Am I doing something illegal or am I just being a d!©k?

If some ethnically underprivileged individual throws it in my yard it gets chopped and slung to the road. I got tired of picking up after lazy ass folks long ago. Hell the state should pay me to maintain their right of way. Living on a busy road, I've thought about building a piece of modern art out of all the shit that ends up in the ditch. As far as grass. I make the first pass with the outlet side of my pushmower facing the road. This is for my safety, so I can see the traffic coming at me. It's usually not much clippings at all, if I had someone raise hell about it, I'd tell em to call the DOT and have them mow it or in a spiteful rage I'd roundup the ditch and let the dot deal with erosion.
F someone that litters and f someone that complains about you maintaining DOT rightofway in front of your property. He knows the risk involved with riding, and by his dress,doesn't give a crap. I doubt he'd go out of his way or inconvenience himself to accommodate you in your recreation of choice.
Guess that makes me a D!@k.


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Generically speaking here and not directed at anyone...but I feel like conversations like these are 1) why HOA's exist and 2) are the precursor to a thread 6-12 months from now about new dumb city/town laws or ordinances. One bad apple and whatnot.
 
maybe someone should tell these asshats bushhogging the roadsides around here that then... they throw all kinds of crap on the road... not just grass clippings either
 
If the grass is so high the mower turns the road green, and it's a sweeping curve then you're a dick :flipoff2:................on the other hand all kinds of things ON the road can crash a biker, rain, sleet, snow, potholes, litter, roadkill, tree branches, rocks or sand etc. and they should be alert enough to see a mass of grass on the road............usually a few 4 wheelers come by and blow all the grass off the roads anyway.
 
josh m said:
I make the first pass with the outlet side of my pushmower facing the road. This is for my safety, so I can see the traffic coming at me. It's usually not much clippings at all
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This is what I do as well. I typically try to cut grass when I know traffic will be slow, but it doesn't always work that way.

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Was talking to one of my students mom's the other day. I told her the last time I saw her son he was on a motorcycle. She said, Yeah he wrecked it the other day. He lost control in a curve where a landowner had blown mowed grass into the road. I ride and don't like it when I see it. For that reason I never do it and I tell my son not to when he mows. Would hate to have a motorcyclist crash and the sue me. Even if I win I would still have to defend myself.
 
Yea if your running you discharge to the street the entire time and piling it up, it's a dick move. But expecting someone to get out with scissors to cut their grass in a manner that accommodates them is a prick move too.


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Anyone that rides on the road with flip flops or sandals is a complete dumbass! If you've ever had to plant a foot while in motion you know what I'm talking about. Also riding without a enclosed shoe just because your just making a run to the store a few minutes down the road is crazy also. I totaled my Street Glide a while back and landed on my feet with no injuries but I know if I'd had flip flops on it would have been bad. I could care less about someone mowing into the road as long as they aren't slinging shit when I go by.
 
If the city wrote a ordinance on how I had to cut their, or the states grass at the edge of the roads, I'd simply tell em to mow it them selves. I'd never ever survive in a HOA.
Road I live on is getting widened to four lanes. I found out last week that my house is getting "taken" next spring. I'm planning my move "out in the sticks" away from ass hat neighbors.
I've been meaning to start a thread on eminent domain in NC. See if anyone has gone thru it before.


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Motorcycles need to maintain control just like another other vehicle. Grass in the road is only an issue if the rider is having delusions of racetrack or lacks experience.

Legal ramifications of mowing grass next to the road... no idea.
 
I ride a Buell xb12, usually with whatever I got on (shorts, t-shirt sometimes), but never flops and always my full helmet. If I'm going out to blast some corners, I'll always make a pass at regular speed to make sure that things are all good/no debris in the road. Mow your grass and don't worry about the dickhead that bitched at you. If he wants to be reckless, he should take some precautions. Otherwise that's the cost of doing business.
 
I thought I was being overly polite by reserving the roadside area for weedeater only. Never really thought about the motorcycle issue. Mainly i just hate when a car comes by and blows the clippings straight back into my face.
 
I will add, I personally have not ever had a problem while riding with grass on the road making me lose control or crash it just blows around and annoys me but a girl I graduated high school with was on the back of a bike that hit grass in a turn that actually put her in ICU and her parents were called in thinking she was not going to make it. Luckily she did but lost the use of one of her hands because of it. Basically for this reason I do not blow any on the road just because I would hate to be the person to cause something like that.
 
shawn said:
By law, you own to the center of the road. ;)
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Well that's nice to know now. I'm about to order a plastic speed bump. Wanna come over tonight and help me install it? It'll be a blast in the morning when traffic picks back up.
Seriously I had a survey done when I bought this place the stakes are back about 10' from where the pavement starts. I looked for any laws that require me to maintain the right of way. I couldn't find any, only found laws about planting in the right of way. The reason I looked was because I almost got hit by a semi one Sunday morning cutting grass. I was pissed and wanted to round up everything. Lol.
 
I blow my clippings in the road. Just the best way to cut my yard. Street is a straight dead end residential. As soon as I finish weedeating, I blow it all out of the road. If someone wants to tell me how to cut my grass, they better saddle up or shut up.
 
Here is what I copied off Face Book a month back. I haven't read 14-399, so I don't know the difference, or Confusion! Mount Holly has Grass/debris laws, pertaining to polluting the Storm Drains & gutters. Just as Most Every City does. TRY getting it enforced!!! I Wish I had this article a year back when an Ass-hat on Hwy 27 Bush Hogged his grass field on the Road. I Mean he COVERED the Whole Road! I see Excess grass, just like Leafs. Watch out for them when their Wet; Slick as Ice!
 

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sgtbriangreen said:
I blow my clippings in the road. Just the best way to cut my yard. Street is a straight dead end residential. As soon as I finish weedeating, I blow it all out of the road. If someone wants to tell me how to cut my grass, they better saddle up or shut up.
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But when it leaves your property...it's no longer a 'my grass/my property' scenario. Then it becomes a public scenario. Now say your neighbors have the same attitude. Eventually a street sweeper has to be commissioned, and now taxes go up to pay for it...and now folks bitch about that. All hypotheticals, sure...but not too far outside the realm of possibility. Similar scenario happened in my town with folks leaf blowing into the street. Now I have to pay more because people were too lazy to clean up and rake their own yards...that doesn't seem right to me.

Edit...disregard...I can't word good.
 
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benmack1 said:
Off topic slightly but i just ran the bush hog along both sides of the road in front of my sub division in rural orange county. The road commission contractors mow it every few weeks but it irritates me when it gets a foot tall so i run the tractor over it in between their mowings. I didn't toss grass out in the road but I definitely threw the litter that was in the grass out in the road a few times (plastic bottles and beer cans go about 50 ft if I catch them. I just about put a plastic Mt. Dew bottle through a guys open window as he went by when the chopper picked it up. I usually clutch it when a car comes by but sometimes they surprise me. Rural 2-lane road, 45 mph limit bright orange tractor, head lights on, flashing ambers on, both sets of tires in the ditch going against traffic) and one asshat in an 80s vintage benz wagon with 2 bicycles on top (think Carroboro hippie ride) decided he wanted to pass a car with both coming at me with the yellow passing line NOT in his favor. The road has some crown and those bikes were flopping a bit as they cam at me. I thought oh sh*t, I'm dead. We went 3 wide. People are idiots.
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It sounds like you shoulda flung a bottle through HIS window
 
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But when it leaves your property...it's no longer a 'my grass/my property' scenario. Then it becomes a public scenario. Now say your neighbors have the same attitude. Eventually a street sweeper has to be commissioned, and now taxes go up to pay for it...and now folks bitch about that. All hypotheticals, sure...but not too far outside the realm of possibility. Similar scenario happened in my town with folks leaf blowing into the street. Now I have to pay more because people were too lazy to clean up and rake their own yards...that doesn't seem right to me.
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Did you miss the fact that he goes back and blows it back into his yard? :flipoff2:
 
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