Daddy cool

17/08/2007 by Lee.

Police in Hampshire are taking twice weekly skateboarding lessons in an attempt to “bond” with the local youth. Do they not realise that any attempt by an adult to do something perceived as cool by kids is doomed to failure? It becomes instantly naff.  How embarrassing is it to see an older relative trying to dance at a wedding?

Once they have their new found skateboarding skills what will they do with them? Will each police car have a skateboard in the back ready for those footpath pursuits? Instead of wasting their time with skateboarding, how about learning a useful  skill such as free running or “parkour” as it is also known. This would give police the ability to leap fences, scale (and indeed descend) buildings and use all today’s street furniture to their advantage in pursuing criminals on the run. I was going to put a nice link in here so you could see it in action, but thanks to a slight technical hitch I can’t. Go to you tube and search for “Parkour” and you’ll see what I mean. Any-hoo, I digress.

The cost of these training sessions is being funded by you and me via our taxes, and I for one am not happy about it. The police do a (generally) good and difficult job, yet things like this tend to make them a bit of a laughing stock.  

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