Submitted by what-the-what24 t3_11u67x1 in rva
Based on all of the posts about the issues with the dirt bikes, it’s sad that it takes this situation to get attention in the local press. https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/dirt-bike-arrests-march-17-2023
Given how frequent this type of activity happens, it does beg the question if the mayor has ever been in Richmond city streets.
Yeah he didn’t seem to care when a group of dirt bikes left a woman paralyzed in a hit and run a few months back, I’m glad he was inconvenienced
Yes seriously, does he even live here if he had never seen this? Could explain a lot . . .
Ass slappage.
Stoked to see this. I’ve never seen a big group, but I’ve seen them.
This would never have happened to the Hell's Satans moped gang. #LiveFastRideSlow
Amen. He needs to be more than inconvenienced. And he is a complete narcissistic moron.
Always wondered about those patrolled by aircraft signs…
Punk teenagers with guns playing games. Great
Turns out having your head up your own ass drastically affects your sensory perception
Good. The Facebook posts defending this behavior are gross. Just because we have homicides doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enforce reckless driving laws. Mind boggling
>Punk teenagers with guns
stolen guns.
If you're talking about the "speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs, they don't do that anymore. But they do still have spy planes and choppers for tracking criminals. Well, hopefully they're using them only for criminals. They did just put up a bunch of license plate readers that will track everyone who goes by them.
Not only that, but it's different fucking group of cops who deal with very separate offenses. Homicides aren't dealt with in the moment like traffic violations; they're solved later by god-damned detectives. People still defend Chris Brown for what he did to Rihanna, so there's really no hope that the stupid among us might develop a half a brain at any point. Best we can do is keep them addicted to Facebook so they're not out endangering others with their stupidity.
Stoney should dive up and down Broad Street sometime.
Selective enforcement. Cool. You aren’t the mayor? Get fucked.
Where are the readers?
Where do you think? Where the black folks live.
> The department has invested in 36 flock cameras throughout the city. The department did not specify the exact location of the cameras, but say they’re strategically placed in high crime neighborhoods. 8News found two of the cameras in the Fairfield and Mosby Court areas.
Not surprising in the least.
MD/ NY/ NJ drivers are still worse than our dirt bike hooligans
Totally agree! I was driving on the Capital Beltway not too long ago and saw a huge group of these bikers and the police were like 🤷♀️
He lives on the top floor of the Hilton hotel on broad st. Source I work there
His apartment is on the top floor of the Hilton on broad street downtown. He knows about it he just doesn't care unless it benefits him. Source I work there
Bless you, I was ragging on regular four-wheeled drivers of those states on public roads but you’re right, they do have far more dirt bikes on the streets up there. Especially Baltimore. I think vice or someone may have done a lil exposé on the trend a few years back. I’m all for reckless two-wheeled behavior. I apologize if I misled you
Saw a dirt bike pop a wheelie on Broad in Shockoe near the train tracks yesterday. It was the 5:30 rush and I thought the dude had a death wish. I wonder if he was one of the guys because there was a chopper just over head…
Y’all keep voting for him.
They try to enforce it all the time, it’s just hard to chase down someone being reckless on a dirtbike
All downvotes are from the aforementioned drivers, or even worse- their addle-brained sympathizers.
They’ve never seen a big group, only seen them.
Still better than some backward KKK sack of shit. Stoney sucks though
Oh no! A wheelie?!
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>Who the fuck was even talking about guns?
Reading is fun. Damental.
With help from Chesterfield police and Virginia State Police, three of the four bikers were apprehended and arrested on the 9000 block of Knightsbridge Road in Chesterfield.
They're all over the place around VCU.
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It's weird how with some arrests, people seem to get over-charged. Like the police seem to tack on every charge that might stick. Meanwhile, these people were clearly under-charged. Just felony eluding and reckless driving. There should have been a string of charges related to piloting vehicles that aren't road-worthy. No headlights, no taillights, non-DOT approved tires, etc, etc. No insurance. No license plate.
He sounds like Eloise, living on the top floor of a hotel.
You know you're living in a shitty town when it takes it happening to the mayor for anything to change.
That one with the openly Christian-Fascist party
Look like new bikes, I wonder if they came from the recent Honda House heist, looked like a YZ450 being confiscated...
You don't even need to go to facebook. There are people who trip all over themselves on these posts to say we should let this go because they're not hurting anyone and it would be dangerous to try and stop them.
Good riddance to these 3 assholes, and here's to one less stolen gun being on the street.
“Stolen” guns
Nope— he is the very worst. He is selling the city out big time. And climbing the political ladder. He’s nothing but a two bit criminal who knows zero about running a city.
Doesn’t even own any place in the city just a damn renter. And he keeps our real estate taxes out of sight high. But hey, he doesn’t care – he’s not paying any real estate taxes.
Hey RPD actually did a thing. Now maybe they can stop the dirt bikers FROM DESTROYING MTB/HIKING TRAILS THE CITY PAYS TO MAINTAIN
They need to arrest your ass too. Who do you all think you are?? Stopping traffic so you can joy ride?
For those who have lived in both DC and RVA, how does the frequency with which you see this behavior compare? I’m considering moving back to RVA but when I lived there this **** didn’t really happen and I’m wondering how bad it’s gotten
It was a joke because those signs are obv BS Reddit no speak Joke
Who’s that?
I see them more or less every weekend day I leave the house. Often enough that when I hear an engine I think “these twats again”.
I sure as hell didn’t— either time.
Miller and Rhodes building? I work downtown and can see that building from my office. I've always wondered what those units are like.
“At least he’s not Kim Gray” as if he’s not scoring a 1/10
Finna bust a cap
They are using it to spot stolen cars and review after crimes (shootings for example) take place.
>if you are going to block traffic
>at least be respectful about it
I’d take pleasure in guttin you
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I know one of their mothers. She posted on Fb a while ago about how they arent hurting anyone and its much worse things they could be doing and the police need to leave them alone.
It says more charges pending...
They have had those bikes a while
A distinction without a practical difference outside of a police precinct or courtroom
In a minute, I'ma need a sentimental Man or woman to pump me up 🎶🎵
Finally, but it's weird it took the Mayor to complain before anything was done.
Police don’t use a chopper. They have a Cessna plane.
Damn suburbanites coming into town ruining our peaceful city.
Why does the kid on the bike look like a king fu master
Ahhhhh, why didn't he just say so?
Of course she did.
This is not the first time this person has been on here defending his shitty co-cyclists. And I'm referring to the dangerous ones, not the ones just trying to get from point A to point B.
Love the thumbnail. They caught the Witcher!
Get to the cessna.
Magistrates write warrants, cops tend to write tickets. It’s possible the traffic infractions were written up, they just haven’t made it to the clerk’s office yet/aren’t showing up online?
As a former Baltimore resident this makes me very happy!
The felony charges got them off the streets. The prosecutor can later charge them with whatever additional charges the police can prove in court.
I would rather not waste tax-funded resources on low crime areas. It's like spraying water where there's no fire. Crime doesn't have a color.
This reads like the only reason police got involved was because the mayor called. What about everyone else who's been dealing with it? Do the actual residents of Richmond not matter?
God I’ve seen a huge group of these people, was about to go straight through a green light out of lowes at midday when the group came from the left going miles above the limit and running a red light, dumbasses are lucky I wasn’t 0.5 seconds ahead of where I was already in drive cause they’d have fucking killed themselves on my car.
Unfortunately, that only works if you have access to the airplane.
"they're not hurting anyone..." Until they slam into them at 70 mph.
More like the mayor discourages officers from enforcing things when it garners him political points ("why are they harassing black youth?" "There are more important things to enforce/investigate" etc.). It isn't until either a) he is inconvenienced himself, or b) it happens publicly and he is forced by constituents to demand action. Can guarantee if one of them had crashed and died while fleeing he'd be screeching for punishment.
I watched them do their thing in Carytown without helmets a few months ago. You know what I call the atv riders doing such extreme wheelies that they're making sparks with their back ends? Organ donors. They're ridiculously lucky that none of them have died by now.
I know why they're doing it. It doesn't change the fact that they set them all up around black neighborhoods.
Maybe the people who live there are tired of getting their cars stolen or unsolved crime and asked the police to do something?
Must be nice to have the clout to have 911 actually answer the phone too.
Idk I’ve never called 911 in Richmond
Wait. So now we’re okay with police in airplanes?
/s
Downvotes from people that think your whataboutism is stupid.
Don’t take yourself too seriously, pal. This subreddit used to be fun.
The more I think about this, the madder I get. So they CAN catch them, arrest them, and prevent them from doing this. They’re just choosing not to. These people were driving me bonkers during lockdown in 2020 and I spoke to a lieutenant who said they couldn’t do anything. Ok! Gotcha. Though we do have new police leadership, so maybe that’s the difference. Hopefully this arrest plus a few more will spread the word to these clowns, and they’ll go somewhere else. Telling they’re from hopewell, I always suspected they were from elsewhere.
Eloise for mayor tbh
There’s a house next block over that will bring out dirt bikes into Highland Park area (3 or 4 of them). They were out over the weekend for few hours. Their neighbors (the house on corner) weren’t home so what do they do? Tear the dirt bikes through the neighbors yard (and throughout the neighborhood). Absolutely 0 respect or fucks given. It’s annoying and I don’t bother reporting them because the last thing I want is to become a target.
Ah, thanks, I overlooked that
DefaultSubsAreTerrib t1_jcmlqbl wrote
>"After the first attempt to pull these individuals over with our lights and sirens, they refused. So we backed off. Turned the lights off and let the airplane do it at a safe distance."
That seems like a prudent response that still lead to an arrest.