Actually, skateboards are not allowed on public roads because they have no braking system.
good point.
Oso, in my town it is illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk … sidewalks are for pedestrian foot traffic. Skateboards, particularly snakeboards, do not work well on sidewalks that are generally in disrepare… streets are the most convenient way to go.
Are they legal on the street in your town?
I know why some people have the need to yell “get on the sidewalk” when I’m riding my skateboard or tall bike… when they can just as easily go around. After all, I’m actually using energy, not sitting on my a$$ in air conditioning. I used to think they were just mean, grumpy people. But now I see it as a kind of jelousy. Some people see me and my friends on our custom bikes and yell out, “Get a job!.”
I have a job! Some of my friends are rich and don’t need jobs.
If you’re on a bicycle then you can be on the street as long as you obey the laws for bicycles on the street. I’m an avid biker and the only thing that ****es me off more than skate punks in the street is bicyclists who don’t know how to act when they are on the street.
It’s a jelousy that they have not only lost their physical youth, but their mental and spiritual youth. Lighten up man. You’ll get where you’re going. Take it easy. Why bring someone else down just because you’re grumpy? Why be grumpy in the first place? Put soem good music on and enjoy your life.
See, you’re obviously not paying attention to my posts…I’m choosing to be a grumpy old man and enjoying the hell out of it. 
Dude, you’re just as bad as the kid on the skateboard if not worse. The only difference is, you’re an “adult” and a martial artist and should be more responsible.
I was totally responsible. I alerted him to the fact that he was in the wrong place and being a menace to society.
So the kid made a bad decision and the lady “almost” wrecked her car. Keyword = “almost”.
Right, only because she was being alert enough to spot the kid, not hit him and not hit anything else. He made a bad decision and obviously didn’t give a sh!t. So, I let him know.
So you take it upon yourself to teach this kid a lesson and come up on him and lay on the horn.
Take it from someone who’s been on the receiving end of one of those horns from time to time.
Sounds like you were in the wrong place. I doubt you would have had a car horn blown at you if you were in a skate park.
You scared the sh!t out of the kid. You’re lucky that the kid didn’t bail, fall off his board and end up under your tires. How would you have felt then. Who’s the jerk now?
[I]If he had bailed it would have been his own fault. Using your car horn to alert someone else is not illegal. If he had bailed after I blew the horn I would have been able to stop in plenty of time. I was only going 5mph.
Also, FTR, this ‘kid’ was probably mid 20’s.[/I]
Then after he flips you off you slam on the brakes like you’re going to dish out some street justice.
Not really, I scared him off the street which was my point. Now if he had hit my car or otherwise done something physical after I had only alerted him to my presence…
“Once people disregard common sense, I stop being nice to them. Not to mention disregarding laws intended to keep people safe. If he hadn’t of pulled the first stunt and almost made the woman wreck her car, I wouldn’t have responded as such when I came up behind him on the street.”
The real bottom line: Just because a person does something stupid and wrong doesn’t give you the right to do something more stupid or more wrong.
Sorry, not buying it. I didn’t do something ‘more stupid or more wrong’.
As an Architect who works in Historic Preservation I find this very funny! especially considering that they can have modern windows installed that have the same profile as the historic ones.
Yea, but they are talking about trying to find salvage/restored stuff on the ‘cheap’.
Like I said, Yippies.
FYI, the building was built in 1922 as a Willy’s Jeep Dealership. You’d dig Asheville if you are into Historic Preservation. Mostly all Art Deco style. Downtown is pretty cool. Then there’s the Grove Park Inn and of course Biltmore.
I love how skaters, cyclists and bikers get all peeved at people in cars. I love the bumper stickers that say, “have you seen a motorcycle lately…you should look again.” These people get mad when motorists don’t follow the traffic laws and don’t see them, but most of the time (most) problems get started by someone who is using some form of alternative transportation and thinks he can just squeeze around/through/by the cars that are in his way. The way I feel about is that if you are on the road, you obey the rules of the road. If you’re on a skateboard and someone is trying to parallel park, another car is stopped to let them finish…you don’t just sneak on by because you can. You stop your little piece of wood and don’t try to manuever through the traffic…same thing for any situation and any motorist. If you don’t, you’re just endangering everyone involved.
well put.
And if someone does do something stupid like that…I don’t think it gives anyone else the right to set them straight. We all want to, and I’m sure that I would be inclined to do the same, but when it boils down to it, we aren’t their freakin’ parents.
not trying to be. just the person there at the time to let the idjit know he was being an idjit.
The operative word in all of the previous posts is definitely “almost.” Just because something almost happens doesn’t mean that you must make something else happen.
I think the world has just gone to PC. Used to be that if you did something rude in public, someone would check you on it.
I say it’s time to take by the streets in the name of common decency!!!
this is fun
