Skateboarding.
Today, skaters around the world are treated with little respect from the public or authority. There are "No Skateboarding" signs everywhere you turn. Back when skateboarding was first born, in the days of old school Santa Cruz skateboards and Kona, skaters were known as druggies, bums and criminals. Today we are looked at the same way even though we have changed very much. I firmly believe skateboard laws should be abolished. First because even though so many other kinds of skates damage property, skateboarding is singled out as the bad one. Also, because skate parks are usually crowded, unfit, or to far to get to. And last because of how popular skateboarding has become in all genders and ages.
Skateboarding is primarily looked upon badly because of the property damage it can cause. Not only is it that the most damage skateboarding can cause to property is chipping a curb, but how many other things can cause even more damage. Consider biking and rollerblading, and not to mention automobiles tearing up the streets on a daily basis. Even though these things can cause just as much damage, but you don't see half as many signs saying "Trick bikes are prohibited", or "No rollerblading". Yet there are "No skateboarding" signs all over the place. For some reason bikes and blades are much more accepted by the community, but my metal trucks, wheels, and some loosely assembled bolts thrown on to eight layers of ply-wood are looked upon as the scrounge of society. Even when you do find a great place you and your friends can skate at where there aren't signs saying you cant, someone still calls the cops on you with out any warning (usually by the people who don't even own the property) and you get yelled at and possibly get you board confiscated. And I know these things happen a lot from my own experience. (Mikros, Dan)
Anti-skaters could argue that you could go skate where you are supposed to, at a skate park. But most of the time skate parks are very crowded,...
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