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Friday night, two of my friends were riding their ATV's at a hot local riding spot, it's private property, owned by some investor that lives in some other state, but the local city police enforce it. It's sand pits, hillclimbs, all sorts of riding terrain.
Ive ridden there once, but seems everytime my fellow atv riders go riding there the cops show up and ask everyone to leave. They are pretty nice about it, I think they may have issued tickets before but its more of running people out.
Friday night the police showed up, my two friends apparantly thought the best idea would be to hide out in the woods section, which isnt accessable by car until the police left.
When they thought the coast was clear, they pulled out of the woods and proceeded to head back to the truck and load up to leave, when a cop car comes at them, rams the atv'ers with his police car.
One of them died on the scene from blunt force trauma, he fell off, was run over by the police car and killed, the other is in critical condition in the hospital.
He broke his pelvis, collar bone, several ribs and his leg and ankle. As of right now he's looking like he's going to be okay, but he's still in pretty bad shape. He's completley out of it, and has no idea that his best friend is dead.
The police officer is suspended as of right now, but they arent releasing his information. (Nobody knows what cop it is)
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I understand that they were breaking the law, me and some of my friends were debating this last night... and some people say, How can you fault the cop for doing his job?
But I don't think a No Trespassing ticket, or improper use of an atv ticket is worth someones life. End of story.
Im sure there will be a lawsuit fairly soon.
R.I.P.
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Ive ridden there once, but seems everytime my fellow atv riders go riding there the cops show up and ask everyone to leave. They are pretty nice about it, I think they may have issued tickets before but its more of running people out.
Friday night the police showed up, my two friends apparantly thought the best idea would be to hide out in the woods section, which isnt accessable by car until the police left.
When they thought the coast was clear, they pulled out of the woods and proceeded to head back to the truck and load up to leave, when a cop car comes at them, rams the atv'ers with his police car.
One of them died on the scene from blunt force trauma, he fell off, was run over by the police car and killed, the other is in critical condition in the hospital.
He broke his pelvis, collar bone, several ribs and his leg and ankle. As of right now he's looking like he's going to be okay, but he's still in pretty bad shape. He's completley out of it, and has no idea that his best friend is dead.
The police officer is suspended as of right now, but they arent releasing his information. (Nobody knows what cop it is)
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I understand that they were breaking the law, me and some of my friends were debating this last night... and some people say, How can you fault the cop for doing his job?
But I don't think a No Trespassing ticket, or improper use of an atv ticket is worth someones life. End of story.
Im sure there will be a lawsuit fairly soon.
R.I.P.
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