Watching videos of this event reminds me of a comedian's bit where he talks about watching Rocky when he was young versus today. When he was young, he would cheer Rocky on while eating those raw eggs. When he watched it when he was older he thought about how hard it would be to get those egg stains off his sweatshirt.<p>I guess that's all to say that I am of the age where I see a bunch of young men shutting down a street, cheering loudly and flying down a hill with no helmet makes me cringe and feel bad for the neighbors.
Where's the "hill bomb"? <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/</a><p>This is a bunch of kids swarming a car and dancing on top of it. None of them even look like they have skateboards with them.
When I was in high school, the local teens would gather every Friday night on a certain commercial street downtown, and would drag race from light to light. Of course it was illegal, but the cops had a quiet understanding that as long as it was just that section of road, they wouldn't interfere.<p>It was great fun. Not only were kids drag racing their cars, a lot more were showing off their cars, hanging out at the drive in joints lining the strip, etc. I remember one older boy had my fantasy Mustang, very heavily modified. My Dodge is an ode to that start to my devotion to muscle cars :-)<p>Unfortunately, some parents eventually complained and the cops were forced to shut it down. All part of the general removal of fun from our society.
Here's the title of the posted video: "Skaters Mob on High Tech Surveillance Car in San Francisco"<p>Meanwhile, its posted on Instagram[0]... and in the video you see a bajillion phones out recording the event.<p>Oh the irony...<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/</a>
The way we build cities around the car in the USA is kind of a blight, so I can't help but be somewhat relieved to see that other people look at these Waymo cars, with all that they stand for, as worthy of ridicule.
I don't see the "hill bomb", but I see a bunch of kids swarming and climbing on a stopped car with, I'd wager, a frightened driver inside.<p>Seems like those kids are lucky the driver didn't floor it trying to protect themselves.
Why is this bullshit tolerated? What I see is a band of thugs terrorizing a person.<p>And I say this as someone who skateboarded all through junior high and high school. We did so while doing our best not to be living stereotypes of being braindead assholes.
Skating hills is tough. The last time I skated SF we went from Colma all the way down into Market then up to the POFA. Great times, def exhausting… hats off to the kids keeping that dream alive.
Oof, these poor kids. I can't imagine what's going to happen to them financially, but I feel like doing a lot of property damage to a vehicle that's bristling with high resolution cameras, in the age of easy facial recognition, is going to have consequences. Maybe they're just so privileged that their default expectation is that their parents will bail them out of anything, and maybe they're right.
Not that I think jumping on the top of someone's car is obviously justified, but I am honestly curious how the car got to this point. Wouldn't it have had to drive past hundreds of people into what was obviously a large gathering to get here?
is this the same video? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJO3_UADLGk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJO3_UADLGk</a><p>I don't have an instagram account...