Alocal, go hang out with your kid and spend less time trying to fight with people on message boards.  This story is really worth hearing, and any idiot can see that this condo is fowl in its actions.  Come on barb wire to keep kids from running on a wall.  Give me a break. 

You are just one of those owners and you are trying to make it look not quite so bad.  Take the barb wire down, let the kids pass, and the world we be a better place, and no one care how they do it back home.

Now can you please go outside and enjoy the weather.

Oh, by the way.....the type of fun you are having will cause the Fire Department to come to your rescue or call for help and no wire has ever stopped them.  Neither has a parked car, dog, burgler bars or shot gun.  Maybe you need to ‘hang’ with them for a couple of days and see what fun they have on a daily basis.

It is sad that the property owners had to go to the extreme of putting up barbed wire in order to protect their property.  Sure, the beach is public property, but cutting across someone’s property just so you save a step or two is not right.  Would you like it if they used your surf board to cross a ditch although there was a bridge a little ways down the road ??  Crossing on their grass/property in order to get where you are going is trespassing, regardless of where it is.  Kids now days have lost all respect for everyone and everything (save a few that were brought up the way they should have been).  Fighting a HOA ???  ROFLOL....you would be better off trying to buy into the HOA instead of fighting them...but then you would have to live by their rules...something you obviously dont want to do in the first place.  Fight City Hall ??  Sure, it’s possible. BUT unless they are breaking an Ordinance, you would fare better using the public access point.  Good Luck Dude !!

there are plenty of public accesses along the beach, use one of them. i have to as well, i own no property at the gulf. i hate the developement at the beach but they did what they did and i am left to deal with it if i want ot enjoy th ebeach, which is obviously not public. anymore. sure you can enjoy the beach you just have tp access it where the state says i can, not just where i happen to want to.

skateboarding should be against the law n fairhope, its inherently dangerous, and not only prohibited there but also many other cities. first kid gets hurt on city property will result in a huge liability for the city. remember the child who was killed in fairhope go carting with his dad a few uears ago, his parents extracted a huge judgement from the city, even with the signs and the fact his parents were with him.

I have really got a good laugh today.  Thank you.  Surfer Joe thank you for responding and knowing me so well?  I was born in North Alabama and have never moved out of the state.  God has put me here and not moved me anywhere else, like the West Coast.  I am a single parent making it from one pay check to the other.  I struggle and yes I enjoy taking my little one to the beach but I do abide by the rules and go to the designated public beaches.  I do not tresspass on private property.  Isn’t this what it is really about?  I do not have anything against the surfers, more power to you!  Until things change in Montgomery, the law is the law and we have to abide by it.  If you don’t like it, move or vote.  Thanks for the laughs though, I enjoyed it!  A great stress release.