NYC skateboarders didn’t let something as silly as a court order top their Broadway Bomb, according to a story in the NY Daily News.
Hundreds of scofflaw skateboarders gave Manhattan hell on wheels in Saturday’s “Broadway Bomb” road race, snarling traffic in an illegal mass ride from Morningside Heights to Wall Street. . . The skaters rolled south on Broadway from 116th St. to Bowling Green, defying a court order that outlawed the “dangerous” rally because it lacked permits. . . Cops tried to quash the race by stringing up temporary fences at intersections and ordering skaters onto sidewalks, but many just pushed onto side streets instead. . . “They’re like, ‘You can’t do this.’ We were like, ‘F–k off,’” said Ian McMahon, 18, a skateboarder from Killingworth, Conn. “We got so excited for this!”
A reported 1,500 skateboarders participated with no arrests nor injuries according to the story. They even had a podium with the top three finishers. Nice work, NYC.
[Link: NY Daily News]
