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Members Lounge => Non Bocking Chat => Topic started by: Sx Nutta on November 11, 2007, 10:22:16 PM
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Hi all, I think we need to make a petition, to send to dog face brown, to make retailers and train companies, etc. to let us in to use their places, for shopping, commuting, etc. on our bocks, we are safer than, a kid blasting around on heeleys!!
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Places like shopping centers etc may be ok but their has been concerns about using them in train / tube stations, it was in the papers about a guy that got banned - ill try finding the article! I'd sign the petition though and so would the rest of the members im sure :)
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think shops and whatever else are afraid of all us bockers suing them if we fall over in there shop while wearing bocks, but why would we we all know the risks of bocking
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Ok
As a hire shop i know about all this and the problem is insurance.
The shops insurance does not cover you. I dont know how its worded but i know its insurance.
Most people would let you in, its only the jobs worths that wont. :'(
Nikki X
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Places like shopping centers etc may be ok but their has been concerns about using them in train / tube stations, it was in the papers about a guy that got banned - ill try finding the article! I'd sign the petition though and so would the rest of the members im sure :)
yerp id sign this petition anyday ;D
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I think your onto a looser (sadley) as any shop has the right to refuse you entry as long as it isn't for race, colour, religeous etc reasons
They can ask you to leave the premesis if they believe you are going to cause a disruption, accident or any form of disturbance hence if a smart middle age guy on bocks goes into the average shop and politely asks most of the time it's allowed
On the other hand if a group of 4 of 5 young lads dressed in hoodies on bocks bounce enthusiasm into a crowded shoping center the security guards are almost certain to throw you out it's all down to appearances and we are fairly intimidating being so tall on them (and a little unsteady when learning ;D)
I think that a petition may do more harm than good If we are portrayed as the
"protesting we' allowed to go anywhere we like types"
it gets peoples backs up, your far better off if you get removed from somewhere to go to the nearest public area and put on an impromptu show and so draw the anti's customers away from them and to the shops near you thus making them think if that was outside my shop it might improve my trade
Also offer to hand out leaflets to advertise the local shops at a low price and then you are invited into the area beating them at their own game
If the general fealing is the petition is good I would sign but think about alternatives first they may get you in the back door rather than getting us all banned as a reactionary group (it's all about winning not about being right ;D)
Finally if you want me to sign a petition to bann those bl**dy double buggy things that Mums drive down the isles blocking them and running over everyones feet I'm your man ;D
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ill sign ne think to ban heelyies stoopid bloody things
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i have a double buggy lol!!!
Erm and a single! i take both buggys out when we go shopping lol how annoying would i be to you pmsl!!!
Nikki X
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lol, my mate has one of those buggy's, lol his mrs is bloody awful with it,
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Im a b***h with mine. I love chasin old grannys who think they own the shop lol.
Might try it on bocks next time mwahahahahaha
Nikki X
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If you own bocks your exempt from the buggy ban ;D
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if your a bocker most things r forgivable 8)
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I'm with Jason on this one. It could end up looking bad for the sport in general. I think at the moment its safe to go into a shopping centre until you get thrown out and if you do then try to be very calm and professional about it. Ask why its a danger and show them how its not...though I have to say it would only take a very small wet puddle on a tiled floor and BAM down you go and if you happen to grab people/shelves/stock or anything else on the way down then it could cause quite a kerfuffle.
It's kinda like cycling on the roads. You need to be very alert to everything thats going on and not lose focus.
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I think that a petition may do more harm than good If we are portrayed as the
"protesting we' allowed to go anywhere we like types"
Meh its never bothered the ramblers and they way more scary lookin imo