Dickish skateboarders could force city to put chain-link fence around 9/11 memorial in Public Garden

Instead of an ugly chain-link fence can't some local artist or ironworker come up with some other suitable skateboard obstacle to protect the memorial? The publicity alone would make it worth doing the job probono

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Punks. Period. That is many skateboarders are. They skate their wimpy little skateboards around kids and toddlers at very public venues- where they are not supposed to be . . . and I'm waiting. I'm just waiting for one of these punks to hurt or injure a kid in front of me- and then I will help the irate father of the kid pummel the skateboarder and his friends senseless. Keep it up skate douches. Keep it up. Not alone on this either- sick of these punks and their sense of entitlement- like every public space created is a place for them to film each other doing their little boy hops over trash cans and things. And they travel in packs for a reason- so they can wise off to people who tell them they shouldn't be skating where they are skating. See- they wouldn't tell the woman I saw them harass on the Greenway last summer to get lost or to "Blow me" if it were three or four of them. But six or seven? Oh- yeah- then they have big talk mouths- big tough guys in packs. Alone or with just a buddy or two? No such big words or big talk then. Total wimps- and cowards.

Does no one else see the perverse parallel here to 9/11? To protect the memorial we'll put up a barrier so no one can visit it! Just like we "protect" our "freedom" by removing our freedoms.

And where is the damn skatepark the city promised the skater community years ago?

yeah cuz if those punks skate that stone surface, nicely designed to grind, which most people never knew existed, the terrorist win!

let's make sure we keep our parks full of art and memorials that repel activity and keep the kids, I mean obese vidiots, inside on their asses. good plan.

Sometimes you need to get medieval on these punks, and New England has no shortage of traditional options. First offense: the stocks. Second offense: tar and feathers. Third offense: Caning. Fourth offense: ridden out of town on a rail. Fifth offense: Skateboard suppository. There will be no six-time losers.

Have you ever been enjoying a rare peaceful park when the skateboarders come in and start whacking off? That's what I'll call it. The whack of their boards hitting or being hit, and the scraping of their wheels. It's a racket, and I've seen them scrape up other monuments, get chased away by police, and return as soon as the police leave.

And is there NO ONE in Boston who actually knows how to skateboard? They just make noise, damage property, and make people nervous as you fall off curbs beside them.

Can't you useless white kids do something less annoying, like deal drugs or mug people?

. . . the city could actually follow through with the municipal skate park plan that was proposed over six years ago. Most other cities and towns have provided kids with interesting, safe and legal places to skate. Boston's failure to continue working toward this goal is the reason these kids skate anything they can get their wheels up onto.

the city was supposed to build a skate park years ago, but in typical menino fashion, it doesn't get done!! unless there is municipal union pressure or a payoff, NOTHING gets done in Boston. when are we going to get a brain in city hall?

To all those complaining, it's the cities fault. They promised us a skatepark under the zakim by the year 2009, and it turns out MassPort still owns the property the skatepark was intended to be built upon. The park was to be constructed as part of the big dig. Some say it's a mob cover up and we'll never see the park. So much money was raised over the past 9 years or so and we haven't seen any progress.

For more information:

>> http://www.charlesriverskatepark.org/

oh my god dont scratch our 9/11 memorial, people who i didnt know died 10 years ago. dont worry about the fact that the united states has used middle eastern countries for the past 70 years and killed far, far more than the 3,000 people who died on 9/11. its not like the problems in egypt et al. werent a direct result of american military presence and imperialism. let's just use these countries for our own political and economic advantage and then cry when some religious fanatics finally lash out and retaliate. being an ignorant bandwagon patriot is really cool and skateboarding is super gay, i hate kids having fun. why not play golf or ride around in really tight pants on a bike, those are somehow much more mature than skateboarding