Being a bad ass has it benefits

My friends were rehearsing at Parque Centenario last week since they were selected to participate in a festival called "Danza en paisajes urbanos" (Dance is urban landscapes) so they were preparing a choreography to be performed in that same park. I went there to help them and I thought it was going to be difficult to find them, but I was able to spot them easily because they were surrounded by a group of policemen and park guards. Something was no OK.

Even though my friends had a permit to rehearse in the park, all this people were trying to kick them out of the park. After a while, they called the director of the park (the officer said, "OK, if you don´t want to understand what I´m saying, I´m calling the OWNER of the park). So, he came.

He seemed to be a reasonable guy at first. But he was not.

This is what he said : "Look, you are dancing here, walking on the benches, doing things that are not appropriate, and I cannot let you do that. If I let you do that, I have to let everybody else do it" (I thought OK, so you should kick out all the people that sleep, piss and poop in the park, otherwise I move in here tomorrow!). 

My friends told him "but we have a permit. Actually the government is paying us to do this, we need to rehearse".

"I understand, but can´t you do a normal dance (???), not using the benches. The other day a guy,who also had a permit, came here and  started dancing near the artisans, you know, they threatened him, they are bad asses, you cannot mess with them"

So, I wondered, how is it possible that they let a bunch of mafia guys sell their crap on the park, guys who have no problem in threatening a dancer who is also working there, but they don´t let artist do their thing (specially when they´ve been hired by the government, just like him)".

Next time, my friends should bring a knife or something, so they´ll be treated with respect.

And one thing fo you, Mr. OWNER-of-the-park, your park is not that great!