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willzyx01 t1_ja9aiy9 wrote

Those “kids who are just having fun” are now carrying guns?

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dghah t1_ja9fwxz wrote

I like that BPD is focusing on intelligence/disruption rather than street chases but it seems like this is not as urgent as it was a year or two ago when BPD was regularly:

  • Using MA fire/building codes regarding "storage of gas powered vehicles near "dwellings"" to bust and cite the houses where these bikes are stored. Of course when it came time to issue the citation nobody on site was willing to declare themselves the owners of these vehicles so they were seized
  • Working with other city cops like the thing they did with Dedham PD where they waited in a parking lot and busted the "mothership" cargo truck that was delivering a boxtruck full of bikes to unload at their staging area

Basically this is good news but 40 bikes is nothing. In other years they were seizing those quantities every other month during summer it seemed like

But to be honest this is an escalating race of evade and detect. Just the fact that these gangs were using box trucks as motherships to "deploy" their fleets of vehicles in out of the way staging grounds away from Boston proper kinda blew my mind as it was actually a good tactic

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ZipBlu t1_jac2xdi wrote

I kind of feel like this sort of stuff has significantly died down because of those earlier busts. I live on a very busy street and the bike groups came down my street 3-4 times in the summer of 2021 but 0 times in 2022.

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bradys_squeeze t1_jacem5f wrote

Pretty sure this “tactic” was utilized in the movie The Place Beyond the Pines with Ryan Gosling. He would rob a bank and then use a box truck to store the bike

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IDCFFSGTFO t1_jacbz5k wrote

Of course people care more about the bikes/ATVs than the fentanyl. Peak reddit.

Just saying, I hate bike gangs too, but I hate fentanyl dealers way more.

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redditspacer t1_jaadnvk wrote

I hope the original owners get their stuff back.

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Boston1_ t1_jaclv11 wrote

I love how everyone on /Boston (and mayor Wu) usually defends these guys as “just kids having fun”, they’ve literally been a gang of criminals using the off road vehicles as a way to outrun the cops for years and have committed crimes such as shootings, rape, murder, even holding a guy down and driving over his head causing him critical injuries…

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RailRoad_Candy t1_ja9cwkd wrote

So when do those Bikes go up for auction?! Oh please don't tell me they're gonna just crush them.

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_Hack_The_Planet_ OP t1_ja9dfd8 wrote

I imagine that they'll look at the VIN and try to contact the owners prior to any crushing/auction.

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RhaenyrasUncle t1_jabit35 wrote

Where are all the, "Bro, literally no one is spiking any drugs with fentanyl...thats absurd, why would they just give away fentanyl like that?!" folks now?

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