To summarize, some individuals decided to ride dirtbikes and quads in the city and off road in a park. This is illegal, then a shooting happened. Police complained that it affected their jobs, so now the mayor of Boston decided to put a ban on unregistered bikes and crack down on those who operate "motorbikes."
This is a video of what is happening in Boston, this is in Baltimore tho, different location, same shit...
What this means is that the mayor is making something thats already illegal, illegal again. In other words, wasting time doing paper work when this should have been quashed long ago. Why is the mayor doing this? From the little research that I did, I mean real little, I mean like a google search and some youtube videos later, I found him to be a liberal retard with the speech of a 5 year old who suffers from mumbling to the extent where you can barely understand him. Not to mention he's been mayor there for 10+ years and has no real big accomplishments.
Overall this situation is one big fuck up, you have guys in the hood doing some rad shit. The cops haven't done a whole lot to curb the guys riding around at all or at least tried to stop it. Then when a shooting happens and the mayor has a idea about banning something thats already illegal, hosts the media, and looks like hes doing his job when he really isn't doing anything but putting pressure on the police. Then you have the fallout of idiots online like this individual(link here).
What should have been done was a crack down by the police a longtime ago. Now everyone with a legal moped, scooter, street legal dirtbike, or small motorcycle is going to suffer from this. Is it the police's fault? Yes and no, they didn't act on illegal activity and should have. Yet its also those guys who rode around in the streets, they need to know that its illegal.
Laws aside I think its cool that they ride together off road in the park. Doing illegal stuff like this off road away from the streets is no big deal for me. No harm, no foul. Of course they gotta be responsible for their actions, no helmet and a accident is your own fault. As for the crap they do on the road, I don't like it and the cops should shut them down there.
In the end it doesn't matter to me since I don't live in Boston but we don't need more reasons to have more laws passed for moped/scooters. Even if they affect very little, less laws are better and idiots like this will screw up shit for the rest of us who go about our business the legal way. It also reflects badly on us, its disrespectful, and will only make things worse.
I like the moped community as it is right now, even though I'm new to it, there is plenty of new things that I learn about mopeds and moped culture every week. I'd hate to see things change and I don't need to hear negative shit from strangers...
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