What are some dumb things that happen at your skatepark?

[bawtawd5]

[jorge]

I was gonna say kids skating the flatbar non stop for 2 hours when a perfect 6 ft bowl sits untouched next to them but your link is probably more dumb.

[Francis Xavier]

Kids skating flat ground outside of the park with helmets on, and this video

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

Grown men skateboarding

[jamersonbass]

Dude, he rhymed 95 with 95!

I'm from Mid-Michigan...  You know how in season 1 of True Detective there was that line, "There's all different kinds of ghettos."?  Let's just say there are a lot of White Trash/Meth Heads/Gun Nuts.   My closest skatepark is a prefab that was built around 2003 and has really gone to shit maintenance-wise.  I will usually opt to drive 45 minutes over to Saginaw, where they have a great plaza style, California Skateparks built park. 

Anyways, back to the prefab, there are a group of youngish alcoholics/drifters that love meeting up at the picnic table directly outside the park.  They pretty much just drink Natty Ice and talk shit/vibe people out all day.  So there's that.

This other time I was there and this SUV showed up bumping some terrible Juggalo shit while rolling up.  All of the sudden, there were 4 white dudes all wearing the same terrible shade of bright green t-shirts storm in and just start snaking people and acting ridiculous. 

I wonder what other kind of bullshit I would see if I went there more regularly...

[shark tits]

oh man! this reminds me of a local ex skater named 'hardflip stu' who's rap name is stulius ceasar. he's good at rapping but his name makes me laugh to say.
i seen a girl drive her suv onto the cement pyramid once. she didn't crush a contest rail or get arrested so it wasn't stupid but if it backfired it would've been.

[expired]

Last summer at one of my local parks this guy showed up on his Toyota motorcycle and started riding around in the bowl, every time he went over a hip he bottomed out, thought he was super cool and then sped off across the field beside the park after falling over in the bowl. I have footage of it on my old computer.
Besides that id say the dumbest thing that happens is me trying to jump down anything bigger then a 4 set.

[Rudie Weatherman]

dads on scooters

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

kids skate there all day and never street skate, and try to regulate like its EMB or something when its a publicly built, owned, and patrolled skate park. Most of the current generation of skate kids are pretty cool, they skate everything and no trick is out of bounds if its done well. The one annoying thing is that a lot of them don't understand that real street skating is done in the streets. And yeah, I get staying there all day long if you live in bumfuck Kansas and there are no good street spots for a hundred miles in every direction, but a kid in SF or any other major city is blowing it if they spend all day skating in a tiny cage when they are surrounded by a gold mine of spots.

[OldManSkate]

Kids spray painting ramps and the parking lot. One time, some old dude was driving his RC car around the park...wtf

[JB]

i was skating the dc plaza in ohio when it first opened and a van full of unicycle riders showed up and pretty much put on a demo. some dude "grinded" the biggest handrail there on his pedal. it was one of the dorkiest things ive ever seen.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

i was skating the dc plaza in ohio when it first opened and a van full of unicycle riders showed up and pretty much put on a demo. some dude "grinded" the biggest handrail there on his pedal. it was one of the dorkiest things ive ever seen.

This may make me a dork but a dude grinding a rail on a unicycle pedal actually sounds pretty gnarly. I'ts definitely some sideshow shit, but I'd be impressed if I saw it once. If they become as widespread as scooters or rollerblades used to be it would lose its novelty quite quickly though.

[ImportantGuy]

The obstacles themselves are pretty dumb.

[Sanka Coffie]

normal people either walking slow as fuck the longest way possible across the park or coming in and sitting on the ledge everyone is clearly skating instead of some bench off to the side.

Honorable mention:

[Little Debbie]

dudes breaking bottles in the park, throwing fireworks in the park. there was a shooting at my local park a few years ago that killed some kid. but it's the best damn park in town.

[franc]

Kids spray painting ramps

Skatepark graffitis can be so ill!

Twats who wax the ledge to death then don't even skate it for more than 3 minutes but have ruined it for most people.

[Cthulhu!]

If you set anything down it's going to get stolen.

[roba]

drunken 14-year-olds

[SodaJerk]

Benihanas.
And this

[sharkin]

i saw a condom once

but it's the condoms i don't see that make me wonder

[somethingmustbreaknow]

one day a hot girl came across and said  "i know this is your space
and i respect that,  i do not want to bother you guys, but would it be
possible for us to get some pictures here?" we say yeah sure go for
it just pay attention. then they command in an full blown photo team
and start making pics of her doing all crazy yoga poses,  not just on
flat,  but also on the edge of the deep end, on park rails, and ledges
and on the pillars that hold the bridge.  it was pretty dope. then they
asked us to perform "moves" "jumps" and "stunts" in the background.
we declined the kind offer to act as background amusement monkeys

another day, another photocrew comes with a dog, a fucking pug and
they tell us that he is a social media/instagram star and that they want
to take pics at the skate park, with us doing tricks in their background.

[DaSk8D00D]

Shoutout to Becker Park, my old local back in Peoria, IL. People been robbed at gunpoint there, I’ve had about 2-3 phones stolen over the years (went to the ghetto ass complex next door and got em back too), and gave us this 9 million view youtube gem right here



It was in a shitty neighborhood and was all tiny prefab obstacles but that park raised me

[JB]

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i was skating the dc plaza in ohio when it first opened and a van full of unicycle riders showed up and pretty much put on a demo. some dude "grinded" the biggest handrail there on his pedal. it was one of the dorkiest things ive ever seen.

[close]

This may make me a dork but a dude grinding a rail on a unicycle pedal actually sounds pretty gnarly. I'ts definitely some sideshow shit, but I'd be impressed if I saw it once. If they become as widespread as scooters or rollerblades used to be it would lose its novelty quite quickly though.

it wouldve been a lot more impressive if he grinded it while juggling

[GinosGroceries]

I went to a skatepark in Superior, Wisconsin this summer and there were a bunch of middle schoolers playing on the ramps and making out. I guess there's not much to do in Superior but damn it was uncomfortable.

[Dwyck]

Kids spray painting ramps and the parking lot. One time, some old dude was driving his RC car around the park...wtf

hudson valley locs sprayed "nigger" at this park by my college so I don't skate there no more

[AitchBeeGayBuh]

Homeless people overdosing.

Some jackass got his eyeball knocked out in a fight recently.

Another dude died supposedly over a parking spot in the same week.

Still go to this place over the Vans park any day though.

[shark tits]

Homeless people overdosing.

Some jackass got his eyeball knocked out in a fight recently.

Another dude died supposedly over a parking spot in the same week.

Still go to this place over the Vans park any day though.

what park is that?
some dude lost an eye gentrifying burnside yrs ago.

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

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Kids spray painting ramps and the parking lot. One time, some old dude was driving his RC car around the park...wtf

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hudson valley locs sprayed "nigger" at this park by my college so I don't skate there no more

[colt cannon lunchbox]

Shoutout to Becker Park, my old local back in Peoria, IL. People been robbed at gunpoint there, I’ve had about 2-3 phones stolen over the years (went to the ghetto ass complex next door and got em back too), and gave us this 9 million view youtube gem right here



It was in a shitty neighborhood and was all tiny prefab obstacles but that park raised me

That video was soooo sick. Wonder what those kids are doing now haha

[Atiba Applebum]

http://www.si.com/swimsuit/model/aly-raisman/2017/photos#7