ATV Florida Forum

I wanted to ask around if there was anyone who actually had there 4wheeler confiscated by the police for riding where they shouldnt have. 

3 of them

Were you able to get them back? 

knought eye.

Id@

I always here people talking about how it could happen,  I wanted to here from the people that it happened too.  How did you get caught and if you got it back and everything in between.  Very curious about it.

I went to the impound yard at night and took them back.


I was just messing around, I haven't had any quads confiscated because I try my hardest to not ride in illegal areas, therefore I dint have that problem.

If I had mine taken I would impound them back too.  Thats alot of money... Thats cool.. I am just curious on who it has happened tool,  other than getting hit or wrecking it is a big ATV fear.

I had 2 impounded and the guy in charge of the impound yard was conveniently not available to release them for 27 days.It cost me $1200,yes one thousand two hundred dollars to get them back.

 

yikes
where you riding on someone elses property or riding on the road?

A future subdivision. Was arrested for evadding and attemting to allude. Lake county sherriff lied his a$$ off. lied on my report on his typed report then lied in the deposition. Three different stories.After impound fees,bond and lawyer total bill was around $6000 for a $250 trespassing ticket.

thats a shame.  If they want to get you they will.  Becuase you fled it made it a felony I gues, and your 4wheeler was used in felony and impounded just like a car.  that sucks.  Sorry for all that.

I was behind the cop trying to catch him. He lied and said I was in front of him. After the district attorney read his reports and heard his depo she found he was an idiot and dropped the charge.

weve impouded quite a few mostly people riding them on roads, and a few stolen ones

I deffinately understand riding them on the roads.  That is not smart.

If you ride on the road what is that considered by the law,, is it a felony, moving violation?  What would the person be charged with? and do you lose your license?

Mr. Fixit, what neighborhood were you riding in? I live in Montverde, and we go riding all the time, and normally we dont run into the police but when we do, we normally run for it. You got me thinking now that you said you got your bikes impounded and all. Are or were you a minor at the time? Every time I have actually stopped for a cop, they are real nice, and just say go home or dont ride in that area.

I was back in the sand pit where the Hills of Minneola subdivision is going in.

Is that that neighbor hood going in on turkey farm? Do you ever go ridding, around sugarloaf mt. rd, or 561?

When i was pulled over i was riding to my house in the grass on the side of the road.Cop lied saying i was swerving between cars and popping wheelies when i was cruising 4th gear! Got reckless driving and driving w/o license had to do 25 hours community service and 8 hours of driving school!

ive gotten caught riding in this field by my house and the cop just said to go home

Yes sugarloaf.You can still ride ther but not near 561.That is all owned by Family Dynamics and they are subbing out LCSO to give everyone who rides there trespassing tickets.

Where at on 561? I ride all around the turnpike. Everywhere from turkey farm to sugarloaf, and we have even gone to lake apopka before. I notice there are often cops at that white sand pit, where triple e turns into a paved road. And across 561 at that clay pit. Do you know where I am talking about? I really dont see cops anywhere else.

They actually put up a gate on sugarloaf mt. rd. but there are still like 5 more ways in there.

Were exactly is hills of minneola?

I heard MOTOCROSS MAVERICK was riding at a cemetry at 2:oo am. Wearing a Dress with high heels with a male blow up doll on back while getting pulled over by the police. The police only seized his doll, otherwise know as the ICE MAN (doll). It cost him over 600 dollars to get him back. Rumor has it he was on his way back from the Fussy Pickle. ;)

nice

I still cant figure out why so many people are against our sport, can someone help me with that?   :-\

All of 561 will be the hills of minneola.That where you ride is now off limits. It's a shame because it's a great place to ride but now illegal.All that land would be great for an atv park.

They don't like seeing people have fun when they can't.

I was being sarcastic. Everyone is talking about how they run from the cops and stuff, thats illegal...not good for our sport  ;) :P

Ive gotton a Tw from the cop that sits in the pit on sundays. Me and my friends didnt run when he waved us down and told us that he could take us to jail for riding there. He got pissed at me when i told him we didnt know because we had never seen any posted signs.He tryed his best to get me mad but it didnt work i was as nice as could be. He even called me a trouble maker because of where i work lol. I just laughed at him.

I'm 45.I'm too old to run,LOL

Nah not to old to run.  Too smart to run.  No sence in it.  And generally if you are nice it really burns them up.  It's almost like they are trying to get you upset so they have an excuse to haul you to jail and impound your stuff.  Kill 'em w/ kindness is always my policy.  Have your atv/ohv rules on hand is the other one so they can give you their interpretation after spounting off a list of numbers on the ordinance.  I even got a cop for spouting off numbers that weren't an atv ordinance.  Boy was he pissed when I pulled out my the rules downloaded and printed that day and his numbers weren't anywhere on the real laws.

That's what pi$$ed me off no signs,and other people road by as I was getting arrested and the police said nothing to them.

Ya too smart,Ya that's the ticket.Thanks QT

hahaha, "yeaaa, too smart....thats what i said!!"  :P

me too, and by the way QT, how about posting a link to those rules so we can do the same  :H :deal.gif

thos rules would be handy to have.

I just went to the old site where I use to download them.  They have rearranged the sites and it wouldn't link me up to the copy I have.  Here's a link that I did get http://www.fl-dof.com/forest_recreation/ohv_laws.html .  If I can locate my last copy I'll post it.  I haven't rode on anything other than private property in over 2 yrs other than for our group rides.  Hope this helps. 

novadave, you ride out there to?

It doesn't make since to run most of the time. What I usually do is keep my eyes open in areas were cops often hand out (mainly the pits and mainly on the weekends). And if I see them I just go the other way, so that if somehow I do get caught I will have the argument that I didn't see them, dunno how much that would help anyway. But its also good to keep my eyes open so I can get a head start to. Last weekend I went past a pit and there was a cop waiting next to it(kind of down a tight trail), I just kept going without turning my head so he probably didn't see that I saw him. 

You got to be careful out there though cause about 5-6 weeks ago they had an suv and a car at the white pit, I saw them before they saw us, so we just turned away from them. And about 2-3 weeks ago there was a group of two trucks, and I think there was one other vehicle. Now I have just been trying to avoid the pits, it sucks cause the pits are alot of fun.

I have been riding out there for over 12 years, ever since I was 5. Nobody cared back them.................oh, those were the days.

Its stupid that there are no signs and the trails are well riden, which would lead someone to believe that it is ok.

Hopefully the Lake county commissioners wont approve it and Family Dynamics will sell the land to the county. 

That would be awesome. But as many neighborhoods that have been built around here I doubt it. There is just to much money to be made. What people dont notice is they ruin everything that are selling there neighborhood to be. They take all this nice land and advertise look how "nice, secluded, and wild" this area is and everything, and then when there done everything is built up and it is nothing like it used to be. Oh, well.

Some of you guys are about as sharp as a bowling ball.
Who in their right mind would post in a public forum that they run from the cops. Think beofre you type.
Every LEO and agency out there monitors this site to use sh!t like that against us.

Sorry I didn't run.

Ok, just kidding I never run from the cops, I just said that to try and make me seem like a bad ass or something. :-\

It is not murder, they dont try to make up a whole investigation to catch someone 4 wheeling. I think they have bigger fish to fry.

I dont ride out there since i got trespassed. That was about 6 months ago, and that was the first i had heard of it being a no riding place. I never run . The times ive been stop by the popo they usually just tell you to leave and dont come back except for super cop that day. And no they dont have bigger fish to fry just us ATV criminals lol. Everynight when i watch the news and see all the crime out there all i can think is if these cops would focus there attention on the real crimes the world might be a safer place, but i guess its easier to chase us for riding our atvs.