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Three times in the last month, I've seen a group of teenagers riding around on scooters recklessly and illegally. None of the scooters have license plates, and one of the looks like the plate bracket itself was broken off -- leading me to suspect they were stolen. The kids dodge in and out of traffic, up onto sidewalks, and dive through red lights.
Given how many cars I see stopped for speeding or other minor traffic infractions, I'm amazed that this reckless theft and endangerment doesn't seem to concern the police. I understand it would hard to catch these kids -- they would scatter in 4 different directions if they saw a cop -- but doesn't the law apply to them too?
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BB (Registered User)
Ash (Guest)
The last time I saw these kids, they were northbound on Church Street at Chapel. They rode up on the sidewalks and started dashing around the bus shelters and I think out onto the Green itself.
Prior to that, I've seen them going northbound on Whitney, around Humphrey I think. That time they were dashing around cars and going through red lights, and I last saw them turning left onto maybe Canner, or around there.
Even prior to that incident, the first time I saw them was quite briefly on Trumbull Street, cutting around traffic at a stoplight. They went up towards State Street I think.
In general it's young, black kids with one or two girls on the back of their scooters. I really don't know if the scooters are stolen, but the broken off license plate brackets are pretty suspicious.
Sammi (Guest)
If some unsuspecting driver hits one of these scooter riders when they run a red light, I betcha the local activists will blame the driver, not the punk on the scooter.
Time to shut this down and investigate who owns the scooters, who are the parents, where do they live, why are these brats unsupervised ?
Gilly18 (Guest)
Ash (Guest)
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