ATV's have a place - it's on farms and large tracts of land where foot/truck access is limited.

Around here, we have reliefer scumbags who dress like Fred Sanford (on a good day) and send their kids to school looking like mountain militia refugee campers. These people live in trailers on 100'x100' rental lots, drive 1982 rustbuckets, but they somehow manage to have $6000 Bombardiers and Polarises that they like to get drunk and drive all over everyone else's property.

We even have a few gems who have lost their licenses (DUI) and purchased quads to drive (trespass) the whole way to work, and cause the landowners to wallpaper their property with POSTED signs and cost me my hunting spots.

Meanwhile, some poor schlep that owns the local golf course is stuckrepairing $20,000 worth ofdamage to his greens because some trashbag decided that it would be fun to jacklight a few deer anddo donutsall over the greens on the back nine at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Seriously, they need to pass a law that requires people to show that they have somewhere to actually RIDE the quad before they buy it. A patch-hunkie with a yard the size of a postage stamp really has no business owning a 550cc 4x4 ATV.

I feel much better now, having vented a little.