I was just practicing doing different vaults over picnic tables and rolls the gazebo bout 300ft from my apartment. 15 minutes later the local pd was there telling me to call it a night b/c they already had 3 calls.  Officer laughed when he asked to see my ID, read the name realized my dads his Sgt.   

"Hello Avon Police Department"

"There is a crazy man with a mohawk running and jumpng in a park."

Yeah, I'd be interested to hear how the rest of the conversation went ...

Thats rediculous.  The same types of people live around me, so i end up training early or in a populated area with friends like a college campus because there  we are just another group of crazies running around. If you weren't being real loud or destroying anything or tresspassing i don't really think he can tell you to leave.  I highly doubt there was a no pk sign.  Next time just ask him why they called, what disturbance were you making?

That's great..haha.  We have similar situations with getting called on campus here.  One time in particular I remember we were out, just basically kongs and monkey vaults off maybe 3 foot high concrete ..things. Also jumping laterally about 5 feet over a water feature near a building (concrete to concrete). Nothing major.  My friend did a backflip off of a 6 foot sign, which of course is Free Running, but my point...someone called us in for being "reckless."  We noticed a cop pull into a parking lot near the building and just wait there for literally 5-10 minutes just watching us from about 300 feet away.  She hesitantly got out and after we explained who we were, she said "oh okay, well just don't climb buildings and we won't care" and left smiling because she knew how rediculous calling us in was.

Another time we were practicing near a building and someone called in a bunch of skateboarders.  Cops come around we were like "aww crap we're screwed." But no, he comes out with his partner and says "someone called in a bunch of skateboarders, but i don't see any boards.  Just be careful" and he left


I wish some university officials were more like this..

ehh, I've never had the cops called on me for parkour, but I bet if I did it more they would.... People called the cops on me for sitting on a curb at 12:00 at night. -.-

The only time I've had any problem was when I tried to wall run at a church and a guy came out and got mad at us because he said last time my friend did it he caused damage on the roof. I'm not really sure how that could possibly happen, or how he figured it out, but whatever. Now we know not to go there, so we gained more than we lost.