Is there any type of context available? Spike mat for bikes seems pretty much interchangeable with pulling a gun in terms of likely outcome for the target.

American export shit

Nah, not at those speeds. It seems police are after these kids for being a public nuisance rather than speeding.

EDIT; Ok, since people seem incapable of understanding the context of my answer: Justified or not, it is not interchangeable with pulling out a gun at those speeds. Y'alls reading comprehension sucks.

"yeh daft coont" just has a nice ring to it

...public nuisance rather than spending.

Kids out there causing trouble without even having the decency to stimulate the local economy.

Heh, not sure what my autocorrect was up to there

I paid it off to give me the set-up.

Violent/st*pid ACAB's as always.. Incredible to think that they are still seen and defended as 'good guy's by the ignorant crowd..

ACAB

Fucking hero on the ATV, might have saved a life. If one of those motorcycles' tires got popped, the rider might die or suffer life-changing injuries. And it's even wilder that this cop-brained monster thinks that's an acceptable outcome for any minor traffic violation.

Nah, fuck the people who ride like this, they could kill someone.

You should be able to control a bike in a straight line with a flat tyre, especially at the speed this lot are going.

And falling off isn't as dangerous as you think.

They're doing 50 kmh at best, even without a helmet your chances of serious injury are pretty low. People fall off motorbikes all the time at far greater speeds.

This is an incorrect, dangerous, and irresponsible thing to say. You can very easily die at 5km/h on a motorcycle. Your body is not as tough as you think it is.

Stop talking about shit you don't understand with confidence. Your statements are going to get someone who believes them hurt.

To anyone reading: Take it from anyone who actually rides over this idiocy. A flat motorcycle tire at any speed is dangerous and possibly deadly.

Any dumb Cunt stupid enough to stand in the middle of the road…

Somehow given what I know of cops in that country I doubt that. Open to any evidence otherwise though

As a centrist[^1], I say fuck both sides.

[^1]: No not really

You can very easily die at 5km/h on a motorcycle

Not a comment on anything else but this is a ridiculous statement.

One wrong twist of the neck from a bad fall and you're dead.

The bastard cops shouldn't be doing this.

So the sane option is to try to pop their wheels and cause an accident, especially with TONS of kids right behind the lead ones?

They may be at low speeds, but imagine if Officer Porky managed to take down one of the first kids before that big section came through. That kid would have then been a road hazard and likely taken out more kids, hurting both the first and subsequent kids in the accident.

It really is too bad Porky was able to walk away after he got hit. Wish he would have gotten the injuries he was trying to inflict on the kids.

I hate these “gangs” of kids on ATVs and motorbikes with no licenses. They completely F up traffic, pulling stunts, lunging at cars, and sometimes even wrecking and stopping traffic entirely. They’re like those biker tools that block intersections so the entire gang gets through or street takeovers.

even without a helmet your chances of serious injury are pretty low.

People fall off motorbikes all the time at far greater speeds.

And usually die horrible deaths at said speeds...

You could be going 0km/h and fall off and die if you’re in the middle of the fucking road and someone hits you so like… yeah.

…. There wouldn’t have been an accident. They would have rolled to a stop, or more likely, continued to move, but with a whole lot of rolling resistance.

They are traffic too

The kids are riding willingly past a cop car.

A safer thing to do is block the road with cars and kettle from behind. Then even if people flee on foot you can impound the bikes or whatever to a vastly better effect in terms of reducing public nuisance.

The officer here wasn't improving safety, he was making a larger hazard, putting himself in danger, and ended up paying for it.

They want to use their toys and they want to cause harm.

Motorcycles are known for sharing roads with other vehicles.

But yeah in isolation a broken ankle is far more likely at these speeds, not exactly life threatening in most cases.

Yes and the cop could've killed these kids by popping their tires while they're riding recklessly. Rather than do actual police work that takes time and effort to remove these bikes from the streets, the cops decided to do the easiest and most dangerous thing for everyone involved. This was absolutely the worst possible way they could go about to stop people who ride like this.

Yeah they are a real inconvenience for about 30 secs.

ACAB, but the cop didn't do anything wrong in this video if you understand the context.

but spike traps seem reasonable for a public nuisance?

Let me know when you've got 100,000 km of saddle time and then we can have this chat again.

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Aside from trying to kill motorcyclists?

What possible context would make this just fine and dandy?

I have a scar from when a car pulled in front of me while I was going walking speed on a bicycle.

Shut the fuck up.

Yes it's possible with unfortunate circumstances. "Very easily die at 5 km/h" is demonstrably untrue, as though a significant amount of people that start up a bike die horribly. Yes bikes/mopeds/motorcycles are more dangerous than cars but it's dumb to misrepresent reality like this.

The second half of your statement demonstrates how the bikers are acting unsafely in the first place.

Not likely to control a bike after it hits another that was laying in the street

Pretty dangerous to have one of your mates roll over you with their bike

The potential for bad outcomes through a domino effect here is pretty big

We don’t have the full story here, but going from what seems like “public nuisance” to “injury or death” seems like an unreasonable escalation to me.

Themselves.

Rolling around 2 ton cars with your dirtbike is a good way to kill only yourself. Even in this video, the guy on the heaviest one, a quad, plowed straight into the cop and only got tackled off it.

The cop knows this too. He jumped in front of him to tackle him.

I agree that you might get scared by people acting too rowdy, and that you might get your paint job scratched, but your chances of dying are way higher with a moving truck nearby than a few dirt bikes.

They didnt shoot the kids so there's still a small margin for "absolute worst"

Well that guy on the ATVs life is entirely over.

Crazy how fast you can end any chance at a well-off future.

"falling aoff the motorcycle that is moving faster than people can sprint, even without a helmet, isn't that dangerous"

As someone who sells and fixes bicycles this is THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING I'VE READ THIS WEEK. And I heard someone recently say "at least dolly Parton knew to stay out of politics"

ANY fall off a bike, motorized or not, can be fatal. If you're moving, those chances go up. If you're moving a heavy or large bike, it's even greater. It's why I refuse to sell bikes to anyone who says they don't wear helmets.

People have fallen from higher than the tallest building and survived. Doesn't mean it's not insanely dangerous.

Like someone jumping in front of moving vehicles

The cops aren't choosing what speed they illegally ride at.

When you make posts with two statements, people tend to get lost in the meaning and focus only on one. This is why I never bring up the collection of stool samples I keep in my sock drawer.

Hell yeah, fuck them kids!

I've noticed. I usually try to have the first part of anything I write act as a summary of a statement, as many people seem to only read a few words just enough to get angry enough to push the downvote button. This is how nuance is lost to headline-outrage. And there's no reason to limit yourself to just samples when you can go for a real full-scale collection.

Lmao, we didn't send those "youths" over there. Handle your own problems shitheel.

My comment isn't even really about motorcycles being extra dangerous. I ride every day that weather allows and have for over 30 years.

It is more about how remarkably fragile some of our bodies' weak points are. Perhaps I could have worded it better. But to me 'easily die' just means unexpected stuff can happen when putting a bike down at all. Not that there is necessarily a high likelihood of it happening at that speed, just that it is easy.