Why do I keep seeing Middle and High Schoolers on Dirtbikes on ARL Roadways???

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Anonymous wrote:It's bad parenting.

You are buys if you think it’s good parents. Did you get your kid one, they pop wheelies and go 40 mph down Harrison and Langston. They aren’t in bike lanes, they don’t obey stop signs or lights. I’ve had them cut me off many times. Williamsburg has banned them, but some bad parents who lives across the street from the school let the kids park them then they walk to school. They are basically motorcycles and are being driving by 12, 13 and 14 year olds who have no idea what the are doing. A kid is going to get killed. Luckily, the batteries done work in cold weather so we should eh seeing a lot fewer of them.

Omg. These are the same parents who will have drunk driving teens in a few years. Very big issue in that area.

I've seen them doing wheelie's on major roads, blowing through stop signs, and menacing cars. These kids are so young.

Same. On Columbia Pike, the kids were high school, coming out of Arlington Tech or ACC kids. Also, one of the boys had a second passenger who was not wearing a helmet. Honestly, the next time I see it, I am going to snap a picture and post it to the FB group for Arlington Education Matters. I also thought about taking a pic to send to the AT principal. (I was picking up my kid from AT who says the boys who do this are jerks). It is so dangerous. I cannot believe parents allow this.

[Anonymous]

It's a white boy thing. Sh%tty parents beget sh%tty children. And these boys are trying to copy the black men who are a nuisance with their motorcycles and ATVs. Except the white boys tend to be rich kids whose parents buy them E-Bikes. It's become a problem over the past couple of years.

No doubt, natural selection will do its work with these youth. But as always with teenagers, it's a parenting problem.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a white boy thing. Sh%tty parents beget sh%tty children. And these boys are trying to copy the black men who are a nuisance with their motorcycles and ATVs. Except the white boys tend to be rich kids whose parents buy them E-Bikes. It's become a problem over the past couple of years.

No doubt, natural selection will do its work with these youth. But as always with teenagers, it's a parenting problem.

Racism can’t help but butt in for no reason.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a white boy thing. Sh%tty parents beget sh%tty children. And these boys are trying to copy the black men who are a nuisance with their motorcycles and ATVs. Except the white boys tend to be rich kids whose parents buy them E-Bikes. It's become a problem over the past couple of years.

No doubt, natural selection will do its work with these youth. But as always with teenagers, it's a parenting problem.

This is accurate. I live in a neighborhood that’s very mixed and only the spoiled white boys are doing this. Their parents have been the “boys will be boys” types since their kids were taking their private parts out in preschool or hitting other kids in early elementary.

Kids of other races could never get away with this.

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Anonymous wrote:It's CPS level bad parenting. I don't understand it. It's DCUM crowd kids doing it too.

I sincerely need someone who lets their kids do this come on here and start arguing with us and explain it. I don't get it.

How do you know it's DCUM crowd kids doing it?

Word at WMS is a kid got kicked out of st Agnes and was staring this week.
To be blunt, it's rich white kids. I've seen them up close milling around the Cherrydale area a bunch of times. The shopping plaza that has the Arrowine store. And the ebikes are not cheap. I've been told by parents who recognize kids it's a lot of Hamm kids. An active bunch over on the school forums, to say the least.

Sounds about right. It was like that when we were there---peers were completely unsupervised and into all kinds of trouble with parents footing the bill for anything the kid's heart desired. And if one kid had it, they all had to have it.. Pulled our sons out and sent them to private--where 12-year olds aren't wearing $1,000 sneakers either.

Yes private school will fix the rich kid problem every time!

More diversity than Hamm and Williamsburg and uniforms. And disciplinary action. Better parent group- invested in kids - don’t buy them this cr@p and send them out unsupervised. Best decision we ever made.

So...parochial school.

Where I live it’s only the Catholic and private school kids who are doing this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's a white boy thing. Sh%tty parents beget sh%tty children. And these boys are trying to copy the black men who are a nuisance with their motorcycles and ATVs. Except the white boys tend to be rich kids whose parents buy them E-Bikes. It's become a problem over the past couple of years.

No doubt, natural selection will do its work with these youth. But as always with teenagers, it's a parenting problem.

This is accurate. I live in a neighborhood that’s very mixed and only the spoiled white boys are doing this. Their parents have been the “boys will be boys” types since their kids were taking their private parts out in preschool or hitting other kids in early elementary.

Kids of other races could never get away with this.

Thanks for playing the race card where it’s not needed or value added.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's CPS level bad parenting. I don't understand it. It's DCUM crowd kids doing it too.

I sincerely need someone who lets their kids do this come on here and start arguing with us and explain it. I don't get it.

How do you know it's DCUM crowd kids doing it?

Word at WMS is a kid got kicked out of st Agnes and was staring this week.
To be blunt, it's rich white kids. I've seen them up close milling around the Cherrydale area a bunch of times. The shopping plaza that has the Arrowine store. And the ebikes are not cheap. I've been told by parents who recognize kids it's a lot of Hamm kids. An active bunch over on the school forums, to say the least.

Sounds about right. It was like that when we were there---peers were completely unsupervised and into all kinds of trouble with parents footing the bill for anything the kid's heart desired. And if one kid had it, they all had to have it.. Pulled our sons out and sent them to private--where 12-year olds aren't wearing $1,000 sneakers either.

Yes private school will fix the rich kid problem every time!

More diversity than Hamm and Williamsburg and uniforms. And disciplinary action. Better parent group- invested in kids - don’t buy them this cr@p and send them out unsupervised. Best decision we ever made.

So...parochial school.

Where I live it’s only the Catholic and private school kids who are doing this.

Where I live it’s only the red heads and left handed kids who are doing this.

[Anonymous]

They are called surron e dirt bikes and cost 5 to 6000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's CPS level bad parenting. I don't understand it. It's DCUM crowd kids doing it too.

I sincerely need someone who lets their kids do this come on here and start arguing with us and explain it. I don't get it.

How do you know it's DCUM crowd kids doing it?

Word at WMS is a kid got kicked out of st Agnes and was staring this week.
To be blunt, it's rich white kids. I've seen them up close milling around the Cherrydale area a bunch of times. The shopping plaza that has the Arrowine store. And the ebikes are not cheap. I've been told by parents who recognize kids it's a lot of Hamm kids. An active bunch over on the school forums, to say the least.

Sounds about right. It was like that when we were there---peers were completely unsupervised and into all kinds of trouble with parents footing the bill for anything the kid's heart desired. And if one kid had it, they all had to have it.. Pulled our sons out and sent them to private--where 12-year olds aren't wearing $1,000 sneakers either.

Yes private school will fix the rich kid problem every time!

More diversity than Hamm and Williamsburg and uniforms. And disciplinary action. Better parent group- invested in kids - don’t buy them this cr@p and send them out unsupervised. Best decision we ever made.

So...parochial school.

Where I live it’s only the Catholic and private school kids who are doing this.

Bullsh@t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's CPS level bad parenting. I don't understand it. It's DCUM crowd kids doing it too.

I sincerely need someone who lets their kids do this come on here and start arguing with us and explain it. I don't get it.

How do you know it's DCUM crowd kids doing it?

Word at WMS is a kid got kicked out of st Agnes and was staring this week.
To be blunt, it's rich white kids. I've seen them up close milling around the Cherrydale area a bunch of times. The shopping plaza that has the Arrowine store. And the ebikes are not cheap. I've been told by parents who recognize kids it's a lot of Hamm kids. An active bunch over on the school forums, to say the least.

Sounds about right. It was like that when we were there---peers were completely unsupervised and into all kinds of trouble with parents footing the bill for anything the kid's heart desired. And if one kid had it, they all had to have it.. Pulled our sons out and sent them to private--where 12-year olds aren't wearing $1,000 sneakers either.

Yes private school will fix the rich kid problem every time!

More diversity than Hamm and Williamsburg and uniforms. And disciplinary action. Better parent group- invested in kids - don’t buy them this cr@p and send them out unsupervised. Best decision we ever made.

So...parochial school.

Where I live it’s only the Catholic and private school kids who are doing this.

Bullsh@t.

+100 as has been stated by numerous different posters they are coming out of public schools- and on the roads around them. One parent even lets them house their bikes across from Williamsburg.

The Catholic kids in our neighborhood take Metro to school. Not e-bikes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's bad parenting.

You are buys if you think it’s good parents. Did you get your kid one, they pop wheelies and go 40 mph down Harrison and Langston. They aren’t in bike lanes, they don’t obey stop signs or lights. I’ve had them cut me off many times. Williamsburg has banned them, but some bad parents who lives across the street from the school let the kids park them then they walk to school. They are basically motorcycles and are being driving by 12, 13 and 14 year olds who have no idea what the are doing. A kid is going to get killed. Luckily, the batteries done work in cold weather so we should eh seeing a lot fewer of them.

Omg. These are the same parents who will have drunk driving teens in a few years. Very big issue in that area.

Sadly, this is a reality. DD is a big issue in that Williamsburg area.

Yes I have one at Yorktown. They are not the ones riding these things. They have cars. Also, freshman parents are throwing parties and supplying alcohol. Some parents want their kids to be the cool ones.

And we have had a few DD deaths recently in this County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tend to do my errands around 2pm in Arlington and have seen 7-8 different boys in MS or HS riding dirt bikes **in the road** in this week. They’re all wearing helmets but their bodies are no match for a car if they get hit.

How is this legal??? And who are the parents allowing this? I’ve see these boys on Lee Highway and Glebe Rd in N ARL…

I don't know, but I find it horrifying. Who in their right mind is letting their kid ride around on one of these things? Oh well, someone will get killed and then maybe something will be done about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I tend to do my errands around 2pm in Arlington and have seen 7-8 different boys in MS or HS riding dirt bikes **in the road** in this week. They’re all wearing helmets but their bodies are no match for a car if they get hit.

How is this legal??? And who are the parents allowing this? I’ve see these boys on Lee Highway and Glebe Rd in N ARL…

I don't know, but I find it horrifying. Who in their right mind is letting their kid ride around on one of these things? Oh well, someone will get killed and then maybe something will be done about it.

Yeah- well it was almost me …a pedestrian !!! Because of these stupid @ss parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's CPS level bad parenting. I don't understand it. It's DCUM crowd kids doing it too.

I sincerely need someone who lets their kids do this come on here and start arguing with us and explain it. I don't get it.

How do you know it's DCUM crowd kids doing it?

To be blunt, it's rich white kids. I've seen them up close milling around the Cherrydale area a bunch of times. The shopping plaza that has the Arrowine store. And the ebikes are not cheap. I've been told by parents who recognize kids it's a lot of Hamm kids. An active bunch over on the school forums, to say the least.

I live near Hamm. This, 100%.

[Anonymous]

DS (in 7th) asked for one and shut it down FAST. Absolutely not, he does ride his bike to school, but the roads are flat and straight and it's quite easy to get there. I absolutely judge parents that have gotten their kids an ebike (same with an escooter). He has 2 friends that have broken bones on the bikes, and I'm sure injuries, or something worse will continue. I was the "not cool" for a while until I was able to show him stats and various accidents on the bikes. Now he gets it.