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Title: This must sound familiar to some riders in Miami. Post by: Thrumud on August 02, 2006, 03:05:30 AM News Posted April 20, 2006 Club Sues Over Blocked Ride The Pathfinders Motorcycle Club has filed a lawsuit over being stopped from riding in Jamaica, Vermont, in 2004 because of an alleged city law banning ATVs, motorcycles and other vehicles from certain roads. The suit claims the Jamaica Select Board forced the Windham County Sheriff's Department to enforce a city law banning certain vehicles from certain roads before the law was legally in effect. The blocked ride, the 5th annual AMA/New England Trail Rider Association-sanctioned Red Fox Turkey Run set for August 8, 2004, was organized by the Pathfinders Motorcycle Club. But before the approximately 300 riders could head off on the ride that morning, officers from the Windham County Sheriff's Department showed up in force at the staging area and told riders they would be arrested if they started riding. “They threatened me with citation/summons, arrest, and immediate property seizure without due process,” rider Bill Thebert said in a letter to the state Attorney General's Office just after the incident. ``They did so with the sole purpose of preventing me from lawfully operating a 100 percent street-legal motorcycle on public ways within Windham County.'” © 2006, All Terrain Vehicle Association |