Muscle Shoals Employees Get a Free Pass?

 

While most of our complaints concerning ATVs and UTVs have concerned residential streets in Muscle Shoals, we were sent this immediately after our recent blog:

One day this past week, 2 Muscle Shoals city employees were observed on what appeared to be a John Deere 4-wheeler (Gator?), sitting at a traffic light across from Shoals Hospital on Avalon Ave.

If you see any illegal recreational vehicles on local streets, please send us the information along with a photo. 

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Is there a renewed urgency to keep these vehicles off public roads? This year, there has been an average of one deadly local crash every few weeks. The most recent:

Teen Killed in Lawrenceburg

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4. Illegal Activities

This goes back to that earlier statement about common sense. If you die while committing a crime or participating in an illegal activity, the life insurance company can refuse to make a payment. For example, if you are killed while stealing a car, your beneficiary won’t be paid.

Okay. That one’s fairly obvious. But this next point might surprise you. What if you’re doing something illegal and you don’t even realize it? Maybe you’re walking on private property. Trespassing is a crime — even if you don’t know you’re trespassing. Let’s say you’re being chased by a big dog, and you have a heart attack and die. If it turns out that you were trespassing, your claim could be denied.

Florence police cracked down on these infractions some years ago; why haven't other law enforcement agencies?