It was a good photo opp stunt to advert attention, now the evil scooter will take the blame.... But have they ever watched the end of "Christine"...... ?
@@paulg3012 I don't think they were stealing purses on horseback... but they probably did use it as transportation for crime back then!! They would at least get off the horse, rob whoever, and get back on and leave lol
Could've donated those scooters to law abiding citizens and deported the criminals who came through the border illegally. Here we are paying for these scooters and then seeing them destroyed all with our tax dollars.
Does the Mayor think that by seizing the bike or scooter that the criminal is going to be like "oh man, they took my ride! Guess I'll have to be a law abiding citizen now."
I didn't vote for the guy, I voted Sliwa. But to be completely fair. Adams did try to pass a crime bill a few months ago. City council rejected it. He also criticized DA Alvin Bragg, and tried to get rid of him for being soft. But he can't do anything about it. It's up to Gov. Hochul, and she refused. He's still a terrible mayor. But give some credit where it's due.
Wow.. Way too much blame on the scooters.. The real problem is the people who are criminals . I have a scooter and ride it all over and to work.. It saves me $$, it uses way less gasoline and pollutes way less than a car/suv/truck, and it good for the environment. BTW I don't do any crime just use it for transportation.. and it is registered.. A Scooter can be a good thing..
The scooters are just the tip of the iceberg of the overall issue, and the mayor is a large part of the iceberg support. The ignorance is thick with this one.
This administration is to blame in the first place! They allowed this to happen little by little and now it’s a huge problem that would not be controlled and never be eliminated! New York City is now a Brazil stick em up crime style . You never saw this crap before .
Mayor is trying to be proactive and reduce the crimes involving scooters. Prosecuting criminals is reactive. Not that it isn't necessary, but proactive plans are needed.
@@theo21021 you must be one of his liberal cronies. Illegal residents obtain illegal guns and ride illegal scooters and you agree the solution is to crush scooters? You are out of touch, get off of TH-cam and take a walk in the city. NYC is not prosecuting criminals. Simple as that. Talk to me when your house gets broken into.
I have a friend who needs transportation. They could have sold him a scooter a reasonable price, made some $$$ and he gets a ride. WIN WIN. But no, NY has to go crush all those scooters, How stupid.
There are just too many scooters and Electric bikes around. I almost got hit today on the Brooklyn Bridge today by a scooter going at least 40 Miles an hour and not caring who is in the way. This is a disgrace to the public. I agree that these E-Bikes and scooters should be registered just like automobiles and motorcycles. This is not a Third World Country Yet. Lord Help Us.
I'm hoping they were smart enough to recycle the batteries so it won't be hazardous waste. But officials in New York aren't that smart. And those scooters are stolen from the rightful owners.
Community Boards in NYC have been sending alarm signals for over two years regarding these scooters and what problems they have brought to our City and the Citizens. The politicians have been put on notice without any action. The police has been told to stand down and let the youth have fun!! Well how is that working for us??!!
Why don't New York prosecutors actually charge the migrants and minorities who commit these crimes? Instead of crushing scooters that are simply machines. This demonstrates why there's so much crime, there's no common sense in NY.
I don't understand the Seize & Crush solution. The City's broke. Auction them off. There are still law abiding citizens with legitimate uses or even needs for these bikes. I understand crushing dirt bikes, quads, trikes and hot rods. They aren't street legal and are problematic. But these bikes are needed. And if registered and driven responsibly, they're completely safe and legal.
New York should not allow anyone without a legal license plate to ride anything not even an electric bicycle they will find and use anything they can get they're hands on.
@@ryanlarbi8157 I swear to God, that's not how it works. Murders aren't down because the DA decides or not to prosecute the people who did it. The crime numbers come from the NYPD itself, not the DA office, for God's sake. This has nothing to do if they get prosecuted or not. That's a separate issue.
Very wasteful, some people would be thankful to get a scooter to make runnung errands easier, they should be cleaned, fixed and sold to law abiding citizens or donated to poor countries.
I hope the city understand they play a huge part in all of this. Bike shops should be regulated #1. Secondly, the laws aren't enforced enough. I can buy a 50cc street legal bike from amazon for $1000 bucks. but if I wanted to buy a 1987 Honda civic for that same price I'd have to get it registered most likely get liability insurance etc. NYC made all of this madness happen
All three classes of gas powered moped/scooter require registration, plate, insurance and driver's license. No different than a car. It's the electric scooters that are the free-for-all, with no requirements.
Got that right. We haven't had good responsible leadership since Giuliani/Pataki. Bloomberg was a typical big government Dem. But at least he kept crime down.
In 2019, the electric motorcycle sellers Fly Ebike deceived me by saying it was legal to ride them without a license. When the police started giving me tickets, they claimed that if I went to court and showed a picture of the bike with some fake pedals, I would be found innocent. The issue was that this happened during the COVID-19 times, and the DMV kept postponing hearings to the following year. When I finally realized the truth, I decided to pay all my tickets, which totaled over $4,000. After that, I decided never to ride a bike without a license again. Now, I have my Class M license, my plate, and my insurance, and thank God, I’m free of headaches with the police. Now I’m going to buy a motorcycle from a well-known brand, because as a Hispanic resident of New York, I don’t want to be mistaken for the migrants who are committing crimes in the streets or driving recklessly.
If i can illegally enter this country and be housed by the government with taxpayer dollars in 4-5 star hotels with meals provided free of charge and social programs provided free of charge then whats the problem with mopeds?
Meanwhile thieves are released to do it all over again.
It's not a scooter problem, it's an illegal immigrant problem.
Thank you
Agreed!
MOST DEFINITELY!!!!
Neither
It was a good photo opp stunt to advert attention, now the evil scooter will take the blame.... But have they ever watched the end of "Christine"...... ?
Scooter robberies and shootings on bikes is the norm in Latin America.... we're getting introduced
get used to it its going to get worse
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Didn't Americans originate it riding horses it the old days?
@@paulg3012 I don't think they were stealing purses on horseback... but they probably did use it as transportation for crime back then!! They would at least get off the horse, rob whoever, and get back on and leave lol
@@paulg3012I thought the Indians were doing it first? Since they were here first.
Paid for with govt handouts to the illegals?
Tax payers hand out
Also stolen
@@smrk2452 but adams says crime is down..more democratic lies..
If it is illegal, they should seized it in port of entry.
I think i see what you did there
It's not that they are illegal. They're being used illegally. Not registered or insured required for gas versions, or riding on sidewalks and so-on.
@@drjekelmrhyde Ha! Thanks. I just caught that.
Imagine the irony of seizing illegal scooters...from illegal immigrants.
Is anyone legal left in this city? All I See are tourists raping this city these days. Shameful.
I’ve seen them going around with a big open back truck and they just seize and load em up lmao
Such a joke.
They will steal cars then smh
And many scooters are already stolen
Could've donated those scooters to law abiding citizens and deported the criminals who came through the border illegally. Here we are paying for these scooters and then seeing them destroyed all with our tax dollars.
Correct. Makes absolutely no sense.
Yep. Maybe given to people who report that there’s was stolen.
I like your spin on it.Calling illegals (likely Venezuelan gangs) "perpetrators".Call it like it is.
💯👌
Joe Biden's guests.
Wow the mayor is one tough dude!😂😂😂😂😂 arrest the scooters!😂😂😂
Yep - they don't vote!
Thanks immigrants 😂
What a waste. They could have sold them to buyers outside the state and ensure they were registered. It's not the bikes, it's the former operators.
Auction them off and MAKE the buyer register them.
Why are they not being sold at police auction so people with good intentions could have one cheap
I know, I called the place where they take them. Wish I could 😢
Most are stolen and have the ID scratched off.. they have no idea who's it is.
99% of the illegal bikes are ridden by ONLY ONE TYPE. For the life of me I couldn't figure it out.
They are Joe Biden's guests.
Why did they have to destroy them. They can get them registered and sold elsewhere and at least get tax breaks for the city...
This is a South America Thing ..... Surprise
Does the Mayor think that by seizing the bike or scooter that the criminal is going to be like "oh man, they took my ride! Guess I'll have to be a law abiding citizen now."
How do they feel about illegal immigrants, huh ?
Who else is going to deliver for Uber Eats, Door Dash, and Grub Hub?
Doesn't the mayor object to EVERYTHING "illegal"?
He should object to himself. He is awful.
I didn't vote for the guy, I voted Sliwa. But to be completely fair. Adams did try to pass a crime bill a few months ago. City council rejected it. He also criticized DA Alvin Bragg, and tried to get rid of him for being soft. But he can't do anything about it. It's up to Gov. Hochul, and she refused. He's still a terrible mayor. But give some credit where it's due.
@@Kewrock I'm sure the mayor HATES that job. 😉
@@sthcalguy3024 Yeah. He's partying like a rock star.
Wow.. Way too much blame on the scooters.. The real problem is the people who are criminals . I have a scooter and ride it all over and to work.. It saves me $$, it uses way less gasoline and pollutes way less than a car/suv/truck, and it good for the environment. BTW I don't do any crime just use it for transportation.. and it is registered.. A Scooter can be a good thing..
Gotta blame the scooters since they can't blame the riders.
Then you should be fine... ride on!!
@@tomlewis6825 Oh yea.. I forgot.. Good point..
How can they ride around on scooters with no problem, if I even ride down the road on one I get pulled over and I’m a tax paying citizen!
Closing the broader asap is much better.
The scooters are just the tip of the iceberg of the overall issue, and the mayor is a large part of the iceberg support. The ignorance is thick with this one.
Blaming bikes like blaming guns🤣🤣
@@originaloldpop8405 🤣🫡
You are giving them money for bikes, you don’t say.
why is the mayor a joke? so crush scooters because a cop got shot on someone on a scooter. fukcin dumb logic. prosecute the criminal.
This administration is to blame in the first place! They allowed this to happen little by little and now it’s a huge problem that would not be controlled and never be eliminated! New York City is now a Brazil stick em up crime style . You never saw this crap before .
Only the illegals can ride scooters with no license no insurance. At least Mayor Jive Turkey is trying to do something
Mayor is trying to be proactive and reduce the crimes involving scooters. Prosecuting criminals is reactive. Not that it isn't necessary, but proactive plans are needed.
It's bigger than one incident...
@@theo21021 you must be one of his liberal cronies. Illegal residents obtain illegal guns and ride illegal scooters and you agree the solution is to crush scooters? You are out of touch, get off of TH-cam and take a walk in the city. NYC is not prosecuting criminals. Simple as that. Talk to me when your house gets broken into.
Who made the decision to bull doze those reusable part… there are needy citizens who can use it
800% increase in crime!! Ye safest big city in the world my ass
Now if only they would arrest people riding illegal scooters?
Mayor should get rid of black window film on all trucks and cars
If New York vote for FJB then they must like what going on!!
Those are same crimes of Venezuelans in Peru! Now they are in US with the same bad behavior
I have a friend who needs transportation. They could have sold him a scooter a reasonable price, made some $$$ and he gets a ride. WIN WIN. But no, NY has to go crush all those scooters, How stupid.
Cops should get to keep the food when seizing these unregister uninsured mopeds
It's the migrants not the bikes. Tell it like it really is.
Not migrants, illegals.
Why did they wait so long. NYC needs vigilantes
3 YEARS BEHIND MR. mayor
but we need scooters and mopeds for illegal drug deliveries....we luv our pothead mayor
always blame the device and not the person using it. Liberal mentality.
That's crazy
So much for recycling responsibly.
Why not resell them!?
It's the usual animals.
Time to start a scooters fo seniors app. Give every senior who can still stand a scooter for travel. We need all the help we can get.
Where do the illegal scooters come from? Are the illegal people or their agents bringing these scooters with them?
Without prosecution and stiff punishments, these crimes will go on.
There are just too many scooters and Electric bikes around. I almost got hit today on the Brooklyn Bridge today by a scooter going at least 40 Miles an hour and not caring who is in the way. This is a disgrace to the public. I agree that these E-Bikes and scooters should be registered just like automobiles and motorcycles. This is not a Third World Country Yet. Lord Help Us.
Undocumented!!!??? Really!!!??
How 🤔 did they get here?😅
Migration problem. Not a scooter problem the mayor and government deserves all the blame
I'm hoping they were smart enough to recycle the batteries so it won't be hazardous waste. But officials in New York aren't that smart. And those scooters are stolen from the rightful owners.
The problem is a racial problem, a cultural problem and a law enforcement problem. Society is collapsing. Adam’s does nothing good.
What a joke
BAN THEM
Yeah wtf sell the scooters for tax revenue or give them to people out of state that are legal. How lazy.
Why are the scooters illegal?
Totally couldn't of repurposed those bike..
Just ban it
if you trow the immigrant out of here there will be a drop in scooters and bikes
KEEP THEM OPEN......COME ONE COME ALL...GOOOOO BIDEN 🤬
I hope the NYPD went thru the proper asset forfeiture procedures before crushing those scooters.
Oh you sure showed those evil Scooters! Cased Closed!
Great thinking kids. Who needs extra income from the sale of these scooters.
Illegal scooters? BAD!
Illegal people? Good!
Would have it been smarter to sell them , or is New York so wealthy they don’t need money
Why didn’t they donate them
looks cooler this way
Why not give them to veterans. Alot of vets are poor and can't afford a car much less a place to live.
Community Boards in NYC have been sending alarm signals for over two years regarding these scooters and what problems they have brought to our City and the Citizens. The politicians have been put on notice without any action. The police has been told to stand down and let the youth have fun!! Well how is that working for us??!!
Go after the stores that sells the batteries.
You’re doing a good job there, Joe Biden the country is getting better every day
Why don't New York prosecutors actually charge the migrants and minorities who commit these crimes? Instead of crushing scooters that are simply machines. This demonstrates why there's so much crime, there's no common sense in NY.
Blame the bike, this sounds familiar.
I don't understand the Seize & Crush solution. The City's broke. Auction them off. There are still law abiding citizens with legitimate uses or even needs for these bikes. I understand crushing dirt bikes, quads, trikes and hot rods. They aren't street legal and are problematic. But these bikes are needed. And if registered and driven responsibly, they're completely safe and legal.
New York should not allow anyone without a legal license plate to ride anything not even an electric bicycle they will find and use anything they can get they're hands on.
What do you mean.. crime is down!
you dont know what numbers mean lol
Crime is down because these clown 🤡 DA’s don’t prosecute
@@ryanlarbi8157 I swear to God, that's not how it works. Murders aren't down because the DA decides or not to prosecute the people who did it. The crime numbers come from the NYPD itself, not the DA office, for God's sake. This has nothing to do if they get prosecuted or not. That's a separate issue.
@@ryanlarbi8157 Police won't even take reports anymore.
Very wasteful, some people would be thankful to get a scooter to make runnung errands easier, they should be cleaned, fixed and sold to law abiding citizens or donated to poor countries.
damn ..13,000 seizures?!!!!!
Sorry South America girls your gunna have to run after your heist
Undocumented. Hmmm.
Somewhere, Captain Planet is crying.🎉😂
🤣🤣🤣
I used to hate that cartoon growing up but my stupid ass used to still watch it I don't know why.
Ban scooters and e-bikes! Nyc is looking like India 😂
If you speak english, no hope for you.
Who else is going to deliver for Uber Eats, Door Dash, and Grub Hub?
I got a funny feeling Braggs is getting a good cut from the Gangs entering our country, City and treating them extra special.
Omg do the same yall do with illegal smoke shops. Close all those damn moped selling stores wtf
Who else is going to deliver for Uber Eats, Door Dash, and Grub Hub?
Bicycle like it was before. No?
Maybe they can crack down on them using the bike lanes!
I wonder where they got them from
Sanctuary city problems
I hope the city understand they play a huge part in all of this. Bike shops should be regulated #1. Secondly, the laws aren't enforced enough. I can buy a 50cc street legal bike from amazon for $1000 bucks. but if I wanted to buy a 1987 Honda civic for that same price I'd have to get it registered most likely get liability insurance etc. NYC made all of this madness happen
Bro. They're stolen or second hand purchased.
All three classes of gas powered moped/scooter require registration, plate, insurance and driver's license. No different than a car. It's the electric scooters that are the free-for-all, with no requirements.
@@fauxbro1983 exactly why we need regulation, registration etc.
A car would get you further from state to state, e bike won’t, neither a 1987 honda civiv 😂
Crazy how all this stuff is getting cleaned up after election year
Welcome to democrat city. Keep voting blue
Trump has 34 felonies
Got that right. We haven't had good responsible leadership since Giuliani/Pataki. Bloomberg was a typical big government Dem. But at least he kept crime down.
They will just tax the use of the bike and be done with it.
Why do we have this situation at first place, can’t we see it happening 1 year ago?
In 2019, the electric motorcycle sellers Fly Ebike deceived me by saying it was legal to ride them without a license. When the police started giving me tickets, they claimed that if I went to court and showed a picture of the bike with some fake pedals, I would be found innocent. The issue was that this happened during the COVID-19 times, and the DMV kept postponing hearings to the following year. When I finally realized the truth, I decided to pay all my tickets, which totaled over $4,000. After that, I decided never to ride a bike without a license again. Now, I have my Class M license, my plate, and my insurance, and thank God, I’m free of headaches with the police.
Now I’m going to buy a motorcycle from a well-known brand, because as a Hispanic resident of New York, I don’t want to be mistaken for the migrants who are committing crimes in the streets or driving recklessly.
How can the migrants deliver their foods
So now they admitting crime is through the roof this whole time... Mayor and governor Gaslight.... SMH...
What you don't see is more criminals in jail. Punish the scooter not the criminal!
If i can illegally enter this country and be housed by the government with taxpayer dollars in 4-5 star hotels with meals provided free of charge and social programs provided free of charge then whats the problem with mopeds?
Thanks y’all mayor and Governor
Those scooters n bikes need to be illegal they drive them on sidewalks with pedestrian traffic the migrants own most of them
And the city bikes too, they ruined all the parking spots in NY
Scooter and migrants not the issue its progressive leaders.. Leadership needs to change
The mayor is the one who gave them all the scooters. What a waste of taxpayers money.
What took this waste of a mayor so long, it's been going on for years!!!
Sell them!!!!!
go to the the seller shop
FJB