Cops Giving Away Helmets At Skatepark

Now, from our rarely updated “Smart Things Policemen Do” file comes news that the Police Department in Taft, California has decided that rather than hang out at the skateboard park writing tickets for kids skating without helmets they’re going to hang out at the park and give helmets away to kids for free. Genius. . .

Taft Police, with help from the Taft Rotary Club, are going to make sure that local skateboarders have helmets on when they go boarding. . . Police will be at the Taft Skate Park on Saturday to hand out 140 Mongoose skateboard helmets. . . The helmet giveaway will be held from 9 a.m. to noon.

But they’re not all rocket scientists in Taft. No, only kids who are at the park with their parents will get a free helmet. Which kind of defeats the purpose, in our opinion? Kids with parents who care enough to visit the skatepark with them probably already have helmets. But it still is a nice thought.

[Link: The Midway Driller]