🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <dehning.778384463@horton.Colorado.EDU> dehning@horton.Colorado.EDU (DEHNING  BRUCE NELSON) writes:
>fielden@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden) writes:
>
>>Well here's a new topic for discussion. Parking services has
>>banned rolloerblades and skateboards on campus, not just in the
>-- snip --
>>as part of my job).
>
>I just read this on in ralphie's little help/advice newsgroup:
>Dear Ralphie,
>
>I recently discovered that there will be no inline skating allowed for the
>94-95 school year. Is this true? I think that lots of CU studee skates to
>travel to class. Will the CU police ticket thousands of student forskating
>to class?
>                                Blader
>
>Dear Blader,
>You heard correctly--according to the 1994-95 rules and regulations produced
>by Parking Services, in-line skating and skateboarding will no longer be
>allowed anywhere on campus. In past years, unsafe rollerbladers have been the
>subject of numerous complaints and in-line skating has been assessed as
>dangerous on campus. The CU Police Department will be authorized to start
>handing out tickets to skateboarders and rollerbladers who are caught skating
>on campus. Please contact Parking Services at 492-1538 for more information.
>                                Ralphie
>                                            
Notice that it doesn't mention numerous *accidents*.  Hopefully the actual 
data used by the parking nazis did contain something which actually showed
that rollerbladers were hurting themselves and others at an unacceptable
rate.

bert