TheHeretic
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I am not the go-cart type,.. I have no idea about it being illegal to have a go-cart on public roads (Is that in all cities or just some?), you dont need a license to ride a bike or scooter down the road...
jmo.. but using a vehicle weighing several thousand pounds as a weapon against a little kid is dangerous and excessive and.. friggin stupid.. If the dumb c**t had a problem with the kids, then she should have pulled over and called security (if it was a gated community) or the cops and let them deal with the kids and the kids parents.. not run the kids over..
Vehicle laws are going to come from the state, not the cities, and there will be some wide variations on some things, but to be street legal, a motorized vehicle is going to need brake lights, turn signals and a muffler - all things not typically found on go-carts. I recently found myself investigating the laws regarding horseback riding on the streets, and the rule of thumb that generally applies nationwide is that any mode of transportation that is used on the public roads must obey the rules of the road. (I also discovered an odd rule in California's laws that says a drunk on horseback is a drunk driver, unless they are not holding the reins).
Where I live, the problem isn't go-carts so much, but dirt bikes, quads, and assorted off-roader toys. We had a good rain yesterday, and within an hour or so, I expect to hear loud little engines racing up the streets of my little slice of semi-rural suburbia, as the riders make their way into the desert to play in the mud. Should a cop be in the right place, at the right time to see it, they will actually confiscate the vehicle, but mostly the kids get away with it. When enough complaints are received, the cops will schedule an enforcement day to hang around the area, bust a few, and hope the word spreads.
They do get those complaints about it, too. It can be annoying as hell, and there are always a few people who really let it get under their skin. Of my immediate neighbors who partake of the dust and mud, one has a 4-seater and is pretty courteous about keeping the rpm low, and driving in a responsible way as he takes the kids off for a ride. I expect that when those kids are old enough for their own toys, they'll be taught the same. Another is quite the opposite, as he warms up his 250cc dirt bike's extremely cold-blooded engine, then finally goes tearing off through the neighborhood with as much disregard for the stop signs, as he has already shown for the peace and quiet.
I'm scrolling around Pearland Texas in a satellite view on my tablet. It's an outer community of the Houston area. There are lots of modern suburban tract neighborhoods, with lots of cul de sacs, and only a couple outlets to the main streets. Prime territory for such issues to be things people deal with, instead of a hypothetical situation for urbanites to have only the vaguest uninformed notions of.
Even the bit of unauthenticated journalist hackery presented in the OP reveals that these kids were just joyriding on the streets, and thought it was fine to go running off into a park. As the women is reported to have said when she had her snap, "you kids don't belong in this neighborhood."
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