In
I think a lot of people are not taking these bans serious enough. Ok, a shop can decide that you are not safe on their premises (some tescos let us in, others dont) but being banned from areas of a town is damn right ludicrous!
These bans need to be challenged, in a calm and accurate manner of course.
Exactly who is banning you? The police, the council, the sheep etc?
In regard to the peterborough episode, were were banned by the city wardens, ie the people who stand around in orange jackets, not doing much and looking important. Not sure how much power they have, but they were linked in to the people who monitor the cctv?
The first time, in the main square, a lady warden told us that we couldn't "bounce aroound like lunatics", and really got quite shirty, saying we could be charged with assault if we hit someone?
then at the end she had the cheek to ask us where we got them from, being the helpful sole i am, i gave her a pro-jump info card
So we left for other parts of the time, after having waited for ages for various latecomers.
After returning to look for DK who mysteriously disappeared
we were around for quite a while and went to McD's etc. people asked us to bounce and show us what we could do, so we did, but us knowing what we are doing , on bocks etc, we did a few tricks, the people watching obviously were not stupid enough to stand underneath us, so they couldn't get hit. No one said anything, so we left again.
After doing some crate jumping in a deserted alley, with quite a crowd i may add, all cheering carl on (he eventually made the crates
) we continued to just around a corner where there was a full police van and 4/5 cops, at first we were quite nervous, but as we got talking, saying how great PJ's are, they said they had no problems with us bouncing, as long as we knew we were safe, so we spent nigh on an hour around the police van, with them watching, (and we didn't get hassled by idiots once!)
By then it was the end of the day, and apart from the lady warden, we had had no critisism. We went back to the main square where she warned us, and continued doing what we had been doing earlier, in fact we got a really good group photo, and were attracting quite a crowd, but still not being dangerous. However as i was talking to some people, the lady warden returned with a rather (may i say chubby) set of reinforcements, and i didn't talk to them but they spoke to trixter, and the gist of it was, we wern't allowed within a mile of the square
By then it was the end of the day and we had decided to leave, so it wasn't argued that much. We thought it was unfair, and having heard your arguments, it seems very unfair, i'm sure we will try and enquire as to what we can do to get the ban turned around however. any other comments/help?