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Q: Grind blockers prevent you from skateboarding, what do you do?
A: Vandalism!
I'm a security guard at a small technical college. One of the biggest problems here is skateboarders grinding on the concrete benches near the entrance to the building. Last week they finally put grind blockers on two of the benches to keep people from further ruining them. Today they gave them a fresh new coat of paint that finally covered up the horrible black marks left by months, if not years, of skateboarders.
At 6:30 I'm watching the office while the receptionists are off doing something(the office must always be manned while the building is open) when one of the receptionists calls me on the radio and says that a faculty member saw "A group of vandalizing skateboarders" out in the parking lot. So off I go to chase them off. I find them in one of the far lots just putzing around on their skateboards and tell them to leave. They don't give me any trouble and go without any issues. I write the incident in my log and go back to watching the office.
It wasn't until a couple of hours later when I'm outside smoking a cigarette that I finally notice what the faculty guy meant by "vandalizing skateboarders". Apparently they were upset by the existence of the grind blockers, so they took their skateboards and used them to carve lovely black marks all over the bench between them. Upon closer inspection of the bench I found four of the nuts used to hold the grind blockers in place on the ground. They had managed to get the nuts off, but because the grind blockers are U-shaped pieces of three-foot long steel, they were unable to bend them enough to get them off the bolts.
Bastards. They just painted those benches today! I wish I had noticed this damage when I first went to chase them off, because I would have had them arrested. I wish the receptionist and/or faculty member that reported this had been clearer in stating what he saw. Now I'm pissed off that this happened, and upset because I am supposed to prevent this kind of crap.
I'm a security guard at a small technical college. One of the biggest problems here is skateboarders grinding on the concrete benches near the entrance to the building. Last week they finally put grind blockers on two of the benches to keep people from further ruining them. Today they gave them a fresh new coat of paint that finally covered up the horrible black marks left by months, if not years, of skateboarders.
At 6:30 I'm watching the office while the receptionists are off doing something(the office must always be manned while the building is open) when one of the receptionists calls me on the radio and says that a faculty member saw "A group of vandalizing skateboarders" out in the parking lot. So off I go to chase them off. I find them in one of the far lots just putzing around on their skateboards and tell them to leave. They don't give me any trouble and go without any issues. I write the incident in my log and go back to watching the office.
It wasn't until a couple of hours later when I'm outside smoking a cigarette that I finally notice what the faculty guy meant by "vandalizing skateboarders". Apparently they were upset by the existence of the grind blockers, so they took their skateboards and used them to carve lovely black marks all over the bench between them. Upon closer inspection of the bench I found four of the nuts used to hold the grind blockers in place on the ground. They had managed to get the nuts off, but because the grind blockers are U-shaped pieces of three-foot long steel, they were unable to bend them enough to get them off the bolts.
Bastards. They just painted those benches today! I wish I had noticed this damage when I first went to chase them off, because I would have had them arrested. I wish the receptionist and/or faculty member that reported this had been clearer in stating what he saw. Now I'm pissed off that this happened, and upset because I am supposed to prevent this kind of crap.
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