I agree 100% And i dont blame society, hip-hop music or anything else, i blame the parents.
The problem with skaters like this is they have no respect for anyone, even themselves. If you look back at the start of skating, and then when it really got popular in the late 80's you almost never saw this type of stuff.
Look back at any of the old videos from Powell or Santa cruz, you see the "skateboarding isn't a crime" stickers and the occasional jab and laugh at cops, but you never saw anything like this. At least back then kids still had some respect, or at least knew their parents would kill them if they acted this way.
I was big into skating, had a half pipe in my back yard, ran from the cops at Wallows if they showed up (in Hawaii), broke out a few store windows by accident when I wiped out, grinded down many a curb, bench, wall,,, but I never acted like that.
Now I'm on the other side and work as a Deputy. I think the officer went over board at first, but once he arrested that first kid, the others should have just did what he asked and left. Or at least stayed back to let him do his investigation.
Heres what I do: I ask the kids if they can name 4 former Powell Peralta skaters (not Tony), or if they know who Animal Chin is,,, if they answer correctly I let them skate, if they don't I kick them out and send them on a quest to find the answer.
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Frankie, Where did your son get that SKin Industries shirt? I have a black and white one with the stripper outlines on it, but i havent seen that one!
I will say kids have NO respect these days. I would have never opened my mouth to an elder when I was 13. I would be too scared, and I am only 22. I guess it's all about how you are raised.
iI was raised the same way. If I take a girl out I get the car door for her, pull her seat out, and such. I hold doors for people coming and going to places, I rarely if ever use foul language when I am around older people who aren't using it themselves. I see 12-14 year old kids swearing and telling people to F off and it amazes me. I did not grow up in a bad, abusive, or even strict house, I grew up with parents who taught me well, and gave me enough things to keep me happy, but not spoil me to the point where I think I am someone who deserves to be treated like a king.
Both kids and cop acted inappropriately.
on another note..i was hoping one of those kids would take his taser gun and taser the cop
I'm like 25th, but I was heavly into skating, and very good at it, I just didn't fit in w/ all the others... I'm too "redneck" lol.
the kids were *******s.
the cop was an *******.
End of story.
if I was a cop and i told one of them to stop, even if it was to just warn them or tell them to be safe, and they didn't stop, those asshats would catch immortal hell.
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