Scumbags. Booby trapped the railroad bed with railroad spikes.

Years ago there was an article in a dirt bike mag, Earth First had circulated a newsletter that showed various ways to stop them, including a device hooked up to a shot gun shell & running a rope across the trail. These people are f'd in the head.

I read that, it gave me shivers cause I used to live in Wilton and have good friends in Milford.
Kinda hit close to home I guess.
Fuckin' cowards, thats all I can say, not enough spine to talk to anyone face to face.
Im usually an even temperd individual, but PLEASE LORD!! let me catch somone doing this
to any trail ...........
Jim

I read it but how is that going to work when there is snow over it. They said it was like that in the winter.

WTF those people need have there nutz cut off so they can't bring anymore trash into this world!

It sickens me that people would stoop so low as to injure and even kill someone just because they think we are hurting the environment or because they don't like us riding someone. Didn't the article state they think it was towards quads because they ride them down the bed when they shouldn't be. If that's the case, call the cops. Do the right thing instead or seriously injuring someone or worse, killing them.

This happened in Rindge and Mason NH a few years ago. A guy was riding a ZR on the Rindge RR bed when he was either decapitaited or suffered severe fatal head trama induced by a tree that was cut and deliberately placed at head height on the trail. In Mason some newcomer from Mass (sorry guys) bought a house and didn't realize the RR bed in his back yard was used by sleds in the winter and wasn't happy about it. He took a telephone pole and placed it halfway across the trail to act like a fence and than on the open side he put aircraft cable to work as a "tripline" but it was neck height. My brother and I tore it down and had a few words with the guy, as well as calling f&g and the police.

Nothing a friendly match won't take care of

MEAN PEOPLE SUCK! I saw that last week in the magazine. I couldn't believe it. I just thought about what would happen if I was riding down that trail with my 3 year old son. MEAN PEOPLE SUCK!

So if they were to catch these scumbags what would the sentence be, jail time, community service, a slap on the wrist. From the picture in the article I would say they should be brought up on assault charges at the very least, maybe even attempted murder. Those spikes weren’t going anywhere.

I have been on tracks a couple times in the winter and they tend to grab the skis. I have noticed where I have ridden they tend to be thin in the snow department.

Can someone post that article here?

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I wont write it down the name as the less its circulated the better,a few years ago I saw a published handbook full of various booby traps aimed at outdoor recreationalist.Sick.It is their intent to scare people off the trails.Do you want your kids riding around after school with these nutjobs on the loose.

i remember reading the article in the milford cabinet in the spring. check their web site.

WOW what some people will do absolutly amazes me and to think in most cases they don't even realize what will happen if some one hits it. JUST PLAIN STUPID!

Here is the best that I could do

If the Perpetrator is found, those Spikes should be shoved up there ass.

Whoever did it probably lives very close to that bridge.

I have personally seen quite a few trees, ropes, chains and cables streched across a trail because someone within the area did not like the sounds of the dirtbikes we rode as kids in Mass. We always had land owner permission to ride so we were not breaking any laws. I will agree that a dozen kids on dirtbikes probably makes a lot of noise but putting something across or on the trail is sick. FYI We never were able to prove who did this but we had a good idea.

its dangerous enough riding on tracks. that person who did that should serve time for attempted man slaughter

no offence to people out of state, but if you moved to NH because you love the place do you f#$%ing home work before you by a pallice with a trail in the back yard !!!!! leave the land with tarils for the people who enjoy them !!! just bought in startford tried to get it in the deed for the people around me not to be able to close the trail that goes through the back yards of this newly devoloped property.And yes, mean people do suck!!!

UNBELIEVABLE



Pretty sad...............

the rindge incident was actually a bunch of teeangers that got bored and decided to cut down a tree, but didnt think about the fact it landed in the trail, a good friend of mine rode by the spot about 45 mins before the man on the zr lost his head, scary stuff.

Yeah people that do this should get jail time, the father of a kid i went to college with died because people put a tree across a trail..... Even if some punks think it is a big joke i say they should be locked up for life. One stupid stunt like that doesn't just hurt the person that is injured or killed and their family, but it hurts the whole community that they are from. Snowmobiling can be a dangerous enough sport without these idiots booby trapping our trail systems.

Oh I know that, I was just saying that such incidents happen already in this state.

Holy shit that is scary.

My dad totaled his sled on a RR bed up at twin mtn, a spike grabed his ski, stopped the sled dead in its track, bent the A-arms and the whole chasis on his 04 rev.

Let me guess...precision skis on that sled? The outside carbide on the ski likes to grab the buckles that connect two sections of rail in line. I know from experience myself. After the second time, I ditched those shitty skis and I haven't had a similar incident since. I stay away from railroad tracks at all costs but sometimes you can't avoid a short stretch.