Of course, the city calls the stealing “seizing,” but it amounts to the same thing.

BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Baltimore dirt bike owners may be forced to lock up their vehicles, or face seizures by police.

A bill to be introduced at tonight’s City Council meeting would require residents who own dirt bikes and unregistered motorcycles — illegal to operate but not own in the city— to “immobilize” them.

The bill, sponsored by the Dixon administration, would make it illegal not to have either an ignition lock or wheel clamp on dirt bikes to prevent the vehicle from being ridden.

The measure would allow police to seize any of the vehicles not properly secured, Dixon spokesman Sterling Clifford said.

Not only will the city take your motorcycle simply because you don’t have it locked up, they’ll also prevent you from re-buying it at auction under the same law.

Of course, how forcing citizens to lock up their motorcycles is going to prevent unregistered and non-street legal cycles from roaming the streets anyway (I’m assuming there are already laws being enforced against that sort of thing) is beyond me.