There’s money in acting like a Jackass.

Hollywood expects big returns from this weekend’s release of “Jackass Number Two,” the second movie spawned from the MTV series that glorifies mind-numbing stunts undertaken by an eccentric band of pranksters seemingly hell-bent on dying young.

Jackass, released in 2002, was made for $5 million and earned $79.5 million worldwide.

Yet while “professional” jackasses can make a killing on the silver screen, acting like an amateur jackass at home is unprofitable. Officials in Paris are grappling with that problem, as unruly youngsters are causing havoc at the town’s praiseworthy new skateboard park.

Police in Paris have closed the skate park after complaints of bad behavior and vandalism, and they have made extra patrols around the facility. Neighbors are upset about disturbances, and they say youths at the park have strewn trash on neighboring lawns and made driving after dark unsafe.

These are troubling occurrences for a facility, open only since June, that was born of a remarkable community effort. The enthusiasm that went into the skate park’s development should continue into its operation; the park’s forefathers worked too hard to have it fail.

A meeting Wednesday at the SAD 17 superintendent’s office hopes to do that. Superintendent Mark Eastman said the complaints stem from the hangers-on around the park; the skateboarders, he said, are not the problem.

Yet they are the solution. Paris’ skate park is a shining example of community democracy: of the skateboarders, by the skateboarders, for the skateboarders. Now its time for dedicated skateboarders to preserve their park by taking control of its boundaries and its policing.

“The whole vision for this park was for it to be policed by [skateboarders],” said Eastman. “Not by adults, or police.”

Wednesday’s meeting brings together park founders, Eastman added, in hopes of transferring the park’s values to its current stewards. Skateboarders using the park today would be wise to listen to the advice of those that fought for its creation.

More than just the future of the Paris skate park relies upon it. With plans for a 12,000-square-foot skate park in Kennedy Park in Lewiston, the success of Paris’ skate park would go far toward solidifying an interesting public-private partnership.

The superintendent’s meeting starts at 3 p.m. in the district’s office in Oxford. All are invited, Eastman said, who have an interest in the skate park.

Skateboarders need to step up and take back their park, or risk losing the right to supervise it themselves. It starts by telling jackasses abusing the privilege to hang out somewhere else.

Maybe the movie theater. There’s a film opening Sept. 22 just for them.