So for those who were at PD13 this year, anyone butthurt about the police presence?
Saw a lot of butthurt on various Facebook groups today about people who were pissy about the heavy OPP presence, and the fact that they were armed with fully auto machine guns. A lot of "nothing happened, what a waste!" comments. I guess the fact that perhaps nothing happened because of the very heavy LEO presence was lost on many.
As I understand it 81 and the Outlaws are at odds right now hence the likely strong presence, but IMHO given that 99.9% of Dover is 99%, I had no problem with the police presence. The officers I saw were polite, pretty much just chilling on the sidelines, and a few were indeed hanging around their bikes showing them and chatting with onlookers.
It seems to me the only ones who got butthurt were the ones who were looking for something to get butthurt about. The rest of the 200,000-ish people there were enjoying themselves, looking at a great turnout of bikes (I spotted a Rune there, only one...still my dream bike) and enjoying themselves.
Rode in, parked (even got parked reasonably close to downtown, I was impressed!), had a great few hours, rode out. Went out to St Thomas via the backroads, and then back to our base in Niagara again for the night. Good times.