View Poll Results: How do you feel about blocking intersections so that a group can stay together?
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How do you feel about blocking intersections?
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Joined: Dec 2012
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From: top of texas
A felony charge is probably a little steep but they should pay some hefty fines..
Oh yeah, that's some real important stuff to file "felony" charges on. Blocking traffic for a moment. Sounds like some po-pos don't want to go after the real bad boys but instead do the safe thing and stake out stop signs and nail people for slow rolling stops.
Even though I think that video clip shows a stupid thing being done, I don't see it as a high crimes event that some flukes of society would like to see prison time served. I'll bet they beat their dog everyday when they get home too.
Even though I think that video clip shows a stupid thing being done, I don't see it as a high crimes event that some flukes of society would like to see prison time served. I'll bet they beat their dog everyday when they get home too.
This subject has been brought up before on this forum. Someone please tell me, why do you have to stay with the group at all times? You all know where you are going right? Most charity / poker runs hand out maps. So what if you get separated? You will meet up at the end of the run, are you afraid that you will get lost? It's just pisses people off.
oh, and get some ****ing patience in your life. you're the same people who refused to move over when a fire truck comes screaming through an intersection because "you have somewhere to be" society is sad these days, no respect. busting up funeral processions? yeah you're a bad ***.
Last edited by stupid_rope; Feb 1, 2013 at 03:35 AM.
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From: West by God Texas
Perhaps a little different perspective here. When not on my day job I am a Volunteer Firefighter and we have about thirty miles of US Highway in our District. We respond to quite a few accidents on that 75 MPH two lane road. The second largest line of duty death category (behind heart attack) for Fire Fighters is secondary collision on highway scenes. Blocking traffic is inherently dangerous not only for the people who do it but the people coming up on the blocked intersection or roadway as well.
I was on a call where I arrived on an accident scene, stepped off the engine, and before I could even take a step watched an SUV spin right through the primary scene and take out three more cars. That call went from routine to check your bunkers for poop and not so routine in just seconds. Had we arrived just five seconds earlier it could have been a life changing event for some of us.
People drive like sheep and when you change normal for them bad things happen. Blocking an intersection is not normal. The driver of that SUV stated he never saw the scene until right before impact and there was a fairly large red thing with flashing lights parked next to it. I would not assume anyone sees me if I were blocking an intersection on my bike with no warning lights at all.
I would not want to be the cause of something serious happening to another person or persons just because I wanted my group to stay together.
I was on a call where I arrived on an accident scene, stepped off the engine, and before I could even take a step watched an SUV spin right through the primary scene and take out three more cars. That call went from routine to check your bunkers for poop and not so routine in just seconds. Had we arrived just five seconds earlier it could have been a life changing event for some of us.
People drive like sheep and when you change normal for them bad things happen. Blocking an intersection is not normal. The driver of that SUV stated he never saw the scene until right before impact and there was a fairly large red thing with flashing lights parked next to it. I would not assume anyone sees me if I were blocking an intersection on my bike with no warning lights at all.
I would not want to be the cause of something serious happening to another person or persons just because I wanted my group to stay together.
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Joined: Oct 2010
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From: Palm Bay
we stay together for safety. sometimes we block traffic and run red lights. most drivers are happy to see us and dont mind waiting, some are completely retarded and get mirrors kicked off. most of you will never understand and are hypocrite pretenders. dont like it? feel free to file a complaint with your local LEO office.
oh, and get some ****ing patience in your life. you're the same people who refused to move over when a fire truck comes screaming through an intersection because "you have somewhere to be" society is sad these days, no respect. busting up funeral processions? yeah you're a bad ***.
oh, and get some ****ing patience in your life. you're the same people who refused to move over when a fire truck comes screaming through an intersection because "you have somewhere to be" society is sad these days, no respect. busting up funeral processions? yeah you're a bad ***.
oh no! illegally holding up traffic! i bet you use your turn signal 200' prior to making a turn, and use hand and arm signals, and make sure you always do the speed limit, and only cross in crosswalks, blah blah. whatever man, you are obviously holier-than-thou
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From: Charlotte Area
What Leo would give an arrogant smart azz Yankee inbred an escort either?
What a narrow minded idiot. You live where you can't ride half the year, your women have hairy legs and serve you food with the head on it. You wear cheese on your heads for heavens sake. Your women have that nasal tone in their voice like fingernails on a chalkboard Your roads are too crapppy to ride without damaging a bike and your cars fall apart after about 3 years from rust.
oh yeah lol..that makes it mean I really don't want folks to thnk I am an azzhat but I really am....lol
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From: Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Damn, is this a great winter thread or what?
Although it has never happened to me, it would **** me off if a bunch of bikers blocked an intersection on their own.
Although it has never happened to me, it would **** me off if a bunch of bikers blocked an intersection on their own.
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give me freakin break. if I really ride? I have well over 125,000 miles on 2 wheels. Does this mean I "really ride"?
Blocking intersections - and I am not talking LEO here, is arrogant, selfish, self centered, and dangerous. Get over yourself.
Bikers do not own the roads and do not make up their own rules. I don't freakin care if its 1 bike or 100. They need special permission and help going through an intersection? Maybe they need training wheels too. Those stops signs are tricky.
Blocking intersections - and I am not talking LEO here, is arrogant, selfish, self centered, and dangerous. Get over yourself.
Bikers do not own the roads and do not make up their own rules. I don't freakin care if its 1 bike or 100. They need special permission and help going through an intersection? Maybe they need training wheels too. Those stops signs are tricky.
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From: NJ Shore and IRB Fla
Your choices in your poll are pointless. No one except law enforcement officers, DOT workers, or city/county workers have the authority to block intersections. To think otherwise is stupid, not to mention the liability that a "blocker" assumes.
You need to ride your own ride, obey the traffic laws and arrive alive. Groups of bikers have no more rights than any other motorist. Get use to it.
You need to ride your own ride, obey the traffic laws and arrive alive. Groups of bikers have no more rights than any other motorist. Get use to it.
If the most brain dead driver runs your unauthorized "blockade" and kills your buddies they are legally blameless. They could sue YOU!!!
No PD- no blockade. PERIOD!
Watched a rider die and a bunch of other bikers injured this year because of this stupid practice. When it happens when I'm with a crowd- I bail. I'll meet ya there, ALIVE.
Last edited by mjrfd99; Feb 1, 2013 at 08:31 AM. Reason: Lemmings follow each other- OVER THE CLIFF LOL