E bikes rampaging Toronto streets

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xrljoel said:
E-bikes are low hanging fruit for the cops. Nobody is gonna crap on them for cracking down. Unlike the protestors, ebikes don't have proponents/defenders inside or outside of government at multiple levels.

I expect the impounding action though to be a gong show. A few years ago I saw the cops in Cobourg pull over a drunk on his ebike. There were 3 cop cars, 6 cops and a flatbed tow vehicle with this ebike strapped to the deck.

It looked ridiculous. For crying out loud, 2 cops could have had the guy in the back of the car and loaded the scooter in the trunk of the cruiser. The could also have used the pick up the force owns of course.
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Didn't cobourg already have half the force off on leave? The ebikes wynnebag approved are heavy and are a an easy comp claim. "My back hurts, I'll go home with pay until my max pension is reached".
 
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justride said:
Can you physically ride a bicycle or ebike when you are drunk?
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I practiced that quite a few times in my younger years. I could barely walk and never crashed. One time I did have a lot of cedar boughs caught in the brake levers. No idea how that happened. There was no cedar between my starting point and destination.

I've never ridden an ebike. You can get a dui on one.
 
Mad Mike said:
Simple solution: use the same impounding procedures and tow trucks used for cars.

If the dirtbag rider refuses to identify themselves to police, getting their unregistered bike back won't be easy.
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The tow companies will quickly refuse to pick them up due to lack of profitability with low resale value coupled with the small amount of owners that will be paying tow and impound costs.
That would leave the police having to transport and store them and with the potential fire hazard factored in the cops will soon lose any incentive to scoop them up.
 
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