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10/15/2014 11:43am
So I am here in Baltimore for work and have talked with a few people about the 12 o'clock boys. Everyone has positive things to say about them and that their riding is a form of art. Word is they ride Sunday's and if boys from out of town ride too they have police escorts. I will be out Saturday so I can't watch, but was facinated to here locals stories.
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so a number of years ago, the Baltimore PD got orders to not engage suspects in any highspeed chases on motorcycles because of the potentiality of being sued if the suspect crashes the bike and is hurt or killed. it has happened multiple times.
the baltimore locals caught wind of this and came up with the bright idea that they could now use dirtbikes to run drugs around town, because the cops would just look the other way.
well, one things leads to another and they start wheelying the things too. in a lot of cases aren't stealing the bikes, but they are buying them stolen for dirt cheap from the rednecks who steal them. how do they know where the bikes are? facebook and budds creek. beasley has mentioned it at every local race there for the past 2 years. (don't put your shit all over facebook, "check in" at budds creek, because you can pinpoint someone's house/location yada yada)
they've got at least one of Pastrana's Suzukis out there, but that's another story...
Now riddle me this. a man walks into an office building with an M-4 and shoots 6 of his office mates in the back of the head in their cubicles. do you get on the internet and praise his shooting abilities and argue that he is just a misunderstood talent and should be given an opportunity to do some competitive shooting, rather than jailed?
1. receiving stolen property is illegal
2. riding unregistered dirtbikes on public highways is illegal
3. running heroine around baltimore on dirtbikes is illegal
I have no problem with them, but riding on public streets and endangering others is wrong, how come they are allowed to?
My $.02....I agree that some of these guys are hoodlums and definitely some of those bikes are stolen. I don't approve of the use of bikes to run drugs through the city or anywhere else, much less the theft of someone's bike.
That being said, a lot these dudes are just out having fun on their motorcycles. Isn't that what all of us do? Keep in mind that there are ZERO legal public riding areas anywhere near Baltimore. Where else are they supposed to ride? Not trying to go on a tangent, but the state and counties helped create this problem when they shut down every legal riding area in Maryland besides Budds Creek. Now they're dealing with it. Let 'em shred I say.
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