Ever since I started skating life has been great for me. There are some mood killers though. The one I hate the most are when cops or security are being complete douche bags.
Two weeks ago when I went to San Fransisco, we were riding on the sidewalk and a cop motorcycle road by and told us to get off, but none of us heard him. He then circled around the block and got off his bike then grab my friend in the arm with all his might, I could tell by his facial expression that he was putting lot of force into it. He then ask my friend to give him the board but when he said no he turned my friend around and threw his board on the ground. After he asked us to to have a seat on the dirty floor and ask used our names and birthdays and our "sign". My friend didn't even know what that was so the cop threaten to throw him in jail and fine him 200 bucks which is ridiculous. Then he moved on to him and asked me my name, birth date, and sign. After that he let us go pretending he was all nice and shit, but that was total bull crap, the funny part was that someone was filming us after he had made us sit down. That skate day ended pretty good after we skating the civic center and met a cop that was much nicer and was willing to move away and let us skate at the library as long as we didn't tell anyone else that he was there.
South Shore is also one of those places with the mean ass security guards. The last time that we went there, they came in a group of 3 people and said that they had us on film and were sending it to the Alameda police department to throw us in jail, which seem every unreasonable. Then I asked him simply and nicely why we were not able to skate there and being the man he was he decides to call the cop instead of answering my question. We had to leave before they came because we didn't want to have something stupid like that ruin our day so we went to go chill at other skate spot.
This other we were skating the 3 stair over near the city hall, five women that didn't even work there decided to come and try to start stuff with us. One of the white women start saying oh you can't skate without a helmet and all this other crap, just being a complete ass. And after we agreed to leave they even told us that they were going to call the cops if we didn't hurry up when I was trying to put my jacket on.
What I don't understand is why us skate boarders aren't allowed to skate basically anywhere. I wish the world were much nicer to us skaters and treated us like normal people instead of villains, after all we are just trying to have fun, not hurt others.
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