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Twits with string

RodneyBR

RodneyBR

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I was out for my evening ride and there were these two kids the looked suspicious ahead of me. So I slowed down a little and sure enough they knelt down pretending to hold a string across the street. I guess they thought they would have some fun scaring bikers. The map location where this happened is below. This is after that biker almost got decapitated in Toronto with a kite string (new story link below).


Map: http://maps.google.ca/maps?daddr=Ol...3c3:0x6a8ed44cf94215 b5,43.783128,-79.171085


News story: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityn...g-expected-to-recover-criminal-probe-underway


This ever happen to you?

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You need to keep an eye out for two young kids, they'e between 7-10 years old.

I was about to get off my bike and run after them, but I figured what's the point, they're juvies. And let's face it, they are young and dumb. I'm sure some bikers would probably think differently and catch these punks though.

2live&ride said:
Thanks for the heads up, I work right around that area and pass by there every once in a while.

Regarding that news story, there's 10+ pages of text here. Including comments from the actual rider...
http://www.gtamotorcycle.com/vbforu...ung-across-intersection&highlight=kite+string
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Its just some kids thinking that its a funny prank. Obviously they dont have their licence or have a clue how it actually affects driver/riders.

2 of them did something like that last year when I was driving my work truck... it seemed pretty lame, but they thought me slowing down was HILARIOUS!!!! oh to be young again :)
 
Problem is if you did "go after them" it would likely be your head on the chopping block. Since you cant actually grab them they'd probably just continue laughing at you if you started lecturing them. I'd say call the cops, but what they're doing probably isnt illegal. Just really distasteful.

The problem is if kids are doing this its just a matter of time before some little @55hole does tie up a string.
 
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Buddhacide said:
Problem is if you did "go after them" it would likely be your head on the chopping block. Since you cant actually grab them they'd probably just continue laughing at you if you started lecturing them. I'd say call the cops, but what they're doing probably isnt illegal. Just really distasteful.

The problem is if kids are doing this its just a matter of time before some little @55hole does tie up a string.
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Why do you conclude you can't grab them?

I've physically restrained youthful vandals on more than one occassion until the coppers came to take them off my hands.
 
Griffin said:
Why do you conclude you can't grab them?

I've physically restrained youthful vandals on more than one occassion until the coppers came to take them off my hands.
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Which you can legally do if you've witnessed them committing a criminal act. What criminal act were these two kids guilty of?
 
Buddhacide said:
I'd say call the cops, but what they're doing probably isnt illegal. Just really distasteful.
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I disagree. They'd at least get a serious talking to from both the police and their parents. And if they were over 12 then possible charges like mischief. Well worth calling 5-0 over this and filming them while you wait for the police to arrive.
 
jonpurdy said:
I disagree. They'd at least get a serious talking to from both the police and their parents. And if they were over 12 then possible charges like mischief. Well worth calling 5-0 over this and filming them while you wait for the police to arrive.
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The only problem is that that sort of act doesn't even remotely resemble the formal definition of mischief under the Criminal Code. While they might well deserve that "serious talking to", their acts falls well short of any criminal act that would justify a third party from using physical force to intervene and hold them for police with or without a citizen's arrest, as suggested by at least one poster here. The intervenor in such a circumstance could find himself in more trouble than the kids.
 
I was under the impression you couldnt physically restrain in instances like this.

I agree they need a "talking to" at the very least.
 
jonpurdy said:
I disagree. They'd at least get a serious talking to from both the police and their parents. And if they were over 12 then possible charges like mischief. Well worth calling 5-0 over this and filming them while you wait for the police to arrive.
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For pretending to stretch a string over the road? LOL!
 
Like this you mean?

It's an old trick....


[video=youtube;PG4INDu9kNs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG4INDu9kNs[/video]
 
so the rider thinks there is something there, goes down trying to avoid it, and dies from his injuries....... Then what?
 
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