Boy, 7, arrested for riding dirt bike on sidewalk

[Waylander]

Like standing on the footpath with an empty gun's against the law too...

The engine wasn't always turned off and the gun wasn't always empty.

Surely even your old ears would be able to tell if an engine is running or not.

The bike wasn't electric was it?

[scumdog]

So a 7 year old child is supposed to ride on the roads instead of the pavements? Might be OK for quiet rural areas, but not for busy urban streets (I'm assuming this was in a busy town/city area..I could be wrong).

I could understand arresting the wee tyke if he'd been actually riding a dirt bike along the pavement - motorised bikes should definitely only be used on dirt tracks or the road. But, according to the report, he was just sitting on it with the engine off...????

As for riding pushbikes only on the road, until you have a good enough understanding of traffic and the consequences of it hitting you, you should be fully entitled to ride on the pavement.

As I've seen, parents buy a small dirt-bike for Johnny - and then let him ride on the roads "cos there's no place else for him to ride around here"

Like duh, they never noticed there was no suitable place for Johnny to ride BEFORE they bought the bike???

[judecatmad]

As I've seen, parents buy a small dirt-bike for Johnny - and then let him ride on the roads "cos there's no place else for him to ride around here"

Like duh, they never noticed there was no suitable place for Johnny to ride BEFORE they bought the bike???

Yeah, that's a bit different.....

[scumdog]

Surely even your old ears would be able to tell if an engine is running or not.

The bike wasn't electric was it?

Almost wasn't going to dignify the above with a reply BUT just because the motor is not running when you get to a vehicle does not mean it wasn't ten seconds earlier.
Otherwise most drunk-driver would be getting off. (as an example).

[scumdog]

Yeah, that's a bit different.....

Ah, but we don't know that - do we???

[Waylander]

Almost wasn't going to dignify the above with a reply BUT just because the motor is not running when you get to a vehicle does not mean it wasn't ten seconds earlier.
Otherwise most drunk-driver would be getting off. (as an example).

score one for you there. still doesn't justify the way the kid was treated though.

riding a toy dirtbike on a sidewalk is hardly going to get anyone killed. Unless ofcourse this were NZ where people tend to back out of driveways without looking.

Are your bosses going to make standing on a private driveway illegal too?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

I nearly got pushed off the footpath by a old lady on her Motorized Mobility Scooter thing the other day... dangerouse fracking things they are...

It was probably stolen too... either that she was drunk, or on drugs

[scumdog]

Are your bosses going to make standing on a private driveway illegal too?

Nah - but you stand a good chance fo getting run over.

Boring wet Sunday, eh?

[Waylander]

Boring wet Sunday, eh?

yea pretty much. Nothing to do but laundry.

Though blue sky is starting to break through, may go give my new tyre a propper scrub in.

[smokeyging]

I'm wondering if theres more to the story than this. what if that 7 year old was on the side of the road giveing the cop lip when he was driveing past?

[mud boy]

god thats a bit to far

im back again

[Skyryder]

"It is clear to me that the arrest was wrong, that the officers on the scene should not have arrested the child, and on behalf of the City of Baltimore I apologize to the boy and his parents," Dixon said.

Sounds like someone with some brains. I wonder how many dollars this cost.

Skyryder

[sunhuntin]

As for riding pushbikes only on the road, until you have a good enough understanding of traffic and the consequences of it hitting you, you should be fully entitled to ride on the pavement.

no...until you have a good understanding of traffic, you are fully entitled to ride on private property, or push bike designed public property [ie, a park]

when i was learning to ride two wheels, i wasnt allowed on the footpath. i learned to ride on the lawn at home. same goes for the motorbike, learning gears and such.

the chances of a car backing over you are greater on the footpath than the road. the closer you are to a fence, the less chance you have of being seen. i know i hate people [of any age!] riding on footpaths. same as i hate mobility scooters, skateboards, and pocketbikes one footpaths. they are called FOOTpaths for a reason.

a child on a trike...yes, thats fine. but once they hit two wheels, its private property only. little kids on trikes are generally slower and more under their parents control than a child on two wheels...specially if its got a motor attached!

[trump-lady]

I lived in Baltimore city for 2 years and the areas there are beyond ghetto. I did three police rides on Fri nights (was interested in joining the police) If this was in one of those areas that 7 year old was probably a runner/lookout for a drug dealer, had more offenses than most 40 year olds and could cut your throat with a switchblade in a sec that he has hidden in his socks.

He was prob well known to the police and the fact his mother allowed him to be on a dirt bike at 7 unattended and without gear pretty much speaks for itself. The kids sadly over there are exposed to alot of crap that makes them way way way older than their age suggests. The police were prob trying to scare him and give him sally up and perhaps thought it would help him. I remember stealing a rubber when I was 8 with a friend. The police took me home and (my dad planned this) told me social welfare was ganna take me away blah blah blah and I tell you what I HAVE NEVER stolen since.

It annoys me they put that in the newspaper but no one talks about the aids ridden drug addicted prostitutes throwing needles at the police or the mothers who whore out there 9 year olds to pay for there crack or the constant crap police get in these areas. Take South Auckland and times it by 10....you get bmore city....................needless to say I never did persue that job.