When motorcycles are outlawed...

[Dave H]

"When motorcycles are outlawed, only outlaws will have motorcycles!"

"Chinese Police Destroy More Than 14,000 Illegal Motorcycles In Orgy Of Destruction"

"Shenzhen police have confiscated and destroyed 14,277 supposedly illegal motorcycles in China's southern Guangdong province. According to ChinaCarTimes, new motorcycle registrations in the city of 12,000,000 have been outlawed due to roaming motorcycle gangs, bent on petty theft and a lust for purse snatching. Although the policy has been in place and mass motorcycle executions have taken place in the past, this orgy of destruction is by far the largest. Seems China's on a slippery slope here, because as everyone knows, when motorcycles are outlawed, only outlaws will have motorcycles. [ChinaCarTimes]"

http://jalopnik.com/399679/chinese-police-destroy-more-than-14000-illegal-motorcycles-in-orgy-of-destruction

"Police destroy 14,277 'illegal' motorcycles with bulldozers"

"Today's Daily Sunshine reported that 14,277 confiscated "illegal motorcycles" were destroyed by bulldozers in Yungang district, Shenzhen as part of the city's "motorcycle ban". The Shenzhen-based newspaper says that in April this year another 9.532 illegal motorcycles were wrecked in the same way.

Shenzhen began taking steps to reduce the numbers of motorcycles in the city as early as 1995. In 1998, the city stopped allowing residents to register new motorcycles and in 2003, the city passed regulations banning motorcycles from most parts of the downtown area. Today's article says that since 2003 when the ban took effect, a total of over 580,000 motorcycles and electricity-powered bicycle have been confiscated. The Daily Sunshine article was unspecific about what constitutes an "illegal" motorcycles and how police go about confiscating them.

One rationale behind the ban is the rampant robberies in the city; robbers riding motorbikes routinely snatched handbags or jewelry from pedestrians and sped away often leaving arriving police in their dust. Some of these crimes occurred to happen in broad day light. The article cited a statistics saying that the motorbike robberies this year has declined by 58.32% compared with last year and three motorcycle robbery gangs have been busted by the police.

Most of China's major cities have similar plans to cut down on motorcycles uses."

http://www.danwei.org/front_page_of_the_day/insert_image_hereinsert_captio_8.php

[Dave H]

Gee...and I thought it kind of sucks when they talk about banning full-faced helmets and tandem motorcycle riding in large cities like Manila, because of motorcycle assassins ...hmmm I wonder who hires them ? 

Well, at least we don't have that problem where I live! Most people don't wear helmets (bad idea!). It is rare to see less than three people per bike.

[michaelb]

I've seen hoodlums like this before. If you don't get tough with them the minute they get out of line you're sunk. You're the cop, aren't you? If you can't boot these jerks out there's plenty of us can, even if we have to bust a few heads.

[Dave H]

I've seen hoodlums like this before. If you don't get tough with them the minute they get out of line you're sunk. You're the cop, aren't you? If you can't boot these jerks out there's plenty of us can, even if we have to bust a few heads.

Billy Jack took are of those hoods in "The Born Losers!"

Dave

[Jeff S]

The in-town shots in that movie were all shot in Seal Beach, very close to where I live. Much of it was shot in front of a bar called the Irisher, in which I've tossed back a couple, back in the days.



The outdoor and beach scenes were up in Malibu.

[Dave H]

The in-town shots in that movie were all shot in Seal Beach, very close to where I live. Much of it was shot in front of a bar called the Irisher, in which I've tossed back a couple, back in the days.

Hey Jeff,

Just behave yourself and Billy Jack won't mess with you. I can't guarantee that "Billy Paul" Simon will be as generous!