Boston briefly barricaded the ‘cop slide’ amid surge of grownup riders

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Has the ‘cop slide’ craze reached its peak?

Boston officers put in barricades blocking entry to the Metropolis Corridor playground, residence to a slide featured in a viral video that has impressed numerous adults to take it for a check journey. Package Riemer, Handout through The Boston Globe

Boston’s “cop slide” craze has seemingly reached its peak as metropolis officers moved to barricade the playground tools final week amid a surge in grownup thrill seekers.

Positioned at Metropolis Corridor Plaza, the metallic slide grew to become a high vacation spot after a video of a Boston police officer’s ill-fated journey went viral. Memes and parodies abounded, the views mounted, and adults flocked to the slide to provide it a strive. 

At one level, the “cop slide” was even listed as a vacationer attraction on Google Maps, the place reviewers claimed the slide constructed character and was “sooner than the Inexperienced Line.” 

Nonetheless, a pair social media customers observed final week that the slide was barricaded at night time. 

“This simply in: Boston police barricade the doorway of the well-known Boston Cop Slide,” X consumer @Roxomoxo1 wrote in an Aug. 5 tweet. “Do the horrors by no means stop.”

One other particular person wrote on Tumblr that the playground was “being patrolled by individuals who hate enjoyable.”

A spokesperson for Mayor Michelle Wu’s workplace stated that blocking the slide was a brief measure, “as we had been seeing elevated exercise at night time by adults (when the slide is closed).”

They added: “At this level, we’re utilizing the present signage and common safety enforcement to discourage adults from utilizing the slide however are now not blocking it off at night time.”

Notably, there are indicators posted on the playground warning that the slide is meant for kids ages 5-12 and isn’t meant for adults. However chatting with reporters earlier this month, Wu steered that extra indicators could also be warranted.

“We wish all of our public areas to be beloved and if it seems to be like we have to ensure that there’s extra signage that that is for kids or one thing, we will do this too,” she stated, in line with NBC10 Boston.