JackFlorey said:
Let me attempt to restate the problem.
When the first lockdowns hit it was 2020 and at first I was able to ride without issue.
Then I made the mistake of using one of the parking lots (empty due to lockdown) as a place to do a big asphalt flat track. It was fun because I could get these big ovals going and could actually get my tires to drift.
So the "last" chief of security saw me doing that and set a trap to catch me by calling in the police who would literally sit in ambush for me day after day wasting resources. Every time I spotted the cop car and left the scene. And let me add that a guy who delivered another newspaper warned me the cops were waiting for me so I knew.
One day a security guard drives up and turns on his "Mall Cop" flashing lights and pulls me over and informs me the "security chief" wants me to no longer operate the ebike in the ENTIRE COMMUNITY FOREVER.
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Six months goes by and my ebike is gathering dust.
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So then I read the old security chief has retired and the new guy says he wants to take a more relaxed position.
This was when I start riding again.
Once a security guard pulls me over and I say "I will never go back to that parking lot."
He says : "Well okay."
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For nearly a year I have ridden thousands of miles on the roads here with no accidents.
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Full lockdown returned a week ago Monday.
This Wednesday the newspaper publishes a story about the new policy to fight "reckless behavior" on our roads.
The key points are:
1) The community is the eyes and ears so you rat out anyone who you think is being reckless by entering it into a system to record what happened. This is the surveilance state declaration.
2) New policies are put in place that allow the security chief to simply accuse someone based on the abundance of complaints. You really don't need to be caught doing anything illegal just be "perceived" by old ladies as being reckless.
3) Residents can be put under a variety of pressures to force an adjustment in behavior with the extreme of being able to throw the non-owner (guest) out of the community.
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My situation is as the son of an 87 year old mother who owns here but she cannot walk and is in severe decline mentally and physically.
Basically they have the power to throw me out and make things really ugly. I take care of the finances and run things.
My mother probably has a year or less to live but she seems to hang on longer than I expected as this has been going on for about five years already.
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And the final note is that the deaths are MASSIVELY higher now than back in 2020 or early 2021.
People can debate about WHY the sudden rise now, but it is definitely the case.
So the fear factor is off the charts again and the streets are empty... not only that the sun is out and it's really beautiful so it's getting kicked off the roads at the very peak of the best weather all year. (low 60's)
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Yesterday I just said "the heck with this" and went off on a hike in the area I plan to build my Hill Climbing ebike for.
This place has some great off road potential but it's incredibly steep so I'm building an alternative ebike.
And the comical twist on this is it would not surprise me if I get the Hill Climbing ebike going well and suddenly a "New Policy" emerges that bans ebikes from fire roads... which are plowed every year... (erosion cannot be an argument)