Man clotheslined by cable
A Post Falls man was clotheslined while riding a dirt bike at No Name Lake on Saturday.
(Photo via FACEBOOK)
NEWPORT, Wash. — A Post Falls woman said her husband was nearly killed Saturday when he was clotheslined by rusty cable while dirt biking at No Name Lake.
“It took him off his bike, wrapping all the way around his neck,” Andrea Godfrey-Bond said in a post to Facebook on Monday.
Godfrey-Bond contends the cable was deliberately placed to harm passersby.
The post to social media went viral, prompting the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife to weigh in.
Fish & Wildlife Officer Severin Erickson said Zack Bond and a riding companion went around a gate at a campground where motorized vehicles have been prohibited for the past three years and accessed a road on private property. A previous landowner stretched a cable gate across the road more than a decade ago, according to Erickson.
“It wasn’t there to intentionally hurt anyone,” said Erickson, who called the incident an unfortunate accident.
Erickson said the two bikers could have been cited for going around the gate, but the department opted against giving once since the man was seriously injured.
Pend Oreille County Sheriff Glenn Blakeslee did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. Godfrey-Bond also declined to comment on Tuesday.