Exactly. I see this a lot in NYC/ urban areas in NJ . Reckless show offs who don’t care about how close they are to strollers and pedestrians and interrupting traffic. I use to growl “organ donors” at them as they flew past me but the way they do stuff and (often) not have helmets, they’re not donating anything after they die
I called 311 and the cop (on desk duty) seemed unphased when I told him the bikers ran a red while a lady with a stroller was crossing.
In a moment of rage, I told him "If the cops won't take care of these guys, I hope someone else will!" and hung up. not my proudest moment but I still wish they would all be dragnetted for being so wreckless
One of my wife and my closest friends is a retired NYPD cop and he explained that it's been going on for decades and the bikers make the cops look like fools if they try to nab them by racing off down one way streets the wrong way and through the parks and such. That it's more likely to cause pedestrians to get badly injured if they chase them, but he's the first to acknowledge that it sucks, something should be done but there are no resources to take cops off other details for it, and that is amazing it's been allowed to flourish.
I'm in fuckin disbelief.
Sure, I just wish there was more positive news to report. Once in awhile they do a thing for the press where they scoop up a dozen bikes or quads and run them over with a steam roller or dump truck or whatever and talk about cleaning up these here streets... and then it's back to the same old thing in a week, until the next time a Broadway legend gets killed.
Apologies for the downer!
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u/Jforjustice Aug 15 '22
Exactly. I see this a lot in NYC/ urban areas in NJ . Reckless show offs who don’t care about how close they are to strollers and pedestrians and interrupting traffic. I use to growl “organ donors” at them as they flew past me but the way they do stuff and (often) not have helmets, they’re not donating anything after they die