Taiwanese Police Are There to Protect and to Serve

I tagged along with a homie and his friends for filming, and at one point, early in the night when the streets are still frothing with people, he was skating a low rooftop that is shaped like a very mellow miniramp with no flat. We set up a barrier to keep his board from murdering scooterers if it zipped out, as the landing was a few feet from a busy street. He tried it for about 45 minutes. The spot is in front of the ministry of internal security (I use lower case because I don't know what it's actually called) and at one point, a pair of police officers came around the corner, watched him skate the roof, and never broke stride. At two other spots, bored, fat security guards waddled out and watched, but the only one who said anything was an ancient one at the nightmarket, as we were cruising home. He had a point though, skateboards are loud in narrow alleys. He probably could barely hear the roar the scooters for a few seconds, but by then, we had passed, and he went back to the background lull of Taipei, which sounds like an internal combustion waterfall.