Current Events > NYPD and NYC Mayor bulldoze dirt bikes, ATVs while touting ongoing crackdown

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https://www.amny.com/new-york/brooklyn/nypd-mayors-flattens-the-curve-on-illegal-dirt-bikes-and-atvs-crushes-hundreds-in-brooklyn/

The NYPD flattened illegal motorcycles in Brooklyn Tuesday as they announced their zero-tolerance policy on roaring bikes and ATVs. The ear-splitting, booming engines of motorcycle hordes racing through the city streets have been a thorn in the side of New Yorkers for years. However, noise pollution isnt the only issue with these vehicles. Mayor Eric Adams, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, and fellow police officials called them a danger to pedestrians and other drivers. In doing so, Adams followed up with a spectacle that his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, threw on Staten Island last September, sending forth a bulldozer to flatten the seized vehicles under its weight.

The mayor also declared a war on these dirt bikes over the summer, stating that their presence will not be tolerated. I stated on the campaign trail that we were going to focus on these dirt bikes and ATVs. They are not only a nuisance and an annoyance to us, but extremely dangerous. And we know that we see them all the time, and we hear them at all times at night, Adams said. So today as we stand in the shadow of the Freedom Tower, we are freeing ourselves from these destructive pieces of machinery thats on our streets and they will be crushed today. As a bulldozer prepared to ravage a lineup of about 100 motorcycles, Sewell joined in taking a victory lap due to the number of illegal vehicles removed from the streets. Since January the NYPD has seized over 2000 of these vehicles city wide as the mayor said thats nearly over 80% more than we took by this time last year. And today were ensuring that the bikes behind me will never return to our streets. They will never again endanger another child, another grandmother on the sidewalk or another family simply trying to enjoy a day in the park. They will never again have a place in New York City, Commissioner Sewell said.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1539599082397659138

Good

Edit: of course the first Twitter comment is some dumb fuck about how they could have been sent to starving kids in Africa.

Nice to see - but there's probably another 30000 hidden away somewhere.

What makes these particular bikes so illegal? Have they been modified to be louder?

A_Good_Boy posted...

What makes these particular bikes so illegal? Have they been modified to be louder?

I'm wondering if they are illegal only because they were driven on a public street. Like, they dirt bikes themselves aren't illegal but it's illegal do drive them on city streets.

Good, I fucking hate seeing hordes of those dirtbike assholes going through the streets here

Lebronwon posted...

In doing so, Adams followed up with a spectacle that his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, threw on Staten Island last September, sending forth a bulldozer to flatten the seized vehicles under its weight.

So wait, they've done this before?

Why do they need to do it again, then?

If bicycles, ebikes, and scooters can be ridden on public roads without being registered or the rider having a license, then dirbikes and quads should be allowed.

Imagine if our cities were actually designed so people could get around them, instead of around roads for cars.

Here dirt bikes are street legal as long as they have turn indicators, taillight, headlight & a license plate. ATV's i do not believe so.

I'm not understanding the point in doing this. I'm not a local so maybe they are annoying af to deal with on the daily.

Fair, next.