David wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:44 am
Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:21 am
ZRX61 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 7:01 am
I saw some poor bugger on Sunday riding a traditional Vespa looking contraption on the freeway as I was headed home. He was riding within a few inches of shoulder & appeared to be flat out at about 50mph. He did look very stylish though.
All the 2 wheeled warriors here (that's how they are known here in Bristol) just seem to do what they want. It was mainly bicycles and scooters but now even mopeds and some larger motorbikes seem to be following the flock now. One goes through a red light they all follow etc etc.
Going through red lights, filtering at 30mph in rush hour traffic almost taking off peoples wing mirrors, pulling out straight in front of you at junctions etc etc etc.
I've almost got to my wits end with them and almost just carry on now. I honestly don't care if i took one of them out, i'd just carry on with my day like nothing had happened, unless there was damage on my car after hitting them, then i'd order them the money for repairs to the car or face full rage from the beast within!
Yes, Bristol is that way, WSM is going that way (saw a yoof on a trail bike cross the main rd into Weston, no hemet or plates, and carry on down the footpath onto a cycle track). But I am not sure how your solution is going to work out.....
A few months ago I asked a P.C. on foot (yes, we still have the odd one) what they are doing about illegal scopoters etc...hhe said they issue a warning and then confiscate but were waiting for new legislation.
Hmmm.....
In reality they do fuck all.
The only resolve, without making myself sound too much of a brain dead thug is the fist and the boot.
I have posted on here many times about the issues i had with a group of young adults in their late teens early 20's stealing scrambles/mopeds etc and bringing them back to the estate and around my flats. They would ride them up and down doing wheelies pretty much 4-5 days a week.
My neighbour had called the police about 9 times over a space of about a year or maybe longer and not once did they find any sort of resolve, or even give any impression that they wanted to. I think they turned up twice to the reports and we would meet them, they would wind down their window and just say "sorry, we can't catch them as they don't have plates and we are not allowed to pursue them due to danger to risk of life" or something along those lines.
We mentioned to them that if they just sat in an unmarked car for 30 mins they would appear and we could grab them and they could be arrested but they almost laughed at us when this was mentioned moaning about not having the resources. They had enough resources though to send about 15 people to stand around all day to shut down a cannabis factory who had about 3 plants in though, but that was a nice easy tick in the box for them right!
It came to a loggerhead when one of them stole a 250 scrambler and proceeded to ride it into most of the neighbours gardens and spin up his back wheel destroying most of the garden and on this occasion spinning all of my little shared garden all up the side of the flats, the night before he also knocked down my neighbours 3 year old kid in the local park. The c.unt in question came back the next morning to do the same, boasting at the top of his voice to his mates what he had done. I was off work sick and just about recovered so was home and it was summer and i had the windows open so i could here the convo, that was it for me, i lost the plot walked over to them and just started battering the main guy on the scrambler, there were about 6 of them and i was ready for a proper ruck but they all ran off by the time i could turn around and the scrambler guy had had enough by the time i tried to take off his helmet and rode off. I then took myself around to the house of one of the other group leaders to introduce my rage to his dad, who had about 3 of his mates around at the time, they did fuck all and i think i just told him to sort out his child before i do and walked back to the flat.
The guy on the scrambler was never seen again. The group of young adults never hung around by the flats again and would cross over the other side of the road if they saw me walking around lol.
The only thing some people understand is the fist and the boot. It's a sad fact but a reality when the police seemingly don't care about the community they should be policing.