To those flippin’ “jumpers” that hop and bounce all over the stairway to the Citadel Hill. Piss off!! you are defacing a national historic site. Its not there to use as a jungle gym. I work in a downtown hotel and have had many tourists complain about you being there and making people want to avoid that entrance to the hill. PISS OFF!
—Hop off a cliff
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
I agree, they’re pretty annoying, but at least they’re kids doing something active, rather than playing video games, doing drugs, beating up random people, posting bitches on The Coast, or whatever it is kids do these days. I wonder, though, how long it will be before they create some sort of helmet law for this. I mean, they have it for skateboarding, and surely this is just as dangerous if not more dangerous than that sport.
I don’t get it. What are they doing?
I believe she is talking about a group of youth participating in an activity commonly known as “Parkour”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour
Why, are they doing it without helmets?
That parkour is interesting. Is that what the bitch is about or is it people exercising on the stairs?
If the point of the activity is ” a physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible,”
Wouldn’t taking the stairs be the most efficient way? Sometimes going around something is easier than going over it.
I don’t get where the “defacing” occurs.
I’m more bothered if people are avoiding it because of them….Maybe they need to build another jungle gym at the skate park.
Yeah, fucking kids … *lights joint and goes back to playing Gear of War*
Hmm well I thought the OP was talking about parkour. Maybe it’s something new and I’m just not “with it.”
boo hoo, if they were doing anything illegal, the police would have put a stop to this activity.
fuck the tourists who complain, fuck your uptight downtown hotel, and get some real problems…..GOD!
this isn’t even about metro transit, what a waste of bitch space!
Know what I hate? All those “lookers”. The kids that hang around the Old Town Clock and stare at the time. Piss off! You’re stealing electrons from tourists, and bell-hops who work in fancy down-town hotels.
Last year, I saw one of those people doing the same thing against the wall at the Grand Parade on Barrington St. He was all kitted up with his bag of talc hanging off his backside. The dude looked like he was getting ready to climb Mt. Everest. I was watching from the CIBC building. It was fucking hilarious.
The harder he tried, the worse it got. He kept shortening the wall length by moving south, so the wall was less imposing I guess.
What an epic failure it was. I don’t know what you call that exercise, but you simply can’t find that kind of free humor anywhere these days. I’ll never forget it.
I still don’t get the point of this bitch. With all the peeps and kids who would rather sit at home watching TV or whatever the last thing I’d bitch about is people being active.
The OP is probably just pissed off because they’re a fat lazy slob who can’t even walk up those stairs, let alone run up them.
And, to the OP, those stairs aren’t historic at all. They were never part of Citadal Hill. They were only added after the Halifax Explosion so that repairs to the clock tower could be made easier. Citadel Hill has been so bastardized and changed as it is that you wouldn’t even recognize the original layout if you saw it.
“And, to the OP, those stairs aren’t historic at all. They were never part of Citadal Hill. They were only added after the Halifax Explosion so that repairs to the clock tower could be made easier. Citadel Hill has been so bastardized and changed as it is that you wouldn’t even recognize the original layout if you saw it.”
What in the fuck does any of that have to do with anything? lol
The OP’s point was that it is embarrassing as hell to see adults playing on stairs like a jungle gym in a heavily used downtown area.
Why is it embarrassing to see people being active and having fun??
That’s just stupid.
From what I understand, this sort of thing happens in a lot of different cities all over the world, so what is the big deal? I think anyone who has a problem with it should probably relax a little.
I guess kids goofing around on some public stairs is the price Halifax has to pay to be worldly, cosmopolitan, and with the times. Cheaper than a monorail.
I’m not against kids having fun or getting exercise, and this activity sounds like a lot of fun. I think it can become a problem if/when the people doing this become a nuisance by blocking the stairway. It’s like the skateboarders who like to do tricks by the entrance to my building. Not a big deal after hours, but at 5pm when everyone is leaving it’s a problem. Mutual consideration for a shared public space is all I’m advocating for.
It’ll put us on the map like Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook!!
Hali: You’d rather people didn’t get exercise? Or maybe you think that people should only get exercise by jumping rope in a gym or running on a treadmill in their basement. If this city doesn’t open itself up to progress and change, it’s going to die. Allowing people to practice Parkour in public spaces is a minor step to being seen in a modern light. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it. It’s not like tourists are going to stop coming to Halifax because one entrance to Citadel Hill is being blocked a few hours a week.
Christ, tourists need to grow some balls and just pleasantly say “excuse me!” I promise, it’ll work like magic.
I would think the ‘bootcamp kids’ running up and down them would have been more of a deterrent than the parkour people. I admit, they aren’t all that good but they’re certainly better than I and have the determination to do it anyways.
leave em alone… the old bitter bitties and grampa joe fred’s are going to complain anyways.
If it isn’t them, then it’ll be those damn kids skateboarding on the sidewalk and I for one am mad as hell. I’m sick and tired of having my mental condition come into question!
People like the OP are ruining Halifax. Whenever kids want to have some fun that doesn’t involve drugs, swarming people, vandalism, etc. they STILL get shit on by the party poopers in this city.