Whoever stole the chain is my hero.

Today was a semi-monumental day at our local skatepark.
A day in which the police actually took a bit of initiative towards their rules.

It was as casual and boring as any day.
I was inside of the skatepark when the foot-patrol officer (Officer Baily. AKA: Hot-Cop) started walking up the path in the direction of the skatepark. Most of us were familiar with Officer Baily, so we thought little of it- because she wasn't know to us as a nazi-cop who would kick us out of the skatepark.

As she approached, many people left the skatepark. Fro and I- didn't. We kept hanging around there, because I figured she wouldn't care. After she got near she called out "Are you guys gonna get out or not?", seeing this as a sign of her yelling at us... we left. As we walked out she scolded us and three other skaters who we knew, but weren't from town.

We walked over to the benches and progressed to sit around. Joe and DK showed up, and a nice group ended up back over at the skatepark- when another cop showed up.

He kinda sped through and hit the brakes rather quickly, attempting to scare us- even though we kinda ignored him and walked outside. When we were standing outside he yelled at us and said "How many times do we have to tell you- stop going in there without a helmet! We're gonna start locking it up, so it's about time you guys bought a helmet". While we were walking to a small set of benches shrouded by some trees, I said to Joe "Is this Poland in 1944?", to which he laughed and said yes.

After that cop talked to the foot-patrol officer, I kinda just walked back and sat in front of the skatepark. After a minute or two, two bikers came in and I saw the foot-patrol officer staring at us nearly two baseball fields away.

I walked over to the benches shrouded by the trees as Casey and Trevor were walking towards the skatepark. I told them not to go and Casey (in her indomitable fashion) said "No it's fine, Officer Baily doesn't care, I know her. My grandpa was a cop", and she just made herself sound so pretentious and retarded.

While they were inside, we saw the cop coming back. As Casey and Trevor came back, I called them both retards and made everyone clap and thank them all for getting the skatepark locked for the day, which most people did clap.

The one officer returned in his squad car- and saw that the lock and chain were missing from the door, so he kinda just sat there. After another cop car pulled up, we all went and sat in front of the skatepark- holding a nice little protest against the helmet rule.

If you've never been to, or seen our skatepark- it's a piece of shit. It really is. The thing is so janky and underfunded that it's slowly collapsing over time. Although we have the shittiest park you'll ever see- they still have a rule set. On it- they mention everything fun is pretty much banned, and that helmets are mandatory- but "Skate at your own Risk" is written atop of it all.

One day, I asked a cop about all of it, and he said he didn't even understand the rule. He said that no one could get injured and sue the city- so the rule was just a bunch of bullshit anyways.

Why do we have stupid ass rules and stupid ass laws that don't really protect or help ANYONE?

- Josh