On Saturday, September 10, 2011 “hundreds of longboarders” donned white dress shirts and ties and bombed through the streets of Toronto, Canada, as part of a “board meeting,” according to a story in the Toronto Star.
Pedestrians stopped to take pictures and several drivers honked in support of the event. . . A dozen police officers on bicycles followed the group to “keep the peace and make sure everyone’s safe,” said Staff Sgt. Andy Norrie, adding that skateboarding on roads is “technically illegal.” . . The organizers didn’t apply for a permit or give police any notice. “At this point, we’re not in a position to arrest hundreds of people,” Norrie said. . . Early estimates showed at least 300 skateboarders took part, he said, adding that more came later. Event organizers pegged attendance at 900.
Apparently, event founder Mike McGown and his crew skipped Go Skateboarding Day because it wasn’t Go Longboarding Day. Semantics ruin everything.
[Link: Toronto Star]
The “Board Meeting” is epic and awesome. That many skaters taking over streets in a town that supports it, even as a good portion of the skaters mock the corporates by dressing to the Board Meeting theme in white shirts and ties. Every day is Go Skateboarding Day (hmmm, also a corporate creation) but this event is once a year.
wish you all could have been there…my 10 year old and 14 year old sons are still beaming…
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