The park will open late today,should be open at 6:30

So as you may have heard, Berra is out to save smaller skate shops and parks. Here’s what he said and I quote: “There is a war being waged on small business “. Wow, what a great dude, you can advertise your shop on the Berrics site. But what he fails to mention is the price tag, or that in Canada he has a exclusive deal with a certain mall store which means that your local shop can’t get any Berrics stuff. Watch the video on the Berrics or Youtube. Berra himself tries to convince you that he wants to help and again I quote: “Mall stores with deep pockets and empty history”. How much is that kind of hypocrisy worth your legitimacy? Well thats just sad you try and promote one thing and do the complete opposite. Berra you should be ashamed of yourself. The state of the skateboarding industry should not be used as leverage for monetary gain. You are a disgrace to skateboarding

So as you may have heard Berra is out to save smaller skate shops and parks. Here’s what he said and I quote: ” There is a war being waged on small business ” Wow what a great dude, you can advertise your shop on the berrics site. But what he fails to mention is the price tag, or that in canada he has a exclusive deal with a certain mall store which means that your local shop cant get any berrics stuff. Watch the video on the berrics or youtube. Berra himself tries to convince you that he wants to help and again I quote: “Mall stores with deep pockets and empty history” how much is that kind of hypocrisy worth your legitimacy? Well thats just sad you try and promote one thing and do the complete opposite. Berra you should be ashamed of yourself. The state of the skateboarding industry should not be used as leverage for monetary gain. You are a disgrace to skateboarding

Park opens tonight at six

The next person I catch drinking at the plaza is getting their board focused and shoes tossed in the lake!!!

Well I still have to pay my ticket, but only if I had known the police had A whole undercover sting operation set up to give out skateboarding tickets that day. Really! undercover plain clothed officers in vic park keeping in contact with officers handing out tickets that day. Not trying to bust the cheesy gangst kids trying to sell weed, or even to bust the people I could see getting drunk in the park before noon but to focus solely on giving out tickets for skateboarding. And I thought I was doing A pretty decent job of wasting time and money by dragging out a skateboarding ticket through two court dates but the Regina police force has me bet by a long shot for wasting time and money you guys are doing a great job keep up the good work.

 

So today was my court date for skateboarding what a waste of time. The reason I had to be there was just to enter my plea,obviously I would plea not guilty if I was taking my ticket to court. It’s such a waste of money to have court dates just to set up another court date. This could be dealt with already but instead I have to wait two more weeks.

So on my way to work at the indoor about a month ago. I had to come downtown to pick up a new helmet. On the way I was walking through city hall and a police car rolls up right into city hall and stops me. The cop gets out and tells me stand in front of the car I couldn’t believe how agressive he was.Then he asks for my I.D. and where I live then he told me I was going to get a ticket for skateboarding. Funny thing I was only walking with my board and had been walking for a couple of blocks. Obviously there was no point in arguing with him he had made up his mind.

My ticket turned out to be for fifty dollars I thought it was a little steep so I looked into it. The city website posts what fines are for and how much they cost this is where it starts to get funny. The fine for skateboarding downtown is twenty dollars this made me wonder why my ticket is for fifty. I emailed the police with my question and the first response I got the person didn’t know why my ticket was so much and agreed with me that my fine should only be for twenty dollars. The second email I got from them was a little different. The person said the extra charge is called a victim surcharge and is added on to most tickets and sent a chart of how its based on a percentage of the fine and they said for a fine under a hundred dollars the victim surcharge is thirty dollars. I wanted to check if what he was saying was legit so I looked up victim surcharge on the government of Canada site and turns out what they had posted was that the victim surcharge was fifteen percent of my fine which adds up to about three dollars not thirty.

I plan on taking my ticket to court and at the very least I will waste more taxpayers money going to court then they will gain from my ticket. So if you get a ticket for skating take it to court maybe if we waste enough time and money they will start to realize how stupid it is to give tickets for skateboarding. I would also like to add again that I wasn’t even skating and got a ticket for just having A skateboard this kind of profiling is garbage and cant be tolerated.

See you in court!!!