PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — Christopher Free is a stay-at-home dad of four boys. He used to ride dirt bikes as a kid. Now, he just hopes they don’t crash into his Acworth yard where his sons play.
“You know, I see them just about every day, and at least once a week, I almost witness a car accident due to it,” said Free.
Recently, in the Hunter’s Walk subdivision, Free says, “They almost veered into my yard, which really got me scared.”
He felt he had to take action. Free called marshals and deputies hoping they’d enforce Paulding County’s noise ordinance or write a ticket for riding dirt bikes on the roadway over the speed limit. Two violations there.
But Free says, “My efforts have not changed anything.”
“It is annoying,” says Free’s neighbor, Ronnie Irby. He says he’s called law enforcement, too. He’s concerned about the young riders’ visibility at night, without lights.
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“We would like to get somebody out here to help us help police these people before there’s a fatality because you never know,” said Irby.
But Cindy Adams, Free’s next door neighbor, sees no issue at all. She lets the kids ride here in her backyard.
“I think it’s a shame that someone would call the police,” she said. “They’re boys doing boy things!”
Free is trying to sell his house. He says the dirt bikes have been a road block.
“Proven pretty hard, especially when you have it right in your back yard,” said Free.
Channel 2’s Rikki Klaus saw one dirt bike in the road Monday afternoon. A Marshal told her dirt bikes are not allowed on public roads.