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Post by Chuck52 on Aug 2, 2010 12:05:31 GMT -6
Haven't heard much lately about the loud muffler ordinance, are the MB keystone cops enforcing it or selective enforcement Wife and I were planning on coming down this weekend and we'll be riding thru not spending $$ in MB, just don't want the hassle of a pointless ticket. I'm sure with this FBI/IRS investigation the MB powers to be are lying LOW as is under a rock since that's where they belong ;D Not reading much in the UNNEWS either Attachments:
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Post by General_Malaise on Aug 2, 2010 16:48:55 GMT -6
Good question. Much was made of the noise ordinance in the news way back when the anti-biker forces were in their ascendancy. TV spots showing a microphone in a holder so as to standardize all readings, an opportunity without citations to test your bike. I never saw any hype as to how many loud exhaust citations were given, if any. Seems as though they would publicize it if they could.
At the last ABATE meeting, an attendee stated that his organization had purchased the same unit as the police, in self defense I guess you could say. I believe that they were offering to assist in the defense of anyone cited for the violation in a technical way.
Haven't heard anything since.
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Post by bikergal on Aug 3, 2010 7:36:39 GMT -6
The police have never done roadside tests for loud pipes. The only tickets I have ever heard of are the people that are revving their engines very loud and late at night. If you have loud pipes but act responsibly I do not think you have any worries.
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Post by rangemaster on Aug 3, 2010 9:30:02 GMT -6
... The only tickets I have ever heard of are the people that are revving their engines very loud and late at night... Which is what the PREVIOUS city ordinance was aimed at - but the city was NOT enforcing.
THAT allowed some residents to legitimately complain about noise in residential neighborhoods - as the city police and supporting law enforcement agencies were congregated along one stretch of a sparsely-traveled Ocean Boulevard to monitor an absolutely UNNECESSARY and UNJUSTIFIED "One Way Traffic Pattern" SOLELY to appease the NAACP. Thus, the City of Myrtle Beach's FAILED policies CREATED the entire atmosphere used as their "justification" to enact far overreaching, drastic, unnecessary, and unconstitutional/illegal ordinances and since-repealed court (by Supreme Court direction).
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Post by Chuck52 on Aug 3, 2010 21:15:29 GMT -6
Thanks for all the info. We're spending our 35th anniversay in MB area this weekend and I'm leaving the Rineharts on the bike. Hopefully the weather will cooperate ;D May the FBI/IRS take down RODENT/DEAN and crew ;D Attachments:
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Post by Chuck52 on Aug 9, 2010 19:55:06 GMT -6
Thanks for all the info. We're spending our 35th anniversary in MB area this weekend and I'm leaving the Rineharts on the bike. Hopefully the weather will cooperate ;D May the FBI/IRS take down RODENT/DEAN and crew ;D The weather was perfect, the riding was great and the tourist were being tourist, almost rear ended once and sideswiped twice they were to busy sightseeing. Did have one of MB finest seeing red, I was backed into a handicapped parking spot while waiting on the wife to run into a store and pickup something and a MB officer got all excited seeing me in the parking spot came over to me all ready to write a ticket, he told me I couldn't park there then quickly asked for my license and registration. I got off the bike opened the saddlebag lid to get the registration and the officer walked behind the bike to keep an eye on me I guess, but the look on his face was priceless when he saw the handicap license plate on the bike . He called it in to check it out I could see he was a little upset or embarrassed or both ,told me he's never seen a handicap plate on a bike. He wasn't rude or anything just all business he told us to have a safe visit. Which we did. ;D We did see alot of changes many business gone new ones opened and alot of vacancy signs on Ocean blvd Attachments:
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Post by rangemaster on Aug 9, 2010 23:06:35 GMT -6
...Did have one of MB finest seeing red, I was backed into a handicapped parking spot while waiting on the wife to run into a store and pickup something and a MB officer got all excited seeing me in the parking spot came over to me all ready to write a ticket, he told me I couldn't park there then quickly asked for my license and registration. I got off the bike opened the saddlebag lid to get the registration and the officer walked behind the bike to keep an eye on me I guess, but the look on his face was priceless when he saw the handicap license plate on the bike . He called it in to check it out I could see he was a little upset or embarrassed or both ,told me he's never seen a handicap plate on a bike. He wasn't rude or anything just all business he told us to have a safe visit. Which we did. ;D I had something similar happen at Coastal Carolina University about 6-7 years ago. Parked in a handicapped space (during a rather bad health period when I was often having to go to the VA in Charleston, otherwise I usually avoid HP spaces) and a female faculty member came running over and, in that case, started screaming hysterically about how I couldn't park there, etc. I told her that I wished she was mute to go with her blindness and lack of other qualities, that she was giving me a migraine on top of everything else with her "lecture"- which infuriated her even more, PLUS she still didn't realize the situation. As I picked up a rather heavy briefcase from the bike and started to walk away to go speak to a class, she initially looked like she was going to step in front of me, but my quite serious look obviously made her do otherwise. Last I saw was her flagging down one of their campus security guys (they have both security and sworn law enforcement officers; security handles most parking matters). A few days later, I spoke with the security guy, who knows me. He said she was still hysterical when he tried to explain that there are handicapped/disabled motorcyclists too, that he knows me as a service-connected disabled veteran, pointed out my HP/DV markings (including a CCU HP decal), my then-function at CCU, etc. He said she seemed to feel bad about how she jumped to a conclusion, but I really didn't want to hear it (which amused him quite a bit...). One group of folks who don't seem to jump to such conclusions are the moped-riding parking attendants who check the public parking in the City of Myrtle Beach. I've spoken with most of them, as recently as last Thursday. When they see a motorcycle in any metered/restricted parking space, they check the plate and for any special placards/decals (including a city parking permit on the fork) before making any assumption.
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Post by Chuck52 on Aug 10, 2010 17:41:52 GMT -6
Range isn’t amazing how fast people jump to a conclusion about a biker, how can you ride a bike and be handicapped . I’m sure we could tell of many encounters with these ignorant people but I have to tell you of one that really made my day. ;D ;D ;D I rode over to the local Quizno’s to pickup a couple of sandwich’s for the wife and I, I parked in a handicapped spot it was the only spot left in the lot except for the other handicapped spot well when I came out of Quizno’s this older woman was wearing out a cops butt about the bike in the handicapped space she never let him get a word in at all , he called me over and asked how I was doing and if I had my son’s new phone number he was my son’s best friend, he pointed out the HD plate and told her I was legal and asked her if the car in the other spot was hers and she said yes . Well his question to her was why a NC handicapped placard hanging and a FL tag on her car.? She told him the placard was her sons and she was visiting from FL so where was here son… . wait for it,,, he was at home waiting for his Quizno’s sub that MAMA was picking up. Guess who got the ticket and the placard confiscated. ;D ;D Sometimes there is justice . This could only happen once in a lifetime so I savored the moment. ;D ;D ;D Attachments:
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