Seaside Heights, NJ — A fairly worrisome video has been shared with the Free Thought Project this week purporting to show a man being arrested after police stopped him for riding a bike without a bell.
The video, posted to Facebook by user A Dot Norwood, shows officers from the Seaside Heights police department temporarily detaining a man who was riding his bike.
In the first brief video, the officers appear to stop the man and then let him go. However, in the second video, we see them stopping him again.
According to Norwood and the man being arrested, police stopped him for riding his bike without a bell on it. As the video shows, however, police quickly escalated charges as the man became agitated after he was stopped for such a ridiculous reason.
Within just a few seconds, the police officers are telling the man that he will be arrested for obstruction of justice because he is upset that he is currently facing harassment for lack of a bell on his bike.
“Under arrest for what?” the man asks.
To which the police reply, “obstruction.”
“Obstruction of what?” the man asks, “You’re telling me I need a bell on my bike.”
“That’s illegal,” says the officer. Moments later, police move in and place the man in handcuffs
“You see this, right?” the man asks Norwood. “They’re arresting me for not having a bell on my bike.”
2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 39 – MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATION
Section 39:4-11 – Audible signalUniversal Citation: NJ Rev Stat § 39:4-11 (2013)
39:4-11. Audible signal
No person shall operate a bicycle unless it is equipped with a bell or other device capable of giving a signal audible for a distance of at least one hundred feet, except that a bicycle shall not be equipped with nor shall any person use upon a bicycle any siren or whistle.
After police get the man in handcuffs, the onlookers attempt to keep filming before they become worried that they too will be arrested.
The Free Thought Project reached out to the Seaside Heights police department who told us to contact the records department. As we had no name of the man being arrested, we were unable to seek out the exact charges he is facing.
If the man riding a bike committed an actual crime in which there was an actual victim, he most definitely deserved to be arrested. However, it appears from the video that the officers indeed stopped him for not having a bell on his bike and the resultant charges, if any, likely stemmed from the original stop.
As TFTP has reported on numerous occasions, riding a bike in a police state can be a dangerous act. In some instances, we’ve reported on individuals who’ve been mauled, nearly to death, by a police K9 for lacking a simple bike light. Also, last month, TFTP reported on a child who was run over by a police officer because, he too, lacked a light on his bicycle.
#1: VxH To: Deckard (#0)
No ways the dinky thumb triggered bells sold in bike shops are audible at 100 feet.
VxH posted on 2018-09-08 21:20:19 Reply Private Reply
#2: Fred Mertz To: VxH (#1)
I can say it as loud as it needs to be.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-08 21:45:13 Reply Private Reply
#3: GrandIsland To: Deckard (#0)
Don’t like it? Then run for office on the anti-bike-bell party. Change the law. That’s how us civilized folk roll, dipshit.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-08 21:50:26 Reply Private Reply
#4: GrandIsland To: VxH (#1)
Because Paultards are more stupid.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-08 21:51:56 Reply Private Reply
#5: GrandIsland To: Fred Mertz (#2)
There are too many of you libtarded fags running around screaming ding dong.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-08 21:54:37 Reply Private Reply
#6: Fred Mertz To: GrandIsland (#5)
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-08 21:57:57 Reply Private Reply
#7: Hondo68 To: GrandIsland, DoubleDeckerAnton (#4)
Press The 🔔 Bell Once....Not Ding 🔔 ding 🔔 ding 🔔...!!!
Hondo68 posted on 2018-09-08 22:13:39 Reply Private Reply
#8: VxH To: GrandIsland (#4)
Maybe you should ask one.
As stupid as Suuuuper Geniuses like you whose taxonomic vocabulary is limited to "paultard"?
VxH posted on 2018-09-09 07:41:20 Reply Private Reply
#9: GrandIsland To: VxH (#8)
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-09 07:47:26 Reply Private Reply
#10: GrandIsland To: hondo68 (#7)
^^^^ speaking of Paultards
lol
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-09 07:48:17 Reply Private Reply
#11: misterwhite To: Deckard (#0)
misterwhite posted on 2018-09-09 07:51:15 Reply Private Reply
#12: VxH To: GrandIsland (#9)
What kind of special idiot does that lump you in with, Suuuper Genius?
VxH posted on 2018-09-09 07:52:13 Reply Private Reply
#13: VxH To: Fred Mertz (#2)
And it doesn't matter how loud it is when the idiots walking their dogs have earbuds shoved in their wherever along with their head.
Their dogs can hear though...
..and the dogs are usually smarter than the owner anyhow.
VxH posted on 2018-09-09 08:14:01 Reply Private Reply
#14: CZ82 To: Deckard (#0)
"Joisey", that's all we needed to know.
CZ82 posted on 2018-09-09 08:24:40 Reply Private Reply
#15: GrandIsland To: VxH (#13)
Can they fill their own bowl with food?
Can they pick up their shit in the yard?
Have they allowed the human species to domesticate them, breed them, register them... WEAKEN their species from what they were? Yeah... a pack of fuckin Einstein’s
Your comment is ignorant... PETA assholes say such fucking foolishness. And PETA assholes are all libtards... they agree with what we’ve done to the dog species for our own self important needs, being done by government to the sheeple. DEPENDENT, like those Mensa K9’s you speak of.
Animals are BELOW humans on the food chain... and only libtards equate them anywhere near a human.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-09 09:14:33 Reply Private Reply
#16: no gnu taxes To: GrandIsland (#15)
no gnu taxes posted on 2018-09-09 09:44:35 Reply Private Reply
#17: buckeroo To: no gnu taxes (#16)
One of the great religions of the world: Hinduism agrees. All life is sacred.
buckeroo posted on 2018-09-09 10:06:34 Reply Private Reply
#18: Justified To: Deckard (#0)
The guy could have been acting all kinda crazy(bugging everyone that pays taxes) and the office used one of those "progressive laws" to get rid of him.
No actual conclusion can be made with out seeing the whole truth.
Justified posted on 2018-09-09 10:32:22 Reply Private Reply
#19: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#17)
We aren’t all equal. We never were.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-09 10:38:21 Reply Private Reply
#20: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#19)
Agreed. As for suitability, we shall have another day to laff at each other.
buckeroo posted on 2018-09-09 11:40:23 Reply Private Reply
#21: sneakypete To: Deckard (#0)
That was because he dared to question their "Authori-Tay"
Wonder if one of them was named "Cartman"?
sneakypete posted on 2018-09-09 13:06:35 Reply Private Reply
#22: sneakypete To: GrandIsland (#5)
Did it ever occur to you that the tens of thousands of primers you have in your basement may have harmed your hearing,and they are just trying to get your attention by shouting "Ding-Dong!"
sneakypete posted on 2018-09-09 13:09:31 Reply Private Reply
#23: Stoner To: Deckard (#0)
So, the assets of the local PD ( two officers ) and the time of the local courts are used up on the offense of " Riding a bike without a bell " !
Wow ! If I were a taxpayer in that locale, I would be impressed.
I guess those officers are too candy ass to go after a REAL criminal. I guess they did not have any kids running a kool aide stand to go beat up, kittens to stomp, or any pet hamsters to shoot, so they went after this guy. Bet that made them feel like they are " Bad Ass ".
Boy, the hero suckers can sure be proud of these two candy asses !
What a freaking joke !!!
Stoner posted on 2018-09-09 13:55:25 Reply Private Reply
#24: Hank Rearden To: Deckard (#0)
Has anybody, ever in the entire history of the Universe, aspired to someday live in New Jersey?
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-09-09 14:21:16 Reply Private Reply
#25: Fred Mertz To: Hank Rearden (#24)
I agree that this shakedown is foolish as I believe 95% of folks would, except for the misterwhites of this world.
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-09-09 14:26:53 Reply Private Reply
#26: VxH To: GrandIsland (#15)
Why would they when they've got humans trained to do it?
Your dog probably got invited to more LEO Family picnics and fishing trips than you did too.
VxH posted on 2018-09-09 15:59:36 Reply Private Reply
#27: IbJensen To: Deckard (#0)
IbJensen posted on 2018-09-09 16:13:27 Reply Private Reply
#28: GrandIsland To: sneakypete (#22)
GrandIsland posted on 2018-09-09 17:46:36 Reply Private Reply
#29: sneakypete To: IbJensen (#27)
The political leadership and half of the police should be in prison,but there are a lot of nice people living in NJ,and there are a lot of pretty places there.
Unfortunately,due to the professional criminal class we call "politicians",it's like "China with white people".
sneakypete posted on 2018-09-09 21:33:23 Reply Private Reply
#30: jeremiad To: Deckard (#0)
Free people worry about what is the line the government steps over before they will use deadly force to defend themselves. Yet the government will kill you for not wearing a seat belt, carrying a drivers license, or riding a bicycle without a helmet. They will escalate any and all cases to deadly force, but we must submit when they kick down our doors at 3 AM and "get face down" or crawl to the cop in the case of the kid in shorts in an apt hallway.
jeremiad posted on 2018-09-09 23:49:04 Reply Private Reply