[MP+4]

Kids need to express themselves and skateboarding is a great form of expression in my opinion. All they were doing was having harmless fun, and kids having harmless fun should be promoted, not busted.
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Yeah the best way to express yourself is to pry up manhole covers and vents [rolleyes]

[plaiskegizils]

Yeah the best way to express yourself is to pry up manhole covers and vents [rolleyes]

Well I would imagine they did that to create an obstacle with which to do a trick over. So yeah that shows signs of being creative. That's what skaters do. They look at their environment and they creatively use it to their advantage. Boring pieces of urban architecture can become playgrounds with a slightly different perspective. Imagination is a great basis for expression.

[MP+4]

Well I would imagine they did that to create an obstacle with which to do a trick over. So yeah that shows signs of being creative. That's what skaters do. They look at their environment and they creatively use it to their advantage. Boring pieces of urban architecture can become playgrounds with a slightly different perspective. Imagination is a great basis for expression.

Yeah well guess what? You aren't allowed to pry up manhole covers. It's not creative, they were probably just being douche bags

Why can't they just go to the skate park, this magical place where its ok to skate, its supported, and obstacles and environments are already created for you..oh god no, let's go be skateboarder douche bags in an industrial park and pry up manhole covers

[plaiskegizils]

Yeah well guess what? You aren't allowed to pry up manhole covers. It's not creative, they were probably just being douche bags

Why can't they just go to the skate park, this magical place where its ok to skate, its supported, and obstacles and environments are already created for you..oh god no, let's go be skateboarder douche bags in an industrial park and pry up manhole covers

lol, you obviously don't and have never skated. Park skating is great but you're stuck with what you have in the park. 'Street' skating is far more fun as you can be more creative with your environment.

I've spent the night in the police cells twice for skateboarding. And once got my board confiscated. I was hurting nobody, I was causing no threat to anyone. All I was doing was skating in an unauthorized place because that's where the best place to skate was. If you're 15, love skating and see a great skatespot that legally you shouldn't be using, you don't give a rats ass about the law, you just want to skate it.

Ah to be 15 again.

[engideNedmupe]

lol, you obviously don't and have never skated. Park skating is great but you're stuck with what you have in the park. 'Street' skating is far more fun as you can be more creative with your environment.

I've spent the night in the police cells twice for skateboarding. And once got my board confiscated. I was hurting nobody, I was causing no threat to anyone. All I was doing was skating in an unauthorized place because that's where the best place to skate was. If you're 15, love skating and see a great skatespot that legally you shouldn't be using, you don't give a rats ass about the law, you just want to skate it.

Ah to be 15 again.

Yes but would you have called the cop a "****ing ****" if he told you not to skate there? It wasn't the skating that got him arrested.

[SQiTmhuY]

Skateboarding a form of expressing ones self ?
O.k, then everything you can come up with is a form of expressing yourself.
Walking down the street, whistling, wiping your ass with the left hand, eating at Burger Kings, masturbating under a rug and whatnot.
End of the story is the kid/s were A. doing something prohibited and B. acted like little assholes. Everything else is just uninteresting,..
Just because some people like yourself admire skateboarders doesn´t change anything.

[plaiskegizils]

Yes but would you have called the cop a "****ing ****" if he told you not to skate there? It wasn't the skating that got him arrested.

To be fair we don't know why he called the cop a 'fahuckin dikk' as it's not explained what happened before the video starts. To be honest when I was 15 I didn't take any **** off anyone, even the police. Which is why I ended up in a police cell alot. If a pig was giving him bullshit and he gave bullshit back then I commend him for having the nuts to stand up for himself.

If on the other hand the pig was being fair and he called him a dikk for no reason then sure he was in the wrong. I just don't think that was the case in this situation.

[carpartsho]

Skateboarding a form of expressing ones self ?
O.k, then everything you can come up with is a form of expressing yourself.
Walking down the street, whistling, wiping your ass with the left hand, eating at Burger Kings, masturbating under a rug and whatnot.
End of the story is the kid/s were A. doing something prohibited and B. acted like little assholes. Everything else is just uninteresting,..
Just because some people like yourself admire skateboarders doesn´t change anything.

Masturbating under a rug huh?

[MP+4]

To be fair we don't know why he called the cop a 'fahuckin dikk' as it's not explained what happened before the video starts. To be honest when I was 15 I didn't take any **** off anyone, even the police. Which is why I ended up in a police cell alot. If a pig was giving him bullshit and he gave bullshit back then I commend him for having the nuts to stand up for himself.

If on the other hand the pig was being fair and he called him a dikk for no reason then sure he was in the wrong. I just don't think that was the case in this situation.

You sound like a spoiled brat skater homo.

I JUST GOTTA SKATE MAN OH YEAH COOL. I live jumping around on a piece of wood with 4 wheels on it. Skateboarding is about as much as expressing yourself as is shaving a lightning bolt into my pubes

[plaiskegizils]

You sound like a spoiled brat skater homo.

I JUST GOTTA SKATE MAN OH YEAH COOL. I live jumping around on a piece of wood with 4 wheels on it. Skateboarding is about as much as expressing yourself as is shaving a lightning bolt into my pubes

Actually I was brought up on the Shetland Isles, a tiny island north of Britain with horrific weather and a population of about 30,000. My parents weren't rich at all and I skated alone for most of the time I got into it and often had to walk around 3 miles to the local school and skate myself as we lived very remotely.

I then moved to the big town Lerwick in Shetland and discovered there were other skaters there. Most of them actually amazing, even in comparison to the skaters you got in the big cities in the UK. We used to make stuff out of whatever we could find, skate every day, hang out, have fun and hurt ourselves. Alot. I've broken around 14 bones since I started skating and as well as enabling me to meet people pretty much instantly wherever I travelled to, even globally, it also taught me discipline, respect, hard work and confidence. Oh and it also got me more chicks than you could shake a stick at. [rofl]

Skating is anything but gay. But I can tell you right now the way you come across in this thread would tell me you're maybe not the personality type to get into it. It's about loving life, being happy and having fun. You sound like one stressed out motherf**ker.

[asivisepo]

You sound like one stressed out motherf**ker.

That's what growing up does to most people. You realize that life sucks giant donkey balls and that everything they taught you in school was bullshit. You're not going to be a ****ing astronaut, you're going to sit in a ****ing cubicle every day 10 hours a day and hate your life.

Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Then you'll cruise around like a smacktard in your sports car and think your life has meaning.

[plaiskegizils]

That's what growing up does to most people. You realize that life sucks giant donkey balls and that everything they taught you in school was bullshit. You're not going to be a ****ing astronaut, you're going to sit in a ****ing cubicle every day 10 hours a day and hate your life.

Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Then you'll cruise around like a smacktard in your sports car and think your life has meaning.

I don't buy that working a crap job means you need to act like an *******. Sure be unhappy that you have not been more successful but don't take it out on your fellow human for no reason. I know plenty people in **** jobs that are really nice people.

[hoconnor6605]

For the most part, skaters are little snot-nosed punks who need a good beat down. I side with the cop.

[plaiskegizils]

For the most part, skaters are little snot-nosed punks who need a good beat down. I side with the cop.

Shock, horror. [rofl]

[fudelholf]

I suspect they were playing up specifically because they knew a camera was on.

In my opinion the whole situation could have been avoided by saying "Yes officer, I appologise, we'll move on".

You don't have to like every policeman but, like it or not they are employed to enforce the law. If you are respectfull and polite you're unlikely to have a problem.

As a very short example:

When I was about 15 and training for Athletics every other day my dad would drive me to the stadium. One day we got pulled by the police, an officer came to the window and advised us that a car matching ours had been stolen by 2 people wearing baseball caps and asked to see my dad's licence. Basically, same car as ours and we're both wearing baseball caps. Obviously we'd done nothing wrong, it was our car and he was taking me to training.

Had he adopted that attitude I see in so many videos of "f you! we haven't done anything!" then the whole encounter could have ended up differently. As it was my dad said "Of course, no problem." The officer asked a few basic questions, such as where were we going and what was the registration of our car. My dad was polite and friendly, and in doing so the officer was equally polite. The officer appologised for the inconvinience and my dad said "No problem" and that was the end of it.

If you come out with attitude you get attitude back.

[foltdan]

To be fair we don't know why he called the cop a 'fahuckin dikk' as it's not explained what happened before the video starts. To be honest when I was 15 I didn't take any **** off anyone, even the police. Which is why I ended up in a police cell alot. If a pig was giving him bullshit and he gave bullshit back then I commend him for having the nuts to stand up for himself.

If on the other hand the pig was being fair and he called him a dikk for no reason then sure he was in the wrong. I just don't think that was the case in this situation.

If you noticed right on the start. The cop was actually being pretty nice. "hey man looks like you have a head ache. Someone got some tylenol?" Then the kid just called him a D*ck for no reason. So the cop did started off, according to the video pretty nice.

And also according to the cop he was called there. Not just showing up to be an ass hole to piss some skater kids off. Might not be true, but hey you never know.

[kertionderf]

To me, there are ways to act when in a position of authority: You can follow the rulebook, or you can use some discretion.

Arresting the kid was a waste of time. The cops time, the city's time (and money) while silly paperwork was filed, not to mention the parents time coming to get him, the courts time etc.....

Quite a big bill for what was essentially kids being kids. (getting in trouble, breaking bones, bumping into stuff etc)

He could have probably gotten the same effect at a greater savings and with less controversy by simply confiscating the boys skateboard. Right now we have a situation akin to shutting down some little kids lemonaid stand, for not having a license.

In other words its lawful, but ultimately quite silly. Maybe mass jaywalking arrest's next? Bottom line, the officer was simply pissed, and used a bazooka to shoot mosquitoes. [rolleyes]

[plaiskegizils]

Skateboarding a form of expressing ones self ?
O.k, then everything you can come up with is a form of expressing yourself.
Walking down the street, whistling, wiping your ass with the left hand, eating at Burger Kings, masturbating under a rug and whatnot.
End of the story is the kid/s were A. doing something prohibited and B. acted like little assholes. Everything else is just uninteresting,..
Just because some people like yourself admire skateboarders doesn´t change anything.

Again, i get the feeling you haven't ever skated. Skateboarding is without a doubt a form of expression. Every skater has their own style and it's through that style that expression eminates. You have tricks that you do that nobody else can do, it's an individual thing and is definitely a form of expression, in as much as breakdancing, graffiti or basketball etc

I'm not expecting you to relate as you have never been part of that scene, just asking you to understand.

[plaiskegizils]

If you noticed right on the start. The cop was actually being pretty nice. "hey man looks like you have a head ache. Someone got some tylenol?" Then the kid just called him a D*ck for no reason. So the cop did started off, according to the video pretty nice.

Yeah actually that's a fair point. I guess the little dude just hates cops and potentially got what he deserved.

[vesiasmepay]

I'm not expecting you to relate as you have never been part of that scene, just asking you to understand.

Still doesn't change the fact that they were purposely tying to get a rise out of the cop just to get some controversy on there internet video.

But as long as they were just trying to express themselves i guess it shouldn't matter. I wouldn't be surprised if the citizen was part of their little video.