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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday lashed out at ATV riders who illegally flood the streets in the summer, calling them “idiots,” “morons” and “screwballs” while vowing to destroy their vehicles.

“A particular issue that we have in New York in the warm weather on weekends are these ATVs — these two- and four-wheel motorbikes and scooters — that these screwballs all basically run around in packs making idiots of themselves, endangering themselves and the public,” Bratton said on John Catsimatidis’s 970 AM radio show.

“These people, they’re idiots, they’re morons,” he went on. “They think that they’re so smart, they think they’re so talented.”

He said cops confiscated 500 of the vehicles this year and will make a “very public display of destroying all of those bikes” in the next week or so.

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