Incidents when you got cited/busted from the cops during COVID

[chrisskates808]

I'm sure you've heard people getting busted from cops cause of the pandemic. I will tell you mine.

I was street skating with homies. Although this spot we were skating, there were many cops that passed by and have said nothing to us. So we thought we were fine. Until one undercover cop stopped us. I was spotting for cars so I had my mask on and was already 6 feet away from others. Luckily, we never got a ticket but he took our info down. The weird part was when the cop said "you can still keep skating and if any other police stop you guys, just refer me." I don't understand why the fuck did he take our info down and said it's okay to keep skating when he could have just said to leave.

Want to hear you guys story.

[EdLawndale]

I haven't gotten busted by the cops for skating since like 1999 where I got 4 tickets in a 2 month period.

Once me and this kid got a ticket for skating Franklin (but the dude didn't actually turn the ticket in).

Then I got a No-Helmet ticket at Carlsbad Park because I looked at the police officer as he drove away -- kinda mad-dogged him -- and he flipped a bitch and read me the riot act in front of everybody (I didn't cry but I wanted to).

Then I got one for skating the stage at Serra.

Then I finally got one for skating the stairs at my old elementary school (which is complete bullshit, if you graduated from a school, you should get a lifetime pass to skate there).

Ultimately, my mommy came to court with me and we had to pay a small fine for all the tickets combined.

My friend's younger brother was there with his mom and she was outraged and told my mom these skateboarding tickets were a gigantic waste of time. My mom nodded her head, but I don't think she agreed with her because my mom then told the judge she knew it was wrong and apologized profusely on my behalf, hence the small fine. My friend's mom got stuck with a really big fine after she repeated her story to the judge about how the tix were a gigantic waste of time.

Later on, both my mom and my friend's mom died of brain cancer.

But I'm 38 now, dude, I'm not getting any skateboarding tickets, Covid or no Covid. If I can't skate away from a cop, then I'm going to fall on the sword immediately and promise him I am never returning to the spot ever again (even if it is a school I graduated from, fuck it), I'm certainly not mad dogging him (learned my lesson) so please don't give me a ticket, Sir.

[matty_c]

No not never and you should too

[ok boomer]

[cky enthusiast]

the police in my area are way too busy to care about skating

[IUTSM]

In December I was skating this short one way, more of an alley than street. Just popping around, trying BS 360s. Couple cars went by and I got out of the way. Pretty standard fare. This cop that had been hassling the homeless/travelers on the center of town starts driving towards me and I think "well, iusedtoskatemore, time to get outta here. no reason to get into it with the fuzz" so as he pulls into the alley way, I skedaddle. The motherfucker parks his SUV smack dab in the middle of the alley and sits there grilling me as I skate away. Dude sits there blocking traffic and shit in a power flex. So I leave and bomb the little hill toward the bus station across the road. Sure enough, dude follows me toward the bus station that I'm not planing to skate. I figure it's time to take him for a ride, and he just starts following me. I did this to a few spots before just sitting down on a curb and watching the dude. Punk ass bitch wasting time.

[wurfnnjs]

Local park closed down during construction, hopped the fence to get in, caught a trespassing charge. Totally worth it, they took 9 months to pave a goddamn parking lot and didn't even touch the park, it should have never been closed in the first place. Cop that caught us was cool, but then this other cop showed up and literally did nothing but yell at us. There was a kid there and his mom came to pick him up, then she and the cop started getting into it and that's when i decided to skedaddle. One of the reasons I think we caught a charge rather than just being told to leave was that when the cop showed up one of the kids there loudly said "let's bail" Fuckeen dumbass. Either way whole situation was complete bs, and the charges were dropped anyway so it was fine.

[pbj]

in my experience, it has only made street skating easier.
i take my precautions any other times, but security doesn't want to chase down some skaters who are not wearing masks.
any time i see a cop without a mask i try to give them grief too. i really could care less but as a public servant/authority figure they should always be wearing them.

[tony mugu]

In the UK it really just depends on what city and how lucky you are... one city cops couldn’t give a fuck about what you skated or with how many people as long as it wasn’t ridiculous. Other city I went to study at I didn’t skate the day it happened fortunately but my friends got fined £200 from the police then £200 from the university and I’ve seen police confiscating boards off people...

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to take property in situations like this but police in certain areas in the UK are the worst, definitely bullied as kids and deserve to lose their mothers to Alzheimer’s.

[UnconcernedCitizen]

never gotten a ticket, cops or security guards just wave you away

[Skatebeard]

A few people I know here (UK) have been hit with £200 covid fines for skating parks in the greater London area during lockdown (when parks have technically been closed), but tbh it's a total lottery depending where you live... some local authorities kept them open, some didn't.

You're far more likely to just get a bit of a talking to and sent on your way.

The idea of actually being ticketed for skateboarding (covid aside) blows my mind.

[somedudefromnj]

In December I was skating this short one way, more of an alley than street. Just popping around, trying BS 360s. Couple cars went by and I got out of the way. Pretty standard fare. This cop that had been hassling the homeless/travelers on the center of town starts driving towards me and I think "well, iusedtoskatemore, time to get outta here. no reason to get into it with the fuzz" so as he pulls into the alley way, I skedaddle. The motherfucker parks his SUV smack dab in the middle of the alley and sits there grilling me as I skate away. Dude sits there blocking traffic and shit in a power flex. So I leave and bomb the little hill toward the bus station across the road. Sure enough, dude follows me toward the bus station that I'm not planing to skate. I figure it's time to take him for a ride, and he just starts following me. I did this to a few spots before just sitting down on a curb and watching the dude. Punk ass bitch wasting time.

this just reminded me of something kinda unrelated

you ever have one of these idiots pull in front of you while you´re bombing a hill? Fucking dumb

scuse my language

[Crislerheaven]

I'm sure you've heard people getting busted from cops cause of the pandemic. I will tell you mine.

I was street skating with homies. Although this spot we were skating, there were many cops that passed by and have said nothing to us. So we thought we were fine. Until one undercover cop stopped us. I was spotting for cars so I had my mask on and was already 6 feet away from others. Luckily, we never got a ticket but he took our info down. The weird part was when the cop said "you can still keep skating and if any other police stop you guys, just refer me." I don't understand why the fuck did he take our info down and said it's okay to keep skating when he could have just said to leave.

Want to hear you guys story.

He just took down your info because aside from being a cop he’s also a tm and is trying to hook you and your boys up with some product

[pedro_mayn]

During local lockdown in Wales a couple of months back, we tried to do a town over (Swansea) however we kind of knew we would get busted as they seemed to be on it. However it seemed that a few crews were managing a few sessions, so we would try at least to get a skate in and film some stuff. The week prior to going over this time we did get told to disperse and the copper looked ready to kick off (the fine applicable was something like £200 for first offence, but did depend on the cop's discretion IIRC). To be fair on that occassion there were of us, so this time we kept the crew small to about 3 people, so it didn't give them a reason to kick off.

The spot was near the beach front and a park, so we got to see how busy it was with people walking on the promenade and within the park its self. We just thought 'fuck it, let's film something here and see how it goes' since it seemed to be life as normal for everyone else. At one point a cop van came in to check the regs on the cars parked up by the prom and then speak to a few people to see if what they were up to was 'essential', they left and another van drove past a few times on patrol.

Whilst we were filming a line one cop van pulls up and both cops start to break up groups of people, tell people sitting on benches to move along on the prom and generally stop people passing if there were more than one person. We see them go and come back, when they spotted us and they both get out and take our details. Luckily they were pretty cool with us, even though two of us were from the town over and just said if we were caught again then we would get fined. Safe to say I didn't fancy risking that for a sake of a couple of weeks of not skating that city for a bit.

[throwaway187]

I have been kicked out during covid but honestly street skating has been easier for me personally since it got serious.  The closing of skateparks or filling them with sand is not cool but covid has made it easier to skate a school of any type almost at least in my experiences.  Its getting more back to order now as a lot of schools near me are back in.

[Salmon Agah]

I had the opposite experience during COVID.

I was at the local skatepark on a Saturday morning right around April/May area.

I was masked skating the big bowl section, pretty much alone, but there was somewhere around 50/60 people, children and their parents, skating this lower, miniramp/bowl section. There was already max people limits in place for public areas at this time, so I figure we were all gonna get the boot eventually.

Sure enough, three county sheriffs pull in to the parking lot and begin to speak to the parents and children in the lower section.

Figuring we were getting kicked out, I did one more grind and pulled out to go collect my shit to leave.

Getting my things together, I notice no one in the lower section is gathering their things. They're all listening to the sheriffs, but it doesn't seem they've been told they need to leave... So, I set my stuff down and continue skating/ waiting to hear what they will say when they get to my section.

When they finally approach me, two sheriffs explained to me that they had received orders to implement social distancing rules, but were going to do nothing of the such, and simply needed to come to the park to give the appearance that they cared and were doing something (assumably to the order giver). They said I could continue skating, or really doing what I chose within normal law, and they would not impede upon my ability to do so.

While it was nice to be able to keep skating, I really don't want my public servants to be coming to put on a pony show to put on the appearance of enforcement, I want them to be reasonably enforcing laws to make our communities safer. It all left me feeling a bit dumbfounded and surprised, particularly with how early on into the pandemic this was, and how comfortable they felt making that call.

This was a county that, if you walked in to the gas station with a mask on you were going to be the only person with one on, at any point during the last year.

[IUTSM]

I had the opposite experience during COVID.

I was at the local skatepark on a Saturday morning right around April/May area.

I was masked skating the big bowl section, pretty much alone, but there was somewhere around 50/60 people, children and their parents, skating this lower, miniramp/bowl section. There was already max people limits in place for public areas at this time, so I figure we were all gonna get the boot eventually.

Sure enough, three county sheriffs pull in to the parking lot and begin to speak to the parents and children in the lower section.

Figuring we were getting kicked out, I did one more grind and pulled out to go collect my shit to leave.

Getting my things together, I notice no one in the lower section is gathering their things. They're all listening to the sheriffs, but it doesn't seem they've been told they need to leave... So, I set my stuff down and continue skating/ waiting to hear what they will say when they get to my section.

When they finally approach me, two sheriffs explained to me that they had received orders to implement social distancing rules, but were going to do nothing of the such, and simply needed to come to the park to give the appearance that they cared and were doing something (assumably to the order giver). They said I could continue skating, or really doing what I chose within normal law, and they would not impede upon my ability to do so.

While it was nice to be able to keep skating, I really don't want my public servants to be coming to put on a pony show to put on the appearance of enforcement, I want them to be reasonably enforcing laws to make our communities safer. It all left me feeling a bit dumbfounded and surprised, particularly with how early on into the pandemic this was, and how comfortable they felt making that call.

This was a county that, if you walked in to the gas station with a mask on you were going to be the only person with one on, at any point during the last year.

Tehama, Shasta, Lassen? I was up that way in late September, and the air quality was brutal, like fellating a tail pipe bad, and still I didn't see any white folks wearing a mask anywhere. I'm like damn, ruin your lungs for a political statement. sweet

[Francis Xavier]

Rule #1 Don't get caught

[cilantro]

Here’s my two instances dealing with cops during lockdown:
First one, we stopped at a skatepark that was fenced up to keep people from entering. A cop came by to kick us out and politely asks us to leave, so I say, okay lemme get my stuff. I guess because of the wind he couldn’t hear me, because next he makes a face and grabs his pistol and yells, Oh are you going to be a fucking bitch now?
Everybody at the skate park, scooter kids and moms, just stopped and waited to see what his next move was. I just stopped talking and slowly grabbed my stuff, packed my car and left without saying a word.

Second time was maybe a month later. We were taking full advantage of street skating at this point without a single interaction with police. One day my friends and I split up for the night, but a buddy and I wanted to skate flat so we posted up on a sidewalk that connected to a park.
Suddenly some dude snarls from the street, what the fuck do you think you’re doing? He had his gun out and pointed at the ground and starts yelling at us that we’re damaging the park. His face was beet red and his hands were shaking. At some point he like full-speed ran towards us just to stand close to us, maskless, to scream in our face about how we didn’t pay for the park. I didn’t say anything, just stared him back carefully and slowly. I was honestly scared that I was going to die for wanting to land a couple of rocket flips.
Anyway I didn’t get a ticket either of those times but I wasn’t exactly committing a crime either.

[pizzafliptofakie]

The couple run ins I've had with cops in the past year they were trying to be overly nice to the point of it getting awkward.

[Francis Xavier]

The couple run ins I've had with cops in the past year they were trying to be overly nice to the point of it getting awkward.

Did they offer to film?

[TastyBurrito]

Here’s my two instances dealing with cops during lockdown:
First one, we stopped at a skatepark that was fenced up to keep people from entering. A cop came by to kick us out and politely asks us to leave, so I say, okay lemme get my stuff. I guess because of the wind he couldn’t hear me, because next he makes a face and grabs his pistol and yells, Oh are you going to be a fucking bitch now?
Everybody at the skate park, scooter kids and moms, just stopped and waited to see what his next move was. I just stopped talking and slowly grabbed my stuff, packed my car and left without saying a word.

If that was his reaction to "not being listened to." I'll bet good money that cop will get trigger happy/quick and kill someone over nonsense.

[JANUS]

I posted something in “things that made you laugh today” thread. I went to skate a park early in the morning in April, completely unaware it was March break (you know...because it was April). So at like 9 AM a throng of families showed up and I decided to skate home. As I was leaving the cops started rolling up, so I yelled “the block is hot! The pigs are in the palace!” But the families ignored my cries and I got to watch them get hassled by the cops from a safe distance. I also saw in my news feed that some little kid got a $880 ticket for skating that park earlier this month.

I’ve had good luck so far, though. I’m a loner, so I don’t think they really see me. A security guard snuck up on me while I was rub bricking a curb at the post office. He asked what I was doing, so I told him “I’m making it nice.” He laughed at me and told me to go make my own curb nice.

[cilantro]

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Here’s my two instances dealing with cops during lockdown:
First one, we stopped at a skatepark that was fenced up to keep people from entering. A cop came by to kick us out and politely asks us to leave, so I say, okay lemme get my stuff. I guess because of the wind he couldn’t hear me, because next he makes a face and grabs his pistol and yells, Oh are you going to be a fucking bitch now?
Everybody at the skate park, scooter kids and moms, just stopped and waited to see what his next move was. I just stopped talking and slowly grabbed my stuff, packed my car and left without saying a word.

[close]

If that was his reaction to "not being listened to." I'll bet good money that cop will get trigger happy/quick and kill someone over nonsense.

I live in south texas so the police are militarized as fuck because the whole country thinks we’re riddled with drug crime. Literally one of the safest places to live in the country but propaganda has everyone thinking otherwise 

[ok boomer]

This is me getting busted in a high Ollie zone

[cookiecuttersuburb]

I live in a small Midwest city and the cops here were VERY chill about us skating during Covid.  We’d skate out tiny ghettoish area prefab that we’d have to hop two locked fences to get to and they’d just wave at us or give us the thumbs up (cause they knew the whole outdoor lockdown thing was nonsense).  We’d skate the closest thing we have to a plaza where our warehouse / ritzy condos neighborhoods come together and we’d have boarders bladers bmxers and scooter riders taking up both lanes of the street trying to hit the manny pad / ledges and the cops would just drive around us (it’s 1  block off 2 very busy streets) and often wave or give us the rock on when they’d roll past. Hell one even told us to be careful if we were gonna skate the park in the nicer area cause they have cameras and the city has  nothing better to do than try to ruin some kids day hahahaha. 

[layzieyez]

I'm sure you've heard people getting busted from cops cause of the pandemic. I will tell you mine.

I was street skating with homies. Although this spot we were skating, there were many cops that passed by and have said nothing to us. So we thought we were fine. Until one undercover cop stopped us. I was spotting for cars so I had my mask on and was already 6 feet away from others. Luckily, we never got a ticket but he took our info down. The weird part was when the cop said "you can still keep skating and if any other police stop you guys, just refer me." I don't understand why the fuck did he take our info down and said it's okay to keep skating when he could have just said to leave.

Want to hear you guys story.

Did he flash you a badge? Sounds like you need to check your credit history and see if someone is stealing your identity since you and your friends gave him a bunch of information.

[throwaway187]

This happened to me might have to turn the sound up some.  Sorry in advance I don't know how to link Instagram links where the photo of the post shows properly. This was a real cop not security. Yes I did go back and get the trick. Never mind it worked!! 

[nickpaolucci]

This happened to me might have to turn the sound up some.  Sorry in advance I don't know how to link Instagram links where the photo of the post shows properly. This was a real cop not security. Yes I did go back and get the trick. Never mind it worked!! 

wow, that spot

[throwaway187]

Sacramento city college. Watch the new Pizza video or John Worthingtons part on thrasher....