{"id":98675,"date":"2020-04-23T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98675"},"modified":"2020-04-23T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:23:31","slug":"california-fills-skate-parks-with-sand-californians-respond-with-dirt-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98675","title":{"rendered":"California Fills Skate Parks with Sand, Californians Respond with Dirt Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98676\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-98676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skate.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Jesse Schwartz, 33, from Santa Rosa protests the closure of parks in California by digging sand out of the closed Venice Beach skate park, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 20, 2020. REUTERS\/Lucy Nicholson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then the dirt bikers helped get the sand out so kids could skateboard again. So that went well.<br \/>\nKids&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>California skate park filled with sand to enforce social distancing backfires as dirt bikers show up<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Greg Norman<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\">California<\/a> officials who closed a popular skate park and filled it with 37 tons of sand in hopes of keeping residents away during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> outbreak have inadvertently turned the recreational site into a dirt biker\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on Instagram this week shows riders catching air at Ralph\u2019s Skate Court in San Clemente despite the city\u2019s effort to enforce social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact the city put the sand in there to try to social distance everyone \u2013 I think it\u2019s a big joke,\u201d Connor Ericsson, who posted the video, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusi.com\/san-clemente-city-officials-fill-skatepark-with-37-tons-of-sand-to-prevent-skaters-from-using-it\/\">KSUI News<\/a>. \u201cThese kids are cooped up inside their houses, they just want to go to the skate park and have some fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another video on his account shows locals shoveling up the sand and placing it into buckets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the skaters showed up, we got a broom and a shovel and we helped them sweep that thing out, get the sand out there so they could do a little social shredding themselves,\u201d Ericsson added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah yeah, it&#8217;s thoughtless and foolish, and while kids don&#8217;t seem to be much affected by the virus, they could pick it up and bring it home. So let &#8217;em out and quarantine them when they come back. As a parent who has been stranded with two rambunctious teen boys, I can empathize with both sides here. Read the rest of the article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-skatepark-sand-dirtbikes-social-distancing\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the dirt bikers helped get the sand out so kids could skateboard again. 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