During a two-week operation last month, D.C. police impounded hundreds of scooters and mopeds in the city.
The title makes it sound worse than it is. They’re targeting drivers without appropriate licensing, insurance and helmets, not arbitrarily.
I’m curious about the arrests, there isn’t much to go on here. I used to live in a US state that required no licensing or insurance for mopeds so it seems good to enforce something like this. In that state, they were called liquor cycles…
US state that required no licensing or insurance for mopeds
What. The. Fuck. Here you can done for dui on a lawn mower if you’re silly enough to drive it on a public road. Which I’m completely fine with. Having random lunatics ride around on e scooter is dangerous as it is, mopeds is wild.
I think they might be referring to the fact that they no longer have a valid license, so they opt to ride mopeds to go get the liquor.
That’s pretty much what I’m referring to? Pissheads who’ve lost their license to DUI here get done for the same (edit: and driving while disqualified) when they think they’re clever and ride their mower to the pub. Pretty much anything going onto a public road needs to be a registered (and therefore insured) and the operator licensed. I couldn’t imagine non-licensed riders buzzing around city traffic on a slower version of a motorbike.
I feel like requiring a drivers license for motor vehicles is ok.
