They are all over instagram and they are grown men. They can all be identified easily as well.

Last night a few of them were literally speeding at cars playing "chicken" in this one-lane road environment.

Video is from mid-storm Friday 2/8....and Last night 2/10, we heard many tearing up and down the few freshly plowed single-lane streets getting in the way of storm relief efforts! Fairhaven Dave is right: how dangerous must they get still?

Yep, last night my children and I were walking home, trying to stay off the street but without shoveled sidewalks had to walk on them for a little bit. The ATVs were doing tricks at high speeds, swaying in and out around cars and not slowing down even for pedestrians.

New Haven Police Department, please pay attention!

New Haven aldermen, can we look at the solutions some other cities have taken, like banning sales inside city limits and banning sale of gas to illegal motorbikes?

The ones being driven by kids ~ their parents ought to be fined! Besides that, I agree with FairHavener that sales of these bikes ought to be banned. There's not a whole the police can do about this. Heaven knows they have tried. I'm sure they have their hands full just dealing with the ramifications from this storm.

Exactly! They "own" the newly plowed roads and don't even think about saying something or else they'll gang up on you--thugs!

There is legislation in committee in Hartford, sponsored by state senator Looney, to allow NHPD to confiscate and destroy ATVs and dirt bikes. We need to make sure our aldermen, city hall and state reps work to pass this legislation. This is our chance to stop the ATVs and dirt bikes!

I am closing dirt bike/ATV complaints that pre-date the conclusion of the police undercover operation (see www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/9_arrested_in_dirt_bike_sting/). I do not expect the dirt bike/ATV issue to be completely solved, but it will be helpful to policing efforts to distinguish new reports from those before last month's operation. The operation was not a one-off effort to address this issue, and information reported in new issues is helpful.

Please open up new SCF issues as dirt bike/ATV issues re-occur.

- Rob Smuts, Chief Administrative Officer

Thanks for fixing this issue!