Posted on 08/18/2025 8:40:11 AM PDT by DFG
A group of over 100 bicycles, dirt bikes and motorized scooters were seen riding on and through highways and tunnels in Boston Saturday afternoon, police said.
Massachusetts State Police received a report that a group of bikes was riding into the O'Neill Tunnel on Interstate 93 south just after 2 p.m.
The group left the highway at Exit 17 but returned to the highway shortly after.
One of the dirt bikes, which police later found to be stolen, collided with a state police cruiser after the group encountered troopers near D and Summer streets in Boston.
The dirt bike operator fled from police on foot.
Videos from drivers show the bikers riding with no helmets, performing wheelies and ignoring the other drivers around them.
"Here comes 1-2 bikes, then 20 bicycles and we realize there is a whole wagon train of them down the road," Filandro said. "I thought it was a little parade or something going on. There was no escort, no police there. They were blowing through traffic lights, zipping around cars."
Marcus Lancaster also witnessed the bike horde while driving into Boston on the Mass Pike.
"It was scary, we didn’t even hear it coming. They just revved their horns to make themselves known," Lancaster said. "Just a bunch of dudes on motorcycles. They just came ripping through on dirt bikes."
Another dirt bike operator, Adam Harrison, 22, of Winthrop, was arrested at the scene of the collision.
He is facing charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and will be arraigned in South Boston District Court on Monday.
Police say drivers and pedestrians should not engage with the group in any way if they are seen on roadways.
I am so glad I don’t live anywhere near those people.
Wait. Bikes were riding bikes? And they were only able to arrest one bike?
That ain’t nuthin. I seen a heard of guns parading near a gun free school one day. I just sat huddled in my car trembling with fear. /s/
Someday a journalist will write something that stupid and it will not come from the Bee.
Boston is a very peculiar place.
At least you’ve never had to shoot an elephant in your pajamas.
Ehh?
That time you wished you had a cow-catcher mounted to the front of your truck.
Sounds a lot like a scene from Mad Max
I couldn’t live there because their accent would drive me up the wall.
I know! I know that guns kill people, but bikes!? Were the bikes unlawfully assembling?
Apparently. I know the damn things didn’t assemble themselves when my kids were little. Maybe times have changed.
He was so scrumptious back in the day.
*Be still, my heart!*
*fanning self*
*evil grin*
1% chance of getting charged.
0% chance of any consequences.
Crime and punishment as usual in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Ding dongs on bicycles harassing other folks in traffic. All part of living in a Democrat-run city, I guess.
Blocking lanes in Florida is a sure way to get hurt.
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