LionkingCMSL (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lionkingcmsl) wrote2002-11-24 05:56 pm
lionkingcmsl) wrote2002-11-24 05:56 pm
Rant Time :=|
This railroading lion is more than a bit peeved.
I want to know what gives people the idea that they can shoot paintballs at anything they want to and why people with quads, dirt bikes, et. al. feel they can ride anywhere with immunity.
We were "paintballed" today. The train was hit a total of 8 times, 7 on one side 1 on the other. When I returned, with train and cop, no-one knew who did it. I then explained that messing with, or shooting at, railroad equipment of any sort, including signs is a felony, which it is. Several sets of eyes got very large. I think that they thought the worst it was was a "disorderly persons" offense. Not so. Anyone who is not authorized by the railroad to be on, around, or otherwise "messing" with railroad property is facing a felony conviction with possible time in a federal penitentiary.
The quads/dirt bikes/etc. are an on-going problem. I stopped one today, in my car, and he said that the railroad only had one train running and it only did 30mph and he could see it coming. He didn't want to hear the facts that we have more than one piece of equipment and that he was trespassing. He seemed to think it was his "God given right" to ride wherever and whenever he wants to. I have one question to dirt bike/quad owners. Is it stated anywhere that you can ride anywhere you want? I know for a fact in NJ that they are to be used on private property only, and then only with the owner's permission.
Just once I would like to ask, and get, their home address. I would then take my car and run it up and down their front yard. When they come out and yell at me, I will tell them, "Well you ride on private property when you ride your quad/bike/whatever along the railroad, and feel that you are above the law. So I'm just doing what you do. Rriding on private property without the owner's permission because I feel like it. Turn about is fair play, is it not?"
Of course I would be arrested while the quad owner would be free to ride along the railroad.
I want to know what gives people the idea that they can shoot paintballs at anything they want to and why people with quads, dirt bikes, et. al. feel they can ride anywhere with immunity.
We were "paintballed" today. The train was hit a total of 8 times, 7 on one side 1 on the other. When I returned, with train and cop, no-one knew who did it. I then explained that messing with, or shooting at, railroad equipment of any sort, including signs is a felony, which it is. Several sets of eyes got very large. I think that they thought the worst it was was a "disorderly persons" offense. Not so. Anyone who is not authorized by the railroad to be on, around, or otherwise "messing" with railroad property is facing a felony conviction with possible time in a federal penitentiary.
The quads/dirt bikes/etc. are an on-going problem. I stopped one today, in my car, and he said that the railroad only had one train running and it only did 30mph and he could see it coming. He didn't want to hear the facts that we have more than one piece of equipment and that he was trespassing. He seemed to think it was his "God given right" to ride wherever and whenever he wants to. I have one question to dirt bike/quad owners. Is it stated anywhere that you can ride anywhere you want? I know for a fact in NJ that they are to be used on private property only, and then only with the owner's permission.
Just once I would like to ask, and get, their home address. I would then take my car and run it up and down their front yard. When they come out and yell at me, I will tell them, "Well you ride on private property when you ride your quad/bike/whatever along the railroad, and feel that you are above the law. So I'm just doing what you do. Rriding on private property without the owner's permission because I feel like it. Turn about is fair play, is it not?"
Of course I would be arrested while the quad owner would be free to ride along the railroad.