[Gunner]

*shrug* For whatever small traffic hassles such gatherings might cause, they are almost always on weekend mornings when malls etc. are dead as a doornail. They bring in attention, and pizazz, and customers, and money in a time when traffic would normally be light. If any business owner is dumm enough to not only chase away that business but set it up so that some other schmo out for a Sunday drive in his Mustang gets chased away, let them have their effin' parking lot.

There's another diner/coffee shop/whatever down the road, red carpet ready to roll out.