May 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Emily was having a good day up until she got a call from an unknown number... turns out her son was pulled over
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, I think we all saw this day coming. I
even think Emily saw this day coming. To be honest
with you, her son, Reid, who's fourteen years old, had
his first major encounter with the law. I vote, yeah,
oh no, Emily, like father, like son, you know, going
(00:29):
to the clink, we do take him away.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, yesterday was quite a day, quite a day. I
didn't see coming, but like you said, I did. Yeah,
but I always, you know, you always think the best
of things. Yesterday I was, you know, doing my my
usual thing that makes me very happy. I was going to.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Napping, napping, Walmart, cooking, cooking, maybe old Hu. At some
point CVS run fancy enough time sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
CBS or Walgreen makeup so don't get in twisted. So yes,
you pretty much nailed it. Yeah, got up, did the
usual day, did my snack, did my nappy, went and
got my son from school he had an early day yesterday,
dropped him off back at home, and then I went
to go do my happy place. I went to go
return a bunch of Amazon stuff at Cole's.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Stuff is your happy place, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Well, you get that sweet coupon. How can you not.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Get the cup on? You know, I've got the Amazon
returns nailed down where I have all the barcodes ready
to go. Anyway, I'm in the middle of doing the
Amazon thing, and then my plan was to go to
Walmart afterward to do my grocery shopping, and I was
finishing up at the Coles counter to return my Amazon
stuff when like, as I'm finishing up, I see my
(01:55):
son Reid calling me, but I was still doing the transaction,
so I just hick decline and I was going to like,
I was just going to call him.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And well, he calls you over everything.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He calls me over everything exactly. So I thought he
was going to ask me if he could go to
the chacoozie or something like stupid, like something.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
His footheart.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Per So I declined like three different times because I
was finishing, Like, but he's also excessive, like even if
it's something stupid, he'll still keep calling me like one
hundred percent. So I just kept finding it and I
was the guy was kind of taking forever to print
out my receipt. But anyway, I just didn't want to
be annoyed because there's a line and be on the phone.
So then after like recalls three times, then I start
(02:35):
getting a call from no Caller ID. It's no caller ID,
and I declined it once. I thought it was just
like because you know how many times we get the
sales calls. I'm like, okay, now some salesperson's calling me
or like a you know all whatever telemarketer. So I
declined that once. Then it comes up through again and
I go the guy's handing me the receipt. I go, okay,
God annoyed. So I picked the phone up to answer
(02:57):
the no caller I d call for the second time okay,
And that's when I got the worst call of my
life because of call that every parent dreads. And that's
when it said, Hi, Hi Mom, are you miss Griffiths?
And I said yes, and they said this is lemsa
p D. Oh, we have your son with us.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
About time.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
My big ultimate gas and they say he's okay, he's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Was the thought like he's hurt? Or was the thought,
oh really yeah? For the PD he was calling beforehand,
so my thought wouldn't go hurt. My thought would go,
oh crap, what's up?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And my knee jerk reaction was hurt. Just now you
asking me. I think it was going back to that moment.
I think it was a mix of both, like it
was like, whatever, it's so bad.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
No, they're not calling because he's just won an award
or something.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
He has saved a whole house of orphans. Congratulations, Bob.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It wasn't that. It wasn't that. No, she she says,
he's okay. I said okay, So I start walking. She goes, well,
we're over here on University Avenue and we are pulled
over and I pulled him over because he was he
was on his e bikes. And she explains to me
(04:35):
why she pulled him over, as she said, how quick
can you get down here? She explained to me the
exact corner they were at. She said, I'm on my way.
So as I'm walking out of coals, I'm working.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What is going through your mind? Anger? Like where are
you at?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So angry and disappointed? So angry and disappointed because the
spite reads the way he's been difficult and I've shared
for many years here on the show and with you guys,
like his difficulties and the way that he acts in class,
and he's loud and disruptive, and he's all over the place,
like there are a few different places where Reid is
(05:12):
semi wrangled in and it's like kind of it's it
aligns with kids with massive ADHD, like when they get
things that are like fixated on and that they're interested in,
and like like tools and like legos and like engineering
and fixing stuff. Where he takes it very seriously. He
does he does not mess around, and he's good at
(05:33):
it and he's focused so like and he takes like
he doesn't mess around. So like I've seen him do
things around his bike and he takes it very seriously.
And I've also seen him riding tons around our neighborhood
which is flat and there's lots of stop signs, And
every time I see him riding, I swear it's he's
very responsible. He's I like, I'll catch him standing out front,
I see him looking both ways, like he does it
(05:54):
every time.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So like I trust he abides by the rules of
the road.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's what I believe it to helmet every time, like
he knows like.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Sorry sorry, so like I've always he's he's not allowed
on anything with wheels without a helmet.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
He knows that even a scooter like he knows that.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's I've seen kids on these e bikes and some
of them are pretty wild, like like they like literally
will shoot right across the busy street and I'm just like,
that's not like you're gonna die.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And there's like three of them on one bike. It's like,
oh my god.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I see it all them like a tower.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Here we go again.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, there's one on the handle bars, there's one in
the back.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Like, oh my god, I see it all.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
The time, Like the guy's riding, the guy that's on
the seat has somebody on his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The circus.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah, I seen those like water skiing tricks where they
make a pyramid.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's what you see.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's when I see Wow. Yeah, so Read's not doing
that stuff. Reads not doing that stuff allegedly, So I
tried trusted him. So going through to answer your question,
going through my head was just super like disappointed, like
like what a liar? Like what is this? What's going on?
Like what is happening? Like is he not good on
his bike? Is he totally like one way in front
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of me and the another way the other when you're not.
So that's when the officer says he was going he
was going northbound down this street, a busy street, and
he was going to make a right on a University Avenue,
which is another very busy street. And he the light
going northbound was red, and so the other cars going
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down to University East where you know, had a green
light obviously, and so he didn't stop at the bottom
of the hill and went right without stopping to go
on University. So ran a red light, did a California
to stop, And I guess there was a tesla that
was going through the green light that had to slam
on the brakes to not hit him.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Oh scary.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And so that's when she was, I guess going a
different way. She flipped her lights on go on any
light and turns around and follows him to pull him over.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, wow, that's that's not great. No, you know, I
mean if a car has a slam on their brakes,
all you have to do is think of if that was.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Me, kid, throw out the window, yell at.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Does this read?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And like also like the odds of that person paid attention. Yeah,
nowadays it's probably a fifty to fifty chance if somebody
could be hit everything else, Yeah, not paying attention just
couldn't hit him.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So I am just not really that versed with these
e bikes. I mean, is it is so? Do they
have to follow the law like a car or are
they like a bike? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Okay, quick question.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, to add on your question, I don't know about
the e bikes either, and maybe Emily knows more. Do
you always have to have the electrical portion of it
on or can you turn it off and turn it
into a regular bicycle.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Read's bike doesn't have pedals and that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh okay, I wasn't stung. I thought the most I
had no idea. I thought e bikes had pedals where
you could do both. Actually, there are those.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
There's three classes of e bikes, and I don't I
looked it up yesterday. But the kind that Reid has
the is just electric, just an electric. It's a motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, it's a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah. Oh, it's those bikes that all those kids had,
those Sarons and stuff, and the all those bikes and
all those kids and they everybody's driving around. Those are motorcycles.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
How fast they go?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, Reid has modifications on his bike also making his
bike and go thirty five thirty five.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, see, I had a gopead as a kid, and
it was an electric it was it was a motorized scooter,
so like it went like twenty five miles an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It was better than riding a bike and you and
it was it was like a lawnmower engine.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And I put oil and gas in it and I
would drive around everywhere on it. Yeah, but if somebody
pulled me over, probably just would have kept going.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
But at twenty five miles per hour and a cop
is behind you, well you go down are you going
to go?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Because you go down roads that the cops can't go down.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You're gonna run, make a run for it on.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Your goat sixty you're running a cop.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But you go down roads like.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And then the helicopter cop helicopy. Yeah, oh, I'd love
to watch that.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I mean, there's no way a helicopter would be chasing
after a kid out of gopen.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I mean that beesome. Well, so.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Thirty five miles didn't run, but thirty five miles an
hour for and no license is pretty wild. That's pretty
wild to have no license and go thirty five.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Miles, And I think that's the law for golf carts too.
For people who drive golf carts on the regular street,
it can't be more than thirty five miles per hour.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
That's like the cops, because.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
When I have my motorcycle, you go more than twenty
miles an hour and you get hit, you're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No big time.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, so like going thirty thirty five some of these kids,
that's that's that's really fast.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, yeah, it is very fast. So I'm rethinking everything.
But they pulled read over. He didn't stop, he didn't
run from the cops and thet They were on the
side of the road on University Avenue with the lights going.
The light's going, and then that's what I pull up
to their location. I have to actually flip around.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I'm sitting there with cuffs, sitting on the curb.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's sitting on the curb, not cuffs, sitting on the
curb with all the lights, and I'm like, this is
such a scene. Like I know, anytime I drive bike,
obviously a cop with their lights on, I'm like all in, like.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Usually you think is something crazy going on?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So I can't tell you how many people drove by
him and saw a kid. HERB saw his bike there,
knew what was going on. So I flip around, I
pull over, get out of the car, and I am
not happy obviously. Well yeah, I storm over there and
say hello to the officer. She goes, go ahead, mom,
because she could tell I wanted to get at him.
(12:02):
I take my sunglasses off. I start tearing up. We
don't even know what happened, she explained. I mean she
did explain the running in the red okay, and.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That he's not going to get his side of the story.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Are you insane? Exactly what I said? I said, I said,
I am so disappointed in you. I've trusted you this
whole time with this bike, I said, completely let me down.
I said, I didn't see this coming. And I said
and I said, also, what read likes to do sometimes?
Can you shut up? I said, you sometimes? Is he will.
He will tell me that if a teacher tells me something,
(12:38):
he will say that didn't happen, you know. And I go,
I go, I'm going to sit here and talk to
you right now in front of this officer. Are you
going to say that she's full of it, that you
didn't run that light? Because we are both here in
front of her. Are you going to argue with what
she says with me later when you go back in
my car, because we are not going to do this
right now. Do not argue with her and with me.
She said that you did this, and she can't.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They told me he was saying that didn't happen. He
did or he didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I didn't give him a chance. I could see that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I would have.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I could see that happening later when we were at home.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I would have done anything to have driven by and
seen this. Yeah, anything to see Emily footage. Yeah, I
mean I would have done anything to have seen read
getting yelled at by Emily with the cops standing there,
hands flailing.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you think at some point that the cops start
to look at Emily like, oh, we have another situation.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, the camera.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Man take a breast. He just he ran a red light.
He didn't commit armed robbery.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay, so you light him.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Up, So I light him up. Then she turns to
me and explains to me, what's going on with this bike? Okay,
let's see this I did, Like, there are so many things.
I don't think any of these parents know about these bikes.
They're not I didn't like I didn't know, but also
to my fault, I'm an idiot and I didn't look
into it either. Really, everybody's riding shut up, you did.
(13:59):
They they're not street legal, none of them unless they
have pedals and they're under like a certain Miles Prower
like that, they speed that they can go. But if
they don't have pedals, which none of them do, those
not street legal. Under sixteen years old without a motorcycle license,
they're not their motorcycles.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
So remember when you were getting it, I sort of
raised that question and you just sort of blew me off.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, you don't need to do.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Okay, Sorry, Well I'm just remembering that me saying.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I got a body count and I found out something
that really got read because reads obviously in shock and
he's affected by this. She says, if what she said,
I was on my radio, and I have to tell you,
all the other officers obviously know what I'm pulling this
kid over for. Yeah, they were giving her crap because
she didn't cite him and give him a ticket and
(14:52):
didn't impound his bike. She said she gave she was
all those other officers do this all the time. Yeah,
and they impound the bike, cite them. He she didn't
do that, so she said they would have. She said,
if I would have done this today, he wouldn't get
his license until he's eighteen.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
His driver's rivers heavily.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And that's when Reid's face looked like he just saw he's.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Got a truck.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Wait before all read cares about is getting his driver's license.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So nonymore, well trust him with that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So I found that out and no parents really know that,
I'll think. So that was crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
His buddies that were with him, he was just by himself,
by himself.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, so well where are we at whether what is
there a punishment.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Or the punishment is that his bike has gone and
won't write it again until's sixteen.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh but you're gonna make him get a more cycle license.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah if he wants to write it. Yeah gone, Like
that's the biggest punishment wish him and the pulling him
over his shock enough and taking the bikeway.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Well, because he has had this freedom of that bike
for like, so this summer, this is like.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You could ride a regular bike. Ye, that's right, he
could just ride a regular bike.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't, I like, I know that it's not as fast,
but you can still do it well, and.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You're used to going places where you now can't go
on your regular bike because like it's going to take
you through.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Used to back in the day.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I know, but if someone took away your car the
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Next time, he'll know, go down a side road really
fast and hopefully
Well, I think we all saw this day coming. I
even think Emily saw this day coming. To be honest
with you, her son, Reid, who's fourteen years old, had
his first major encounter with the law. I vote, yeah,
oh no, Emily, like father, like son, you know, going
(00:29):
to the clink, we do take him away.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, yesterday was quite a day, quite a day. I
didn't see coming, but like you said, I did. Yeah,
but I always, you know, you always think the best
of things. Yesterday I was, you know, doing my my
usual thing that makes me very happy. I was going to.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Napping, napping, Walmart, cooking, cooking, maybe old Hu. At some
point CVS run fancy enough time sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
CBS or Walgreen makeup so don't get in twisted. So yes,
you pretty much nailed it. Yeah, got up, did the
usual day, did my snack, did my nappy, went and
got my son from school he had an early day yesterday,
dropped him off back at home, and then I went
to go do my happy place. I went to go
return a bunch of Amazon stuff at Cole's.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Stuff is your happy place, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Well, you get that sweet coupon. How can you not.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Get the cup on? You know, I've got the Amazon
returns nailed down where I have all the barcodes ready
to go. Anyway, I'm in the middle of doing the
Amazon thing, and then my plan was to go to
Walmart afterward to do my grocery shopping, and I was
finishing up at the Coles counter to return my Amazon
stuff when like, as I'm finishing up, I see my
(01:55):
son Reid calling me, but I was still doing the transaction,
so I just hick decline and I was going to like,
I was just going to call him.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And well, he calls you over everything.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He calls me over everything exactly. So I thought he
was going to ask me if he could go to
the chacoozie or something like stupid, like something.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
His footheart.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Per So I declined like three different times because I
was finishing, Like, but he's also excessive, like even if
it's something stupid, he'll still keep calling me like one
hundred percent. So I just kept finding it and I
was the guy was kind of taking forever to print
out my receipt. But anyway, I just didn't want to
be annoyed because there's a line and be on the phone.
So then after like recalls three times, then I start
(02:35):
getting a call from no Caller ID. It's no caller ID,
and I declined it once. I thought it was just
like because you know how many times we get the
sales calls. I'm like, okay, now some salesperson's calling me
or like a you know all whatever telemarketer. So I
declined that once. Then it comes up through again and
I go the guy's handing me the receipt. I go, okay,
God annoyed. So I picked the phone up to answer
(02:57):
the no caller I d call for the second time okay,
And that's when I got the worst call of my
life because of call that every parent dreads. And that's
when it said, Hi, Hi Mom, are you miss Griffiths?
And I said yes, and they said this is lemsa
p D. Oh, we have your son with us.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
About time.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
My big ultimate gas and they say he's okay, he's okay.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Was the thought like he's hurt? Or was the thought,
oh really yeah? For the PD he was calling beforehand,
so my thought wouldn't go hurt. My thought would go,
oh crap, what's up?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And my knee jerk reaction was hurt. Just now you
asking me. I think it was going back to that moment.
I think it was a mix of both, like it
was like, whatever, it's so bad.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
No, they're not calling because he's just won an award
or something.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
He has saved a whole house of orphans. Congratulations, Bob.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It wasn't that. It wasn't that. No, she she says,
he's okay. I said okay, So I start walking. She goes, well,
we're over here on University Avenue and we are pulled
over and I pulled him over because he was he
was on his e bikes. And she explains to me
(04:35):
why she pulled him over, as she said, how quick
can you get down here? She explained to me the
exact corner they were at. She said, I'm on my way.
So as I'm walking out of coals, I'm working.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What is going through your mind? Anger? Like where are
you at?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So angry and disappointed? So angry and disappointed because the
spite reads the way he's been difficult and I've shared
for many years here on the show and with you guys,
like his difficulties and the way that he acts in class,
and he's loud and disruptive, and he's all over the place,
like there are a few different places where Reid is
(05:12):
semi wrangled in and it's like kind of it's it
aligns with kids with massive ADHD, like when they get
things that are like fixated on and that they're interested in,
and like like tools and like legos and like engineering
and fixing stuff. Where he takes it very seriously. He
does he does not mess around, and he's good at
(05:33):
it and he's focused so like and he takes like
he doesn't mess around. So like I've seen him do
things around his bike and he takes it very seriously.
And I've also seen him riding tons around our neighborhood
which is flat and there's lots of stop signs, And
every time I see him riding, I swear it's he's
very responsible. He's I like, I'll catch him standing out front,
I see him looking both ways, like he does it
(05:54):
every time.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So like I trust he abides by the rules of
the road.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's what I believe it to helmet every time, like
he knows like.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Sorry sorry, so like I've always he's he's not allowed
on anything with wheels without a helmet.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
He knows that even a scooter like he knows that.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's I've seen kids on these e bikes and some
of them are pretty wild, like like they like literally
will shoot right across the busy street and I'm just like,
that's not like you're gonna die.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
And there's like three of them on one bike. It's like,
oh my god.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I see it all them like a tower.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Here we go again.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, there's one on the handle bars, there's one in
the back.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Like, oh my god, I see it all.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
The time, Like the guy's riding, the guy that's on
the seat has somebody on his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
The circus.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah, I seen those like water skiing tricks where they
make a pyramid.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's what you see.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's when I see Wow. Yeah, so Read's not doing
that stuff. Reads not doing that stuff allegedly, So I
tried trusted him. So going through to answer your question,
going through my head was just super like disappointed, like
like what a liar? Like what is this? What's going on?
Like what is happening? Like is he not good on
his bike? Is he totally like one way in front
(07:15):
of me and the another way the other when you're not.
So that's when the officer says he was going he
was going northbound down this street, a busy street, and
he was going to make a right on a University Avenue,
which is another very busy street. And he the light
going northbound was red, and so the other cars going
(07:36):
down to University East where you know, had a green
light obviously, and so he didn't stop at the bottom
of the hill and went right without stopping to go
on University. So ran a red light, did a California
to stop, And I guess there was a tesla that
was going through the green light that had to slam
on the brakes to not hit him.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Oh scary.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And so that's when she was, I guess going a
different way. She flipped her lights on go on any
light and turns around and follows him to pull him over.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay, wow, that's that's not great. No, you know, I
mean if a car has a slam on their brakes,
all you have to do is think of if that was.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Me, kid, throw out the window, yell at.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Does this read?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And like also like the odds of that person paid attention. Yeah,
nowadays it's probably a fifty to fifty chance if somebody
could be hit everything else, Yeah, not paying attention just
couldn't hit him.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So I am just not really that versed with these
e bikes. I mean, is it is so? Do they
have to follow the law like a car or are
they like a bike? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Okay, quick question.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, to add on your question, I don't know about
the e bikes either, and maybe Emily knows more. Do
you always have to have the electrical portion of it
on or can you turn it off and turn it
into a regular bicycle.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Read's bike doesn't have pedals and that.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh okay, I wasn't stung. I thought the most I
had no idea. I thought e bikes had pedals where
you could do both. Actually, there are those.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
There's three classes of e bikes, and I don't I
looked it up yesterday. But the kind that Reid has
the is just electric, just an electric. It's a motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, it's a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah. Oh, it's those bikes that all those kids had,
those Sarons and stuff, and the all those bikes and
all those kids and they everybody's driving around. Those are motorcycles.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
How fast they go?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, Reid has modifications on his bike also making his
bike and go thirty five thirty five.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, see, I had a gopead as a kid, and
it was an electric it was it was a motorized scooter,
so like it went like twenty five miles an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It was better than riding a bike and you and
it was it was like a lawnmower engine.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And I put oil and gas in it and I
would drive around everywhere on it. Yeah, but if somebody
pulled me over, probably just would have kept going.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
But at twenty five miles per hour and a cop
is behind you, well you go down are you going
to go?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Because you go down roads that the cops can't go down.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You're gonna run, make a run for it on.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Your goat sixty you're running a cop.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But you go down roads like.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And then the helicopter cop helicopy. Yeah, oh, I'd love
to watch that.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I mean, there's no way a helicopter would be chasing
after a kid out of gopen.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I mean that beesome. Well, so.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Thirty five miles didn't run, but thirty five miles an
hour for and no license is pretty wild. That's pretty
wild to have no license and go thirty five.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Miles, And I think that's the law for golf carts too.
For people who drive golf carts on the regular street,
it can't be more than thirty five miles per hour.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
That's like the cops, because.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
When I have my motorcycle, you go more than twenty
miles an hour and you get hit, you're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No big time.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, so like going thirty thirty five some of these kids,
that's that's that's really fast.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, yeah, it is very fast. So I'm rethinking everything.
But they pulled read over. He didn't stop, he didn't
run from the cops and thet They were on the
side of the road on University Avenue with the lights going.
The light's going, and then that's what I pull up
to their location. I have to actually flip around.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I'm sitting there with cuffs, sitting on the curb.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
He's sitting on the curb, not cuffs, sitting on the
curb with all the lights, and I'm like, this is
such a scene. Like I know, anytime I drive bike,
obviously a cop with their lights on, I'm like all in, like.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Usually you think is something crazy going on?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So I can't tell you how many people drove by
him and saw a kid. HERB saw his bike there,
knew what was going on. So I flip around, I
pull over, get out of the car, and I am
not happy obviously. Well yeah, I storm over there and
say hello to the officer. She goes, go ahead, mom,
because she could tell I wanted to get at him.
(12:02):
I take my sunglasses off. I start tearing up. We
don't even know what happened, she explained. I mean she
did explain the running in the red okay, and.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That he's not going to get his side of the story.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Are you insane? Exactly what I said? I said, I said,
I am so disappointed in you. I've trusted you this
whole time with this bike, I said, completely let me down.
I said, I didn't see this coming. And I said
and I said, also, what read likes to do sometimes?
Can you shut up? I said, you sometimes? Is he will.
He will tell me that if a teacher tells me something,
(12:38):
he will say that didn't happen, you know. And I go,
I go, I'm going to sit here and talk to
you right now in front of this officer. Are you
going to say that she's full of it, that you
didn't run that light? Because we are both here in
front of her. Are you going to argue with what
she says with me later when you go back in
my car, because we are not going to do this
right now. Do not argue with her and with me.
She said that you did this, and she can't.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They told me he was saying that didn't happen. He
did or he didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I didn't give him a chance. I could see that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I would have.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I could see that happening later when we were at home.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I would have done anything to have driven by and
seen this. Yeah, anything to see Emily footage. Yeah, I
mean I would have done anything to have seen read
getting yelled at by Emily with the cops standing there,
hands flailing.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you think at some point that the cops start
to look at Emily like, oh, we have another situation.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Yeah, the camera.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Man take a breast. He just he ran a red light.
He didn't commit armed robbery.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay, so you light him.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Up, So I light him up. Then she turns to
me and explains to me, what's going on with this bike? Okay,
let's see this I did, Like, there are so many things.
I don't think any of these parents know about these bikes.
They're not I didn't like I didn't know, but also
to my fault, I'm an idiot and I didn't look
into it either. Really, everybody's riding shut up, you did.
(13:59):
They they're not street legal, none of them unless they
have pedals and they're under like a certain Miles Prower
like that, they speed that they can go. But if
they don't have pedals, which none of them do, those
not street legal. Under sixteen years old without a motorcycle license,
they're not their motorcycles.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
So remember when you were getting it, I sort of
raised that question and you just sort of blew me off.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, you don't need to do.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Okay, Sorry, Well I'm just remembering that me saying.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I got a body count and I found out something
that really got read because reads obviously in shock and
he's affected by this. She says, if what she said,
I was on my radio, and I have to tell you,
all the other officers obviously know what I'm pulling this
kid over for. Yeah, they were giving her crap because
she didn't cite him and give him a ticket and
(14:52):
didn't impound his bike. She said she gave she was
all those other officers do this all the time. Yeah,
and they impound the bike, cite them. He she didn't
do that, so she said they would have. She said,
if I would have done this today, he wouldn't get
his license until he's eighteen.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
His driver's rivers heavily.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And that's when Reid's face looked like he just saw he's.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Got a truck.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Wait before all read cares about is getting his driver's license.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So nonymore, well trust him with that.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So I found that out and no parents really know that,
I'll think. So that was crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
His buddies that were with him, he was just by himself,
by himself.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, so well where are we at whether what is
there a punishment.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Or the punishment is that his bike has gone and
won't write it again until's sixteen.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh but you're gonna make him get a more cycle license.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah if he wants to write it. Yeah gone, Like
that's the biggest punishment wish him and the pulling him
over his shock enough and taking the bikeway.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Well, because he has had this freedom of that bike
for like, so this summer, this is like.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You could ride a regular bike. Ye, that's right, he
could just ride a regular bike.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I don't, I like, I know that it's not as fast,
but you can still do it well, and.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You're used to going places where you now can't go
on your regular bike because like it's going to take
you through.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Used to back in the day.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I know, but if someone took away your car the
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Next time, he'll know, go down a side road really
fast and hopefully
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