They will wax your steps creating a hazzard and a mess, they endanger pedestrians and discourage visitors, they are lippy and the skate board park will not satisfy them for long.
You can reason & threaten. You can call the police. If your mayor opposes containing these liabilities on wheels it takes the area community, your board, other businesses and the like getting in his face to be able to do anything effective. As an employee, you can get on the skaters only to the extent you are supported by your governing body.
As I reminisce about skate boarders I remember how keenly tuned my hearing was to the "whir-chock; whir-chock" of their wheels. I could move pretty darned fast in response although I should have had the non-emergency police number on speed dial.
>>> [log in to unmask] 04/29/02 10:26AM >>>
not only is there a problem with the art work, there is an extreme liability
if the skate board flys up and hits someone in the head hurting or killing
one of your other patrons.
you will have the time of your life when you are sued for 15 million for a
death of an innocent bystander.
don't coddle the little bastards!
be more than firm. NO SKATEBOARDS!
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Subject: Re: Problems with skateboarders on the museum property
> Merri,
>
> Here, here!
>
> Tim
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> Timothy S. Bottoms
> Museum Registrar
> Cape Fear Museum
> 814 Market Street
> Wilmington, North Carolina 28401-4731
> 910.341.4350 x 3011
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> Merri Pemberton
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> I have read some of the stories about the skateboarder problems. I
> understand that these kids should have a place to skateboard, and that
some
> of the museum employees who wrote about this problem wanted to find a
> peaceful solution, but shouldn't this problem be handled more firmly,
> whereas you give fair warning to the skateboarders to not use the museum
> facilities as a playground, and if you disregard this rule, you will have
> to face a punishment e.g. pay a fine, parents or children; or do
community
> service), and if that doesn't work, then maybe the authorities should talk
> to the parents of these children.
>
> A business, especially a museum with some of its artwork outside, must
> be firm in dealing with these kids, and not have to cater to their every
> whim - especially when not dealing with the educational purposes of the
> museum. As a former teacher assistant and teacher, I know for a fact that
> if us adults don't set boundaries, even to something like skateboarding on
> the museum's grounds, then they won't learn to respect the museum as a
> special place of education, not to be used as a stomping ground, or at
> least not respect it as quickly.
>
> Unfortanately, some of the children -not all of them- may not be
> getting the discipline and boundaries that they need at home (another
close
> observation of a teacher/assistant teacher), so the rest of the adult
> society have to sometimes bear the brunt. Well, I must be going.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Merri
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