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The issue is that it would be stupid to auction them off locally, have them go cheaply back to the same crews who they were seized from in the first place, and have them back terrorizing people on the city streets.
As I said a few pages ago, if they shipped them well out of state to sell, it wouldn't be a problem.
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So what? Regardless of whether they're street bikes or off-road bikes, either can be sold and used legally by new, responsible owners. They can even be sold and parted out.
The issue is that it would be stupid to auction them off locally, have them go cheaply back to the same crews who they were seized from in the first place, and have them back terrorizing people on the city streets.
As I said a few pages ago, if they shipped them well out of state to sell, it wouldn't be a problem.
The issue is that it would be stupid to auction them off locally, have them go cheaply back to the same crews who they were seized from in the first place, and have them back terrorizing people on the city streets.
As I said a few pages ago, if they shipped them well out of state to sell, it wouldn't be a problem.
Well hopefully we agree that's better than simply destroying them.
Here's the thing though: selling them out-of-state may serve to eliminate that source, but it doesn't stop anyone from buying them used from private sellers via Craigslist or similar venues, or from a local motorcycle dealer. I'm sure a fair number of them are simply stolen.
Again, the problem is not with the motorcycles/ATV's, the problem is with the people misusing them.
Yeah...I don't think this annoyance can be attributed to one specific racial group in this city. In Upper Manhattan a lot of Spanish speaking youth drive everyone bonkers with these, since that's the predominant ethnic group up there. I guess in other neighbourhoods you see black kids riding them. Seems like it's a crazy kids' thing to me.
Where I grew up in rural Virginia, all the white kids had dirt-bikes and ATVs and rode them like maniacs. Those vehicles mixed with pubescent youth on testosterone are annoying as hell no matter where you find them or what race the rider is.
The thing is, in rural VA, there is actually dirt to ride your dirt bike on. NYC? Not so much.
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Where I grew up in rural Virginia, all the white kids had dirt-bikes and ATVs and rode them like maniacs. Those vehicles mixed with pubescent youth on testosterone are annoying as hell no matter where you find them or what race the rider is.
They can always get them. Let's just not make it cheap and easy to get back the ones that got seized.
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Well hopefully we agree that's better than simply destroying them.
Here's the thing though: selling them out-of-state may serve to eliminate that source, but it doesn't stop anyone from buying them used from private sellers via Craigslist or similar venues, or from a local motorcycle dealer. I'm sure a fair number of them are simply stolen.
Again, the problem is not with the motorcycles/ATV's, the problem is with the people misusing them.
Still waiting for someone to explain why those confiscated bikes can't be sold and used legally. This is akin to the gun confiscators focusing on the object rather than the person using it.
It would cost more in labor hours, paperwork, etc. to get the bikes sold than what they are worth.
You can buy a used dirt bike for less than a grand. And the ones these guys ride are not top of the line.
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