NYPD cop confiscates motorcycle for reckless driving, then drives it recklessly and crashes it

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/nypd-cop-confiscates-motorcycl.html

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Karma so thick you could cut it with a knife.

edited to add - and no helmet, so many things wrong with this…NYPD version of “hold my beer”

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The most reckless thing he did was to get on it and hit the throttle. There was not a single moment he was in control of that bike.

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Proper headline: Bike thief crashes on camera right after stealing private property for joy-ride.

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No helmet laws?

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Follow up:

Owner of confiscated dirt bike forced by law to pay medical bills of idiot cop who injured himself joyriding on stolen property.

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No, wait…

Owner of unsafe dirt bike jailed for endangering police officer.

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Pay back comes in many forms. Indeed.

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Gang of bike thieves. I counted at least 7 other cops.
My questions: Did the cop have a motorcycle license? Was he insured? Was he cited by any of the other police standing around for reckless driving and other possible offenses.

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I don’t think he was reckless as much as too inexperienced with a bike that has that much power. Though why it wasn’t towed for impounding vs being driven off I have no idea.

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So the police in US can just confiscate vehicles without court order?

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Oh there is a ton of stuff they can do to confiscate private property with out due process.

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We have some fun loopholes. In effect, they can. It may be later returned when the court orders it but the cop suffers no consequences for the initial theft.

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Getting on the bike when he wasn’t able to control it was a reckless act.

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Hold my badge.

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I’m guessing it wasn’t confiscated because of reckless driving, but because it wasn’t remotely street legal in the first place. (Because it’s a “dirt bike,” not a motorcycle.) No one should have been driving it on city streets.

So a dirt bike that was being driven illegally was possibly destroyed it in a crash, making an idiot cop look like an idiot in the process - in other words, it’s all good.

Well, when it’s a vehicle that shouldn’t be on city streets to begin with…

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Does it need more than lights/signals?

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If only!

It would be like “Hey, I’m about to do something that demonstrates I am utterly unfit to wield the authority this badge grants me.”

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