Andrushka

Graffiti making a come back at the I 91 underpass at Front Street and Middletown Ave,

What better way to say Merry X Mas to all your neighbors and friends than by getting together and roaring through the neighborhood on your dirt bikes and ATVs? Yup, 3:30 pm today, moving through Fair Haven along Front Street, from Grand Ave to Middletown. My wife says "doesn't it seem a bit futile?" when she sees my ClickFixing. There was progress on the dirtbikes/ATVs but now seems to be returning to the old chaos. Help!

2:40 pm, Middletown Ave headed to State Street and then into Hess Gas Station on State Street. 15 - 20 dirbikes/ATVs (felt/sounded like 30), on the sidewalks, in and out of traffic, wheelies, swarming cars and pedestrians. I was able to get a picture of a few who parked at a house across the street. About as intense an assault by dirt bikes as I've witnessed in over a year.

Loud ATVs have been flying around the Front Street, Middletown Ave, Clinton Ave zone this weekend. Yesterday, saw 2 pulling wheelies and generally impeding traffic going south on Middletown Ave around 4 pm. Now, 1 pm Sunday, up and down Front Street. The crack sleuths at NHPD shouldn't have too difficult a time tracking down and impounding the ATVs, I hope.

5 dirtbikes, one ATV riding all over Clinton Park ay 2 pm (10/26). Looks like they're back in force....

well, the dirt bikes are back in Fair Haven after a blessed peaceful summer without them. Roaring up and down Front Street at 10:30 in the evening.

I am loathe to jinx the wonderful, exhilarating calm that has, against all odds, settled on Front Street with regard to the dirt bikers and ATVers. And I'm wondering is it just me, or have they really been put out of business with the new law on confiscation fines? Has the tide been turned or is it just a mirage?

Dirtbiker taking a ride on East Pearl, Fair Haven.

Thursday afternoon (3/20/14), Clinton Park, about 8 dirtbikes and ATVs flying around Clinton School and Clinton Park. The usual wheelies, high speeds near children playing, etc etc. They seemed very non-chalant and very unconcerned that law enforcement might take notice.

fyi to Fair Haven substation. Small dirtbike in residence at 57 (maybe 59) Pine Street, just off the corner of Maltby and Pine. Go get'um NHPD!

Bus # 338 flying through the red light at Front and Grand just before 8:30 am, 1/2/14.

6:30 pm, 9/21/13, large group of dirtbikers (doing wheelies etc) going north up Quinipiac Ave, through Grand Ave interesection towards Middletown Ave. Then back to Grand Ave Bridge. OK, NHPD, you have a new law ($1000 fine to get the bikes back), please track down the bikes and confiscate.

More graffiti at Humphrey/James railroad underpass

Graffiti again at I 91 underpass on Front Street

In the tunnel/bridge below the train tracks on Humphrey's, one of our renegade artists has expressed himself all over the walls.

A group of women with children and infants has been hanging out at Lewis St Park in the late afternoons recently. They scream profanities at one another and their children for two hours or so at a time. It is that bad. Then leave litter in their wake. Maybe a drive-by from NHPD would help calm them down...

This young man was popping wheelies down Peck Street and then kicked my car as he went by.