So it was the end of a good, long day out unicycling in Colchester (on
Saturday) and we went to the park to find a few more spots (that's me,
Mark, Jack, Jamie and Kieron for the benefit of those who may have seen
them in the videos) to finish the day.
We rode in, and sat down by some steps (the ones circled in the
attached picture) perfectly innocently when 5 minutes later after a
quick chat; two PCSOs (police communicty support officers (basicly
wanabe police officers fighting fake, pointless ''antisocial'' crimes))
and the park warden approached us, one of them saying ''Ok, it's the
second time we've seen you today so we're going to take your details''
- but were even doing anything at the time? How could we be antisocial
if there was noone but us and them there? Were we offending anyone by
sitting down with unicycles on the floor?
😠
Out came the slips and the questions began. First it was ''what is your
name?'', and ''age?, DOB?'' - that was perhaps fair enough. Then they
began ''How tall are you?'', ''Parents names?'', Address, Hair colour
and style, what clothes and shoes we were wearing, where we had scars
or tattoos, what school we went to, our ethnic orign... and they went
on, arguing that the onl place we were allowed to ride them was at a
skate park, not on the road as they don't have lights... (I knew they
were wrong..), and apprently not on the paths as they were bicycles. I
assured them that I had seen more than 20 other people on bikes (and 3
young boys in fact on unicycles, but I didn't say that), that day in
the park that had not been stopped. I also made sure they knew that it
was rude of them to target us as we were the only ones left in the park
and they had nothing better to do.
Was that really necessary? Or was it just that little bit intrusive? We
had done nothing but unicycle (quite the opposite of antisocial IMO),
in a -public park!-
Well, angered and frustrated (particularly me - the others just took
the authorititiveness), we were asked to leave the park pushing our
''bicycles''.
We did get to keep a copy of this slips, and once I scan it in you can
see it. One section at the bottom said ''If ASB state
details/description........-unicycling in park-...........'' WTF?!
What do you make of this?
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