A rendering of the Raleigh Skate Park

This is the second time in 3 months the Raleigh Skate Park has been robbed. This time the crooks emptied out a trailer full of tools. The park, off New Hope Road, took years of lobbying from Raleigh skaters before the city committed more than $700,000 in ramps and pools. After the first break-in, workers started parking a Bobcat in front of a storage container to block access. This week, just after it snowed, they moved the Bobcat for one day to block a $100,000 concrete pump. Sometime between the move and Thursday morning, Duck said, the container was cut open in two places and another $9,000 in tools was gone. The general contractor lost tools, too. Maybe somebody should think about hiring a security guard!

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