't mean anything offensive I'm trying to quit smoking so I'm on a edge

for quitting smoking! this thread needs more positive things lol