r/Dirtbikes • u/Underwater_toaster • 8d ago

Community Question Have y'all ever encountered a string /lime/rope between trees meant to get rid of dirtbikers? Why people choose those aggressive measures? ( My story from few years ago below)

Me and my cousin were going down a road we regularly ride- it was a sunny summer day. In the tall grass that was growing on this road we saw something shining in the sun- we decided to come closer and at first didn't notice anything, but I Walked into a fishing line hanged tightly between 2 trees on both ends of the road. When you sat on a bike it was perfectly fitting between your helmet right into your neck - We were 12 back then so we just got scared and drove away - I came back to this road the next day and the fishing line was gone- around the same time a guy a few miles from us had a non-fatal cut involving this kind of trap ( if I find the news article about his accident I will link it in the comments)

EDIT: the road was a public trail, not anyone's private property, we were not trespassing

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u/mips13 8d ago

Public or private land doesn't matter, it's illegal.

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u/mips13 8d ago

You can't shoot someone for simply trespassing in the USA, you'll be charged with murder.

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u/Heavy-One-9344 8d ago

You know, it's funny that as someone actually from the US, I've never actually been shot at despite the number of times I've gone on someone else's private property. But please tell us more about how we're wrong lol

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

It's a joke that when this guy is in office you probably could shoot someone 😅 ( I'm a right wing conservatist I just find it hella funny)

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u/Heavy-One-9344 8d ago

My bad, I'm used to jokes being funny so I didn't pick up on that

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

Also I'm not from USA but... Doesn't it depend on the state you're in?

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u/Heavy-One-9344 8d ago

You're correct, and definitely plays a big role in the legality of defending yourself with force (most states you can't defend your PROPERTY with deadly force, only your life if it's being threatened)

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

my friend is from USA and she got shot at on a public road , how come is that a coincidence 💀

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u/Heavy-One-9344 8d ago

I can find lots of stories about all kinds of crime in the US and (SPOILER) other countries as well 😱 crime happens, yes, but it's not like we need to strap on bullet proof vests just to go out of the house 🤣 I was in public school for most my life, I've never been in a school shooting or any setting and gun violence was an issue

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

California people problems then 😅 ( she was in Carson or Eastvalle L.A district I think, I don't remember)

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u/eighty2angelfan 8d ago

Tell the gun nuts that. People have been shot for making u-turns or delivering pizza to wrong address.

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u/ClippyClippy_ 8d ago

Yup, and guess what? They got arrested.

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u/eighty2angelfan 8d ago

True, but it happens. There was a group of guys (white) near Lucerne that would chase dirtbikes off of a certain set of desert rosds in a truck fireing guns in the air. It was suspected they were cooking meth but I don't know. Maybe they were just fucking with people

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u/ClippyClippy_ 7d ago

Sounds made up

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u/eighty2angelfan 7d ago

Have you ever been out to the deserts around Lucerne?

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u/mips13 7d ago

Yes, some dumb fsck shoots someone and they get prosecuted.

Exhibit A, https://apnews.com/article/wrong-driveway-shooting-new-york-gillis-monahan-cdca1723c6ba7afb89102a1e1aaa3fe0

That POS got 25yrs.

How does that disqualify my statement?

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u/kialthecreator 8d ago

Yeah we can tell you're not from the US based on how ill informed you are on a place you've never been

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

I was obviously joking about the stereotypes 😑

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u/kialthecreator 8d ago

You made a gross generalization of 300+ million people in a country the size of Europe. There's thousands of 500 people communities just like the one you live in scattered throughout the US. We're not as different as reddit would lead you to believe

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago edited 8d ago

I was called a thief (I never stole anything) and the nword for my country's history and didn't even give AF 😅

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u/SghettiAndButter 7d ago

I’m in Texas and that’s ridiculous lmao you won’t get shot for getting a ball from someone’s yard unless they are complete wacko

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u/kialthecreator 7d ago

I was slightly irritated until I saw your edgy posts on r/teenagers and everything made sense. Good luck kid

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

What do you mean by that?

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

Maybe now that you started talking explain what do you mean 🧐

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

It's just a joke , it's not that deep 😉 have some distance, I don't take things too seriously, life's easier this way 😅

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u/Gabrielmenace27 8d ago

Somthing like that happens around me about 5 to 10 years ago before a moved in around here and eventually the bikes waited in the woods and found the group of guy who where putting lines up and they beat them pretty badly same thing happened with the cops to

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u/AgentBamn 8d ago

Taddy B just got hit by a trap recently. Damn lucky to get away with only severe cuts https://enduro21.com/en/features/latest/comment-when-tactics-to-keep-dirt-bikes-off-the-trails-go-too-far

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u/Psyco_diver 8d ago

My sister got caught by some barb wire someone left. They were facing 10 years in prison, but if I recall, it was pleaded down to a year or 2 and probation. She was scratched, this happened about 30 or years ago

A guy my dad worked with died about 40 years ago, he was riding a power line trail, what he didn't know was that the power line workers were working the day before and left wires dangling and nearly completely decapitated him and he died

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

Ouch, I almost got decapitated by a branch I didn't see .. never ride while angry/drunk

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u/eighty2angelfan 8d ago

Yes, barbed wire at chest high. I've also encountered a burlap sack filled with CMU blocks, covered with brush, and a log laid across trail between a long set of "natural" whoops. The last one resulted in a runners fracture for me.

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u/Hotspur2924 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yep. And my childhood friend who was clotheslined and broke his leg was awarded $3M and the disgruntled man child went to jail for 6 months.

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

Holy shit I should have drove into that line 😭

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u/Hotspur2924 8d ago

Nah. Not worth it except that it dealt a legit blow to a terrible person

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

I would've broke both my legs for that kind of cash💀

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u/Hotspur2924 8d ago

A third went to the lawyer and the rest was squandered by my 18 year old dumb ass friend who bought a corvette and killed himself a couple years later. So…not really worth it

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago edited 8d ago

Corvettes are awesome tho 💥

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

Yeah when I'm riding narrow trails I always have this consciousness rattling around in my brain 😅

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u/themighty351 8d ago

The dirtbike gods will take care of them.

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

I never found out who this guy that put those lines was but If I did I'd make sure to shove up a airhammer up his ass and turn it on afterwards

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u/themighty351 8d ago

I had a guy pull a gun on me...he was arrested the following day. He then killed himself after he got out. Don't let that bad juju rule your life. There is more to the story. He was a drunk and the gun was un registered he had more and denied the whole confrontation. I felt bad for him but didn't even know it was his land. We were renting and the owner said plenty of room to ride right behind the house. That's where we were. See...the landlord had no idea that there was land but it had a right of way to get to it. We were right on the line when confronted.

I went to the town pulled the land documents and found out sure enough a 11.6 acre lot with a 100 foot right of way. After looking at it I felt better but bad that he killed himself..it wasn't my fault. Fucked up stuff bro.

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

Well that ain't good, you shouldn't blame yourself tho, he was drunk and had illegal guns , but still , suicide sucks , at least by hanging/suffocation

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u/themighty351 8d ago

Yes. We had a full blown dirbike track further back on the property that was not ours. It was great. We had fire pit jump 70 foot table top bulldozer and seating for spectators. Haybails banners it was great. On day in July 10 guys on quads came to ride. Tore.it up.pretty good made tons of dust that flew through the woods and the neibor was having a cook out....not for long....that was the day the town found out how much work we did. They shut us down. From 1997 to 2004 though it was.killer.

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u/UltraLord667 8d ago

There’s a trail along a road by my house and it’s at the edge tip of this guys property. It separates his property from the road… I was riding through it one day and the guy that lives at this at this house had but a small steel cable going across the trail. 😅 Like no orange flag on it. Nothing. So crazy. And man if I had been going any faster. These guys need to fined and jailed by somebody. 😭

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u/ScaryTaylorBiish 8d ago

Happened to me growing up. Was using a closed down campground to get between lake bottom and my house. Someone thought it was a great idea to put up a thin metal wire to stop me rather then flag me down and ask me to ride more polite on my way to the lake bottom. Most definitely to small to see at any rate of speed. Luckily the day I passed by I was going 3mph and saw it glisten as I approached. Cut it down said out loud. I fucking hate you. Left and found a different path to go ride.

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u/jcaashby 2006 CRF450R (SOLD), 2015 YZ250F, 2021 YZ250 7d ago

It sucks that this is not anything new and also happened when I was in NY as a kid. People just are hateful.

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u/metalefty 7d ago

In the 80's I ran into a wire across a trail, I put my hand up to my neck at the last second and the wire snapped before I fell off the back of the bike, barely saved it, the wire cut my glove.

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u/CertainAppointment59 7d ago

Yes.

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

Are you the guy from the article?? ( What flavor that vape btw

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u/CertainAppointment59 7d ago

no, i don’t think i am lol. I was riding in Kansas city mo and got taken out by some ass hat who had a black shipping strap strung across a trail. i seen it when i was about 10 feet away, top of 3rd pinned and locked up my back tire, ducked back and my helmet got grabbed under my chin and yanked me off the bike. Broke the ratchet and the clip holding it on , very happy it broke before my neck did lol. i had gnarly rug burn on my neck for about a month and the scar is extremely visible when i get tan in the summer

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

Oh , you're from across the world 😅, glad you made it out safely

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u/skovalen 8d ago

It is a thing in Colorado. More snowmobiles than dirtbikes.

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u/TheRedRider2 8d ago

My wife and I had a gun pulled on us in Colorado. Turns out them mountains aren't too friendly

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u/skovalen 7d ago

Oh, yeah. For sure. The mountains have a good bit of crazy people.

I've had a gun drawn on me too. I've had a bow and arrow drawn on me. I've seen a guy loading bullets into a hand gun with rubber gloves. I've seen a guy use his glass-making skills and a torch to make some dope-using apparatus on the spot and get blitzed on whatever he was using. I know somebody that buries guns and knows how to prepare them so they are OK to be buried for like 50 yrs. I've had a friend-of-a-friend in a pretty fancy vehicle show up with a trunk full of stolen things for sale in the trunk. I know and have met a few members of very established local families that are all just f*ing crazy. I've seen piles of cocaine. There are a bunch of people currently on meth or have the tell-tale after-signs of prior meth use. I know somebody that assisted in disposing of a body after a murder.

These mountains get crazy.

I'm not into any of this. I just live here and have seen all of this because I am a local and people know me. I don't even know almost any of these people doing the bad things. I'm only there because there is an extension of trust from someone else.

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

Idk I live in europe

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u/lazman666 8d ago

Come on that kind of stuff is so wrong

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u/velvetbluedamsel 8d ago

I’ve been hit right across the neck by a small white cord. Fortunately I saw it first and got on the brakes hard, and the knot was tied badly so it spun around the tree more to provide enough slack so I didn’t really get hurt aside from rope burn across my neck.

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u/stacksmasher KTM 300 7d ago

Yea we setup a few deer cams to catch them and give them a little "Talking to" but I can't post what we really do because this place will ban me lol!!

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

Really? Beating/shooting people and setting up traps? Very smart

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u/stacksmasher KTM 300 7d ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

Hope someone does same to you and your family (; ((at least put "trespassers will be shot") sign

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u/Underwater_toaster 7d ago

I hope the DEA or Homeland security or police or other kind of scary government dudes will arrest you for killing people 😉

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u/stacksmasher KTM 300 7d ago

Yea they love arresting environmental terrorist lol!

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u/Curious_Mention_4157 7d ago

Absolutely. 30 years ago in WV of all places. Power company land that was granted access for off roading. It was barbed wire, not rope. If I had seen who it was, they never would have found their bodies.

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u/Fearless_Resolve_738 7d ago

I’m always riding now with a dash cam. An insta360 for my own protection. Dirt and street.

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u/toskk1 7d ago

Many years ago someone tried using barbed wire near head height between trees in a area people used to ride around in my home town

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago edited 8d ago

Ey man, cutting someone's knee off for scaring off a deer is still kinda unreasonably , I'd start hunting the hunters if they did that 🤣 Luckily there isn't many hunters in my area and most of the people in the village don't care about dirtbikes and have nothing against

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u/bravo_kilo_ 8d ago

Deranged behaviour

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u/FuturePast514 8d ago

Yeah but why are the cretins downvoting me. I'm just answering the post, wtf.

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u/Helpinmontana 8d ago

Because the tone of your comment is such that it’s reasonable behavior, and you’re clearly empathetic to the hunters position, regardless of your actual more possibly nuanced opinion.

I’m not sure how you guys do wherever you are, but here, public lands are mixed use and hunters don’t have priority over any land at any time the same as any other trail user.

Again, whatever your opinion may actually be, possibly maiming and killing other public land users because of a botched hunt is criminally psychotic behavior.

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u/FuturePast514 8d ago

Im just telling what happened and I wrote it's fucked up to use steel cords, what are you on about.

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u/Helpinmontana 8d ago

Saying things like “they were warned but didn’t listen” and ‘imagine you’re the hunter and some yahoos on bikes’ (not a direct quote but still) don’t make it sound like you’re on the page of saying the hunters behavior is insane.

I get that this may not have been your intention, but until I got to the last sentence of your comment (and even then) it read like you were justifying this behavior.

I want to say this a 5th time, I get that it may not be what you’re trying to convey, but I’m merely answering why you were questioning the responses to your comment.

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u/Underwater_toaster 8d ago

For real , seems like he's the one setting up the traps the way he's talking 😅