Hey Menino, why do the Occupiers get to skate by?
Why do squatters have more rights in the city of Boston than skaters?
I’m no great fan of skateboarders — they’re just another wing of the Time Out Generation as far as I tell. But a few neck-tattooed stoners in Copley Square don’t represent the threat to public order (not to mention everyone’s nostrils) that the rabble in Dewey Square do.
Yep. Mumbles is cracking down on the scourge of skateboarders in Boston. Fresh from his anti-scooter offensive, Mumbles has identified yet another group in Boston more dangerous than the OccupySomething meatheads: Skateboarders. Now, I can't speak for Boston skateboarders, but if they're anything like the ones in my town, I can understand the sentiment of wanting to get rid of them. A good friend of mine who lives in the downtown area (Weerd, stop laughing, I know you've been to my town and "downtown" is subjective, okay?) has issues with skateboarders taking a break in his driveway (and leaving the trash and even cell phones all over his front porch) and skating in the middle of the road. I can't imagine the 'boarders in Boston are any better.
But they're being treated worse than the squatters in Dewey Square, folks that have no business camping there and have been committing crimes at a rate far outstripping that of trespass... There's drug dealing, theft, rape, assault, and more on a daily basis, yet when it comes to a city response, we're at a month and a half and the city has yet to take action. Of course, there's been an injunction filed, which means the city will have even less incentive to remove the OccupySomething meatheads.
I guess we're just going to have to wait until the OccupySomething meatheads kill someone - or take up skateboarding...
That is all.
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