Great thread on Concrete Disciples about a guy who took his kids to Burnside and got vibed by the locals. His threats to start a petition to try to get Burnside closed ruffled a few feathers. Abuse is heaped, the terrorists win. Pretty funny that he ends up getting vibed on the website too! I’m going to go out on a limb and call the TimK SnA’s Douchebag of the Week. I’m guessing his next petition will try to close down the Indy500 because they wouldn’t let his kids ride their pedal cars on the track.

A tutorial on removing your bearings can be found at About.com which is a New York Times venture.

About’s treatment of Skateboarding is squeaky clean. Marketers to youth and school teachers should find the site useful, making it easier for them to rap with the young people. Amazing that this Steve Cave character gets paid to rewrite the book of skateboarding making sure everything is spelled correctly. I’m waiting for the Time Life how-to series.

Are there skateboarders out there who haven’t figured out how to use an axle to remove a bearing? I wonder if About.com can help?

Which brings to mind an amazing skate repair tip I watched at Pier Park one day. A kid was looking for spare bearings because his were totally seized. Mike Swim took one of the kid’s non-rolling bearings and applied a little PBR. No shit, it freed up the previously frozen bearing. You can’t learn nothin’ in school they don’t teach you on the streets.

Insert joke about shitty bowls here. Oops! Shoulda made this photo of the Kent Washington skatepark a Shot of the Week.
[Photo: Tony Davies via Sleestak]

At least when you’re playing a skateboarding themed pinball machine, you’re standing up.

Enlarge the advert. This and a bunch of other old game images are here.

Update: Looks like they have this thing over at Ground Kontrol in Portland.

Update: Kilwag has more pictures of this thing coming soon.

Some cool shots in Dave Hupp’s latest photo samples, like this one of Sage in the Pier Park pipe.

Boy, 14 injured at skate park – Coventry,UK Emergency medical technician Steve Mason said: “We were told that the lad had been trying an audacious stunt but unfortunately came off his skateboard. …

Lads, if you must try those audacious stunts, you would do well to employ protective devices.

From SnA contributor John Aguliar:

Ok so im driving back from visiting my mom and im going 70mph on I-5 and my daughter looks over on the drivers side and says look!!! I turn over and theres this old lady with a full covered ear pro tec helmet on.

Doesn’t that crazy old lady know her helmet is older than her? Let the “barney” jokes begin!

A website called Office Politics had a recent query by someone who might lose his job because he isn’t into skateboarding. Oh and because he/she’s 40-years-old. Your supervisor isn’t named Shawn Fendick by any chance?

I wonder what would happen if it was a 40-year-old vert skater or the guy pushed mongo?

old guy photo by Rich Burton