I've watched the same tradition unfold. It's amazing that people in our neighborhood detect a pattern and the police can't or won't do anything about this. I've personally been stopped as I've attempted to cross Russel Sreet. One of the riders stops in the middle of the intersection and holds his hand up like a crossing guard while sitting on his bike.

Just out of curiosity, doesn't the assult on the motorist qualify as gang violence? Hell they identify themselves as "Wildout Wheelie Boys". That should qualify them as a gang?

Yeah I've been caught at the intersection of Russell and Hamburg numerous times while these people blow through regardless of the color of the stoplight and create a general mess. And they always come through the same way; organizing some sort of sting/roadblock to catch a bunch of them and impound their bikes wouldn't take more than a week's worth of intel.

The cops don't need to chase them... just take a nightstick to the throat as they speed by.

I am fed up with rash of cranio-rectal inversion the police commanders seem to suffer from. They need to get on top of this, because one of these days, the wheelie boys are going to mess around with the wrong citizen.

You can guess the eventual outcome here. The 'wheelies' will stop, detain, beat/rob whatever, the wrong person resulting in one less 'wheelie'. Then we get to watch news video of aggrieved parents, friends, neighbors bemoan the the little/not so little thug's demise.

A nice tight piano wire stretched across the street about 4 feet high will do the trick. Partial or complete decapitation tends to put a crimp in a criminal's behavior. Just sayin...

@ Ruth,

Could not have said it any better. What you summed up so concise is the working/law abiding/moral having citizens lament that is being seen every day in Babylon...er, I mean Baltimore. We are living in a modern day cesspool here. And summer has not started yet. Has it occured to anyone that we need a major shutdown here. Bring in the Guard and crack open some criminal heads. They have created a vat of mayhem and violence here. Black and White people have BEEN tired of what this city has become.

The thought that someone is a Taliban is a joke. I work for the Baltimore City Fire Department and I see the damage that is being done to innocent Citizens. I was told not to speak out against this issue though as a Citizen I have a right to speak. I've been on two calls in two days for persons being hurt on dirt bikes. This was the day after the 2 year old was left and the day after that. These riders have no sympathy for anyone that ride along the street. I see the aftermath of these calls. I see people going to Shock Trauma. The 44 year old death should be a wake up call.

and yet I get stopped coming home from a fundraiser at 10:00pm - riding my bicycle on the Promenade around the Inner Harbor - it was late, I felt *safer* being there than out on the bike path...

this city has always been an ironic joke to me......

So, the Baltimore police can't stop the tide of murders, drugs, robberies, home-invasions, batteries, assaults, and the gang take over of the city and now they can't even stop dirt-bikes? If you know where they are, block off the area, arrest them and confiscate the bikes! Just what are the police ABLE to do? I keep wondering if I should move back to Baltimore when I retire and have the privledge to pay $300,000 for a row home, street parking and all the crime I can want. NO THANKS.

here you go guys here a nother youtube channel this one has a ton of vids on it. there tryin to make dvds and sell them they have shirts made and all kinds of stuff there tryin to sell and its not just ivds of them riden they also make vids on what they have to say about this and blogs make sure you sub http://www.youtube.com/user/CORtigers

Check out the video. At 54 seconds you can see a dude pop a wheelie on his ATV with a kid hanging on the back. How cool.

WTF?

... I take it that you people are the typical narrow minded, too much action TV watchin, whitebred, and or inbred, redneck racist fools who inhabit the whole state of Maryland and surrounding areas for ages. You people just need a reason to complain about commuting to Baltimore daily because of your jobs, and simply because you were brought up to hate on the black folk. You morons need to get psych evaluated and institutionalized more than anybody because unfortunately, your type is the majority in population in this state. My caucasian self is more worried more about you all, than I am about these black dudes on the bikes.

its never going to change until they give them a better place to ride. until then suck it up and get over it

The whole judicial system in the city is messed up. We had a dirt bike stolen from our garage in Harford County and it ended up bought for drugs in the city. The person who bought the dirt bike got caught riding it and it ended up in the city impound lot. We were notified to go to court, show up at court and the prosecuting officer does not show up, court postponed, wasted day off of work. Go to pick up the dirt bike from the impound lot and WE have to pay a $150.00 storage fee and other charges totaling $300.00. At this point we don't even know what condition the dirt bike is in. No wonder the city is overrun with things like this, a law abiding citizen who is victimized gets punished again.

It is true that dirt bikes can be annoying and dangerous at times. However the city of baltimore is filled with troubled youth that they are not helping. You have children all over the city who never had anything and the only way the can get any peace or fun or a chance to be a kid is to go out side on sundays and watch these guys do there tricks. It is something that the city actuall loves. Yes they should not be on the streets but when they were at the park sitting and doing stunts just like every body else motorcycle car truck you name it they was chased from there to. If the city gave them a day to ride in resrticted areas or a place to ride where people could watch. The city could profit or control the actions of many crimainals. Use the dirtbikes for you advantage. Open a big track with field ,jumps and all and charge a 5 $ fee for entry and run names. This way you could make money and have a way to keep these boys out of trouble. Do you know how many of them would clean there records to be able to participate in that. You want to take everything from these young black men but you dont give them anything either NO WONDER THEY TAKE WHAT THEY WANT!!! Thee been the victim for years its time the people of this world try harder to help the youth.