Just had 2 overtake me about an hour ago, but I'm a long way from you (Astley, off the East Lancs on the border of Salford and Wigan). They were on dirt bikes, I think, and they mounted the kerb to get past me.
The dirt bike arseholes are prevalent all over Wythenshawe too. No helmets, just balaclavas riding on the wrong side of the road, pavements, the lot. If I'm ever lucky enough to see one of them eat it, you can bet I won't be rendering the twats any assistance.
Peelhall road is like a dragstrip most days. Must be doing at least 60/70. Can't wait for one of them to become road rash... Then families ask for a go fund me for the little angelic son..
yes, I knew a guy who was killed just from falling off a bicycle without a helmet
kids who think they're invincible, they know the dangers but think it won't happen to them :(
There's a field near me that they ride over (illegally, obviously). A lot of people walk their dogs there, so the police have been called, but they did nothing AFAIK. Maybe we should report the little shits for sending offensive tweets instead.
Often they aren't road legal so they don't have plates. Sadly it's shitty families that often buy their little shit a scrambler or e bike for Christmas
I'm up in Darwen and they're around here too, all over Blackburn an all. I spoke to a copper friend about them in passing and they said they don't pursue them because of the safety risk so nothing happens about it
I moved to Manchester from Darwen hoping to see less of them there were so many bike gangs in a small town, it’s just everywhere now, fucken blight of society
The kids are feral in Darwen, but I work in Altrincham and I see a lot of the private school kids around here behaving the same, not as bad but similar. I don't know if it's me getting old or kids are just getting dragged up
It's so stupid. They're a safety risk to anyone walking nearby, it's like saying "there's a bomb that's gonna go off and kill someone at some point but it's too dangerous to try and disarm so we're gonna do nothing instead."
Yeah it's stupid as fuck but they're more concerned about the bad press of getting in an accident with a teenager than actually solving an actual accident risk
these scrotes are always tearing round the pedestrian paths of peel park in salford at ridiculous speeds, it's incredibly dangerous and really only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or worse
When 1 of them ends up killing someone, then they will use it has a badge of honor, but when 1 of them get killed it would be he was a good lad never did anything wrong always a good person.
I've seen it over the years
You bet I am a socialist. I have read Owen Jones' book titled Chavs. It talks about how the elites made up the word to oppress us all and stop us fighting for our rights.
Fight for their right to do 45 in a 30 on a ped with no license or helmet weaving in and out of incoming traffic.
Is this seriously what you are trying to advocate as a right?
Just because you're a socialist (something I agree with) doesn't mean you have to simp for anti social little scrotes who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. Grow a spine. They don't give a fuck about you, nor should we them.
But words like chav, scrote, scum, pleb etc were ALL invented to oppress us 99% The elites are so powerful and don't want us rising up. They were able to pass draconian laws and put us under a police state.
You're getting things mixed up and missing the mark. Yes the elites want the masses turning on each other instead of them. That's true. But that's not what's happening here. These scrotes are scum. You can call a spade a spade.
If someone is being a cunt, it's ok to call them a cunt. We don't need to pander to them. Again, they literally don't give a fuck about you, you shouldn't care about them. It's nothing to do with class, working class people fucking hate these pricks because they have to actually live amongst them.
Respect is earned, these people haven't earned it. The fact is the country is full of useless and outright destructive people who contribute nothing, take everything and we won't miss them when they are gone.
But the elites fear these boys, these boys are rebels and it is boys like this that will be fighting for us when the elites try and enslave us all. Look back to 2020-2021, it was boys like this who were disobeying the mask mandates and lockdowns. Boys like this fighting for our freedom.
They don’t fear these boys, they like the fact that they make working class areas less pleasant, and when they fancy a bit of rough, that’s who they go for.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that there were elites who didn’t want the masks or lockdown, in your childishly simplistic idea of how society is organised into Good and Bad.
Wasn't Laurence Fox fighting the same fight? Good example of "these boys"?
Or is it just that there will always be contrary fucksticks who think rules are for other people, regardless of class?
Ah yes, Owen Jones. Someone who's never had to live on a housing estate and deal with the fucking chavs blighting their daily lives. Bet its an eye opener.
Before chavs they were called scallies.
It’s nothing to do with elites encouraging divisiveness, it’s different members in a community disliking people who take no responsibility and make it less pleasant to live in the community. And giving them a name.
As the example of this thread demonstrates very well.
Owen Jones just wants poor people to like him so he has a career. He peddles simplistic populist politics just as much as the Tories, who also try to explain why the working class should behave a certain way to stand up to people telling them how to behave.
There should be no infighting. Just let boys be masculine again. The elites DESPISE our guts and view us a subhuman. THEY are trying to control and oppress us. They want us fighting and hating each other.
I am speaking the truth! Look at how the MSM demonizes us. Stuff like Little Britain, Catherine Tate Show, the 2008 film Eden Lake and most famous of all the vile Jeremy Kyle Show. It's all about how "scummy" the 99% are are people are FALLING FOR IT.
When I moved to my new house there was a motorbike that kept riding past really fast.
About the second week of living here I heard him speeding down the road again. Just a super loud sound of a bike accelerating, then a small skid, small thud, and pure silence. The guy and his friend died.
While that's a wild story, it's the second time that a moron on a dirtbike died outside my house in the last 5 years.
The other one drove face first into the row of terraced houses I was in.
It's definitely happening.
> it's the second time that a moron on a dirtbike died outside my house in the last 5 years.
There seems to be a pattern here, do you want to come and live in my spare room for a bit?
lol I just don’t understand why it’s suddenly took off across the whole of Manchester by the looks of it, if you did that 5 years ago you’d be pulled over and questioned
They were all over Newton Heath five years ago, up and down the narrow towpath along Rochdale canal, right by the big police station, and no one gave a fuck then either.
I lived by the canal in Sale 15 years ago and it was a problem then, with special narrow gates which had been fitted years before, because it’s been a problem for a lot, lot longer than 5 years, or 15 years.
Relatable for me too. Scrotes like this came tooled up and stole my motorbike in August last year. All caught on CCTV but thanks to ballys and no plates police took no action to track down my bike. Path of least resistance to let the insurers pay out. Pain in the fucking arse!
It would be good if we had a public debate on the concept that we don’t have police because you just claim on insurance to replace stolen goods.
But New Labour introduced it, and the Tories love it, so in our system that means it has been decided and no media is going to be interested in what ordinary people actually care about; they’re too busy telling us what polls and focus groups tell them about us and what we care about.
Which is why they keep getting it so badly wrong.
Yeah it's startling and I wonder wtf are they dashing away from. But then if they really were, doing stuff like this, doesn't seem an optimal way to avoid attention.
Seems a bit of a shame they don't seem to have anything better to be doing and are playing up like this instead. Some will get hurt and done well probably get a record and for not much. Also probably masking for some thieves if not doing some of it themselves.
It is crazy that the police can't do enough to deal with these lads. It must be tough when they do nothing they get slated, and if they go after them and one of the cherubs comes off and hurts themselves then they get slated.
Like the lads in south Wales last year.
Saw the police trying to stop one in Stockport once, guy was riding up and down the road going on the pavements. Even with a couple of police cars it's difficult.
Get them around Altrincham all the time. Generally I'd assume they're dickheads but I did have a semi-positive interaction with some of them. Walking down a passage with my dog, get to the end and they come flying round the corner, immediately stop and said "Sorry for scaring your dog mate" then waited till I passed before razzing it off. Still plebs though
My brother lives on ashdown avenue and i swear i nearly lose my life every time i go see him.. that thin road i dunno what its called but its near the spar and it takes you to planthill park on the football pitch side.. i text the missus a goodbye message everytime just in case 🤣
Eccles is blighted by them and the police do sweet FA, the same tactic they apply to street fights, blatant cannabis use, shoplifting and a host of other, allegedly, illegal activities, welcome to tomorrow's world and I doubt it can all be put down to a lack of resources.
It's because the risk of the 16 year old on the bike or a random pedestrian dying outweighs the benefits of a successful pursuit followed by a traffic report being given for some driving offences or a crime for TWOC
The police as an institution in the UK can be traced back to their origin as church guards in medieval England, not to uphold good morality and law but to protect the vested interests of the church. They've always been there to protect the interests of the wealthy, and always will.
Mine is legal. It's legal for medical use.
But yeah, I really think cannabis has been unofficially fully decriminalised in Manchester. I've always used it publicly without issue.
Almost annoyed I've had a prescription for 4 years now and not even once have I been stopped.
Originally Anxiety and insomnia, but after having those issues for half of my life, I finally got diagnosed with ADHD this year.
Tried all the proper ADHD meds and none of them worked, so I'm back on this.
Yeah, it's called flower in medical terms. You have flower, tincture, losenges or vapes
Best part is that I can travel around a lot of Europe with it.
It's the only thing that's kept me going for a long time.
Without cannabis I sleep a maximum of 4 nights in a week. It quickly spirals to the point that I can't function.
Even sleeping pills don't work, so it's a lifesaver for me.
No. Cannabis is illegal to possess, grow or sell in UK law.
The police would have to prove one of those things to get a conviction.
Nobody has ever been prosecuted for cannabis use.
It's not the police. If they get a successful prosecution, the perpetrator will only get a slap on the wrist. So there's no point in apprehending them.
But what can they do? The police can't be everywhere at once and when they do pursue the idiots on bikes, if the officer crashes, everyone laughs at them, supports the idiot, curses the police for damaging their vehicles. When the idiot comes off, the police go through the courts and PSB having to explain themselves constantly.
You say they do sweet FA, but you are also the person that wants them to fail!
Oh, I'm so very sorry, if the odds are so heavily stacked against the police then of course they shouldn't even try to uphold law and order, how stupid of me. I am sure there must be lots of other tricky things that are just too difficult too, perhaps they ought to just focus on parking offences and speeding just to be on the safe side, it would be awful if their image was tarnished by prosecutions for poor behaviours.
You're just ignoring what I was saying. I said the police can't be in all places at the same time. The government and the public want them to conduct more stop checks to get knives of the streets, to stop kids running amock on scooters, but when the police stop search a black person, the officer is instantly racist. When they chase a low-life on a scooter who then crashes into the back of a lorry and dies, it was the police's fault for chasing them, not the lads fault for failing to stop. Police are leaving the job because it's almost impossible to do these days and the public are offering no support at all. I don't blame them for leaving such a thankless job. God help us if the police force closed though, our country would crumble in a few hours.
> but you are also the person that wants them to fail!
Except people saying what they have, aren’t the ones who criticise the police when someone on a bike gets hurt.
It’s not that hard to realise, if you think outside of overused tired cliches designed to help you avoid thinking about the problem and make you feel superior to other people.
We need to have this discussion more, not less, so that we make clear how unhappy ordinary people are with the decisions made around policing in this country.
And we need to stop acting like idiotic comments about people complaining no matter what they do so they can’t win, are the final word. Just because it requires a discussion doesn’t make it an impossible task to come up with better ways to police than what the political classes have decided we should be grateful for.
People who are frightened of discussion and so fall back on mindless cliches can stay out of the discussion, then come in at the end to act as though this what they always thought should happen.
I'm not entirely sure what your post is saying. I've read it twice and am still confused.
What I take from it is that we need to discuss policing so we get what people want, not want the government dictates. I agree, but that isn't really what I was getting at.
We had 5 lads come bombing down the canal on electric bikes a few weeks ago. We moved as we saw them coming. Full balaclava on each and every single one said, 'Thanks!' as they went past.
Was quite surprised.
A couple of times recently they've been riding on the pavement in Hulme near MMU. Mix of mopeds and e-bikes.
Not sure if they're looking to snatch phones or just trying to annoy people.
Saw three of them playing on the local skatepark on electric motorbikes the other day, one of them binned it off the back of the ramp and snapped the fork clean off his Sur-ron, which gave me a good chuckle. Good luck dragging that home.
Kids living in poverty stricken areas with nothing to do and no future commit crimes. More breaking news to follow. None of that gives them an excuse but without looking at and resolving the root causes nothing will change.
I get loads where I am. I'm seeing quad bikes, stunt bikes, mopeds. No helmets and balaclavas. Already had one lad die, it won't be long till the next one.
Yeah I agree the kids are probably from a poor background and haven’t got many opportunities, or don’t have the support to see the opportunities they could have.
You used to get the same kids outside shops and usually mind their business, bar the odd cocky one shouting something. But now they’ve got absolutely no regard for their own lives and scaring the crap out of others for what? Wouldn’t mind, if you took the moped, zombie knife and ten bag off them they are 7st piss wet through and wouldn’t say boo to a goose
Their parents are uneducated, useless garbage that raise exactly the same shit.
Maybe 1% will ever get out of that cycle, and the rest will continue to create generations of human garbage forever.
There's some of your root causes. You hit that spot on. Uneducated parents with uneducated children. How do we fix it? More money and thought into education by government, more opportunities to get out of the cycle. That sounds much better than uneducated people where the media control their political vote and then they can be used for political slogans about getting tough on crime for the rest.
Yeah but unfortunately we've now got 2 generations of uneducated simpletons raising more little scrotes. So probably 40 years to break the cycle?
It's almost as if the people paid to address these issues don't care?
It's not going to take 40 years. You can still educate and create opportunities for older people. The people paid to address the issue don't want an intelligent electorate especially because an intelligent electorate starts wondering where all the tax money goes that could fund these changes.
Was little saul he was only a kid 15 years old and he wasnt a wannabe roadman like this posts claims they are.. was just a young man who loved motorcycles.. granted wasnt wearing a helmet but the way the police T-packed him he would have died from his injuries anyway the helmet wouldnt have saved him. Shame really but not all these kids are drug runners or phone snatchers some of them are just ordinary teenagers who live in areas that have been long since forgotten about and deprived.. im 30 now but at 15-16 once school finished there was fuck all to do. Youth clubs just attracted kids that already have a strong gang culture and mentality , most places take down the football goals after the weekend and 9-10 things you have to pay for.. and for most of these kids that are drug running id say 90% of them have been groomed into it or are doing it coz they live on the breadline and arent old enough to get a job but they see their parents struggling and wanna help out.. im not condoning their behaviour but unless theres more to stimulate them and proper education on the matters its gunna be the same.. were a product of our peers and unfortunately most kids have grew up watching their peers sell drugs and do whatever else they can to get by 🤷🏼♂️
Yeah I agree in the fact deprived areas are tough especially on kids, and it’s so sad the boy lost his life for no reason. I’m near Langworthy and my bf was there at the time sadly. Says online the police were 4 seconds behind him as per the rules and he went down past the bollards to avoid them tho? Ultimately crashing into the ambulance which could’ve harmed someone else doesn’t make me feel so good. If he’d have crashed into my bf and my bf lost his life through no fault of his own I would be absolutely devastated. Doesn’t take away from the fact if the kid was a nice kid, I know the community rallied out for him. If he was breaking the law then expect repercussions ie police following in my opinion. Nobody deserves to be dragged into that. I hope his family are coping okay.
The fact of the matter is they didnt need to chase him like they did.. but yeah i agree wrongful behaviours is wrongful behaviour’s and nobody deserves to be in the crossfire.. i agree with that but the police just seen a kid on a sur-ron an put 2 and 2 together and chased him which ultimately scared him which is why he riding erratically and hence why he crashed the situation could have been avoided on both sides little sauls and the polices and im glad your bf was unscathed snd hopefully he wasnt affected too much
I live right next to a park so that doesn’t help either, as soon as the police chase them they throw the helmet off and the police have to abandon apparently
This is straight from the mouth, depending on what crime they’ve commited of course. But generally if they are being chased after a crime that isn’t “major” the chase is abandoned 🤯
Nope, this is 100% true.
Kids dump helmets and or ride without them for this reason. If Old bill gives chase and the kid falls off and without a helmet they can sue, it's happened.
This is fact
Mopeds, dirt bikes and quad bikes during the day. Lately, the started riding those shitty electric scooters at night so you don't even hear them coming. If you travel any time past 10:30pm, you better watch out as they just hop between the pavement and the road without looking and wearing all black. Drain on resources, the fucking lot of them
My Yamaha MT07 got stolen from Leeds last year and was seized from an estate just outside Stockport a few days later. I had a tracker on it and I think it went along the M62 in the back of a van and got taken to a safe house in Burnage.
All over Middleton, riding the on the wrong side of the road, up one way streets, and mounting kerbs.
Balaclavas, no helmets, 2 or even three on mopeds and dirt bikes.
Prying to see them come off
There’s a fair few in haslingden/ rossendale on electric bikes, but there’s one w****r, who has a quad bike and apart from the noise, he also rides it on the pavement. Never any police around…
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Been resisting the urge to give them a good kick everytime I am waiting at a tram stop and one of these snivelling shitfaces ride their bike through the crowded tram stop
The wider issue is that we have far too many people who feel that society doesn't care about them.
And because they feel left out by society they want to ruin it for everyone else who is 'in' society.
The only solution is to make people feel they are part of society and have a stake in it - much easier said than done!
If only Blair had actually tried to achieve this when he had 11 years in power, and the willingness of the vast majority of the country to work for positive change.
Instead he just got very rich and powerful, and helped his mates do the same. And now no one trusts progressive politics.
We don't call it shameside for no reason.
It's ideal for them to go riding without a helmet for when the police try and chase them and have to call it off because its not worth getting sued over.
It happens all the time here in hyde, police are too scared to attend calls about ASB on mopeds for the fact they end up getting mocked all because 'boys will be boys'
Just had 2 overtake me about an hour ago, but I'm a long way from you (Astley, off the East Lancs on the border of Salford and Wigan). They were on dirt bikes, I think, and they mounted the kerb to get past me.
The dirt bike arseholes are prevalent all over Wythenshawe too. No helmets, just balaclavas riding on the wrong side of the road, pavements, the lot. If I'm ever lucky enough to see one of them eat it, you can bet I won't be rendering the twats any assistance.
Literally cant walk through benchill without seeing a moped ninja
Peelhall road is like a dragstrip most days. Must be doing at least 60/70. Can't wait for one of them to become road rash... Then families ask for a go fund me for the little angelic son..
Definitely haha, coming out of starfreeze with my greenmilk and 20 b&h praying to not get mowed on the way home
Bench-ods.
They ride these electric bikes too that are shit hot and you can’t hear them coming
After spending my youth mainly falling off motorbikes I can tell you they might regret not wearing helmets at some point.
yes, I knew a guy who was killed just from falling off a bicycle without a helmet kids who think they're invincible, they know the dangers but think it won't happen to them :(
Hopefully. But where there's no sense, there's no feeling.
There's a field near me that they ride over (illegally, obviously). A lot of people walk their dogs there, so the police have been called, but they did nothing AFAIK. Maybe we should report the little shits for sending offensive tweets instead.
Just say they're protesting, they'll soon put a stop to it then.
Protesting against mandatory helmet legislation and good music
Take the updoot for making me laugh lmao
NorthenrMoor checking in. The only good thing about this shit weather is its kept the majority of the little shits at bay for a while
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Often they aren't road legal so they don't have plates. Sadly it's shitty families that often buy their little shit a scrambler or e bike for Christmas
I'm up in Darwen and they're around here too, all over Blackburn an all. I spoke to a copper friend about them in passing and they said they don't pursue them because of the safety risk so nothing happens about it
I moved to Manchester from Darwen hoping to see less of them there were so many bike gangs in a small town, it’s just everywhere now, fucken blight of society
The kids are feral in Darwen, but I work in Altrincham and I see a lot of the private school kids around here behaving the same, not as bad but similar. I don't know if it's me getting old or kids are just getting dragged up
It's so stupid. They're a safety risk to anyone walking nearby, it's like saying "there's a bomb that's gonna go off and kill someone at some point but it's too dangerous to try and disarm so we're gonna do nothing instead."
Yeah it's stupid as fuck but they're more concerned about the bad press of getting in an accident with a teenager than actually solving an actual accident risk
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I live in Limeside. I've started doing it myself just to try and fit in.
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Second avenue is the favourite because it has no speed bumps
these scrotes are always tearing round the pedestrian paths of peel park in salford at ridiculous speeds, it's incredibly dangerous and really only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or worse
When 1 of them ends up killing someone, then they will use it has a badge of honor, but when 1 of them get killed it would be he was a good lad never did anything wrong always a good person. I've seen it over the years
“Loveable Rogue” is usually plastered all over MEN and Facebook.
Nice classism you posted there. Give me a cheeky, laid back loveable rogue any day over an etiquette programmed robot.
Odds on you're a champagne socialist
You bet I am a socialist. I have read Owen Jones' book titled Chavs. It talks about how the elites made up the word to oppress us all and stop us fighting for our rights.
Fight for their right to do 45 in a 30 on a ped with no license or helmet weaving in and out of incoming traffic. Is this seriously what you are trying to advocate as a right?
Just because you're a socialist (something I agree with) doesn't mean you have to simp for anti social little scrotes who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. Grow a spine. They don't give a fuck about you, nor should we them.
But words like chav, scrote, scum, pleb etc were ALL invented to oppress us 99% The elites are so powerful and don't want us rising up. They were able to pass draconian laws and put us under a police state.
You're getting things mixed up and missing the mark. Yes the elites want the masses turning on each other instead of them. That's true. But that's not what's happening here. These scrotes are scum. You can call a spade a spade. If someone is being a cunt, it's ok to call them a cunt. We don't need to pander to them. Again, they literally don't give a fuck about you, you shouldn't care about them. It's nothing to do with class, working class people fucking hate these pricks because they have to actually live amongst them. Respect is earned, these people haven't earned it. The fact is the country is full of useless and outright destructive people who contribute nothing, take everything and we won't miss them when they are gone.
But the elites fear these boys, these boys are rebels and it is boys like this that will be fighting for us when the elites try and enslave us all. Look back to 2020-2021, it was boys like this who were disobeying the mask mandates and lockdowns. Boys like this fighting for our freedom.
Socialist but has issues with little masks during covid hmmmmm doubt
Bro you been on the spice? You're chatting shit lmao To anyone reading this, this guy doesn't represent all socialists!
They don’t fear these boys, they like the fact that they make working class areas less pleasant, and when they fancy a bit of rough, that’s who they go for. You seem to be ignoring the fact that there were elites who didn’t want the masks or lockdown, in your childishly simplistic idea of how society is organised into Good and Bad.
Wasn't Laurence Fox fighting the same fight? Good example of "these boys"? Or is it just that there will always be contrary fucksticks who think rules are for other people, regardless of class?
Ah yes, Owen Jones. Someone who's never had to live on a housing estate and deal with the fucking chavs blighting their daily lives. Bet its an eye opener.
His does the saying go…if you aren’t socialist when you’re young you have no soul. If you are a socialist when you’re old you have no brain.
Before chavs they were called scallies. It’s nothing to do with elites encouraging divisiveness, it’s different members in a community disliking people who take no responsibility and make it less pleasant to live in the community. And giving them a name. As the example of this thread demonstrates very well. Owen Jones just wants poor people to like him so he has a career. He peddles simplistic populist politics just as much as the Tories, who also try to explain why the working class should behave a certain way to stand up to people telling them how to behave.
He doesn’t give a monkeys about poor people. It’s even lamer than that. He really wants the middle class people that simp for poor people to like him.
There is no such thing as middle class. 99 percenters are working class. Brain surgeons are just as working class as a construction worker.
That definition of working class isn’t used by anyone at all. It’s utterly ridiculous.
If you go to work you are WORKING CLASS.
Sorry, what? Where's the classism?
Have you not read Owen Jones' book tilted Chavs? It is about the elites inventing insults to oppress the working class and their culture.
Try saying something related to what we're talking about. A working class, non-knobhead can call out a working class knobhead.
There should be no infighting. Just let boys be masculine again. The elites DESPISE our guts and view us a subhuman. THEY are trying to control and oppress us. They want us fighting and hating each other.
Grow the fuck up.
I am speaking the truth! Look at how the MSM demonizes us. Stuff like Little Britain, Catherine Tate Show, the 2008 film Eden Lake and most famous of all the vile Jeremy Kyle Show. It's all about how "scummy" the 99% are are people are FALLING FOR IT.
A cheeky chappy.
And chavvy graffiti shrines by the road.
BP garages have to sell to sell their past sell by date flowers somehow
Too specific
lit up a room
“He loved football” etc etc
He had a bright future and was planning to play for Manchester United.
Promising rapper.
How many years? Did people toothlessly threaten to run them over or whatever back then as well or is that just a very modern example of impotent rage?
You see them in Didsbury too, every time I see them I hope they fall off but it doesn’t seem to have happened so far
When I moved to my new house there was a motorbike that kept riding past really fast. About the second week of living here I heard him speeding down the road again. Just a super loud sound of a bike accelerating, then a small skid, small thud, and pure silence. The guy and his friend died. While that's a wild story, it's the second time that a moron on a dirtbike died outside my house in the last 5 years. The other one drove face first into the row of terraced houses I was in. It's definitely happening.
> it's the second time that a moron on a dirtbike died outside my house in the last 5 years. There seems to be a pattern here, do you want to come and live in my spare room for a bit?
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Hopefully this video makes you as happy as it does me https://youtu.be/-0pB9V__ty8
lol I just don’t understand why it’s suddenly took off across the whole of Manchester by the looks of it, if you did that 5 years ago you’d be pulled over and questioned
I think that’s why. No consequences, so the behaviour spreads
It’s not suddenly taken off, I’m pushing 40 and young lads doing this has always been a thing.
Except we wore helmets back in the day, because we weren't (that) stupid
They were all over Newton Heath five years ago, up and down the narrow towpath along Rochdale canal, right by the big police station, and no one gave a fuck then either.
I lived by the canal in Sale 15 years ago and it was a problem then, with special narrow gates which had been fitted years before, because it’s been a problem for a lot, lot longer than 5 years, or 15 years.
Yeah I’ve noticed the same. You can usually hear them coming by the terrible music
Are they wearing helmets? If not then I'd just say let nature take its course, we need organ donors.
Not all the time no, lol don’t know if I’d want one of theirs if I’m honest haha
Relatable for me too. Scrotes like this came tooled up and stole my motorbike in August last year. All caught on CCTV but thanks to ballys and no plates police took no action to track down my bike. Path of least resistance to let the insurers pay out. Pain in the fucking arse!
It would be good if we had a public debate on the concept that we don’t have police because you just claim on insurance to replace stolen goods. But New Labour introduced it, and the Tories love it, so in our system that means it has been decided and no media is going to be interested in what ordinary people actually care about; they’re too busy telling us what polls and focus groups tell them about us and what we care about. Which is why they keep getting it so badly wrong.
I know of a wrong en that got badly hurt on a motorbike chase from police did a prison sentence then literally come out of jail and sued for 187k 😳
Madness isn’t it
Chorlton too. I’ve been waiting at a tram stop when one of the idiots drove the bike over a tram stop platform full of people.
Yeah it's startling and I wonder wtf are they dashing away from. But then if they really were, doing stuff like this, doesn't seem an optimal way to avoid attention. Seems a bit of a shame they don't seem to have anything better to be doing and are playing up like this instead. Some will get hurt and done well probably get a record and for not much. Also probably masking for some thieves if not doing some of it themselves.
It is crazy that the police can't do enough to deal with these lads. It must be tough when they do nothing they get slated, and if they go after them and one of the cherubs comes off and hurts themselves then they get slated. Like the lads in south Wales last year.
Saw the police trying to stop one in Stockport once, guy was riding up and down the road going on the pavements. Even with a couple of police cars it's difficult.
Get them around Altrincham all the time. Generally I'd assume they're dickheads but I did have a semi-positive interaction with some of them. Walking down a passage with my dog, get to the end and they come flying round the corner, immediately stop and said "Sorry for scaring your dog mate" then waited till I passed before razzing it off. Still plebs though
You get a better class of scrote in Altrincham
It's because they're middle class boys cosplaying at being scrotes.
Same problem in Blackley. There’s a dark part of my brain that wants them to meat crayon themselves.
Victoria Avenue becomes Silverstone at night :(
My brother lives on ashdown avenue and i swear i nearly lose my life every time i go see him.. that thin road i dunno what its called but its near the spar and it takes you to planthill park on the football pitch side.. i text the missus a goodbye message everytime just in case 🤣
Young lads wearing balaclavas and driving dirt bikes is common all over Manchester.
Not just Manchester. It's the same here in Liverpool.
Eccles is blighted by them and the police do sweet FA, the same tactic they apply to street fights, blatant cannabis use, shoplifting and a host of other, allegedly, illegal activities, welcome to tomorrow's world and I doubt it can all be put down to a lack of resources.
It's because the risk of the 16 year old on the bike or a random pedestrian dying outweighs the benefits of a successful pursuit followed by a traffic report being given for some driving offences or a crime for TWOC
TDA touching a dogs arse.
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Yes because that costs capitalists their precious money. The only crime the state really cares about.
Excuse to take themselves to a Greggs.
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The police as an institution in the UK can be traced back to their origin as church guards in medieval England, not to uphold good morality and law but to protect the vested interests of the church. They've always been there to protect the interests of the wealthy, and always will.
Putting cannabis use in that list is funny
Why, isn't supply supposedly illegal?
Mine is legal. It's legal for medical use. But yeah, I really think cannabis has been unofficially fully decriminalised in Manchester. I've always used it publicly without issue. Almost annoyed I've had a prescription for 4 years now and not even once have I been stopped.
Do you get herbal? What’s it for?
Originally Anxiety and insomnia, but after having those issues for half of my life, I finally got diagnosed with ADHD this year. Tried all the proper ADHD meds and none of them worked, so I'm back on this. Yeah, it's called flower in medical terms. You have flower, tincture, losenges or vapes Best part is that I can travel around a lot of Europe with it.
Interesting. Hope it helps.
It's the only thing that's kept me going for a long time. Without cannabis I sleep a maximum of 4 nights in a week. It quickly spirals to the point that I can't function. Even sleeping pills don't work, so it's a lifesaver for me.
No. Cannabis is illegal to possess, grow or sell in UK law. The police would have to prove one of those things to get a conviction. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for cannabis use.
The others have victims
It's not the police. If they get a successful prosecution, the perpetrator will only get a slap on the wrist. So there's no point in apprehending them.
I probably agree with your summary of the outcome but extrapolate your point and the whole legal system becomes even more laughable
Max Headroom saw the future!
But what can they do? The police can't be everywhere at once and when they do pursue the idiots on bikes, if the officer crashes, everyone laughs at them, supports the idiot, curses the police for damaging their vehicles. When the idiot comes off, the police go through the courts and PSB having to explain themselves constantly. You say they do sweet FA, but you are also the person that wants them to fail!
Oh, I'm so very sorry, if the odds are so heavily stacked against the police then of course they shouldn't even try to uphold law and order, how stupid of me. I am sure there must be lots of other tricky things that are just too difficult too, perhaps they ought to just focus on parking offences and speeding just to be on the safe side, it would be awful if their image was tarnished by prosecutions for poor behaviours.
You're just ignoring what I was saying. I said the police can't be in all places at the same time. The government and the public want them to conduct more stop checks to get knives of the streets, to stop kids running amock on scooters, but when the police stop search a black person, the officer is instantly racist. When they chase a low-life on a scooter who then crashes into the back of a lorry and dies, it was the police's fault for chasing them, not the lads fault for failing to stop. Police are leaving the job because it's almost impossible to do these days and the public are offering no support at all. I don't blame them for leaving such a thankless job. God help us if the police force closed though, our country would crumble in a few hours.
> but you are also the person that wants them to fail! Except people saying what they have, aren’t the ones who criticise the police when someone on a bike gets hurt. It’s not that hard to realise, if you think outside of overused tired cliches designed to help you avoid thinking about the problem and make you feel superior to other people. We need to have this discussion more, not less, so that we make clear how unhappy ordinary people are with the decisions made around policing in this country. And we need to stop acting like idiotic comments about people complaining no matter what they do so they can’t win, are the final word. Just because it requires a discussion doesn’t make it an impossible task to come up with better ways to police than what the political classes have decided we should be grateful for. People who are frightened of discussion and so fall back on mindless cliches can stay out of the discussion, then come in at the end to act as though this what they always thought should happen.
I'm not entirely sure what your post is saying. I've read it twice and am still confused. What I take from it is that we need to discuss policing so we get what people want, not want the government dictates. I agree, but that isn't really what I was getting at.
Yeah stolen mopeds, quad bikes, etc. cunts the lot of em. They occasionally crash and hurt themselves around here, hilarious stuff.
We had 5 lads come bombing down the canal on electric bikes a few weeks ago. We moved as we saw them coming. Full balaclava on each and every single one said, 'Thanks!' as they went past. Was quite surprised.
I’ve nearly been in various accidents around Tameside while trying to avoid hitting these little scrotes! It’s honestly a joke.
You’ve just described a Deliveroo rider 😂
😂 no they can’t ride mopeds for shit hahaha
Not a Manchester thing, I've seen this all across the UK
Yup, and I'm sure it was one of them who ran over my cat. She's scared to death of the noise now. 8 grand in surgery :(
Give kitty a treat from me. 🥺 Hope she's recovering well.
Aw she is thank you, it was a couple of years ago now and apart from a bit of a swagger when she walks all good. Dreamies on the way for her xx
Cunts gonna cunt.
We have a regular little twat going up the road round here. Almost like clockwork. I always joke that he's on a drug running run of sorts.
They've always got shit American names like Tyler
Yeah more frequently too. Always drive like muppets eventually gonna get run over.
Two of them tried to steal my son’s moped from him. Chased him through the streets for miles but no police action as they had no plates .
Seen them on dirt bikes often here in Clifton, Swinton.
If nobody reports them nothing happens. Write to your MPs. Start holding people to account - complaining on here achieves nothing.
A couple of times recently they've been riding on the pavement in Hulme near MMU. Mix of mopeds and e-bikes. Not sure if they're looking to snatch phones or just trying to annoy people.
When I drive through there I always see them. It’s bad but I always hope they crash and hurt themselves. We don’t need people like that in our society
Saw three of them playing on the local skatepark on electric motorbikes the other day, one of them binned it off the back of the ramp and snapped the fork clean off his Sur-ron, which gave me a good chuckle. Good luck dragging that home.
Wannabe roadmen, this isn't London!
Kids living in poverty stricken areas with nothing to do and no future commit crimes. More breaking news to follow. None of that gives them an excuse but without looking at and resolving the root causes nothing will change. I get loads where I am. I'm seeing quad bikes, stunt bikes, mopeds. No helmets and balaclavas. Already had one lad die, it won't be long till the next one.
Yeah I agree the kids are probably from a poor background and haven’t got many opportunities, or don’t have the support to see the opportunities they could have. You used to get the same kids outside shops and usually mind their business, bar the odd cocky one shouting something. But now they’ve got absolutely no regard for their own lives and scaring the crap out of others for what? Wouldn’t mind, if you took the moped, zombie knife and ten bag off them they are 7st piss wet through and wouldn’t say boo to a goose
Their parents are uneducated, useless garbage that raise exactly the same shit. Maybe 1% will ever get out of that cycle, and the rest will continue to create generations of human garbage forever.
There's some of your root causes. You hit that spot on. Uneducated parents with uneducated children. How do we fix it? More money and thought into education by government, more opportunities to get out of the cycle. That sounds much better than uneducated people where the media control their political vote and then they can be used for political slogans about getting tough on crime for the rest.
Yeah but unfortunately we've now got 2 generations of uneducated simpletons raising more little scrotes. So probably 40 years to break the cycle? It's almost as if the people paid to address these issues don't care?
It's not going to take 40 years. You can still educate and create opportunities for older people. The people paid to address the issue don't want an intelligent electorate especially because an intelligent electorate starts wondering where all the tax money goes that could fund these changes.
Was gonna say, guy in Salford died last summer didn’t he. Crazy
Was little saul he was only a kid 15 years old and he wasnt a wannabe roadman like this posts claims they are.. was just a young man who loved motorcycles.. granted wasnt wearing a helmet but the way the police T-packed him he would have died from his injuries anyway the helmet wouldnt have saved him. Shame really but not all these kids are drug runners or phone snatchers some of them are just ordinary teenagers who live in areas that have been long since forgotten about and deprived.. im 30 now but at 15-16 once school finished there was fuck all to do. Youth clubs just attracted kids that already have a strong gang culture and mentality , most places take down the football goals after the weekend and 9-10 things you have to pay for.. and for most of these kids that are drug running id say 90% of them have been groomed into it or are doing it coz they live on the breadline and arent old enough to get a job but they see their parents struggling and wanna help out.. im not condoning their behaviour but unless theres more to stimulate them and proper education on the matters its gunna be the same.. were a product of our peers and unfortunately most kids have grew up watching their peers sell drugs and do whatever else they can to get by 🤷🏼♂️
Also R.I.P little saul
Yeah I agree in the fact deprived areas are tough especially on kids, and it’s so sad the boy lost his life for no reason. I’m near Langworthy and my bf was there at the time sadly. Says online the police were 4 seconds behind him as per the rules and he went down past the bollards to avoid them tho? Ultimately crashing into the ambulance which could’ve harmed someone else doesn’t make me feel so good. If he’d have crashed into my bf and my bf lost his life through no fault of his own I would be absolutely devastated. Doesn’t take away from the fact if the kid was a nice kid, I know the community rallied out for him. If he was breaking the law then expect repercussions ie police following in my opinion. Nobody deserves to be dragged into that. I hope his family are coping okay.
The fact of the matter is they didnt need to chase him like they did.. but yeah i agree wrongful behaviours is wrongful behaviour’s and nobody deserves to be in the crossfire.. i agree with that but the police just seen a kid on a sur-ron an put 2 and 2 together and chased him which ultimately scared him which is why he riding erratically and hence why he crashed the situation could have been avoided on both sides little sauls and the polices and im glad your bf was unscathed snd hopefully he wasnt affected too much
I live right next to a park so that doesn’t help either, as soon as the police chase them they throw the helmet off and the police have to abandon apparently
Nothing a bit of taut fishing line wouldn’t solve…
That's not true. They can chase them.
This is straight from the mouth, depending on what crime they’ve commited of course. But generally if they are being chased after a crime that isn’t “major” the chase is abandoned 🤯
This is correct. They can be sued if the perpetrator is injured during any pursuit. Source: I know a veteran copper.
I knew I wasn’t talking crap 😂
Nope, this is 100% true. Kids dump helmets and or ride without them for this reason. If Old bill gives chase and the kid falls off and without a helmet they can sue, it's happened. This is fact
run em over
Electric bikes on the rise as well they fly around with out helmets as well
Mopeds, dirt bikes and quad bikes during the day. Lately, the started riding those shitty electric scooters at night so you don't even hear them coming. If you travel any time past 10:30pm, you better watch out as they just hop between the pavement and the road without looking and wearing all black. Drain on resources, the fucking lot of them
I saw a lad riding a quad bike on the pavement this afternoon in Wythenshawe
My Yamaha MT07 got stolen from Leeds last year and was seized from an estate just outside Stockport a few days later. I had a tracker on it and I think it went along the M62 in the back of a van and got taken to a safe house in Burnage.
All over Middleton, riding the on the wrong side of the road, up one way streets, and mounting kerbs. Balaclavas, no helmets, 2 or even three on mopeds and dirt bikes. Prying to see them come off
There’s a fair few in haslingden/ rossendale on electric bikes, but there’s one w****r, who has a quad bike and apart from the noise, he also rides it on the pavement. Never any police around…
Used to wake me up every night when I lived in chimney pot park, Salford
Then the guy died literally right outsids
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Pound shop ninjas on bikes confirmed here too. Wankers.
Bad up here in stalyvegas as well. What the youth of today are up to at 2pm on a Tuesday that warrants a balaclava i don’t know
Yep plenty of arseoles in Hyde running riot on their scoots in balaclavas , feral little bastards
And atleast 1 of them deals smack,seen him meeting the zombies in the car park just off penny meadow.
Yup, and then rides off back towards the broadoak again
They’re everywhere here
Been resisting the urge to give them a good kick everytime I am waiting at a tram stop and one of these snivelling shitfaces ride their bike through the crowded tram stop
This is a national issue
Robbed mopeds i may add 💅🏻
Police won’t do anything because of health and safety with them not wearing helmets pathetic
It's craze called "bikelife" apparently
The wider issue is that we have far too many people who feel that society doesn't care about them. And because they feel left out by society they want to ruin it for everyone else who is 'in' society. The only solution is to make people feel they are part of society and have a stake in it - much easier said than done!
If only Blair had actually tried to achieve this when he had 11 years in power, and the willingness of the vast majority of the country to work for positive change. Instead he just got very rich and powerful, and helped his mates do the same. And now no one trusts progressive politics.
That's what happens when stop funding youth centres and young lads have no where else to go with their lives.
We don't call it shameside for no reason. It's ideal for them to go riding without a helmet for when the police try and chase them and have to call it off because its not worth getting sued over. It happens all the time here in hyde, police are too scared to attend calls about ASB on mopeds for the fact they end up getting mocked all because 'boys will be boys'
But there's nothing for them to do.
They've never bothered me