GA teen dies after dirt bike hits wire strung between two trees

ouch

He walked home. Tough kid.

Knew a guy who fished a lot of tournaments, salt water. He had his center console and half his scalp takin' off by a anchor cable.

Even though it was to keep trespassers off it should have been marked. IMO there isnt any reason for a kid to die because he was joy riding on his bike.

Coulda just been a cable "gate" strung between 2 trees. Doubt the landowner intended to hurt someone.

I hang an SMV sign on our place when I use them- figure its cheap insurance to not have to pull a new convertible Corolla out of the field.

I heard old stories growing up hunting in Mississippi about old rednecks using piano wire between trees to kill running deer, anyone ever heard of this?

Damn, that sucks. Prayers to the kids fam.

the article isnt clear about how the wire was placed. it says

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the cable hit the front of Goodwin's bike and the teen was thrown from the bike when the cable hit him in the neck.

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If the cable was low and there to keep someone out, I have no problem with its placement at all. We have used cable gates like this before and never intended to hurt anyone. This may have been the case.

If it was place at neck height with the intention to take someone out, that's pretty fricked up. even if the kid was trespassing.

The lesson is, dont trespass and avoid these things.

prayers for the kids family.

We had a couple gals in high school that were decapitated while snowmobile riding at a high speed and hitting a tough to see fence line in the snow

There was a kid in Laplace when I was younger died from this, it was one of the cables holding the light/telephone pole. Kid driving ducked under, he didn't.