Lord of the Dunes
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- May 5, 2021
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I think you're missing one of my points, it's the same point sandpsycho made.Hell yea. It worked. When was the last time you heard of a shooting or stabbing in the dunes? Or any other act of violence? That was early 2000s crap and it went away. And now it rears it's ugly head again.
I'm not a victim. I get caught up on this zero tolerance policy. Then so be it. Maybe I should have been doing the right thing. I welcome enforcement. Whether me or my family gets included in it. My 16 year old son rides his bike without a flag and gets jammed up. There's a life lesson son. Follow the rules. No helmet? Get a ticket. I won't "pack up" because it's shown to make the place better and that's what I want.
Statistically, there are more offenses of missing whips or passes as opposed to drunk driving accidents causing fatalities. Hell, there are less fatalities in glamis in a decade then there are current rigs on gecko over the 14 day camp limit. So, naturally, more tickets will be written for those violations. Which are still violations. Should minor offenses be ignored IN CASE a larger offense occurs? Not good policing if so. If I had a dollar every time I heard "there are rapists and murderers out there and you're here ' harassing ' me. Go find them."
We all want the same thing. A safer place to take our families and ride. You want it to happen with magical unicorns and rainbows. You have a lot of faith in the human race to fix themselves. I don't unfortunately.
The BLM rangers are not enforcing all of the laws equally. They're ignoring the bigger offenders and concentrating on the easy stuff, like whips and passes.
What I'm saying is I'd like to see real offenders getting nabbed. Like the ghost campers. You have to admit they are doing nothing about that. They're already writing plenty of whip tickets, let's see them do something about some real rule breaking.
Believe me, I don't believe in unicorns and rainbows. I just don't think harassing 14 yr old kids is really putting any dent in the real problems.