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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. How can police stop this? I get that it might be more dangerous to try to chase individual bikers, but when it's a group, surely there are ways to make it stop, or at least disperse?

Are they really stuck just letting this happen?

Do you realize how privileged and racist you sound, OP?

It is not privileged and racist to expect cops to enforce the law. If I break traffic laws I get pulled over and ticketed. Why should it be different for these boys?

[Anonymous]

I have noticed some changes in this "ritual" over the past year or so - the riders used to wear no helmets and bandanas over their faces. Now, they are wearing helmets to shield their identity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC police have an official no chase policy for this. It's because once when they did someone got hurt.

They most definitely do wreck havoc and have hurt people. They killed a dog once.

Last summer one of them popped a wheelie and came down on my husband's car hood, while he sat in it waiting for them to pass. But good advice, PP!

They are a f(*$#ing menace.

Was your husband injured? No. He clearly wasn’t.

So it's ok to destroy property now too? I can just come to your home and smash shit and that's not illegal or enforceable? You'll be ok with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. How can police stop this? I get that it might be more dangerous to try to chase individual bikers, but when it's a group, surely there are ways to make it stop, or at least disperse?

Are they really stuck just letting this happen?

Do you realize how privileged and racist you sound, OP?

what the hell are you talking about??? How is it privileged or racist to ask why the police can't stop an illegal and DANGEROUS activity?

Please STFU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC police have an official no chase policy for this. It's because once when they did someone got hurt.

They most definitely do wreck havoc and have hurt people. They killed a dog once.

Last summer one of them popped a wheelie and came down on my husband's car hood, while he sat in it waiting for them to pass. But good advice, PP!

They are a f(*$#ing menace.

Was your husband injured? No. He clearly wasn’t.

How old are you and have you finished middle school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed some changes in this "ritual" over the past year or so - the riders used to wear no helmets and bandanas over their faces. Now, they are wearing helmets to shield their identity.

Bc now, if you call with any info on the riders, you can earn $250. "Bonus to phone us" ...fast cash.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/1077262

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:" ... there are lots of traffic violations that don't get enforced. "

You have identified a new income stream for DC. Better still than self-driving vehicles, "self-reporting" vehicles which will print out at the end of each day a cummulative traffic ticket complete with charges for all of the traffic violations perpetrated that day.

OMG that is brilliant.

Wasn't there something about citizens being able to report parking violations and other stuff using an app?

[Anonymous]

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Irrelevant.

Why?

Because you don't start arguing about laws you don't like once you've been accused of breaking it. That is not a valid defense in any jurisdiction.

I haven't been accused of breaking any laws about dirt bikes.

I'm asking why dirt bikes should be illegal in DC.

Have you tried googling it and becoming more informed? Or do you prefer ignorance? Many do. Less work that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have noticed some changes in this "ritual" over the past year or so - the riders used to wear no helmets and bandanas over their faces. Now, they are wearing helmets to shield their identity.

Of course. They wear helmets so they can be safe and to protect their identities. They don’t want to crack their own skulls open, but don’t care what happens to anyone else.

[Anonymous]

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Irrelevant.

Why?

Because you don't start arguing about laws you don't like once you've been accused of breaking it. That is not a valid defense in any jurisdiction.

I haven't been accused of breaking any laws about dirt bikes.

I'm asking why dirt bikes should be illegal in DC.

Have you tried googling it and becoming more informed? Or do you prefer ignorance? Many do. Less work that way.

Still no explanation of why dirt bikes (vs the dangerous operation of motor vehicles) should be illegal in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. How can police stop this? I get that it might be more dangerous to try to chase individual bikers, but when it's a group, surely there are ways to make it stop, or at least disperse?

Are they really stuck just letting this happen?

Do you realize how privileged and racist you sound, OP?

what the hell are you talking about??? How is it privileged or racist to ask why the police can't stop an illegal and DANGEROUS activity?

Please STFU.

Unless you’re also trying to get white boys arrested for riding dirt bikes in the woods in Frederick or Spotsylvania, you’re a racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. How can police stop this? I get that it might be more dangerous to try to chase individual bikers, but when it's a group, surely there are ways to make it stop, or at least disperse?

Are they really stuck just letting this happen?

Do you realize how privileged and racist you sound, OP?

what the hell are you talking about??? How is it privileged or racist to ask why the police can't stop an illegal and DANGEROUS activity?

Please STFU.

Unless you’re also trying to get white boys arrested for riding dirt bikes in the woods in Frederick or Spotsylvania, you’re a racist.

They arent endangering anyone else in the woods. Doing this on busy roads with other drivers and pedestrians is dangerous and should be stopped. If some kid wants to flip a dirt bike in the woods so what?
Anyone who cant see the difference in risk of life of innocents between those two scenarios is either stupid or being purposely obtuse.

[Anonymous]

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They arent endangering anyone else in the woods. Doing this on busy roads with other drivers and pedestrians is dangerous and should be stopped. If some kid wants to flip a dirt bike in the woods so what?
Anyone who cant see the difference in risk of life of innocents between those two scenarios is either stupid or being purposely obtuse.

Yes, dangerous driving endangers other road users. This is true if you're driving dirt bike. It's also true if you're driving a car or truck.

[Anonymous]

Please, quick, someone develop a video game authentically re-creating the thrill of driving a dirt bike, in a herd, through DC. If you remember how WWI got started you can extrapolate to today's black/white/brown/yellow tensions and imagine how some dumb dirters might spark another civil war in the USA. Our upcoming civil war will be much more strategically interesting. More like Yugoslavia. Identity politics run amuck. We won't need uniforms. Our natural pigmentation will give us away as far as which side we are fighting on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. How can police stop this? I get that it might be more dangerous to try to chase individual bikers, but when it's a group, surely there are ways to make it stop, or at least disperse?

Are they really stuck just letting this happen?

Do you realize how privileged and racist you sound, OP?

what the hell are you talking about??? How is it privileged or racist to ask why the police can't stop an illegal and DANGEROUS activity?

Please STFU.

Unless you’re also trying to get white boys arrested for riding dirt bikes in the woods in Frederick or Spotsylvania, you’re a racist.

How do you not see a difference between riding a dirt bike dangerously in the woods and riding a dirt bike dangerously through the streets of DC?

If the kid (White or Black) drives recklessly in the woods and hurts himself, that’s his issue. If the kid (White or Black) is driving through DC, he is likely to interfere with other drivers and pedestrians. Which is exactly what happens.

Though, honestly, I do think there are some laws against riding dirt bikes in ‘the woods’ also. You can’t ride anywhere and you can’t ride in private property, etc.