Authorities in San Clemente, CA, filled a local skate park with sand to enforce the social distancing rules in place because of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Instead of cowering, skaters and bikers turned the park into a dirt bike course. Then they all dug up all the sand to make it a skate park again.
San Clemente Parks Manager Samantha Wylie said they chose to fill in the Ralph’s Skate Court to force those who did not comply with the shutdown to stay home.
The authorities tried to keep people away with signs. When they saw people making their inside they decided to use taxpayer money to drop 37 tons of sand into the park.
The San Clemente Skatepark Coalition, a nonprofit group that raises money to support the park, never had contact with the authorities.
President Stephanie Aguilar said if they did then “the group could have urged people to stay away on their social media channels.”
At first, people used the park as a beach resort:
Over the weekend, residents picked up their shovels and buckets and made the park usable for skaters and bikers.
Butterfly Films posted the videos on its Instagram account:
“Took advantage of the all the sand the city dumped into the San Clemente skatepark then helped some local skaters dig it all out so they could do some social shredding.”
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