This never bothered me for some reason. I always figured the only injury is when they have an accident that will only hurt themselves since the vehicles are so small. I remember once I was in a standstill on the LIE and bikes were whizzing in between lanes at full speed. Not a chance I would take.
This is nothing new either. I recollect from childhood that there were friends of older sibs of mine that did this. This’d be decades ago in the in the old gas crunch.
This drives the gov completely nuts though. No registration, sometimes no license, hard to catch, and no easy revenue from the approximately one hundred million speed, red light, turn on red, box blocking, and school bus cameras in DC.
In that regard only, I kind of admire their freedom. On the road in an off-the-grid sort of way.
We had one of those last Sunday afternoon in Miami. We were on US-1 (South Dixie Highway) southbound at about 5 pm. Traffic was bordering on heavy, and running just above the speed limit. Just after Vizcaya, they appeared from behind, led by three skinny dreadlock-wearing blacks on rice rockets, all riding on the back wheel only.
A total of about 100 fellow scofflaws followed them on ATVs and bikes - giggling and waving. They weaved through the three lanes of traffic and between vehicles. They ran red lights at SW 17th and SW 22nd Avenue before turning south on SW 27th Avenue. A call to the PSAP (”911” center) produced a “ho-hum” “Thank you; we’ll put out a BOLO”.”
At some point, Government do-nothings should be reminded that the purpose of a well functioning legal and court system is to keep vengeance seeking down to zero.
Well Hell, DC, Just ban them like you have guns.
(Hasn’t that done soooo much good in reducing gunshot wounds???