The Broadway Bomb is a skateboarding event held every year in New York City. It's been declared illegal since 2012, but that hasn't stopped enthusiasts from staging it. (The Wikipedia page for the event appears to have been hacked by people with an axe to grind - at least at the time of writing.)
Back in 2013, the police deployed in force to stop the riders. Did it work? Like hell it did! Here's a video clip that I posted that year, showing the results.
I'm told that police haven't bothered to intervene like that in subsequent years. I can see why!
Peter
Yeah, like THAT is going to end well... And a blind eye works. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat was new to me.
ReplyDeleteI have seen fisherman, and have helped too, pulling nets by hand along the shore and into the beach. Not fishing convention but for fush, mostly just fish.
My grandfather (mom's dad) was born in a small reef island, off the coast of Pince, P.R., called Cardonas. Born to the last [Spanish] lighthouse keeper. At some point, electricity and incandescent bulb took over. Do not know how that happened. There was a small "village" on Cardenas populated by "Gallegos" (from Galicia, Spain) that fished for shrimp, at night, with some kind of nets an not familiar with, using oil lamps to attract the shrimps up the water column. The Gallegos also salted and packed the catch in barrels for the market.
I heard the stories from my grandparents.
It seems that shrimps were fished out or flood control work on one of the rivers destroyed the favorable shrimp environment. Either way, hardly any shrimps in the area when I was growing up.
Now we have e-scooters.
ReplyDeleteIf they start a similar annual event around them the ensuing pandemonium stands to be even worse.