Snowboarding is NOT A CRIME

By admin • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: News

No seriously, it’s not illegal to snowboard in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, the Park Rangers failed to take that into account recently when threatening urban boarders with a $350 fine. It’s big news on the Internet, according to the Gothamist and the Daily News, and it is sort of funny when you think about it. Apparently the rangers told Brian Paupaw, who actually teaching kids who to snowboard at the time, it was illegal to snowboard in city parks, but that they’d “look the other way” as long as no more “ramps” were built. Sounds about right. Don’t worry, the whole thing is on video.

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10 Responses »

  1. shredface on January 19th, 2010 at 2:13 pm:

    the first half of that video is what snowboarding is all about. and as far the man crackin down on innocent shredders, i guess if you can’t make it as a cop, you become a park ranger.

  2. big daddy on January 19th, 2010 at 6:19 pm:

    a big ass pro rail jam at that park could shake things up!

  3. thomas on January 19th, 2010 at 6:50 pm:

    Damn, what a bust. Keep on keepin’ on brotha.

  4. matt on January 19th, 2010 at 10:23 pm:

    AMERICAAAAAAAAAA

  5. 720 boardshop on January 20th, 2010 at 1:24 am:

    Ruby Hill Rail Yard at Ruby Hill Park in Denver CO. We brought the mountain to the kids and man is it great! Check it out if you haven’t already.

  6. Fonzie on January 20th, 2010 at 2:26 am:

    Park rangers with nothing else better to do = thumbs down. Besides, sledding is arguably much more dangerous as there’s a lot less control and ability to stop.

  7. Joz on January 20th, 2010 at 11:22 am:

    BLK OPS!

  8. sarah on January 20th, 2010 at 4:00 pm:

    i would have argued more, cmon man put up a fight!

  9. Shane on January 20th, 2010 at 10:14 pm:

    Wow, that’s a damn shame. I find it hilarious that authorities/establishment figures complain about the “moral degradation” of youth today, yet they refuse to offer alternative activities for young people. This video is legit, keep up the struggle.

  10. artripoli on January 21st, 2010 at 2:33 pm:

    We brought some boxes to a local hill in a park here in Columbia, MO and a park ranger showed up and gave us a hard time about it… Apparently some kid died the year before on a sled going off a jump. After a long winded exchange of words she let us do what we were doing as long as we removed the boxes when we left and didn’t let anyone else session them. Sometimes law enforcement has nothing better to do than create a situation where one doesn’t exist. This seems to ring really true for lower echelon law enforcement such as city park rangers. I once had a parking cop tell me we couldn’t session some rail because we were riding out into the street. He called the real cops when we refused to cooperate, and they showed up, ate doughnuts, and watched us go at it, then just asked us to clean the snow up off the sidewalk/street when we left.

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