Bill Requires Skateboarders To Wear Helmets

Like they are like totally like taking away our like rights, like yaknow?! DAMN THE MAN!

Heh but I thought I'd harkon back on our poseurpunkerfashion for a minute, lest we lose ourselves in our own grown-up-ness.

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Im this prep brand. Im so Postale'

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...anyway ...

Y'know...I've been skateboarding for over half my life (about 17 years now)...and I've never worn a helmet for just pushing along in the street...actually the only time I've ever worn a helmet was when I was forced to at a privately owned skatepark...I'm not saying that I'm against helmets or anything, but I think skaters (when I say skater I mean skateboarders) know the risks of thier chosen endeavor...let them use their better judgement when they're just out pushing it around...besides out of all the skaters treated (some 80,000 last year or someting) did they actually state how many of those injuries were head trauma?...I'll wager money that most of the injuries treated (let's say over 60% for shits & giggles) had nothing to do with head trauma...I'll bet most were ankle or wrist related or kids racking thier sacks on handrails...

...anyway...my little rant for the evening.

[EDIT: I gotta fucking learn to type...or use spell check.]

[ August 30, 2002: Message edited by: PunkMunkey ]

Maybe if parents could sign something saying their kids can kill themselves if they wish? I dunno.

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Maybe if parents could sign something saying their kids can kill themselves if they wish? I dunno.

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oh god, could they? "my son wants to go cliff diving off a 100ft overlook into a 4 foot stream. get me a pen." i would be all for it. down with idiots! and btw,

damn i'm smooth

[ August 30, 2002: Message edited by: Walter Sobchek ]

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"A flirt at the beach with a big group of your hot guy and girl friends."

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...kinda makes it sound like you swing both ways ...

But yeah, I think children should wear protective gear 24/7. They hurt themselves and cry way to frequently. And while your at it can we put muzzles on these helmets? (present companies children {present and future} excluded, of course)

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But its good to see people posting again.

A little known fact, but this stupid thing costs me $39.99 a month to keep up (along wiht my childporn ring ... KIDDING) but yeah and its not a big deal because I always HOPE UPON HOPE that everyone will get back together and this will be a fun place again. So who knows, I try to keep the dream alive.

end sob story

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[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: PunkMunkey ]

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punk munkey:

...and as far as the helmet thing, I think peole should wear helmets everywhere then...you never know when you could just fall and hit your head for no reason or maybe someone just runs up behind you and busts you in the dome with a beer bottle or maybe you get bombed by a stray turd...helmets for everyone!

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Originally posted by melissa:
believe it or not, a lot of schools have already...(banned dodge ball that is), because apparently it's a self-esteem issue which is total bullshit, in my opinion. but then i've always thought that the concept of self-esteem is in itself bullshit, so i supposed i'm biased...

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I met Stacy Peralta a couple of times when I was a kid (around 14-16)...he was running Powell/Peralta skateboards back then...I had overheard him talking to one of the skaters on the team (I think it was Frankie Hill)...anyway...the kid was all in a funk becasue he wasn't doing well in the demo so Stacy Pulls him aside and reminds him that this is all supposed to be fun..."Go have fun" he said...now, for me to hear this at that time was a real eye opener...at that age, all I did was skate...I was determined to get sponsored, to go pro...I even picked up a shop sponsor and was on my way...but there were times that I'd push myself so hard that I'd lose track of the main goal of skateboarding...to have fun...needless to say, I never went pro, I gave up the shop sponsorship whne I moved away to go to college...but to this day, I still skate and I think I enjoy it now more tha I ever did...because now I'm not pressuring myself to fulfill a goal when I sate, I'm just having fun...

...whoa...tangent.