Peer Lovell
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- Nov 25, 1999
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dante said:umm because your in canada a? sorry I could'nt resist :cool:
Patman said:Is this a legal riding area?
*KISSofDEATH* said:well if it's illegal then they must have a reason so what are you confused about?
ya thats truerobwbright said:Well . . .
Question one is why is it illegal? Maybe there's a good reason, maybe not.
If they hadn't been enforcing the law for a long time, that is a bit unreasonable to show up out of the blue and treat people like that.
Is the riding damaging anyone or their property? If so, there should be damages paid to the owner. However, why should the government get $4000 in fines and the owner not compensated?
It's technically illegal to ride at a lot of the places I rode as a kid. However, it was rarely enforced - I even had a policeman tell me it was ok to ride there.
I ride up and down along the highway to get the the local strip mine. It's illegal to do so. However, I ride right by a state trooper's house. He doesn't care as long as we're not on the highway and as long as we have helmets on.
There are laws and then there are laws.
There are reasonable laws and unreasonable laws.
Laws are reasonably applied and unreasonably applied.
We don't really know enough about this situation to say one way or the other.
um, so someone should pay $14,000 (canadian, I imagine, which is what, eleven dollars US?) if they turn someone into a quadrapalegic, and someone should spend 4 years (Canadian, again, which with the conversion comes out to like seven days, 13 hours, eleven minutes US) in the hoose gow for riding in an illegal manner?Peer Lovell said:You guys are totally missing the point. I wasn't disputing the fact that it's likely not legal to ride there nor the fact that riding without insurance is illegal.
What I was questioning is the total cost of about $14,000 for getting caught vs. the guy getting four years for turning someone into a quadrapalegic.
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