Its quite common for people to ride sleds on sidewalks to go to the gas
station where I ride. You go slow and dont gun the sled and people dont
seem to mind. The cops dont seem to mind either, while we were at a gas
station yesterday a trooper was talking to us while we were sitting on our
sleds, which we had obviously ridden down the street and sidewalk to get
there. So I wouldnt think it would be a big deal but the guy who stopped
you must have been a real jerk off.
>From: Andy Levy <andylevy@bigfoot.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>Subject: Re: DML: One Heck of a Saturday (Sort of off topic, and long)
>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:31:14 -0500
>
>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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>-andy
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