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New School BMX 2004 - Now => New School Park, Street & Dirt => Topic started by: nosepickben on March 28, 2011, 09:28 AM
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OK, your 8 year old child is having a blast on his bmx on a warm sunday afternoon at an appropriately sized skatepark, it's a council built, retard-designed facility in a busy park in a nice part of town, if you know where i live you've probably guessed it already. Now, a skater of aprox 16-18 years old does the thing that all skaters do from time to time, loses his board on a flatbank fliptrick and sends it straight into my boys leg who was riding about 15 yards away. Complete accident. My boy stops to examine his painful and bruising shin, says "soz" to the skater (bless him). The skater picks up his board and walks away like nothing has happened. Now this park is not he biggest place, there are about 3 bmx'ers riding, a handful of skaters and a group of about 6-8 young boys, probly 6-9 yrs old, we all know how unpredictable they can be in a skatepark so you watch out for 'em dont ya, especially if you notice that they have muscular parental support. Now this same skater (with headphones on) has several near misses with more than one of the small children and you can see his frustation growing, his gesticulation becoming wilder, he directs an insult at your child for the second time in 5 minutes, he mouths of to his mates about little kids being in his way. You try to attract his attention to ask him to cool his jets a bit but he doesn't hear you/ignores you. Your child now comes to you wincing, and shows you the bruise, it's bothering him and it's pissed me off a bit too to be honest.
What would you have done......
I Know what i did.
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I'd have had a word. Prob said something like, we wont be here long and give the kids a chance to ride as well.
I Know what i did.
Come on, what DID you do?
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Same as the others said, plus everyboby has an equal right to be at a public park so He was out of order for acting up like that. At the very least He could've said sorry to Your littl'un or checked if He's ok. I'm guessing by what You put at the end of Your post there was a fierce reaction by You?!
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yeah come on.........what did youdo the guy? :)
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personally I don't like kids I the skate park, for the simple fact that most of them just sit there or will stand on the mini-ramp while you ride it.
But if your boy was doing nothing of the sort I guess the skater was a complete :Aresehole: so you should have just gone and had a few"!calm"words with him, and if that didn't work I heard skateboards burn well :LolLolLolLol:
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kind of been there myself, took my lad and his mates to the local metal council park a year or so ago......it was full of local scrotes either doing nothing or rolling around on their excuse for BMX's and none of them with any brakes (they were worst at riding than me!!) so i let my lad and his mates have free roam while a few of the scrotes looked my bike over. After the innitial "can you do a back flip" "can you do a tailwhip" and "well what can you do then" questions they got bored and started making my lads life a misery by riding across them, or standing on the ramps so they couldn't skate them......then progressed to riding across them telling them it was their park and to fook off.
Up to this point i'd let it go but i had great pleasure in telling them that the skaters were with me and it was not 'their' park. well that was the polite version ;D
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This is always a delicate situation, I ride my local track with my friend and my 10yr old son, and down there is a gang of lads who have decided its their park, they happily drop their bikes on top of the table top and sit down on it, you can be riding behind them and they purposely stop in front of you, or chase you rubbing your back wheel.
Well one day a lad in front of me did the stop in fornt trick, and i totally tboned him, and I mean totally, wiped him and his bike out. he was about 12ish, my natural instict was yell at him for being an idiot, using lots of expletives, as i was in quite a bit of pain as i had to remove a set of bars out of my crotch. The kid seemed all well, went over to his mates and they were all laughing at me limping off with blood running out my shoulder and nursing my crushed plums
Half an hour passes and Im back at the startline and i get a tap on the shoulder from this huge bloke [bear in mind im 5'5"] who then batters me around the head a few times, lucky for me I was wearing a motoX helmet so just got a large amount of brain shake, but the blow to stomach that sent me backwards inserting my saddle into my rectum was most uncomfortable. Turns out he'd gone to tell Daddy that a he was abused and threatened by me, the little shit was stood behind his dad pulling faces and laughing while his old man was threatening to kill me.
So i went out for a nice ride and came home feeling like i'd been raped in the ass by saddle, sore plums, a cut shoulder and it turns out, bent forks and front wheel as well. And what could i do about? NOTHING they are kids, you even look sideways and they know you cant do a thing. Anyway, im hoping that some time has passed and theyve gone on to chasing girls and drinking cider and will leave the track alone, as they made it hell last summer to ride there
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Doesn't matter where you are, or what you're doing, there's no excuse for bad manners.
As the elder, and the instigator, that skateboarder should have been courteous regardless of the situation.
You were right to remind him of that fact ;)
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Dev Green then I take it Ben? I always take my mate's son early on sundays when he's down for the weekend so the low-lives are still in bed, but you have to be carefull about your language as every parent only sees their kid's side of the argument.
Fook it, did you manage to accidentally knock him off his board then >;-)
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This is always a delicate situation, I ride my local track with my friend and my 10yr old son, and down there is a gang of lads who have decided its their park, they happily drop their bikes on top of the table top and sit down on it, you can be riding behind them and they purposely stop in front of you, or chase you rubbing your back wheel.
Well one day a lad in front of me did the stop in fornt trick, and i totally tboned him, and I mean totally, wiped him and his bike out. he was about 12ish, my natural instict was yell at him for being an idiot, using lots of expletives, as i was in quite a bit of pain as i had to remove a set of bars out of my crotch. The kid seemed all well, went over to his mates and they were all laughing at me limping off with blood running out my shoulder and nursing my crushed plums
Half an hour passes and Im back at the startline and i get a tap on the shoulder from this huge bloke [bear in mind im 5'5"] who then batters me around the head a few times, lucky for me I was wearing a motoX helmet so just got a large amount of brain shake, but the blow to stomach that sent me backwards inserting my saddle into my rectum was most uncomfortable. Turns out he'd gone to tell Daddy that a he was abused and threatened by me, the little shit was stood behind his dad pulling faces and laughing while his old man was threatening to kill me.
So i went out for a nice ride and came home feeling like i'd been raped in the ass by saddle, sore plums, a cut shoulder and it turns out, bent forks and front wheel as well. And what could i do about? NOTHING they are kids, you even look sideways and they know you cant do a thing. Anyway, im hoping that some time has passed and theyve gone on to chasing girls and drinking cider and will leave the track alone, as they made it hell last summer to ride there
dude you should have nutted him,
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This is always a delicate situation, I ride my local track with my friend and my 10yr old son, and down there is a gang of lads who have decided its their park, they happily drop their bikes on top of the table top and sit down on it, you can be riding behind them and they purposely stop in front of you, or chase you rubbing your back wheel.
Well one day a lad in front of me did the stop in fornt trick, and i totally tboned him, and I mean totally, wiped him and his bike out. he was about 12ish, my natural instict was yell at him for being an idiot, using lots of expletives, as i was in quite a bit of pain as i had to remove a set of bars out of my crotch. The kid seemed all well, went over to his mates and they were all laughing at me limping off with blood running out my shoulder and nursing my crushed plums
Half an hour passes and Im back at the startline and i get a tap on the shoulder from this huge bloke [bear in mind im 5'5"] who then batters me around the head a few times, lucky for me I was wearing a motoX helmet so just got a large amount of brain shake, but the blow to stomach that sent me backwards inserting my saddle into my rectum was most uncomfortable. Turns out he'd gone to tell Daddy that a he was abused and threatened by me, the little shit was stood behind his dad pulling faces and laughing while his old man was threatening to kill me.
So i went out for a nice ride and came home feeling like i'd been raped in the ass by saddle, sore plums, a cut shoulder and it turns out, bent forks and front wheel as well. And what could i do about? NOTHING they are kids, you even look sideways and they know you cant do a thing. Anyway, im hoping that some time has passed and theyve gone on to chasing girls and drinking cider and will leave the track alone, as they made it hell last summer to ride there
dude you should have nutted him,
dude im the most chilled out non aggressive people you will ever meet, the most aggressive part of my body is my arsehole that lets out some wicked gasses, thats about as offensive as i get!!
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It happens all over - general rudeness and language from teenagers and they know they can get away with it which makes its worse. I was walking my dog with my child (6) and another young couple were walking with two kids not much older and the language the guy was knocking out was unreal!!
No respect for his own kids let alone mine - Arse!
Simliar incident in MCDONALDS with a group of teenagers swearing whilst I was there with my kids, I asked them politely to reduce the verbal, but one of them thought he was ten men! I would have loved to have put him over my knee and smacked some sense into him but what can you do!
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its the liberal approach that has let standards slip.. ignoring the problem is not the solution.. young people and kids will always be horrible to each other but an adult should take authority and say something and deal with the conseqences of this¬!
british people have lost the voice that used to be traditional.. sad really
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I Know what i did.
Spill the beans... what did you do?
I'd have had a word if that didn't work he'd have been in A&E asking to have his board pulled out his arse... ;D
Got Blackpool booked again in a couple of weeks, bring yer lad along he can ride all night with no hassle whatsoever... :daumenhoch:
Shameless plug... :-[
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A prolonged, heated, but ultimately succesful argument took place. I got circled by a dozen or so bmx riders + skaters, heckling unfunny stuff, but one by one they backed down to experience + maturity after hearing THE FACTS. The skater was a cocky tawt who narrowly escaped having the back of his board stamped on whilsthe was stationary + looking the other way. Too many adult witnessess! Told him I hoped he was proud of hurting a young boy + the next time his board hits someone and he fails to acknowledge it, I hope it's me.
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i was at creation a couple of years ago and there was skaters everywhere that went letting
the bmxrs drop in or ride, it was really starting to get on my nerves as these boys where older
than my billy and his mates so they just stood there letting the skateboarders take charge, one lad
whos was a lot older and had a massive attitude kept dropping in and swearing ect about the riders,
i thought enough was enough so i stood in front of him accidently on purpose and he hit me and hit
the floor like a ton of bricks ;D he was flat out and i said sorry for getting in his way and pulled him up
and said by the way mate let the bmxrs ride its not your skatepark, he was fooked for about 10 minutes :LolLolLolLol:
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Dan your a legend mate :4_17_5:
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Next time, tail whip or rock walk the back-end of your bike (at speed) in to his shins and then walk off, no acknowledgement. If he complains, tell him you'll apologise after he's apolgised to your son, this method works especially well when you're running pegs.
Failing that, just break his jaw.
Daz. :daumenhoch:
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Next time, tail whip or rock walk the back-end of your bike (at speed) in to his shins and then walk off, no acknowledgement. If he complains, tell him you'll apologise after he's apolgised to your son, this method works especially well when you're running pegs.
Failing that, just break his jaw.
Daz. :daumenhoch:
Oh yes, i will be visiting this skatepark every spare dry moment i have until this barsteward gets his comeuppance. I run pegs and go fast..
And spen, it wasn't dev green, i said a NICE part of town!!!!
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When I was growing up if I f*cked about with bigger kids/adults I expected to get battered.
Now you're not allowed. And if you did the kids would grass.
No standards these days...
So much gip from the council scrotes these days at parks, it's a right downer.
Hope your kids alright matey.
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Next time, tail whip or rock walk the back-end of your bike (at speed) in to his shins and then walk off, no acknowledgement. If he complains, tell him you'll apologise after he's apolgised to your son, this method works especially well when you're running pegs.
Failing that, just break his jaw.
Daz. :daumenhoch:
Oh yes, i will be visiting this skatepark every spare dry moment i have until this barsteward gets his comeuppance. I run pegs and go fast..
And spen, it wasn't dev green, i said a NICE part of town!!!!
Nice one.....I'm only in Barnsley mate if you need some suppoort?!?!
Daz.
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I would have absolutely, definately fooking chinned the cnut.
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I would have absolutely, definately fooking chinned the cnut.
:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
Steve....darling...I just can't imagine you chinning anyone! sorry!
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I would have absolutely, definately fooking CHARMED the cnut.
Steve, you could win anyone over
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Dressed as Willy Wonka, I have to agree with you Alex. He looked ever so cute ont' telly the other morning......
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You barstewards. You have no idea that underneath this fluffy, charming willy wonka exterior there is an inner beast!
Youre right though, if that were my kid being bullied - I'd really really WANT to chin him. But would probably make him into my new best friend... then slowly, carefully, and with great planning ... undermine him and destroy him through stealth tactics over the following months.
Ha Ha!
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i've had these kind at my park, they don't act like that for long once i catch them doing it. i just do the exact same to them but worse. i was sitting on the deck one day and there was a group of about 6 or 7 of them about 15-16 years old trying to cause trouble, they were picking on 1 or 2 of the younger skaters and it was pissing me off, then i seen 1 of them picking up my bag and turning and handing it to his mate. the bag had all my camera gear in it. i went mental at them, i grabbed the one that lifted my bag and got him on the deck. i really wanted to hit him but thought i better not, then i seen him grinning at his mates which made me madder so i picked him up and through him of the ramp landing on his back on a grass bank then told him and his mates to fook of out of my park. about 20 minutes later he came back with an older guy and they sat down on a grinbox, i told him again to get the fook out my park or i'm really gonna lose it. he kept looking at the guy he came back with who obviously didn't want anything to do with it now and he finally went away alone. the other guy sat for about 5 minutes and wouldn't even look at me then got up and walked away. :2funny:
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Sorry to hear of all your bad experiences lads.
I have to say, between the Unit and EKPark, both of which I've only been to a few times, and Kelvingrove, which is my local, I don't see much of this happening.
There's always been a healthy level of respect shown between all the riders and skaters, especially at KG which has a great atmosphere. This may be due to the large number of older riders and skaters that have been going there for years.
I know that I certainly don't tolerate any bad behaviour at KG. (Especially bullying - I f@kin' hate bullies).
Sure, there's always some kids getting in the way, but you know that's because they don't know any better, rather than them being deliberately obstructive. I find that a bit of 'skatepark etiquette' instruction usually does the trick.
Saying that, I know exactly the kind of little pr1cks that seem to think they are untouchable and make everyone else's life's a misery. As has been mentioned, riding at them at high speed and giving them a few near misses usually does the trick.
If that doesn't work, don't miss.
G :daumenhoch:
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I have to admit to not visiting many parks but at Storm (r.i.p) I never saw any of that BUT have seen it plenty of times at tracks and dealt with it.
I do remember going over the jump box at storm with an inliner sat on my bars after he tried to snake my run lol
unfortunately these are the times we live in where bullying and intimidation is rife, we deal with it at our track by having a hotline number we call and the police come straight down, maybe this should be on a sign at every facility for people to call should they experience trouble?
Dingo
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"Keep sitting/standing there, and you're going to get ridden over"
Works for me.