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Lauren -- Charlestown NH
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On 4/11/2007 Pat Chewning
wrote in from
United States
(15.252.nnn.nnn)
I had the city fax me the law.
In summary, it says:
Illegal to ride (SKATEBOARDS, ROLLER BLADES, ROLLER SKATES) on the sidewalks of Main street in the "downtown" area. (Bounded by Sullivan Street and Olcott Lane). Penalty not to exceed 30 days impounding of equipment and not to exceed $100 fine.
My advice (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice): Ride on the street rather than the sidewalk, or avoid this area.
My interpretation of the law is that it only applies to the sidewalks. That differs from what the police told you (or what you thought they said). You should study the exact wording of the law and pay attention to how it is structured (words like AND OR and whether there are seperators like commas , or semi-colons ; ) These can change the meaning of poorly-written laws.
(I sent the fax of the law to you)
-- Good luck
PS: In my experience this is the most common law against skateboarding -- To restrict or prohibit skateboarding in the core downtown area of a town where there are lots of shoppers and pedestrians. I think it actually makes sense to do this. The law does not prohibit you from riding on the street, so if it is safe and enjoyable to do that, I recommend avoiding the sidewalk and using the street.
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Skate Laws - BOGUS
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On 4/10/2007
Lauren
wrote in from
United States
(64.222.nnn.nnn)
Last night a few friends and I were longboarding when a cop came up to us and took our boards and then proceeded to explain to us that it was illegal to skate on sidewalks and on the roads, and gave us places that we could skate (the school parking lot, after hours). Now, I fully believe that whom ever thought of this brilliant idea to ban skating in these two areas is an idiot for three reasons.
1) There are many skaters/longboarders in my area, and most of which are young teenagers/kids who do not have their license and this is their only means of transportation.
2) Those same kids use this 'sport/activity' to keep themselves away from trouble (we have a pretty s#@! ass drug problem [maryj excluded from this]).
3) Our world isn't getting any cleaner, longboarding/skateboarding is environmentally SAFE.
I'm trying to get a thing going with all of the skateboarders/people who support the skateboarders in my town so that we can somewhat ALTER this law of not being allowed to skate on sidewalks and roads.
WHERE can i find MORE INFORMATION about these skateboarding laws and what I can do about it? I'd also like to know if anyone else had encountered the same problem and what they did to fix it.
coming from a little beach town and being allowed to skate everywhere, to some s#@! ass town where things like this are basically prohibited irks me to the fullest extent.
help mehh. :] xO
use my e-mail to respond i probably won't be able to find this page again.
I found it in google while looking for my local skate laws, hehehe.
oh, and we did get our boards back.
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why you care so much bout where we skate?
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On 4/9/2007 J-bon
wrote in from
United States
(67.135.nnn.nnn)
they should just let us skate where we want whats the problem if we fall and get hurt it's our fault were not going to sue the property if your a skater you know the risks so every body suing the property quit, cuz its ruining it for all of us i respect the spot im not going to mess it up cuz its most likely that im going to come back and skate it again so im going to leave the property alone cuz who wants to skate a spot that looks bad cuz you tore it up (besides skating it all sick like)
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Gay ticket for skating in front of a hotel,
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On 4/8/2007
Matthew DePaolo
wrote in from
United States
(68.26.nnn.nnn)
they give me a ticket for skateing in front of a building and making me pay 200 dollars. stupid if they dont want people skateing on private property then BUILD A SKATE PARK IN OCEANSIDE.
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Dillon: What city? What law?
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On 3/29/2007 Pat Chewning
wrote in from
United States
(67.189.nnn.nnn)
Dillon,
Can you tell us what city, and what law the ticket was for? Some of us have experience in sucessfully getting laws changed, or finding the right way to work around them.
A little more info, and you might get some help.
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stupid law
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On 3/28/2007
dillon
wrote in from
United States
(68.164.nnn.nnn)
ive been skating for a while now and ive gotten three of these stupid tickets. one of them i was volunteering for the city and after im done i have to skate home and so i was skating home wearing my brght green shirt from the city saying im volunteering. and the same cop who has given me the last three tickets decides to give me another one. im helping out this cops city and he dosent want to think he could just let me of just like the other times that he DIDNT
I HATE YOU OFFICER JUARREZ
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skating in mexico
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On 3/18/2007 jason
wrote in from
United States
(69.42.nnn.nnn)
so im going down to mexico first week of summer, and im definitely considering bringing my longboard but im afraid of it like getting confiscated or something. so does anybody know the laws of skating and longboarding in mexico, and if its worthwhile actually bringing my board
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call the janitor
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On 3/13/2007
sc
wrote in from
United States
(65.91.nnn.nnn)
Internet access at school - not always a good thing
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uh-oh
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On 3/8/2007 screw
wrote in from
United States
(68.59.nnn.nnn)
TRUE DAT! Just because Beech Grove has 75% gay skaters-cops want to mess with us.Also,We like to suck eacother off at the Beech Grove Skatepark. Later
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uh duh
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On 3/1/2007 skating sux (joking)
wrote in from
United States
(74.132.nnn.nnn)
so yeah, i think cops do have it out for skaters, but at the same time, they have o do their job and serve the city, when someone complains they have to do something about it, im not taking their side but think about it, ther'ye COPS, but yeah, i f#@!ing hate cops, i usually skate in beech grove cuz that where i live and cops here are ridiculous, i mean there is a couple of cool cops, they let us skate wherever. but me and my homie's we alwasy just either run when they pull up to us, or when their on the road driving we just sit down till they pass us, there are actually some really good spot here, we have a place called ledges and wedges and its like a badass spot, but yeah its a small place where cops bust skaters! ( GAY ) but beech grove is like 75 percent skaters , no joke, they have mostly skaters and here's a heads-ip, if your ever thinkin about taking a long roadtrip tp go to beech grove skatepark, DONT DO IT ITS A WASTE. there is 4 things to skate and thats our park, a qp a box and a pyramid with a hubba, and a small ass roll in and thats it, there is a 12 set by the library tho, with handrails, but yeah, me and my homies chill out, and go skate, we get like 15 ppl to skate all with us and cops pull us over and say we have a gang, were all usually wearing tight pants and punk rock shirts or band shirts or skate shirts, i hate cops the yare always being (((HATERS!))) late!
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skateboarding law
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On 2/27/2007
nathan nutt
wrote in from
United States
(207.200.nnn.nnn)
banning skateboarding is prolly the dumbest thing tht they can do cuz then kids are gonna go out a break stuff and cause more trouble then wat we were apparentlly doing in the first place the old ppl who call the police shood just sit by and watch us skate cops shood be out protecting the city instead of stopping kids from doing something worth time lik they dont ban bmx or rollerblading schools will hav football and basketball but no skateboarding bcuz the nations school system sucks they act lik we are doing something wrong they dont understand tht skating is a lifestyle cuz they're too blind to see the benefits places are worried tht we'll break something and sue them well thts our own fault for not landing the trick it shood stay legal and if its illegal then they shood make it legal otherwise the crime situation will rise due to kids not having things to do but the break things outta the anger from this they treat it lik skateboarding is a crime all i got to say is if they do make illegal in my town to skate then well ill be in juvie and jail till the day i die
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duh
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On 2/14/2007 becca
wrote in from
United States
(209.175.nnn.nnn)
well i just have to say that every1 here is right. were not illegal, criminals or ne thing, skateboarding is free. i dont get wat the heck the governments problem with it is, they dont kare if theyre sold, as long as they have their money. F&*% the gov. so yea, dont blame the cops either. have 2 agree with that. well usually i will blame them, but just cuz i dont like em. cops just enjoy being a#@holes for a living, like 24 hour narcs. o well. well, i am still gonna skate wherever and whenever the heck i want to.
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old grumppy folks
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On 2/1/2007
Richie de Losada
wrote in from
United States
(4.246.nnn.nnn)
well,Hello there
I'm over here in Northern Cal in a place called Sea Ranch its full of old
rich folks that have nothing to do but complaine about anybody having fun
SkateBoards were banned along Time Ago.But My Now My Segway Has Been Banned From
The Sea Ranch, I think its a crock of sh** now I need some help e-mailing
tsra.com about this matter.thanx to who ever can E-mail themmm.
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kourtney
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On 2/1/2007 nic
wrote in from
United States
(65.44.nnn.nnn)
wow that sucks do you live like in a small town or some thing
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WAT?????
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On 1/22/2007
Kourtney
wrote in from
United States
(169.244.nnn.nnn)
k so if kids cant skate and well drugs r "illegal" wat the hell r kids these days supposed to do??? i mean really im not the knitting type its jusrt not me im a skater and i will continue to skate until the day i die!!! if ne one has nething to say to that tell me!!! i dare u!!!! it is so stupid to ban sumthing that ppl like to do and while ur at it u mind as well ban walking on sidewalks to cuz there is as much danger in that as there is in skateboarding!!!!! its RIDICULOUS to do this and in my town its already happened they banned skateboarding in public places which sux for me cuz there is nowhere else to skate cuz we dont have a skatepark here either!!!!!! WATEVR!!!
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Crying wolf- and admitting to a crime- turning yourself in...almost.
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On 12/30/2006 Some familar frequent poster.
wrote in from
United States
(67.8.nnn.nnn)
Crying wolf- and admitting to a crime- turning yourself in...almost.
If you know my writing style..you will quickly identify who teh poster is in this casse.
Let's say you want to slalom at a particular area.
And you always get tossed off.
Why not go to a place. Set up a row of 5 Blue traffic cones (yeah the big ones). Go through them twice.
Then have your friend call in a complaint. Saying that there is a guy skating with Full sized blue traffic cones.
Your friend (even better if it is a girl) says "Ohh officer I'm afraid of hitting him in the road. I speed on this road all the time and am worried about hitting him".
Do it over and over and over and over again.
Since youare really skating. It isn't a fraudulent call.
And since you leave immediately after two 10 second runs. You could not possibly get caught.
Call it in from many different phones. All the time. Different locations. Constantly.
Eventually the cops will stop responding.
Nothing illegal about it at all. It's your taxpayer money too.
4 weeks later change the complaint to add something new
Call in the cone complaint call again. Complaining about the guy with the blue traffic cones. Also make a comment that you are not complaining about the kids with the tiny red soccer cones that are responsible and mark their course and have signs for safety and sweep the street clean... .. but this idiot with blue cones. MAKE hte DISTINCTION. Tell them you actually like the kids with the small cones- that they are polite and have a right to exercise in teh street like you did as a kid. But the guy with the big BLUE traffic sized cones is a idiot.
Keep setting up as the Phantom Blue cone guy.
Keep praising the kids with the orange cones. Complaining about the blue cone guy. The guy who doesn't wear safety gear. The guy who litters. Tell them not to hassle the nice kids with teh orange cones.
Start doing this This winter.
Do this for a long time before you even bother to set up with your organge cones Mark your calender.
Set up a course and have a woman friend yell at you for setting it up. Then yell at you for jogging. Then call and complain about a guy who yells at joggers and the kids skating and at bicyclists and is crazy. Complain about this crazy complainer who yells at bikes and warns that she will call teh cops on them. tells them to get out of the road, and yells at any one in teh road. (you know...there really are people like taht)
Have your friend toss a plastic bottle at you. Now hte crazy complainer is tossing bottles.
So in the spring..Start slaloming. If cops stop by- tell them that everone is nice to you except some crazy woman who always complains adn whips bottles at bikers. Also take some time to complain about this stupid guy with blue cones- a wacko who was just there a few minutes ago and who said that some lady who whipped a bottle at him and after she said she was going to call teh cops
tell him they are both crazy nad off their medication...
Be organized-SUPER ORGANIZED set up safety sandwich boards warning motorists to slow down. Ask them to please obey hte speed limit as kids are playing as part of juvenille diabetes prevention. (Actually it is Adult diabetes we are fighting).
If someone complains and a cop shows up- just point to the bottle that was thrown at teh guy with the blue cones -but don't press charges. make sure to tell them that the guy they want is the idiot with the blue cones-
the guy who creeps you out and seems like a pedophile
tell the cops that you hate this creepy character and that they should get rid of him- and he always bugs you and tries to be your friend
it's jsut as much your taxpayer money too.
Ask the cops why they let a total idiot like that mess around with his stupid cones that are to big for cars. Tell the cops you will even call when you see him ...because he is making you and your friends look bad- he always shows up and tries to hang out and offer you drugs and you always tell him to get lost and he just moves down the block.
You paid for these roads and you ahve a right to use them if you show reasonable satey and preparation and prudent course setting with more than adequate visual warning for motorists.
Motorists are not teh only ones that own a piece of the road
And to test this method...I'm going to try it out myself. Using google earth.....and skype-
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SK8ING, COPS, AND LAWS I HOPE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND
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On 12/20/2006 jo
wrote in from
United States
(72.130.nnn.nnn)
LISTEN! COPS ALWAYS! HAVE, DO, AND WILL, GRANT THEMSELVES WHATEVER RIGHT THEY PLEASE WHEN BRINGING DOWN THEIR HAMMER OF POWER ON YOU.SOMETIMES JUST TO BATHE IN THE LUXURY OF BEINGINCONTROL.!! BUT, IT IS NOT COPS WE MUST TAKE OUT OUR SKATING HATING ON!!!YOU CAN GO RIGHT AHEAD AND BE PISSED ABOUT GETTING SEARCHED, FONDLED OR HASSLED,ETC, BUT IT ALWAYS IS GOING TO HAPPEN-FOREVER !!!!!WE MUST TAKE OUT [ALL] THAT RAGE WE HAVE,ON THE GOVERNMENT THAT IS NOT ONLY GIVING THE COPS THEIR RIGHTS TO US, BUT ALSO ARE THINKING UP, VOTING ON (SOMETIMES), AND PUTTING DOWN IN LAW BOOKS, THE RESTRICTIONS TOWARDS SKATEBOARDING IN AMERICA!!!(SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY?) ONLY IF WE FIGHT, (FIGHT THOSE MAKING THE RULES!!), NOT THOSE ENFORCING THEM.!cOMPLAINING OF POLICE INJUSTICE AND MISTREATMENT,[IS !!NOT!!]GOING TO WIN US THE FIGHT(IT'S ONLY GOING TO DEEPLY WORSEN IT)
WE NEED TO BRING OUR FIGHT, OUR VIEWS, OURFEELINGS, AND OUR PASSION FOR THE LIBERTY TO RIDE ANY TYPE OF BOARD, IN ANY WAY WE PLEASE, STRAIGHT TO THEM ON A SILVER PLATTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND WE MUST NOT BACKDOWN EVER!!!!!!!!!!
IF WE DONT, THEN THIS SILLY, NONSENSE FILLED, LEGAL BULLs#@! WILL NOT ONLY CONTINUE IN IT'S CURRENT COURSE, BUT WILL ALSO GROW STRONGER AND STRONGER OVER US, AND WILL END IN WHAT THEY WANT: THE TOTAL OBSOLETENESS AND IN EXISTANCE OF SKATEBOARDING,FROM ALL SOCIETY/CIVILIZATION
VOIVE OUR ANGER TO LOCAL CITY COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MAYORS, POLITICIANS, SENATORS, AND ESPECIALLY LAWMAKERS(THE SOURCE). THEY ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY AND ALL THIS LEGAL NONSENSE, THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF THESE SELF RIGHTOUS PIGS KNOWN AS POLICE--- THEY ARE IT'S SOURCE--THE ONLY WAY TO END SOMETHING IS TO STOP IT'S MAIN, ORIGINAL SOURCE, !NOT IT'S ENFORCEMENT(COPS)! DUHH
WE MUST FORCE ON THEM TO MAKE CHANGE, JUST WAITING FOR CHANGE TO HAPPEN NEVER GETS ANYTHING DONE, (NEITHER DOES WHINING AND VENTING OUR ANGER ON COPS AND LAWS)
WE CAN MAKE CHANGE, SO LETS GET STARTED AND END THIS CRAP FROM THE SOURCE
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Law
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On 12/14/2006 MD
wrote in from
United States
(66.13.nnn.nnn)
That's some crazy revalation
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Law
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On 12/14/2006 MD
wrote in from
United States
(66.13.nnn.nnn)
Love it or hate it, it's here to stay.
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i wanna skate
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On 12/4/2006
Vlatko Hikl
wrote in from
United States
(67.131.nnn.nnn)
i have been skating in twinn falls ID for 4 years, and there is always police bothering me. there are a lot of killer spots here but u can only skate on 1/4 of them. they need to let us skate wereever we want. i alwayes respect people and the rules of the place i am skating at but its not like i am hurting anyone or anything. i am just skating.
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dave g.
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On 11/29/2006 jdog
wrote in from
United States
(75.108.nnn.nnn)
anybody know of the whereabouts of dave gale?
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RE: Luge a vehicle
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On 10/31/2006 X
wrote in from
United States
(64.115.nnn.nnn)
Thanks for that....Nope, it's not considered a vehicle there. No inspection needed...I'll probably look more into the 2 sections they sent me, and speak with the dreaded PENDOT. They said something about lights, and the wheels being to small ??
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luge a vehicle?
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On 10/30/2006 peters
wrote in from
United States
(64.236.nnn.nnn)
Is the street luge required to pass inspection there? A 'motorized pedalcycle' is apparently not held to that standard accdg to this:
http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/067/chapter175/s175.4.html
Of course if you bring up any kind of 'contest' to their letter of denial at this point, its going to have to be subtle, polite, and persuasive.
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LAW Denied to luge in state park
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On 10/30/2006 X
wrote in from
United States
(64.115.nnn.nnn)
Heres my denial letter that denied me to luge in my local state park=
I am sorry to report that we cannot allow you to use your luge within the park on our open roadways.
· A street luge falls within the general definition of "Vehicle" in Title 75. Therefore, in order to be used upon a highway/roadway, according to Title 75 it is required to meet the minimum standards set by PennDOT, specifically Section 4303 General lighting requirements and Section 4525 Tire equipment and traction surfaces. A street luge meets none of the equipment standards set by PennDOT.
I cannot give you permission to operate this vehicle because I am not authorized to override PennDOT.
Please call me with any questions.
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PA laws
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On 10/26/2006 X
wrote in from
United States
(64.115.nnn.nnn)
If he's going with 'obstruction to traffic' to bust you, he doesnt like you! There is also a 'pedestrian law', which comes with more lenience from my understanding....
My own opinion, dont mess with them, you'll only make them more aware' of you, and you all know when faced with the challenge..you cant afford a lawyer and you cant beat the law.
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