SC high court agrees to hear bike rally case
Published: June 15, 2009
Updated: June 16, 2009
MYRTLE BEACH (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court will hear a challenge from a man who received a ticket in Myrtle Beach for not wearing a motorcycle helmet.
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The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports Monday that the Supreme Court will hear the case filed earlier this year by Bart Viers and Boost, a pro-bike rally group of businesses.
Boost says Myrtle Beach broke the law by requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets. State law does not require riders 21 years and older to wear helmets.
City officials have tried to end three weeks of biker rallies, passing new laws banning parking lot gatherings, loud mufflers and riding without helmets. A report says far fewer bikers came to the Grand Strand in May for the Harley-Davidson Rally and the Atlantic Beach Bikefest.
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Information from: The Sun News, http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com
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Intestinal Fortitude can be brought on by eating too much fiber. The city did this to keep bikers out of the city, to create a rub along with all the pulling bikes over for no reason. There is no justice in that or no justification for that. They didn’t do it for safety, they could care less until they were told to take that avenue and let the city puppet Kreua do damage control. Cell phone usage when driving is a more important issue than anything to do with helmets or any other frivolous trumped up law. Their plan backfired, now they have another rally to contend with, no that is funny I don’t care who you are…...
We will have to wait and see if MB is right or wrong according to the SC supreme court. But, here is what I do believe. There should be a statewide law requiring motorcycle riders of all ages to wear helmets. This is, in my opinion, no different than the state law requiring all car/truck passengers to wear seatbelts. At the same time I do believe in personal choice in both matters and have in fact been ticketed for failure to wear my seatbelt. I just don’t believe that you should have the one law but not the other. Now some people are angry that Myrtle Beach had the intestinal fortitude, for whatever reason, to go about it on their own.
I knew this would eventually come about and thank God. It is about time this was brought to light. I just wish that 20/20 and some other non bias media would grab this and run with it. I hope the US Attorney finds that Rhodes and Gall used their office’s for abusive power and harassment. From the road blocks to the unnecessary Gestapo tactics of pulling over most of the bikes that entered the city to make them stay out, out right discrimination.
I am praying they tell MB to stick the helmet law where the sun don’t shine. No way should a city be able to over ride the State
I hope the high courts Break it off in the mayor
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