SkatePIG

Seriously you're not gonna believe this shit man, this afternoon we were by the CIS building skating around minding our own business, this was about 5 o'clock or something so nobody's around except us, we're not getting in anyone's way or nothing. Dave was rolling a joint and I was trying to grind down the entire railing by the front steps. I fall off right onto my fucking elbow, right on the side of one of the steps ... seriously man it's totally fucked my elbow up, it's all cut up and shit. I don't think it's broken but it fucking hurts.

Seriously you're not going to believe what happened to me today. It's around three, three thirty and I'm walking by the CIS building and there are these kids just skating all over the forecourt. They're getting in people's way and jumping, leaping like maniacs up and down the front steps on their skateboards. They could have killed someone. This one kid falls flat on his face, right on the steps and then gets up like nothing happened, just keeps skating up and down. You wouldn't believe it, they're like zombies or something, brain dead zombies.

Anyway that's not what I wanted to tell you, I wanted to tell you about this fucking cop. He just walks over to us and is all like, 'You can't skate here' and I obviously started trying to tell him that the work day's finished and shit and we're not getting in anyone's way or anything but he's still telling us to move'.

Anyway I walk over to them and very calmly explain to them that they're inconveniencing the people trying to enter and exit the building and that they're posing a threat to the safety of others and could they please find somewhere else to use their skateboards. This one kid, skinny little kid, he stands up, gets right up close to me and immediately just completely starts mouthing off to me. He's cursing and just, just turning the air blue. He's calling me a pig and the this and the that, you know, really getting aggressive with me. I try asking him to please lower his voice and be respectful of the fact that we're in a crowded place in the middle of the working day and there are women and children around but really, he's really just going nuts.

Just then he spies Dave with the weed and without saying anything he just picks it up and puts it in his pocket, just fucking takes it like that. I mean that's abuse of power, weed's legal now and everything, he's just taking that for himself. Dave asks for it back and tries telling him it's legal and shit and the guy's just like, 'I don't care'.

Just then this other kid who's standing next to him, just calmly and openly starts smoking a huge marijuana joint right in front of me. I cannot believe what I'm seeing, he's just stood there smoking the stuff like it's the most normal thing in the world. I mean if that's not disrespectful I don't know what is. Marijuana is an illegal drug and he's there with a joint of it in his mouth and a huge bag of the stuff just hanging out of his pocket.

Of course Dave, you know Dave. He's still just trying to get the stuff back. Just asking him for it back but the guy just keeps telling us to fuck off so Dave tells him he's gonna find more police and report this guy for stealing our weed and the cop, without saying anything, just fucking plants him one right in the face. Punches him full on and Dave just stands there. Then the guy just walks off with our weed. I just came here after that, I'm just gonna smoke a joint to calm down and maybe watch How high or something.

Of course I confiscate the drugs and he comes after me. Just completely dives for me like some kind of animal, he's clawing at me trying to get his drugs back so I firmly push him back and inform him that I will not hesitate to arrest him if he continues to behave aggressively. This kid and his friend walk off all the while shouting curses back at me like you've never heard. They're telling me I'll be sorry for taking their drugs and really just making all kinds of threats. The whole experience has just got me so wound up. I think I'm going to open that white wine and have a few glasses of that to calm down. Maybe watch a movie. I've just got the Superman box-set on DVD, I might put one of those on or something.