Fuck the ADA!

Putting a recklessly tall blue metal pole in the ground for children to climb as high as they want, needlessly endangering their lives and letting them have a radical time while doing it?  Awesome idea, cowabunga, let's do it. Mexico, you fucking rock.  Fuck the Americans With Disabilities Act.  It has the purest and most wonderful of intentions, but it is enforced with the sensibility of an angry Fascist, and is thus a huge reason why it is terribly difficult to construct anything in America that utilizes risk or choice or free will or fear or danger as part of a design.

FYI: The ADA was a law that was passed that attempts to provide people with disabilities access to all the places non-disabled people can access, but does so through an incredibly rigid set of rules.  It is a lovely idea, and providing people with disabilities access to public spaces IS important, but the way it is enforced is ruthless and limits design/experience.  It's why you see more interesting streetscapes/landscapes in foreign countries than you do in America.