Challenging anti-social behaviour

[simon.r]

I was walking home at about 10pm a few nights ago when a yoof on a *very* noisy moped drove past me. I heard him from a few hundred yards away and mouthed, very obviously, "noisy farker", at him as he passed me.

He gave me the finger and proceeded to wheelie down the road, which is probably what I've had done when I was 16

In the very unlikely event that he'd stopped I'd have tried to explain that he was disturbing loads of people and was being very selfish. On the other hand he may have pulled a knife and stabbed me.

Right / Wrong / Foolish / Worth a try?

 

[TVC]

Contact your local beat officer, our ones round here take anti social behavior seriously. If people report stuff they can build up a pattern of behavior and stand a better chance of catching and seizing the bikes.

 

[simon.r]

Contact your local beat officer, our ones round here take anti social behavior seriously. If people report stuff they can build up a pattern of behavior and stand a better chance of catching and seizing the bikes.

Local beat officer??

Long gone I'm afraid, but sentiment noted.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Difficult to know how 'yoofs' will react tbh. I'd probably ignore for your own sake unless he's putting people in danger.

 

[Vegan1]

I would not have done anything, who cares that some kid on a moped is riding down a road? As long as the rider and bike are both legal begal I don't see what the problem is.

 

[TVC]

Don't think you read the OP properly, modified silencer and pulling wheelies is not legal begal.

 

[simon.r]

I would not have done anything, who cares that some kid on a moped is riding down a road? As long as the rider and bike are both legal begal I don't see what the problem is.

The problem is the noise. Sleeping with the windows open in the hot weather and living near a main road means disturbance. At 10pm it's not an issue, but at 2am it's a pain.

As an ex-biker I know the noise level "tests" for bikes are loose, but at the risk of sounding like a Daily Mail reader I think they should be tighter.

 

[Vegan1]

Don't think you read the OP properly, modified silencer and pulling wheelies is not legal begal.

Show me the proof that the bike had a modified silencer and the wheelie was more than likely in retaliation to the OP mouthing noisy farker at the rider. Some people need to get a grip

 

[Vegan1]

The problem is the noise. Sleeping with the windows open in the hot weather and living near a main road means disturbance. At 10pm it's not an issue, but at 2am it's a pain.

As an ex-biker I know the noise level "tests" for bikes are loose, but at the risk of sounding like a Daily Mail reader I think they should be tighter.

It is what it is.

 

[simon.r]

Show me the proof that the bike had a modified silencer and the wheelie was more than likely in retaliation to the OP mouthing noisy farker at the rider. Some people need to get a grip

Wheelie was definitely in "retaliation", I can't prove a modified silencer, but I'd bet my life savings on it. Honestly, it was excessively loud. I've ridden enough bikes with slightly modded pipes to know where the limit is.

 

[Vegan1]

Wheelie was definitely in "retaliation", I can't prove a modified silencer, but I'd bet my life savings on it. Honestly, it was excessively loud. I've ridden enough bikes with slightly modded pipes to know where the limit is.

The irony, farking hell.

 

[simon.r]

The irony, farking hell.

There's a massive difference in perceived noise between riding a big capacity bike with slightly modded pipes at low revs and a 'ped with baffles removed at high revs.

 

[fossyant]

The little fekkers do it on dirt bikes on the A57 out of Manchester, popping wheelies in rush hour, and later in the evening. The Police can't chase. I just hope one face plants it near me. Haa haa. See it every week, in rush hour, and last night at about 8pm. Busy road. My kids were shocked, I was 'happens every night'.

 

[fossyant]

I was walking home at about 10pm a few nights ago when a yoof on a *very* noisy moped drove past me. I heard him from a few hundred yards away and mouthed, very obviously, "noisy farker", at him as he passed me.

He gave me the finger and proceeded to wheelie down the road, which is probably what I've had done when I was 16

In the very unlikely event that he'd stopped I'd have tried to explain that he was disturbing loads of people and was being very selfish. On the other hand he may have pulled a knife and stabbed me.

Right / Wrong / Foolish / Worth a try?

Bit foolish unless you had a mate with you.

 

[snorri]

Possibly a lack of reaction would be more hurtful to the moped rider, it would indicate that he had failed to annoy. He's not going to boast to his pals about the guy that didn't get annoyed when he roared down the street.