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Can someone please explain how 10 year old kids are allowed to drive fully functional motorcycles on city streets and sidewalks?
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Anonymous
August 9, 2022, 12:57 pm
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The big ones you’re talking about, where the kids do not have to pedal in order for the electric motor to kick in, are NOT legal on sidewalks or dedicated bike paths like the one along Las Positas. They are only legal on the street, in the bike lane.
I do not and will not ever understand why the police are not giving tickets NOW for this illegal riding on the sidewalks and the lack of helmets on these child cyclists, before something happens. In my opinion, when (not if!) one of these children are hit and killed, the police and the parents have blood on their hands.
These kids are a menace and ticketing them is the only way they are going to stop before a serious accident occurs. I feel preemptively sorry for whoever it is that hits and kills one of these kids, no fault of their own. It’s coming. SBPD, please do something about this before it’s too late.
Sounds like we need more public and political support to fund the police…if you’re so inclined. They can’t be everywhere and do everything at once. Plus, the “localSB” ninnies will be ready in a frickin HEARTBEAT to dog on the police officers if it was their kid that got rousted. Mesa parents – I’m talking about you….
Show us where the Santa Barbara police were defunded. Repugs just lie and troll – it’s all they have.
I never said that but you and I do know that it’s a movement right? Or have you been asleep for 5 years?
And are you then saying I’m wrong that there’s only so much our police force can do? Look back at the issue the reader posted – it’s legitimate.
A troll says what? Show us where Basic805 said SB police were defunded. Trolls just gonna lie and troll – it’s all the have.
GOP is pro-police unless it’s the Capitol Police or, as of this week, the FBI.
Focus on ridding the streets of gangs and aggressive homeless. Worry about kids on your lawn later. Funny the Republicans hate watching kids have fun. I remember kids riding dirt bikes all over town when I was a kid and nobody cared. Now you guys freak out of bike and skateboards and are all behind crosswalk stings. Right wing helicopter parents – put those kids in a bubble.
E bikes = childhood obesity
The word on the street :these youngins say/yell: “The WOKE will protect us …”
How is that any different to those saying “Jesus will protect us…”? Wokeness and religion are just different faces of the same coin; self righteousness gone amuck.
Darn Free-Range kids always getting the old fogeys up in arms.
Call the cops!
Alert the media!
They should DO SOMETHING!
Thank the dog I grew up outside of the city where a kid could be a kid without giving some old phart palpitations.
Randy Rowse has done nothing to address the issue. To busy at martini parties and ribbon cuttings.
The same people who complain that kids don’t play outside like they did when they grew up are now complaining that kids are playing outside
The police haven’t been defunded so much as they are severely underpaid and can’t afford to live here so what is the point of working in SB if you have to commute and can get paid similarly somewhere else where you can actually afford to live? The cost of living here is to the detriment of everyone except for landlords. And it is showing more and more each year with the vacancies downtown, the increase in crime, and with the increase in local homelessness.
Being able to do whatever you want without getting consequences for it is the issue here, and people will push to find the limits so when there aren’t any then they simply do whatever they feel like. Those kids need to be ticketed like MY generation was if they rode skateboards downtown!
SBSAND, Where did you get the idea that the police are underpaid? Have you looked at Transparent California to see how many police personnel are paid in six figure salaries plus benefits plus early retirement (second only to the Fire Department pay)?
Here @ 8:29 https://www.noozhawk.com/article/santa_barbara_police_departments_future_means_fewer_cops1
You are correct that laws always lag technology and that is a good thing.
The person upthread who mentioned free range children is also correct. Many parents are committed to raising their children without swaddling them in bubble wrap. Some of the kids are not up to the challenges yets, others will need extraordinary good fortune, and most will be just fine once they mature.
In order to have a free and vibrant youth, we are going to have to put up with some hiccups… which has been true since humans first reproduced
Que all the “Karens”.
LOL where are you getting your facts from? They are 10 years old? They are on motorcycles riding on the sidewalks? Boy you sure blew that one up. They are junior high and high school and college kids and adults and they are riding electric bikes which have been available for the past 5 years. Did you just step outside for the first time in many years? Weird…
you mean like we did when we were kids?
no they should not. it’s a bicycle. we do not need to add more government and more taxes and more freedoms being stripped away from us or our kids. they are kids on bikes, just get over it already. my god you people just wank and cry over everything