In California, tractors are dumping sand in skate parks to render them unusable amid the state's mandatory lockdown orders. Videos show tractors filling skate parks with sand to render the parks unusable while the stay-at-home order remains in effect.
One video shows a skate park in Venice Beach being filled with sand on Saturday morning.
Venice Skate Park vs LA COVID Social Distancing pic.twitter.com/x5vMEa0O8C
— HUNTER WE!SS (@Hunter_Weiss) April 18, 2020
Another video shows the same thing happening in the city of San Clemente, where a reported 37 tons of sand were dumped inside the city's skate park.
SKATEPARK FILLED WITH SAND: Skaters wouldn't stay away from the Ralphs Skate Court in San Clemente, so the city dumped 37 tons of sand on it. https://t.co/yg17StBFXn pic.twitter.com/r8k7LeAUzP
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) April 17, 2020
Stephanie Aguilar, president of the San Clemente Skatepark Coalition, told the San Clemente Times that it "feels like the city vandalized its own park."
"Social distancing hasn’t been followed in a lot of different areas, whether it’s on our trails, tennis courts, the basketball courts, the walking paths; we didn’t see the city dump sand on the walking trail," Aguilar pointed out to The Times.
