Not to be a pr*ck, but what made you think it was legal to drive a
snowmobile on a sidewalk in the first place? Don't know about where you
live, but in NY, you can be stopped by an officer for riding a BIKE on a
sidewalk. A snowmobile, you'd get slapped pretty quick. You need a
sign to tell you everything you can't do, instead of deferring to common
sense? Just because someone else did it, it's OK for you to do it?
You caused no damage? You said your friend's sled hit a car after he
was pulled off it. I thought those things had killswitches that you
were supposed to tie around your wrist so it would stop the thing if you
fell off?
Sorry, I didn't mean to rant, I just can't understand how you think
you're innocent and should be absolved of all wrongdoing here. Are you
punishable for what you did? What's the law say?
Matt Koth wrote:
>
> This Saturday A bunch of friends and I went to a somewhat local event called
> "Winterfest". It is a massive gathering of snowmobilers at an are lake to
> race, and ride trails. Anyways, I pulled 4 sleds on a trailer with the dak,
> she didn't even break a sweat. After riding all day we got of the trail and
> headed to a gas station to fill up our sleds, on the way there we drove down
> a public sidewalk, so we could say out of the street. This idiot comes
> running out of his house, grabs the guy riding in front of me and pulls him
> off his snowmobile, which continues to move, and hits a car.He holds us
> there untill the cops show up andcharged with tresspassing! Then, the cop
> made us scoop all the sidewalks, we had driven on. So now I have to appear
> in court, and face up to a $200 fine. Well, that puts off any mods I had
> planned. Plus I have to miss a day of school to go listen to a judge yell at
> us. We didn't do it purposely, there where no sighns, markings, or
> indicators of where we could or could not ride, we just followed the tracks
> of people that where in front of us. Now, are punishable for what we did? We
> caused no damage, and where physicaly, and verbaly attacked.
> Whoa, sorry about that little long, but I just had to let that out. Now for
> the dak content, saw a really sweet red 97-99 dakota with a solid axle swap
> and 39 inch tires. I left a note on his windshield with the DML address, so
> maybe he will pay a visit.
>
> Thanks for tollerating my ramblings.
> Matt Koth
> 95 CC 4x4 5.2L
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