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NYPD Hilariously Fails to Stop 2500 Longboard Skaters in Manhattan

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 The Broadway Bomb brings together more than 2,500 longboard skaters each year in NYC to push 8 miles through Manhattan, from W. 116th St to the Charging Bull in the Financial District. Since its inception in 2000, the NYPD has tried to hamper the event by hassling skaters, blocking roads, and even handing out tickets. This year New York's finest was at its most hilarious as they busted out the orange netting to try and corral the skaters. They failed miserably. It was so bad that someone set the folly to the music from Benny Hill and it couldn't be more appropriate.
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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