NYC Bodyboarding Ban

You're still a limp diiiick with an impotent clown act. Guvment owns your ass, bought & paid for by your own tax dollars. You're just so dumbass that you look in the mirror & think that what you see is a good thing.

The boogie board ban.....how can you possibly think this is something that requires thought / debate / has merits?

Does your wife know that you use the pump when she needs a piece? Or do you just place a call for carter to 'come' over?

 

Parks Department response: "Boogie boards will be allowed in open sections of beaches through Labor Day, as long as they do not create an unsafe condition."

http://gothamist.com/2014/08/15/rockaway_boogie_board_ban.php

 

If they try to ban it I would hope you all go protest and fight for your rights, that is going too far with taking away freedoms. Yankee is 100% right on this one. People need to wake the F up and realize what is going on. If I heard surfing was being banned in my area I would be fighting any way I could without going to jail.

 

If your local, I hope your fighting this, just ridiculous the restrictiveness of the government here. Life is risky, sometime accidents happen here. Train your lifeguards, and expect accidents to happen from time to time. People get hurt in the ocean all the time, but to limit how people enjoy the ocean is just a scapegoat tactic.

 

I'd make the trip down for a paddle out in protest or something of the like.

 

http://www.horsenecksurfrescue.com/Rules2.php

They've got the same sort of rules in Massachusetts, I'm always surprised when I hear that anybody manages to surf there.

 

Didn't know that about Horseneck's. If you want to surf, a much better break is close by.

 

I love freedumb!!!

to the all the guys fighting for our freedumbs, well done, bang up job gents!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

 

Meh, if you live in NY, you should expect this sh1t. That is why blasters and I rep the south.

 

not sure how surfboards differ from body boards in this situation. But when it states open beaches does that mean guarded beaches? So in other words are they banning visiting idiots from getting sucked out to sea on boards in the swim zone?

 

It starts a slippery slope, once that happens it won't be long before nobody can enter the ocean for any reason. Freedoms are being chipped away at...

 

true, sounds like a lack of training on the lifeguard end of things. The ocean isn't the community pool, select/pay up better lifeguards. Never understood the summer lifeguard thing, especially the ones that travel in from inland states

 

welcome to the dark side brothers!!!

 

I've seen in DE on big days when they would not allow swimmers out, if a body boarder did not have fins, they wouldn't let them out. This should rattle some feathers for vacationers!

 

dumbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

 

Yeah, doesn't OC and AI do the red flags, no swimming ****? Which is fine to me, at AI you can just go to one of the many stretches with no lifeguards, in OC you can go out when they aren't working or hit the (lol) surf beach.

Seems to me that closing the guarded sections for swimmers makes sense, the tourists that aren't comfortable will generally be scared off by the concept and the rest of us are generally doing what we always do anyway.

 

when i did the 'pussification of surfing' thread it just did not occur to me that bodyboarders were
headed down the same road.

also catching a whiff of lawyers here...as in policy-makers.

 

maybe look at it this way: inland has porkers on porches; the beach has hard-bodies in small bikinis....

 

Did I read the article right in that this ban applies post-Labor Day as well?

 

Sh!t its only a matter of time before surfers start suing each other over wave priority.