Cops Crush Outlaw Bikers' Bikes

[leafman60]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/crushin-it-nypd-uses-bulldozers-to-wreck-renegade-cycles/ar-BBtaHly?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=HPDHP

[twowings]

Too bad the spare parts couldn't have been made available to responsible riders...

However, considering how a few reckless idiots can have such a terrible impact on public safety and the image of "law-abiding" motorcyclists, I'm glad there are consequences to pay...

[oldbike54]

 Something seems hinky about all of this , those are all older model pure dirt bikes , most aren't worth much , it just feels strange .

 Dusty

[rodekyll]

The article does say they crushed some of 675 confiscated bikes that were unclaimed AND

probably couldn't be made legal
unsafe
not worth auctioning
etc.

So you're definitely looking at the bottom of the barrel.  The ones that qualified -- probably a scant few of the total (shown in the pic) -- were crushed as a PR stunt.

Have you ever noticed when the semi in the movie rips through the stopped traffic on the bridge, flinging cars all about and making them blow up, that it's the same thing?  If you watch, they're all gutted and stripped '60s Mercedes and checker cabs . . . most sans visible engines when the hoods blow off. . .   it's all for dramatic effect.

[oldbike54]

 RK , that was kinda my point . This wasn't really directed at the "outlaw bad guy bikers" , simply a publicity stunt to appease the public .

 Dusty

[rodekyll]

Whatever.  I was just trying to run with your statement of the obvious.  I'll go back to watching my fiberglass dry.

[leafman60]

There was one Harley Sportster in the bunch but a police sergeant got it out for himself before the demolition. 

[GearheadGrrrl]

I suspect they could get more revenue auctioning them, but then some of them might end up illegally back on the streets again. Besides, they'd miss the PR opportunity. Lots of cities do this, for example Minneapolis hates cars so anything they impound that isn't late model they brand as "salvage" and only sell them in lots of one hundred or more to scrap dealers.

[oldbike54]

Whatever.  I was just trying to run with your statement of the obvious.  I'll go back to watching my fiberglass dry.

 I guess we gotta find our excitement where it is 

 Fiberglass drying <me watching>

 Dusty

[Idontwantapickle]

I suspect they could get more revenue auctioning them, but then some of them might end up illegally back on the streets again.

This.

The article states
"The department has been cracking down on unlicensed drivers who operate ATVs, mini-bikes and motorcycles without helmets. So far this year, more than 679 bikes have been confiscated and dozens of drivers arrested on such charges as reckless endangerment."
Boneheads are zoomin around the Big Apple on dirt bikes. Cops are not amused!

Hunter

[RinkRat II]

 Obviously in touch with the real world by " launch the destruction with a wave of a checkered flag."  Yessir thats the way we start things is with a checkered flag Political stunt for the sheeple of NewYork.

   Paul B

[LowRyter]

wtf?

[Shorty]

I've seen video of these urban guys running a dirt bike mob up and down the city streets, running into cars and doing stoppies, the usual youth driven stuff , only by gang bangers. So they are not "outlaw bikers" in the traditional sense, but gang members tearing ass around on cheap or stolen bikes. The PO PO trying to justify their donut eatin existence

[drlapo]

Nitwits and knuckleheads

[M0T0Geezer]

Same theatrics as "gun buyback" programs.  Equally ineffective in causing any real change in either safety or society.

'Geezer

[segesta]

Yeah, those weren't Hayabusas and hooligan bikes being destroyed, they were dirt bikes. So they were outlaws, and they were bikes, but no Outlaw Bikers involved as I define that term.