People were allowed to sled all day on Queen Anne hill. Although the road
was closed, it crossed several cross streets, some of them very busy.
Although there are stoplights at each of these intersections, it is obvious
that sledders, skiers, snowboarders, snowmobiles, and all the rest were not
going to pay the slightest attention to them. Several sledders were nearly
hit by cars on Mercer Way. The police closed down the sledding at dusk,
believing that it was too dangerous for the winter recreation activity to
continue at night.

As is typical in Seattle, when the police tried to close down the hill, the
crowd started to riot. No doubt Rich S. would have been the first to try to
sue the city if he had gotten run over by a car in the dark.