Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Skate Park? Who Needs A Skate Park?

A skateboarder kickflips on the utility vault at Wilson and Marine. (We’ll hope his Mom doesn’t see this.)

9 comments:

  1. Well, the police tell you get off the streets, thats why. Who needs a dog park?

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  2. Marcus, maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't there a skate park just a few hundred feet from where this kid was playing with the utility boxes?

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  3. Sure, but at least when I was a kid, climbing the frames in the playground wasn't nearly as much fun as climbing the trees that surrounded it.

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  4. I wonder if these are the same kids that use our sloped cement retaining wall in front of our 3-flat as their skateboard ramp.

    I swear, every time I see them it kills me that we can't yet afford to have it (and our ugly chain-link fence) ripped out and replaced it with a nice stacked flagstone wall (and wrought iron fence)!

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  5. Honestly, some of these submissions are really beginning to remind me of Mrs. Kravitz, and she lived in the suburbs.

    Why did you climb Mt. Everest? "Because it is there." -- George Mallory

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  6. Hey Kenny, I bet UU's capability of exposing so much of what goes on in Uptown has to be frustrating to you, isn't it? You know, no one is forcing you to read UU but I guess you want to keep up with what thousands of people are reading everyday. It has to be frustrating though. Maybe you and Helen can meet for coffee and commiserate together? I know she must be just as frustrated as you.

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  7. Its would be nice for the kids in our area to have a safe and clean area to do their thing. One where cars won`t hit them or they won`t skate into us as we walk.......By clarendon park there really is no place as all you see is homeless sleeping in the park and people walking their dogs......Not a safe and healthy area to me........

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  8. just let it go. they could be doing much worse things than skateboarding...

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  9. Brian, who says they're doing anything bad at all? Except risking a broken neck. My, my.

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