Rickenbacker BANNED

[BigR]

I don't know why the very minority few bad apples in Miami are soo agro towards the lone authority figures that are in charge of maintaining access to our best spots

[ricki]

There is a good chance this site wouldn't have been banned if there had been some fines issued along with the efforts in the kiting community to keep Hobie open. You can only go so far with self enforcement in a large transient metropolitan area like Miami. We can only ask and reason, the authorities can fine and arrest. No one wants to see another kiter deal with a several hundred dollar fine or the consequences of arrest. Still, if they refuse to see reason and act responsibly placing the privileges of the kiting community at risk, as has been the case, it would be worth trying. To my knowledge no such fines or even arrests have happened at Hobie unlike some other areas like Crandon Park. We asked for enforcement but were not given encouraging responses. Cutbacks in public funding is perhaps one reason, still I think a few cases might have helped keep this place open.

With our legal system, unless folks want to pony up several thousand dollars, or more, into a defense fun, we need to go without names. That still leaves a lot of things that can be effectively done. Just the way it is.

[kent]

Clearly Hobie wasn't closed this weekend. There were quite a few kites out Sunday so the process must be on going.

I agree with you Rick, it's kind of like banning all driving because of a few drunk drivers. I'd have hoped that the cswy people would have been more proactive and taken advantage of some of the suggestions that were made by all at the last meeting.

Kick out and fine the illegals and post a slow speed sign for inside the buoys. I'd also suggest that kiters riding that fast near swimmers and the beach could be considered to be operating at an unsafe speed and could be guilty of endangerment.

We need help and the J-offs will leave.