Viral Video Ignites Change in San Francisco Park Policy

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A San Francisco tech worker holds up the permit showing his group had paid to reserve the public field.
A San Francisco tech worker holds up the permit showing his group had paid to reserve the public field.

Thanks to a viral video and an ensuing change of policy, teenagers in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood will no longer have to worry about being booted from their local public soccer field.

The story begins months ago when a group of San Francisco tech workers showed up at Mission Playground with a permit saying they had paid to reserve the field. The teenagers, citing that it was a public park, offered to share the field with the tech workers, but not leave altogether. The relatively level-headed argument between the two groups that followed was caught on video and has racked up more than 500,000 views.

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