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Part of the problem in Cleveland is outgoing mayor Frank Jackson's grandchildren were involved in these dirt bike mobs (the one who was murdered a couple months ago was lured to the location where he was shot to pick up a dirt bike), so the mayor essentially gave them free reign over the city. Hopefully, it's something new mayor Justin Bibb tries to get under control and has a better solution than to build a dirt bike track in the Garden Valley projects.
At first, I wasn't against that plan until I asked my CPD friend what he thought about that. He just laughed and said "we'll be there every (expletive) day for a shooting and if we can't try to stop them now due to potential lawsuits, wait until some rich white kids from the suburbs think they can go over there and they end up robbed or shot and see what kind of lawsuits the city is hit with."
Bibb and his love for Issue 24 does not bode well for crime lowering in Cleveland at all, and I'm sure these dirt bike folks will only get more prominent. Bibb doesn't care, afterall, he lives way up in the most expensive luxury apartment tower in the city!
People ride around cities on ATVs? I didn't see this even back in podunk Idaho.
I don’t see this here in TX either where it’s not uncommon for rural folks to ride around using ATVs and UTVs even to the closest country store, often a few miles away. I didn’t often get all the way out to the East Coast while trucking and mostly wasn’t in New England - my territory included PA west of 81 but occasionally took me to New England and other parts of the I95 corridor - but I never saw a trace of it up there either.
Generally people only do this in inner cities. Very few reasons to find oneself in inner city Bridgeport or Providence…Highway is too risky. But that happens more in the southeast.
Last edited by BostonBornMassMade; 12-10-2021 at 10:46 PM..
I don’t see this here in TX either where it’s not uncommon for rural folks to ride around using ATVs and UTVs even to the closest country store, often a few miles away. I didn’t often get all the way out to the East Coast while trucking and mostly wasn’t in New England - my territory included PA west of 81 but occasionally took me to New England and other parts of the I95 corridor - but I never saw a trace of it up there either.
Reason it’s uncommon for TX is probably because lack of public land for ATV’s
Nah I said it’s NOT uncommon to see rural folks on ATVs and such here, but you don’t see it in cities here. Or, as stated, any other city I remember visiting. The lack of public land is a problem though, both for hunters and off-readers of all stripes. Texas sucks on that count.
Actually the only place I saw horses being ridden outside of a pen were near Dallas, riding right next to I20 usually between exit 470 and the I35 interchange. It was weird and wonderful, and a bit of a shock for some as it was African Americans riding them almost exclusively. It’s one of those great little things where Texas defies expectations.
Now the lifted trucks...yeah that’s a thing. Stars and bars are rarer than one might think, though. I see this more outside of Texas than in it, although I saw one truck with a stars and bars sticker today, and for the second time in my life, a guy with SS tattoos...ironically coming in with a very attractive mixed-race (I think) female. I can point to some areas where I saw a lot more of the flags than here, Texas is probably “only” 8th or 10th on my list for how common it is.
Earlier this year- In what some saw as a white flag of sorts Providence mayor, Jorge Elorza, was pushing to legalize ATVs and dirt bikes on city streets, however it was met with strong pushback….instead folks are calling on the state police to help clamp down on the ATVs
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