2nd suit filed in bike rally dispute
MYRTLE BEACH — A second lawsuit has been filed to block Myrtle Beach from enforcing new laws meant to curtail annual motorcycle rallies held along the South Carolina coast.
Greenville attorney Suzanne Coe filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Florence on behalf of the owners of several businesses.
The suit alleges that enforcing three ordinances the city passed two weeks ago would do irreparable harm to the businesses that include restaurants, bars and a North Carolina-based Web site.
City spokesman Mark Kruea told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach that officials had not been served with the lawsuit.
A couple also has sued the city in state court over an ordinance requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets.
The lawsuit says the city is trying to supersede state law, which does not require helmets.
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burton (anonymous) says...
Passing those illegial ordinances was the dumbest thing MB City Council could have done. Now, they have to fight these lawsuits and waste taxpayer's money. Dumb! Don't they have a lawyer on staff who should have warned them about this?
October 4, 2008 at 10:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
charlestonhome (anonymous) says...
No, its not a dumb move. I have been in MB for the "bike rallies" and they are nothing but an excuse to break the law and degrade society in general - peeing on the sidewalk, having sex in public, cursing worse than any sailor you may have heard, fighting, drugs, revving the motorcycle as loud as possible at 4AM and just about anything else immoral you can think of. No sane person would ever take their family to MB during this time so that crap about businesses losing money if the "rallies" went away is bull. Its just the opposite. Just ask the Chamber or most businesses. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about the so-called biker rallies". I applaud the City Council for taking a stand.
October 5, 2008 at 12:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Slick50 (anonymous) says...
Bike rallies are a symptom of a larger social problem. High school and college football, road racing, basketball, soccer, little league, boat racing, biking, fishing tournaments, marathons, and NASCAR.
Yup, it is time we outlawed the word FUN.
October 5, 2008 at 7:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
cplpunishment (anonymous) says...
Ashley Cooper, Charlestonhome........both of you are the type of tight wad waste that thinks everything is all pretty roses and blue skies all the time aren't you? Well....just because you don't like the motorcycles, don't pass judgement on everybody who rides them! MB stands to loose millions of dollars in the tourism industry if they don't change their ways. Unlike the other race who says they will boycott...bikers will! We actually stand together! I have a family, live in a very nice neighborhood, have a great job in public service and if you say me at work you would never know that I, or many that work with me ride bikes! We just might be the ones who save your worthless life someday! So get off it, the incidents you speak of mostly occur at the Atlantic Beach Rally, not the summer Harley Rally. Yes we may make noise...but you hear us and look out for us and maybe you won't hit us! Get off it....if you don't like it, don't go to MB that week!
October 5, 2008 at 8:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jammer (anonymous) says...
roughly 30 yrs ago when I started going to bike week there Myrtle Beach was nothing but a tourist town, it was a total ghost town during the off seasons... NO ONE really lived there but street bums and people that owned the businesses that counted on tourism
there weren't tons of golf courses and miles of condo's or expensive exclusive neighborhoods every mile or so on the coast line
BIKERS were there FIRST... spring MB Bike Week has ALWAYS been the most lucrative week of the year for that city, it used to be the ONLY bike week
complaining about the LOUD and OBNOXIOUS bikes reminds me of what the idiots have done around here, they move right next to the race tracks that have been there for decades and then COMPLAIN about the noise... ahemmmm YOU moved next to it you IDIOT
same thing in MB, you moved into a pure tourist town where Bike week with open mufflers has been going on for over 70 years and now you complain about it???? WTF... are you that stupid???
the businesses will be the loser, the Bikers will just move on if the harassment keeps up... and MB will be a much poorer city that will be forced back to it's roots due to an economic downturn like they never expected
but they'll probably blame that on Pres.Bush as well... lol
soon the only ppl with money in MB will be the condo owners, the rest of the city will disintegrate into abandonment
Spring Bike Week has always been that cities cash cow of the year, removing it over some complaints of noise from people that moved into a city knowing it hosted these events is just stupid economics... they will pay for it when they get their next tax bills...
the city had concerns about the black bike week, but they don't have the nads to deal with it... idiots that will fall from grace very soon
October 5, 2008 at 10:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
JLWDALFAN (anonymous) says...
i say, let the people who live in myrtle beach vote on this. if they say no, then the heck with the bikers. it is their city. i personally wouldn't want a bike rally where i live. the loud mufflers and arrogant behavior of the majority, (not all) would tick me off.
October 6, 2008 at 3:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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