I'll bet they rarely think they could hurt anyone other than themselves. Like people that swim in off limits quarries and are drowned or injured and a rescue crew arrives and loses one of their own trying to save the law breakers life.
Whole story is just so sad.
We off-roaders usually break a new trail around the gate. Not wanting to cut someones lock and setting the detour as a barricade to the 'mall utility vehicles'.
And cause we like to break new trail.
In any case he should have known something was wrong when branches started scratching his paint and turned around.
Anybody know what he was driving?
I live in that area and go mountain biking on Bear Camp rooad a lot, and we're all extremely frustrated that the BLM and Forest Service are shutting down the vast majority of the logging roads in that area with their gates.
I would never cut locks myself, being law-minded, but after seeing road after road after road be shut down for spotted owls, bears, newts, lynx and many other reasons, all of which have the effect of shutting down the vast majority of the national forests to hikers, campers, berry pickers and mountain bikers, I totally understand the reasoning of people who DO cut locks.
It's sickening, watching lands open to locals for generations be shut down, road after road after road.
Ed