Couple Describes Ordeal Created by Quads, ATVs in Presidential Lakes, Asks for Efforts to Deter Riders from Taking to Area Roads
As of mid-September, the police department had 19 incidents involving quads or ATVs and seized 23 of them, the chief said.
“It has always amazed me, even in my years of being a police officer, when you would go up to a parent and ask, ‘What did you think your child was going to do with a $6,000 piece of equipment when you live on an 80 foot by 100 foot lot?’ and they respond, ‘Well they can ride in the forest,’” Patriarca said. “I would always ask, ‘Whose forest is it?’ It is not yours! Parents are a major part of the problem, unfortunately, in this matter. There is a limitation with what officers can do.”
