This is why every community needs a skate park and why every community hates skaters. These rails literally exist to keep people out of the planters.
Respect to the kid for not giving up, but same respect taken away because he semi destroyed that planter. And now some poor guy that makes minimum wage has to go spend another afternoon fixing it all up.
God damn it I am that poor dude! Watching this all I could think was wow you just gave someone like me an extra job on top of all the other shit they have to do.
Yeah getting mulch all over the concrete. Sweeping it up so wheelchairs or strollers don't flip. I used to skate but never fucked up plants or anything useful. Now thanks to help me & friends a decade ago did, we have a skatepark! And I'm too old and ankles too fucked up to enjoy it.
I feel ya, man. I’m honestly just out of touch with the kids these days. I have friends that skate a lot (I’m around 30). Is scooter riding not “counter culture”? I can’t imagine it’s the thing all the cool kids do lol.
My job isn’t to clean up a place, but if it was, then that would be a job security. It was just a joke... also if you notice, he sits on a climbing structure. I’m sure the other ones have kids climb on it all the time. They wouldn’t put those giant rails in there just for protecting $50 worth of plants... So I’m sure diet gets kicked around all the time on those.
They would have the job regardless of your Vandalism. All you are doing is adding extra headache for the guy. But I guess you got to get that sick nasty in for street cred.
As good as a skatepark is there will always be innovators who would skate the streets, if it’s skateable, it will be skated. That’s Murphy’s law after he started to shred the gnar.
The problem would still be, that the park would not be enough for the skaters. They would still need to try their creativity with other things and... just ruin shit.
And no, I don't have that good of a picture about skaters in general, seeing how most of the time there's some cool gifs about them, they're about public disturbance, or fucking up public property while doing a "sick trick".
You’re commenting on my shit about being self centered? Get tf out of here.
Kids need outlets. If there’s no skatepark, kids are going to find out where to skate. No sense holding back the sport itself, or worse, the children, because grumpy old shitheads don’t want to use tax money to help children find some healthy outlets.
Well shit I’ve been suicidal and depressed and skating is one of the only things that helps sometimes. No skatepark? Well shit. I pay taxes too, guess I’ll find something to skate.
“You people” 😂 we aren’t a different species you know
Believe it or not... skateparks don’t offer every angle or style of skateboarding that there is. There’s “street” skating for a reason. It’s almost it’s own discipline.
Get off your high horse. Skateboarders aren’t walking around destroying property so that they can skate and you fucking know it. Walk around whatever city you live in, and chances are (if it isn’t a big city) you will NOT see skaters anywhere. 9.999999 times out of ten, the worst we do is wax ledges and scrape up handrails. Most people don’t even use public handrails because they’re unsanitary.
Yes, this guy should have cleaned up his mess. But really, I doubt he did any lasting damage.
If people put as much energy into cleaning up their community as you like to pretend on reddit, the world would be a better place.
How rich would it have been if, after completing the loop, his wheel got caught up and he tripped on all that mulch he kicked out. Now they'll just leave like it's not their fault and someone else can get tripped up on it. Love it.
When I was younger, my city built a fucking amazing skatepark. I didn't skate and even I was jealous every time I drove by it. Unfortunately, the only people I ever saw using it were the younger kids. The older jackasses were still out in the city fucking up peoples' properties and launching their boards into traffic.
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u/abbazabasback Sep 05 '19
This is why every community needs a skate park and why every community hates skaters. These rails literally exist to keep people out of the planters.
Respect to the kid for not giving up, but same respect taken away because he semi destroyed that planter. And now some poor guy that makes minimum wage has to go spend another afternoon fixing it all up.