Cops Are Now Using E-Bikes To Chase Illegal E-Bikers
Cops Are Now Using E-Bikes To Chase Illegal E-Bikers
E-bikes are excellent urban mobility devices. It turns out they’re also really good for catching e-bike riding crooks up to no good. This is exactly what cops are doing.
If I escape with clown shoes and a pogo stick, are the cops going to chase me in the same manner? Asking for a friend
48There's really only one way to find out. Be sure to report back to us!
9I'd prefer it. Meet crime where it's at, you know?
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39But instead they gave the e-bikes to the police.
28You’re telling me I gotta do the work of stopping all these cops?
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So I outrun fat cops on bikes with my bike instead of fat cops on foot. Not really a problem since those fucks don't know how to ride a bike over anything but the flattest straightest roads.
13They'll just deploy the hose cops.
6So I outrun fat cops
Sure you do
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There's a Fast and Furious movie in here somewhere...
13I could get behind that. Me and my... family....
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Unsurprisingly, the authorities have taken notice of this, and are now making use of e-bikes to catch crooks on e-bikes. Talk about fighting fire with fire.
But e-bikes aren't the fire..?
4What makes an e-bike illegal?
1I hope it works - there's a real need for enforcement. In NYC I constantly see e-bikes driving on sidewalks, going the wrong way on one-way streets, and running red lights. They're a real threat to pedestrians, and the police aren't able to do anything about it. I was happy when e-bikes were legalized here, but now I would vote to ban them again unless something changes.
-6Driving on sidewalks because there are no bicycle lanes preventing you from being crushed to death by an emotional support truck.
Going the wrong way on one-way streets because it hardly matters on a bicycle since one-way streets were created for cars specifically.
Running red lights because solely cars can ride the Green Wave, bicyclists have to stop at significantly more traffic lights.
7I live in NYC too. I get that there are a lot of delivery workers zipping around on e-bikes. And yeah, it’s a little annoying and dangerous.
But I’m in WAY more danger and am way more consistently shocked by the stupidity of car drivers in this city. Blatantly running red lights, speeding, going up one way streets (in my neighborhood it happens plenty), doing real stupid shit where they shouldn’t/don’t have the time nor space…just because we’ve for some reason grown to think of cars as inevitable, we ignore just how insane the space we’ve sacrificed to them is. Think of how much public space is dedicated to cars. It’s like we live in a car’s world.
In the city! Barely anyone truly needs cars here. And somehow people decide to sit through hours of traffic to not take the train. And they block bike lanes because they’re running errands and double park, the trucks have to squeeze through and then THEY block the bike lanes—or even the walking lanes! The car situation in the city is off the fuckin wall. The e-bike situation by comparison is fuckin nothin.
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