Pink Spot, a skateboard park built over the past four months on an abandoned supermarket site in Stanton, Delaware, was bulldozed by city crews on Tuesday June 8, 2010 after a teenage skateboarder was injured at the site according to a story in Delaware Online.
The park was a liability to the state, Delaware Department of Transportation Manager of North District Operations Bill Thatcher said, noting officials were alerted to the problem about two weeks ago after a teenage skateboarder injured his leg at the site. . . “It’s state property. The accident happened, the child was hurt, police were called and something had to be done,” Thatcher said.
We continue to be astounded by the lack of thought used by most city governments. If kids are skating there turn it into a skatepark. Is it that hard to figure out?
[Link: Delaware Online]
Yeah that was such a good place to skate. RIP Pink
Why the hell would you do that now kids have to pay to get in to a skate park when they could of just walked to a free one
I was skating in Wilmington one weekend. I usually always go there. But we would get kicked out of everywhere. But my friend Tommy told me about this “pink spot” place. When I saw it for the first time, it touched my heart. As soon as I walked onto that first slab of pink concrete, I could
see the hard work, sweat, heart, and dedication that went into building this place. Pink spot served to us sort of like a
pilgrimage or a place of refuge for skateboarding. It had nothing wrong with it at all. Just us goofy kids riding skateboards. I’ve seen kids as young as 7 skate there. If you were a parent, you won’t let your child go to a place you thought was a hostile environment. So obviously the parents of that 7 year felt the same thing I did when I first arrived a pink spot. It’s just a shame that so many kids with enough passion for something had to watch as it was destroyed. Skateboarding isn’t looked at as an artform anymore. Only a crime scene. No longer is “Go skateboarding day” considered a holiday. Only a riot. This makes me sick to
my stomach. It just shocks me that something so damn innocent and beautiful is an exuse for the state to just barge in and take what’s ours. What’s next? I can only imagine. First pink spot and then what? The demolition of skateparks worldwide? Or skateboarding all together? Well that’s not going to happen because nothing is that powerful to away the love for the tolling wood under our feet which moves us forward every day of our lives. Why slayeboarding gets all grief, I have not
one clue. That’s all I have to ask. Why? If the Wilmington skate project dosent happen soon, we are all going to just be waiting and more things like the death of
pink spot will happen. So please save some extra souls to crush and build us, not what we want, but what we deserve.
I was skating in Wilmington one weekend. I usually always go there. But we would get kicked out of everywhere. But my friend Tommy told me about this “pink spot” place. When I saw it for the first time, it touched my heart. As soon as I walked onto that first slab of pink concrete, I could
see the hard work, sweat, heart, and dedication that went into building this place. Pink spot served to us sort of like a
pilgrimage or a place of refuge for skateboarding. It had nothing wrong with it at all. Just us goofy kids riding skateboards. I’ve seen kids as young as 7 skate there. If you were a parent, you won’t let your child go to a place you thought was a hostile environment. So obviously the parents of that 7 year felt the same thing I did when I first arrived a pink spot. It’s just a shame that so many kids with enough passion for something had to watch as it was destroyed. Skateboarding isn’t looked at as an artform anymore. Only a crime scene. No longer is “Go skateboarding day” considered a holiday. Only a riot. This makes me sick to
my stomach. It just shocks me that something so damn innocent and beautiful is an exuse for the state to just barge in and take what’s ours. What’s next? I can only imagine. First pink spot and then what? The demolition of skateparks worldwide? Or skateboarding all together? Well that’s not going to happen because nothing is that powerful to away the love for the rolling wood under our feet which moves us forward every day of our lives. Why skateboarding gets all grief, I have not
one clue. That’s all I have to ask. Why? If the Wilmington skate project dosent happen soon, we are all going to just be waiting and more things like the death of
pink spot will happen. So please save some extra souls to crush and build us, not what we want, but what we deserve.
i was with my man kevin when we first saw pink spot… this is some bulshit man that place was like our safe haven… well i guess its better to sell crack these days then ride a skateboard
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