"ksanunis" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:
are the police in your towns bias to unicycling becouse me and evan
dunbar-trials uni were riding in a park and riding on some ledges and
this secerity gaurd is like to us its time for you to leave and we
ignored him and rode to another part of the park and i was tring this
line and he gets this other gaurd to come and kick us out and he like
follows us out anser this question and would you tell some probablems
you have hade with police and security
I think MOST Police and Security guards are OK......but that will only
remain the case as long as we don't annoy them. When I see kids leap up on
park benches and such with bear trap pedals, the damage this can cause will
quite justifiably earn them a bad reputation, and a kicking out of the area.
Guards protect the area from various intrusive activities. That is
something we have to live with. Danmage to the street furniture etc, as
not a good way to build a good unicyclist reputation, and we need to earn
and then keep such a reputation. It would be so easy to get lumped, as a
whole, with the skateboarders, who have in many situations alienated the
general public. It is far easier to defend our position as long as we are
staying with clean noses
Another possiblilty is that the guards/police have a genuine concern for
your welfare. To a non unicyclist, riding a ledge on a uni seems a pretty
damn goo way to try and kill yourself. They don't know you can do it
with your eyes closed, they may just see an imminent accident. They
don't need the paperwork. We need to cut them as much slack as they need
to give us.
Nao