More than 100 dirt bikes and ATVs ride through DC with impunity

[Anonymous]

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If something is illegal, it’s illegal, regardless of whether you get an explanation or not. It is still illegal. Dangerous operation of motor vehicles is also illegal, regardless of if they are all caught.

Generally laws are instituted for a reason. What is the reason for the law the bans dirt bikes?

because they don’t have safety inspections like street legal vehicles do. They also use 2 stroke engines which are highly polluting .

No safety inspections for cars in West Virginia either, but they're allowed on DC streets.

Diesel dump trucks are highly polluting, but they're allowed on DC streets.

2 stroke engines are far more polluting . If dump trucks used 2 stroke engines their pollution would be exponentially higher. So you want city kids inhaling dirtier air?

[Anonymous]

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If something is illegal, it’s illegal, regardless of whether you get an explanation or not. It is still illegal. Dangerous operation of motor vehicles is also illegal, regardless of if they are all caught.

Generally laws are instituted for a reason. What is the reason for the law the bans dirt bikes?

because they don’t have safety inspections like street legal vehicles do. They also use 2 stroke engines which are highly polluting .

No safety inspections for cars in West Virginia either, but they're allowed on DC streets.

Diesel dump trucks are highly polluting, but they're allowed on DC streets.

2 stroke engines are far more polluting . If dump trucks used 2 stroke engines their pollution would be exponentially higher. So you want city kids inhaling dirtier air?

Nobody is talking about dump trucks using two-stroke engines. The diesel engines they actually have are plenty polluting. So are the two-stroke engines used by actual lawnmowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:" Think about all of the commuters who invade DC every workday with their cars. "

Good point, and WAZE commuters are the worst. Commuting is dumb. Live near work. If anything, young DC residents should have priority. They live here. Commuters don't. Commuters are like the junk mail USPS delivers. Please get rid of them both. If you are a DC resident, commuters are a scourge. Once again DCUM forces me to reconsider an issue whose side I am on I have always taken for granted. Just do something about the noise - DC should supply free mufflers. By the way, I spent some time this summer off the grid in a remote portion of Vermont and it only took a SINGLE dirt bike or ATV, even miles and miles away, to drive me crazy. Everything is relative. I could hear a pin drop up there. I definitely need my very own planet.

Ok thanks for sharing your story of privilege.

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Why aren't the boys who invade DC every weekend riding them in the woods, where it's legal and they won't hurt anyone? Unless the goal is to intimidate and break laws with impunity? Hmm.

You can't "invade DC" when you're a DC resident.

Why do they ride in DC? Because they live in DC.

No they don't.

[Anonymous]

Seems these days laws are enforced selectively and things get legalized is certain races do them so I look forward to smoking bans going away for this very reason

[Anonymous]

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Why aren't the boys who invade DC every weekend riding them in the woods, where it's legal and they won't hurt anyone? Unless the goal is to intimidate and break laws with impunity? Hmm.

You can't "invade DC" when you're a DC resident.

Why do they ride in DC? Because they live in DC.

No they don't.

You think they're trailering their ATVs and dirt bikes into DC from somewhere else?!?!

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Why aren't the boys who invade DC every weekend riding them in the woods, where it's legal and they won't hurt anyone? Unless the goal is to intimidate and break laws with impunity? Hmm.

You can't "invade DC" when you're a DC resident.

Why do they ride in DC? Because they live in DC.

No they don't.

You think they're trailering their ATVs and dirt bikes into DC from somewhere else?!?!

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

You think most kids from DC can afford dirt bikes? The bikes are $700+. Have you even been to DC?!

That's pretty steep if your family is struggling financially . More likely they are riding them across the line from PG county where they are wealthier and close enough to ride through and cause chaos.

[Anonymous]

If you can't beat them, join them. Start up the NW DC bike club and do donuts in Bowser's yard (if she has one). Might get the laws changed or be the first DC dirt biker arrested.

[Anonymous]

DC does not have a task force for auto crime. They consider it a property crime that insurance can handle. They pretty much consider as much crime as possible in the district an insurance matter that doesnt warrant investigation. My husband was shopping at Giant this week and a bunch of kids ran out with armfuls of TIDE. The responding officer asked the manager what he wanted him to do. Uh...canvas? Pull footage? Solve the crime? Everything that can be paid off by an insurer gets absolutely zero urgency. Not sure why they would care about this group of dirt bike enthusiasts- they have no paradigm for addressing smaller scale or nuisance crime. And yes, someone will get hurt and then they'll be sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC does not have a task force for auto crime. They consider it a property crime that insurance can handle. They pretty much consider as much crime as possible in the district an insurance matter that doesnt warrant investigation. My husband was shopping at Giant this week and a bunch of kids ran out with armfuls of TIDE. The responding officer asked the manager what he wanted him to do. Uh...canvas? Pull footage? Solve the crime? Everything that can be paid off by an insurer gets absolutely zero urgency. Not sure why they would care about this group of dirt bike enthusiasts- they have no paradigm for addressing smaller scale or nuisance crime. And yes, someone will get hurt and then they'll be sad.

The entire point of a police force is to keep people safe. Who cares if they stole the bikes? They were endangering human lives on a busy street. This should be a priority for the police.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC does not have a task force for auto crime. They consider it a property crime that insurance can handle. They pretty much consider as much crime as possible in the district an insurance matter that doesnt warrant investigation. My husband was shopping at Giant this week and a bunch of kids ran out with armfuls of TIDE. The responding officer asked the manager what he wanted him to do. Uh...canvas? Pull footage? Solve the crime? Everything that can be paid off by an insurer gets absolutely zero urgency. Not sure why they would care about this group of dirt bike enthusiasts- they have no paradigm for addressing smaller scale or nuisance crime. And yes, someone will get hurt and then they'll be sad.

The entire point of a police force is to keep people safe. Who cares if they stole the bikes? They were endangering human lives on a busy street. This should be a priority for the police.

This creates a lawless atmosphere - which then makes criminals feel that they have more latitude to commit other crimes.

[Anonymous]

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The entire point of a police force is to keep people safe. Who cares if they stole the bikes? They were endangering human lives on a busy street. This should be a priority for the police.

But it's not. Just look at the case of the two men who were killed by a SUV driver while sitting on a park bench by GWU.

[Anonymous]

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The entire point of a police force is to keep people safe. Who cares if they stole the bikes? They were endangering human lives on a busy street. This should be a priority for the police.

But it's not. Just look at the case of the two men who were killed by a SUV driver while sitting on a park bench by GWU.

What is the update on that case? I felt so bad for the men who got killed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC does not have a task force for auto crime. They consider it a property crime that insurance can handle. They pretty much consider as much crime as possible in the district an insurance matter that doesnt warrant investigation. My husband was shopping at Giant this week and a bunch of kids ran out with armfuls of TIDE. The responding officer asked the manager what he wanted him to do. Uh...canvas? Pull footage? Solve the crime? Everything that can be paid off by an insurer gets absolutely zero urgency. Not sure why they would care about this group of dirt bike enthusiasts- they have no paradigm for addressing smaller scale or nuisance crime. And yes, someone will get hurt and then they'll be sad.

The entire point of a police force is to keep people safe. Who cares if they stole the bikes? They were endangering human lives on a busy street. This should be a priority for the police.

This creates a lawless atmosphere - which then makes criminals feel that they have more latitude to commit other crimes.

This is DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:DC does not have a task force for auto crime. They consider it a property crime that insurance can handle. They pretty much consider as much crime as possible in the district an insurance matter that doesnt warrant investigation. My husband was shopping at Giant this week and a bunch of kids ran out with armfuls of TIDE. The responding officer asked the manager what he wanted him to do. Uh...canvas? Pull footage? Solve the crime? Everything that can be paid off by an insurer gets absolutely zero urgency. Not sure why they would care about this group of dirt bike enthusiasts- they have no paradigm for addressing smaller scale or nuisance crime. And yes, someone will get hurt and then they'll be sad.

The entire point of a police force is to keep people safe. Who cares if they stole the bikes? They were endangering human lives on a busy street. This should be a priority for the police.

This creates a lawless atmosphere - which then makes criminals feel that they have more latitude to commit other crimes.

This is DC.

Exactly. Crime especially by the youth is ignored.