Heaven forbid!
According to the Mercury News:
Amid the worst budget crisis in city history, with even police officers worried for their jobs, city leaders last fall said San Jose’s gem of a skate park — California’s largest — would have to either be left as an unstaffed free-for-all, privatized or possibly even padlocked.
Heaven forbid an unstaffed free-for-all! Then it would be just like every public skatepark in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin, and probably a few other states too.
- Thanks to Matthijs for the tip.
Posted by: on February 2nd, 2012
More posts by kilwag
Categories: Annoy, Skate Harassment, Skateparks
Tags: California, pay to play, San Jose
And in California (Santa Cruz, Pacifica, Scotts Valley, Roosevelt, to name only a few.)
Menlo Park, Redwood City, Sunnyvale, …..
Granite, St. Helena, Berkeley, Alameda, Sebastopol….
However, there are “brown people” in San Jose, AKA “not white” So the real trophy wives of San Jose would be more reluctant to drop their kids off at the cheapest babysitter in town to butt board for the day if it didn’t have staff.
There are other unstaffed skate parks in San Jose in much sketchier locations.
plus only old guy left overs from the mid-80′s vert ramp days would wear pads
Cleanest most excellent park I’ve ever skated (and slept in)… I dig it staffed. But “free-for-all” definitely beats padlocked. That’d be stupid… but considering the decision is in the hands of government officials… stupid wouldn’t be a surprise.
Padlocked = unstaffed free for all. There is no fence high enough to keep skaters out of a park like that.
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri…
Many lovely, well used, safely unstaffed free- for-alls.
Every park in Canada is free.
There would be drinking, pot smoking, graffiti,bikes and lots of skateboarding (and other activities that lawyers in California could sue someone for)
Hope they leave it. I’ve been there twice. One time they let me skate. The other they closed it on a sunny,dry evening.Fuckers!
They should cut down the fence and sell it for scrap. That would be a good fundraiser!
^SOMEBODY ELECT THIS DUDE TO SAN JOSE CITY COUNCIL.^
The Knoxville TN park is unstaffed and it is terrifying den of depravity and iniquity. I’ve actually seen people smoking cigarettes there! The horror. The HORROR! Save me oh mighty skatepark staffer! Auuuurrgh!
Just make sure the locals use the right kind of paint when they coat then place.
padlock that nagger and fill it with dirt.