To the kids that use the space underneath the Cogswell ramp as a skating park:
News for you, that is not a skating park. In fact it is quite annoying when people at home are unable to rest, work, study, and live life peacefully, because you decided to make that place your own private park. The noise of your skateboards hitting the concrete, screeching wheels, and your loud voices should be taken to the appropriate place, AKA the Commons. You use that spot underneath the ramp 7 days a week, most of the day, sometimes as late as midnight. It is disturbing for the people that leave nearby, and not an adequate spot to carry on your sport! I am seriously contemplating calling the cops on you very soon. Cheers! —I want some peace and quiet in my home
This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2011.
Got a garden hose OB? Turn the place into a skating rink.
Have you tried calling the cops to make a night-time noise complaint?
Since hot-sauceing as parental discipline is now provoking much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth on talk shows, might I suggest a paintball gun with a high muzzle velocity and capacious magazine filled with extract of ghost pepper munitions. Not quite depleted uranium but we’ll see if we can get Bruce Wank and the local Peace Pukes to burst their piles over it. Remember: Double tap; center of body mass. If you can put your rounds anywhere on the chimp’s face
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you’ll be doing well. >: )
I think I know the place OP is talking about and it seems implausible to me that noise from there would carry to the nearest house in that area. In short, I call bullshit.
best thing to do o.p., is call the cops. or you can turn it into a garbage dump. haul unused crap out there and leave, but make sure it is after dark.
That’s just down from the HPD, isn’t it?
I was thinking the same thing b195. No one lives anywhere nearby at all, do they? maybe there are some apartments kind of close, but considering you’re right in the centre of a busy intersection downtown, you would think the skater noise would be the least of your sleeping concerns.
The nearest residence would be an apartment building on Brunswick, but I doubt you’d hear much unless there were a lot of people there being exceptionally noisy and/or you had your window open.
agree brend… the site doesn’t sound like it would be a pain…
though I really like the skating park idea.
Freeze that fucker
Phone Dawn Sloan,lodge a complaint and the city might put barriers up or a bright light…just an idea
hm – lol – then it would be a “light-pollution” bitch 😉
How much frikken noise can they possibly make to rattle the bed-bug haven you call home?
S
The people that call it bullshit certainly have no clue about sound propagation, as well as the effects that a low concrete ceiling have, which is the case under that ramp, have on sound enhancement. More to that, when you are less than a 50m from the place were the noise is coming from, I would not call that very far. Finally, no, my windows are not open (although I wish we had better weather so they would be). And even if that was the case – open windows -, since when does one to have in a tight shut environment so they can have some peace. Finally, yes, one can hear their noises over the the car noises, in fact their noise is much higher, and specially after 5pm, when traffic is close to none and very quiet in here.
It is awesome how people are so opinionated when they have no clue about what they are talking about.
Anyways, I like the garden hose and paintball ideas.
One more thing, I’ve never had any bed-bug problems in this building.
Cheers.
I’m sure lots of people would like to go to the commons, too bad there is about a foot of snow on the ground there.
People have been skating underneath that bridge since the early 90’s and I used to go there quit a bit up until a few years ago when the helmet law made it sketchy to be there.
I hope you understand that the kids going there are just trying to find a place that they can somewhat maintain their abilities at over the winter, so that they don’t completely suck at skating in the spring and end up spending the first 2 months of good weather trying to get back to where they left off…
..and no, there isn’t much of a better place than that unfortunately, the options are basically limited to driving to Moncton or PEI, or trying to find a dry parking garage that you don’t get kicked out of in 10 minutes.
If you’re actually considering shooting young people with paintball guns (which is aggravated assault I might add) you really need to get a life. Honestly people don’t really stick around at that shitty spot for much more than a few minutes, and if its during the day time I have no idea where you get the idea that you’re entitled to peace and quiet at any point of the day, especially when you live down town and its before night time. Not to mention the fact that there’s heavy construction going on there every day anyway and there’s no way that skateboarding at the Acid Drops (the name its been called for 20+ years) makes more noise than jack hammers, reciprocating saws and pneumatic drills.
Sarcasm?! Ever heard of it. The city by-laws say that I am entitled to peace and quiet, and it does not make an exception for the downtown area. It does not matter whether it has been happening for 20 years or 5 minutes, the law also does not make any distinction on that aspect. The construction is done, but no matter that your argument is absurd – because someone is robbing, therefore you are allowed to rob too? I guess not, and it actually makes more noise than the jackhammers and saws, since the construction site is surrounded with plywood to diminish the noise.
The skateboarding doesn’t go on only for a few minutes as you claim. It goes for hours, pretty much everyday, sometimes as late as midnight. Why do you think that your “right” to skate trumps other individuals rights to enjoy their home quietly after a day of work/study?
your soul is mine.
Couple of key points I feel need to be address now in bullet format:
-I have never head of sarcasm.
-I have serious doubts about the legitimacy of your complaints OP.
-Find me the law entitling you to peace and quiet during the day time. I think you`re talking pure bullshit on that one. Especially because of what a broad term that is.
-Gross exaggerations have been made regarding both the frequency of sessions at Acid Drops, amount of time the average session at Acid Drops lasts and how loud it could be from your apartment.
-I don’t think that because someone robs someone it makes it OK, but I have no remorse for going skateboarding anywhere nor will I be made to feel bad or guilty for doing something I love that is completely harmless, especially when its public property under a fucking bridge to escape horrible weather.
-If you want to stop people from skating there maybe you should see what it takes to get an indoor park open. Not an easy feat to say the least which is why skateboarders in this city have been getting shafted for approximately 6 or 7 years since the last one closed.
-Maybe before you move into a place you should consider the location and things that go on around it. If people skate there as often as you’re saying then you should’ve heard them when you were nearby or viewing the apartment. I mean from the way you’re talking it sounds like it must be louder than a concert over there from your closed window apartment.
hahahaha
By-law N-200:
“3. (1) No person shall engage in any activity that unreasonably disturbs or tends to disturb the
peace and tranquillity of a neighbourhood.
(3) For the purpose of a prosecution pursuant to subsections (1) or (2), evidence that one
neighbour is unreasonably disturbed by a noise is prima facie evidence that the neighbourhood is
unreasonably disturbed by the noise.
8. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this By-law shall be guilty of an offence and
shall, on summary conviction, be liable
(1). for the first offence to a penalty of not less than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) and
of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) or imprisonment for a period of not
more than one year or both, including the imposition of the minimum fine;
(2). for the second offence to a penalty of not less than Seven Hundred Dollars ($700.00)
and of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) or imprisonment for a period of
not more than one year or both, including the imposition of a minimum fine;
(3). for the third offence or any subsequent offence to a penalty of not less than One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) and of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00)
or imprisonment for a period of not more than one year or both, including the imposition
of a minimum fine.
“
That applies throughout the whole day, and the only evidence I would actually need to prove my point is to tape the incident in order to demonstrate the disturbance, or call the cops so they can see for themselves, and latter on testify in court.
If the noise was not loud enough to bother me, believe me I would not give a crap about it. By the way, if the only reason you and the other use that space is to get away from the weather, why the place is used even when it is not raining/snowing, and during summer, fall and spring?
Cheers
Just a tiny point. Snow? Snow-shovel. The skaters, boaders, and bikes at my old neighbourhod pretty much did their own maintenance.
Yeah well good luck convincing anyone but yourself that skateboarding at Acid Drops qualifies as “disturbing the peace”. I’m not the one skating there 99.99% of the time so calling the cops will only serve to ruin some other peoples fun for a minute after the cops come by and tell whoever is there at the time “sorry guys I know there’s no where else to go but we got a call and have to come down here”.
I’m sure you can’t deny that there is a difference in the amount of people skating there when it’s wet/snowy out then when it’s dry and sunny out. I have fond memories of going there with my friends to learn how to do tricks off the drop on summer afternoons as we made our way down to the city from the commons. There are things about that spot that are unique enough to want to skate it, but I’d hardly say that there are people there every day in the summer time. That is 100% an exaggeration. (I work on that street and look down at that spot from up the road at least 10 times a day during the week and see people skating there MAYBE once a week so don’t bullshit me)
There are hundreds of skateboarders in HRM so I hope you don’t think its the same people every day. Mostly little kids go to that spot to learn how to do tricks off the little drop.
By the way.. skateboarding isn’t contained into a skatepark regardless of the weather. That’s what makes it attractive, unique and fun in the first place.
I doubt there’s anything that you do that is compelling enough to want to go out in sub zero temperatures into a enclosed space below a bridge just to get a little fix. Unless you mean smoking crack.
Hey, call Dawn Sloan to get some barriers up so we have something else to skate!
BA.KU
Hugo, we did shovel it a few times, it has been snowing/raining too much to keep up on, you basically have to shovel the area of high school gym to make it skateable and once its frozen that idea is over.
I think the OP should consider buying a skateboard.
If you can’t beat ’em (or double tap ’em) join ’em.
They know this is not a skating park. Who is that disturbing? It is beside the Trademart building and Scotia Sqaure. Your bitching for the sake of bitching about something. You live in the city and the cars driving by the sirens from the police station etc don’t bother you but these poor kids minding there own business, maybe you should do the same.
This is pretty ridiculous… I had the same reactions as 195- there’s no way the sound is so intrusive that it is more bothersome than an upstairs neighbor in an apt, thats for sure. You live on a busy thoroughfare! And quoting the bylaws only makes you look like a tool because its clear to all in this case that the key word in that bylaw is UNREASONABLY.
ITT: old people hating on young spry committed skaters.
OP why do you live under an overpass??
last 4 responses are killing it!
I go there every weekend I’ll see you there this weekend just like every weekend. It’s the only time my 14 year old self skateboarder doesnt have school and the ground isn’t ice you lonely inconsiderate bitch that nags about people having fun when you sit in your house wasting your life.
you’re fourteen? well you go and do your thing, just don’t smoke crack