Sweet justice......for once

[ScotchDave]

A good friend of mine had a problem with mini motos riding down the open plan gardens to the front of his house...he ties a 20lb fishing line across his garden at waist height.

The first chav to hit it also snapped it, leaving no evidence. He went out to pick up the young man and advised him that next time he rode across the gardens he would set his laser to "kill" not "stun".

Problem solved

Simon

Please refer to this post and the whole thread, we've been through it all.

I have a friend who can't walk properly because of people like your mate, it is not legal or acceptable.

Dave

 

[pastymuncher]

What laws were they breaking by riding mini motos?

For a start they are tearing up a public park/woodland and golf course, to ride/drive a motor vehicle in a public place you need insurance, licence, roadworthy vehicle i.e MOT and they are also causing damage to the public golf course i.e criminal damage.
I didn't mention that SWMBO and I have both come very very close to running the little oiks over when they have jumped off the pavement in front of us. Wouldn't hurt me or my car but clearing the flesh and bone out of my Mud tyres gets a little tedious.
If I drove my land rover down the road and around the local park without insurance, licence and MOT the bobby would be on my case pretty quickly.

 

[Barn Owl]

It's an offence under Road Traffic Act to ride a motor vehicle otherwise than on a road.

Don't ask me for the definition or exemptions...I cannae remember them.

 

[nitrambur]

They should build tracks for them, give the kids something to do that they ACTUALLY WANT TO DO in a safe setting where they aren't bothering folk.

You're then looking at liability insurance, so you have to charge the kids to use it, but then they can't afford it or just don't want to pay so they go back to their old illegal tracks, and the built track gets shut down because it's losing money, and then it gets in all the papers that the council have wasted vast sums of money....


Mini-moto's can only legally be ridden on private property with the owners permission, basically the same as hunting etc. The DVLA will not issue road licences for them so they can't be ridden on the road or insured.

 

[DaveBromley]

"Under the Occupier's Liability Act 1984 householders owe a duty of care to anyone on their property, whether they are entitled to be there or not. The duty is to protect people from an injury as a result of a foreseen hazard"
I think stringing a couple of post with line is pretty foreseen!

And i'm preety sure if You mow someone down on the motorway you'd still have to come up with a better response than " they shouldn't have been there"

Any how. I was all for this thread as i can't stand unruley folk thinking they own the place....chave moto's included. The cops should hit them where it hurst (and they did in taking the bike)

My problem comes from people not thinking about their actions and not caring at all.

The guy who stung the line up is just as out of order as those kids on the bike.

This is where i get frustrated as a biker, I've been following cars as kids throw bags/ashtrays(yes)/ drinks bottles out of the windows and watching me to see what happens.
other times i've had rock dropped from bridges (onto cars infront of me as well as when i rode past)
People just don't give a edited by Moderator about others...and people do string lines across roads. IT IS SICK so sorry if i'm just a bit edited by Moderator if you and Simon think it is a good plan to potenially garrot that kid!

END!

I would say that you may be right in hind sight 2 wrongs don't make a right, I take your point about people thinking they own the place and completely agree.

I think that what you discribed ie ashtrays and such is dispicable and just goes to show that some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids! you have to pass a test to gain control of a motor vehicle but you can have a s many kids as you like without having to show that you can handle them competently

Anyway my 2p

Dave

 

[Rebel]

They used to ride them where I walk my dog too. But they aren't usually mini motos, that might not be as bad. They usually ride stolen or unlicensed mopeds. They ride them in the dark with no lights on public footpaths (through green areas where there is no street lighting) and they ride them in the fields. Unfortunately my dog loves the sound of the engine for some reason and chases them. She doesn't chase anything else, she's not fussed by joggers, horses, cars, bikes or anything else but when she hears a noisy moped she goes crazy. Trouble is she's a Doberman and can run as fast as the bikes can drive. Scares the cr*p out of the chavs riding them, which is amusing, but I'm afraid one day there's going to be an accident and I'll get the blame.

Anyway I was out with the dog when I saw some PCOs hiding in the bushes. I figured they were going to try and catch a guy riding a moped. He was a regular and I knew where he was going to be so I tipped them off. Sure enough they caught the blighter and his mates and I haven't seen them since or any other bikes recently. It's been much more peaceful for everybody.

Interestingly, because of the problems with mini motos and mopeds the police set up a place specifically for youth to ride mini motos and it's free but the lads with the stolen mopeds won't be welcome of course and there are some people who won't use an authorized track because of their hatred of authority.

I want to see young lads having fun and riding these bikes is fun but they are just incredibly stupid with them. They are such a menace (a danger to themselves and everybody else) that the police in my area did a total clamp down on them and I've rarely seen them this summer.

 

[demographic]

A good friend of mine had a problem with mini motos riding down the open plan gardens to the front of his house...he ties a 20lb fishing line across his garden at waist height.

The first chav to hit it also snapped it, leaving no evidence. He went out to pick up the young man and advised him that next time he rode across the gardens he would set his laser to "kill" not "stun".

Problem solved

Simon

So he deliberately created a hazard that caused a crash?
I think you're "Mate" would do well to keep his head down and gob shut about that kind of behaviour lest he finds himself at the pointy end of the law.

 

[Matt.S]

And here we go again with a thread about youths running their motorbikes where they're causing a nuisance. Didn't realise it'd been a fortnight already. At least most people seem to be steering away (sorry) from this thread so far. It's like .177 vs. .22, except less interesting.

 

[ScotchDave]

And here we go again with a thread about youths running their motorbikes where they're causing a nuisance. Didn't realise it'd been a fortnight already. At least most people seem to be steering away (sorry) from this thread so far. It's like .177 vs. .22, except less interesting.

Dude, I already linked the previous thread, but I can't be bothered to have the same debate all over again.

Dave