FHP New Tactics
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Posted on Fri, Jul. 13, 2007
Bike Night horror: 2 on cycle hit trooper
BY RAUL TORRES AND ADAM H. BEASLEY
A Bike Night motorcycle ride ended horribly early Friday for a pair of riders on Okeechobee Road when their high-performance cycle was involved in a grisly crash with an unmarked Highway Patrol cruiser.An unidentified rider and his female passenger suffered serious injuries.
Paramedics airlifted the two to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The woman was unresponsive and had difficulty breathing. The man appeared to have a broken leg, according to witnesses.
The hospital would not provide names or the conditions of the two.
Here's what witnesses say happened:
Three bikers were heading southeast on U.S. 27 (Okeechobee Road) six miles north of Florida's Turnpike about 1 a.m. when the gray, unmarked FHP cruiser appeared in front of them. Two of the riders were able to avoid the cruiser, but the third plowed into the right side of the vehicle, embedding itself in the car.
Moments after the crash, as many as a dozen motorcyclists materialized, as did several members of the Florida Highway Patrol.
The riders involved in the crash were wearing helmets, but they flew off on impact, which destroyed the front end of the bike. According to television reports, the trooperwas uninjured.
Thursday nights are known as Bike Night in South Florida, when riders on high-speed motorcycles gather at a former Fuddruckers Restaurant on South Dixie Highway and cruise the road in groups, sometimes at speeds up to 160 miles per hour.
It was not clear whether the riders involved in the crash overnight were exceeding the speed limit.
Bike Night poses an enforcement problem for the highway patrol, whose cruisers cannot travel as fast as many of the motorcycles.
FHP plans to answer questions on the accident later in the day.
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Posted on Fri, Jul. 13, 2007
Bike Night horror: 2 on cycle hit trooper
BY RAUL TORRES AND ADAM H. BEASLEY
A Bike Night motorcycle ride ended horribly early Friday for a pair of riders on Okeechobee Road when their high-performance cycle was involved in a grisly crash with an unmarked Highway Patrol cruiser.An unidentified rider and his female passenger suffered serious injuries.
Paramedics airlifted the two to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The woman was unresponsive and had difficulty breathing. The man appeared to have a broken leg, according to witnesses.
The hospital would not provide names or the conditions of the two.
Here's what witnesses say happened:
Three bikers were heading southeast on U.S. 27 (Okeechobee Road) six miles north of Florida's Turnpike about 1 a.m. when the gray, unmarked FHP cruiser appeared in front of them. Two of the riders were able to avoid the cruiser, but the third plowed into the right side of the vehicle, embedding itself in the car.
Moments after the crash, as many as a dozen motorcyclists materialized, as did several members of the Florida Highway Patrol.
The riders involved in the crash were wearing helmets, but they flew off on impact, which destroyed the front end of the bike. According to television reports, the trooperwas uninjured.
Thursday nights are known as Bike Night in South Florida, when riders on high-speed motorcycles gather at a former Fuddruckers Restaurant on South Dixie Highway and cruise the road in groups, sometimes at speeds up to 160 miles per hour.
It was not clear whether the riders involved in the crash overnight were exceeding the speed limit.
Bike Night poses an enforcement problem for the highway patrol, whose cruisers cannot travel as fast as many of the motorcycles.
FHP plans to answer questions on the accident later in the day.
© 2007 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miamiherald.com
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That is one of the MOST IDIOTIC/Dumbass (Trooper) moves, I have ever seen.....NEVER NEVER NEVER COULD WOULD OR SHOULD FHP AUTHORIZE Blocking a road like that especially a Motorcycle....
I really hope the rider and especially the innocent passenger pull through!
That trooper's career is over and FHP/State of Florida is Paying out some $$$$$
I really hope the rider and especially the innocent passenger pull through!
That trooper's career is over and FHP/State of Florida is Paying out some $$$$$
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I heard about it in the grove, they told me after the accident a ton of bikes showed up, and the officer took a **** cause he was alone when I was on the way home to my girls house, there was 3 bikes, and the one stuck to the unmarked squad car, and like 10 FHP, plus like 5 under cover cars like the one in the picture.
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love how they like to mention the fact that some people go over the speed limit and they cant just stick to the story of how these two people got hurt cause of some ******* doin a dipshit move
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Now they are making it a Cruiser vs Sportbike thing
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Posted on Sat, Jul. 14, 2007
Bikers flout the law -- and get away with it
By ERIKA BERAS
When Rafael Jose Colon rumbled up to his parents' house in the saddle of a shiny new Suzuki GSX 1000, his father said: ``Mi hijo . . . you've just bought yourself a ticket to death.''
Less than a month later, Colon catapulted 40 feet off an overpass connecting Interstate 95 and State Road 836, landing in the courtyard of a women's detention center. His neck snapped. He was 23.
Spurred by Colon's May death and an alarming number of similarly spectacular crashes, the Florida Highway Patrol took to the streets Thursday, shadowing speeding motorcyclists with a fleet of unmarked cars and snatching violators' keys at red-light intersections. It remains to be seen whether the more reckless riders can be reined in.
South Florida is awash in high-performance, high-speed, testosterone-fueled ''crotch rocket'' sports bikes. The riders are mostly men, often with women clinging to their backs.
''It scares me to drive one of these,'' said Uppy Bermudez, a 25-year-old mother of two from Homestead who rides on the back of her husband Pablo's Honda. ``But it's fun to ride when he's driving.''
Riders congregate on Thursday nights -- Bike Night -- at the parking lot of Amos Sports Grill on South Dixie Highway in Kendall and fan out across the region, darting in and out of traffic on major highways.
Not all of them ride recklessly.
Jorge Gomar, 50, a Bike Night regular from Kendall, has a Harley, as do many of the older riders. ''Younger people tend to go for sports bikes,'' he said. ''Lots of our bikes are cruisers.'' Cruisers traditionally lack the horsepower to go as fast as sports bikes, which are built for racing. ''A lot of the younger riders give us a bad name,'' Gomar says.
Indeed, for some of the younger riders, eluding authorities at breathtaking speeds is part of the thrill.
`IT'S AWESOME'
By day, Armando Dasorri, 20, does data entry at a bank and studies information technology at Miami Dade College. He lives in Doral and rides his Honda 2006 CB everywhere. He said the fastest he has gone is 165 mph.
''It's awesome,'' he said. ``You don't have to follow traffic. It's illegal to go between lanes, but, hey, we all do illegal things every day. Cops are always attempting to pull me over and I don't stop. The one time I did stop I got arrested for fleeing and eluding. But you just want to see how fast your bike will go.''
Traditionally, the highway patrol and other law enforcement agencies have been helpless to thwart the more brazen speeders. Many departments have no-chase policies, unless they involve pursuit of a violent felon.
''Ninety-nine percent of the officers won't waste their time chasing them because they know they won't catch them and only hurt themselves or someone else on the road,'' said Bobby Hernandez, spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department.
An exception was made in 2005 for David Carpenter.
Carpenter was thought to be the man seen repeatedly flouting the speed limit on a Honda. But cops couldn't prove it. The bike's license tag was bent, obscuring the numbers on it, so it couldn't be traced. The rider had a habit of flipping police ''the bird'' as he flashed by in a 160-mph blur.
Determined to catch him in the act, authorities deployed a single-engine plane and six patrol cars, tracking him to an apartment complex on Northwest 105th Lane.
But when the cruisers arrived, Carpenter, calmly washing his car, denied he had been out on the road. Refused entry, police tried to peek inside his apartment, but the curtains were closed.
If it hadn't been for Carpenter's English bulldog mix coming to the window and parting the curtains, cops couldn't have seen his Honda and made the bust.
INEXPERIENCE
If you can afford a decent car, you can afford a sports bike. Roughly $12,000 purchases a Suzuki like the one Rafael Colon brought home to his parents' Miramar home.
Do-it-yourselfers purchase nitrous oxide for added thrust.
Ron Cole, a motorcycle specialist at Blais Cycle, which outfits motorcyclists, laments the fact that anyone can soup up a sports bike, regardless of whether they know how to ride it.
''What kills these guys is inexperience,'' Cole said.
Inexperience may have been the death of Anthony Thompson.
In March, the 26-year-old bought his first motorcycle: a high-powered Yamaha YZF-R6. Within two hours, he was popping a wheelie on North Federal Highway. He struck a utility pole and was killed.
''He was not an experienced biker,'' said his mother, Carol Thompson, ``I spoke with him the day before and he was very excited, he had been saving up for years to buy the bike.''
This past Tuesday, Jonathan Klippel, a 19-year-old Lauderdale man was arrested after a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper saw him riding in excess of 100 mph on his 2005 Honda CBR 1000 in Palm Beach County.
When the trooper caught up with him, authorities maintain, Klippel attempted to run him over.
Klippel had a female passenger, Angelica Crawford.
''She was thrown off the bike,'' said FHP Sgt. Jorge Delahoz, ``And he just kept going.''
Crawford was hospitalized and Klippel was caught hours later in North Lauderdale. He was slapped with several charges, including aggravated battery and aggravated fleeing and eluding.
RISKS ON THE ROAD
But for many motorcyclists, it is fate, and not any encounter with the cops, that catches up with them. Death can happen in the blink of an eye, and sometimes doesn't involve speeding at all:
• On March 21, it was 21-year-old Alexander Duque, who lost control of his Yamaha while driving on 826 and smacked the guardrail.
• On April 29, it was 21-year-old Mario Vega, who collided with a car on Northwest 27th Avenue and 119th Street.
• On May 30, it was 44-year old Jorge Garcia, killed in a crash on State Road 9A.
• And on May 4, it was Rafael Jose Colon on his brand-new Suzuki.
Friends said Colon was going to visit a fellow biker, at Jackson Memorial Hospital when he veered into the guardrail. No one knows how fast he was going.
Ejected from his bike, he tumbled 40 feet to his death.
His helmet shattered into dozens of small pieces, but the Suzuki remained.
''There's not even a scratch on it,'' said his fiancée, Liz Marie Martinez, who keeps the bike in the garage of their Hollywood home.
Colon's father, also named Rafael, keeps a small shrine to his son in his home and rues the day his son bought the bike.
''Death is destined,'' he said. ``But you don't have to go looking for it.''
© 2007 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved.
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Posted on Sat, Jul. 14, 2007
Bikers flout the law -- and get away with it
By ERIKA BERAS
When Rafael Jose Colon rumbled up to his parents' house in the saddle of a shiny new Suzuki GSX 1000, his father said: ``Mi hijo . . . you've just bought yourself a ticket to death.''
Less than a month later, Colon catapulted 40 feet off an overpass connecting Interstate 95 and State Road 836, landing in the courtyard of a women's detention center. His neck snapped. He was 23.
Spurred by Colon's May death and an alarming number of similarly spectacular crashes, the Florida Highway Patrol took to the streets Thursday, shadowing speeding motorcyclists with a fleet of unmarked cars and snatching violators' keys at red-light intersections. It remains to be seen whether the more reckless riders can be reined in.
South Florida is awash in high-performance, high-speed, testosterone-fueled ''crotch rocket'' sports bikes. The riders are mostly men, often with women clinging to their backs.
''It scares me to drive one of these,'' said Uppy Bermudez, a 25-year-old mother of two from Homestead who rides on the back of her husband Pablo's Honda. ``But it's fun to ride when he's driving.''
Riders congregate on Thursday nights -- Bike Night -- at the parking lot of Amos Sports Grill on South Dixie Highway in Kendall and fan out across the region, darting in and out of traffic on major highways.
Not all of them ride recklessly.
Jorge Gomar, 50, a Bike Night regular from Kendall, has a Harley, as do many of the older riders. ''Younger people tend to go for sports bikes,'' he said. ''Lots of our bikes are cruisers.'' Cruisers traditionally lack the horsepower to go as fast as sports bikes, which are built for racing. ''A lot of the younger riders give us a bad name,'' Gomar says.
Indeed, for some of the younger riders, eluding authorities at breathtaking speeds is part of the thrill.
`IT'S AWESOME'
By day, Armando Dasorri, 20, does data entry at a bank and studies information technology at Miami Dade College. He lives in Doral and rides his Honda 2006 CB everywhere. He said the fastest he has gone is 165 mph.
''It's awesome,'' he said. ``You don't have to follow traffic. It's illegal to go between lanes, but, hey, we all do illegal things every day. Cops are always attempting to pull me over and I don't stop. The one time I did stop I got arrested for fleeing and eluding. But you just want to see how fast your bike will go.''
Traditionally, the highway patrol and other law enforcement agencies have been helpless to thwart the more brazen speeders. Many departments have no-chase policies, unless they involve pursuit of a violent felon.
''Ninety-nine percent of the officers won't waste their time chasing them because they know they won't catch them and only hurt themselves or someone else on the road,'' said Bobby Hernandez, spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department.
An exception was made in 2005 for David Carpenter.
Carpenter was thought to be the man seen repeatedly flouting the speed limit on a Honda. But cops couldn't prove it. The bike's license tag was bent, obscuring the numbers on it, so it couldn't be traced. The rider had a habit of flipping police ''the bird'' as he flashed by in a 160-mph blur.
Determined to catch him in the act, authorities deployed a single-engine plane and six patrol cars, tracking him to an apartment complex on Northwest 105th Lane.
But when the cruisers arrived, Carpenter, calmly washing his car, denied he had been out on the road. Refused entry, police tried to peek inside his apartment, but the curtains were closed.
If it hadn't been for Carpenter's English bulldog mix coming to the window and parting the curtains, cops couldn't have seen his Honda and made the bust.
INEXPERIENCE
If you can afford a decent car, you can afford a sports bike. Roughly $12,000 purchases a Suzuki like the one Rafael Colon brought home to his parents' Miramar home.
Do-it-yourselfers purchase nitrous oxide for added thrust.
Ron Cole, a motorcycle specialist at Blais Cycle, which outfits motorcyclists, laments the fact that anyone can soup up a sports bike, regardless of whether they know how to ride it.
''What kills these guys is inexperience,'' Cole said.
Inexperience may have been the death of Anthony Thompson.
In March, the 26-year-old bought his first motorcycle: a high-powered Yamaha YZF-R6. Within two hours, he was popping a wheelie on North Federal Highway. He struck a utility pole and was killed.
''He was not an experienced biker,'' said his mother, Carol Thompson, ``I spoke with him the day before and he was very excited, he had been saving up for years to buy the bike.''
This past Tuesday, Jonathan Klippel, a 19-year-old Lauderdale man was arrested after a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper saw him riding in excess of 100 mph on his 2005 Honda CBR 1000 in Palm Beach County.
When the trooper caught up with him, authorities maintain, Klippel attempted to run him over.
Klippel had a female passenger, Angelica Crawford.
''She was thrown off the bike,'' said FHP Sgt. Jorge Delahoz, ``And he just kept going.''
Crawford was hospitalized and Klippel was caught hours later in North Lauderdale. He was slapped with several charges, including aggravated battery and aggravated fleeing and eluding.
RISKS ON THE ROAD
But for many motorcyclists, it is fate, and not any encounter with the cops, that catches up with them. Death can happen in the blink of an eye, and sometimes doesn't involve speeding at all:
• On March 21, it was 21-year-old Alexander Duque, who lost control of his Yamaha while driving on 826 and smacked the guardrail.
• On April 29, it was 21-year-old Mario Vega, who collided with a car on Northwest 27th Avenue and 119th Street.
• On May 30, it was 44-year old Jorge Garcia, killed in a crash on State Road 9A.
• And on May 4, it was Rafael Jose Colon on his brand-new Suzuki.
Friends said Colon was going to visit a fellow biker, at Jackson Memorial Hospital when he veered into the guardrail. No one knows how fast he was going.
Ejected from his bike, he tumbled 40 feet to his death.
His helmet shattered into dozens of small pieces, but the Suzuki remained.
''There's not even a scratch on it,'' said his fiancée, Liz Marie Martinez, who keeps the bike in the garage of their Hollywood home.
Colon's father, also named Rafael, keeps a small shrine to his son in his home and rues the day his son bought the bike.
''Death is destined,'' he said. ``But you don't have to go looking for it.''
© 2007 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miamiherald.com
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dammm now we gotta be carefull everytime we ride not only this ****** will give u a tiket now... now they are trying to take ur ******* life away thats why i hate this ******* ******** FTP 4 LIFE
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lucky its new tatics for FHP, its been going on here in AZ for some time now.
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and they wonder why we get so much crap from everybody.
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