[pct-l] Horse encounter with illegal MTBs

[Reinhold Metzger]

[pct-l] Horse encounter with illegal MTBs

Say Brick,
You could make a citizen arrest if they are violating the law.
Every citizen has the right to make a citizen arrest.
Just make sure the one you are arresting is not bigger than you.

The problem,....what do you do with them after you arrest them?
Some folks say...string'm up from the highest tree.
They have a point.....only "Texas Justice" will work with those
scoundrels.
Too bad,...in the old days, before bear canisters, hikers carried
rope to counter balance the food...it would work to string up
bikers.
Just a thought,...that's all.

JMT Reinhold
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Brick wrote:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Dan Jacobs <youroldpaldan at gmail.com  <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>> wrote:
>/  Just so you know, you have no right to forcibly stop people to give them a
/>/  lecture for riding a bicycle on a closed trail or to teach them proper
/>/  etiquette. doing so may be a crime.
/
They have no right to run me over, or threaten to do so

To do so is assault, which IS a crime. To ride a bicycle on a closed
trail is also a crime. The difficulty is proving what happened, but
today that is not much of an issue. The GoPro or phone fixes that.

Those cyclists causing grave injury to the equestrians, and stock,
while riding on a closed trail is also a crime, and actionable in
civil court.

I have found that cyclists that ride illegally on closed trails
(poaching, as they call it) know what they are doing, and are already
carrying fear and anger. I'd like to be able to walk on a trail
without fear of being assaulted by a cyclist traveling at high speed.