Invention Curbs Skateboarding Damage

foxnews.com ^ | Friday, January 02, 2004 | Fox News' Anita Vogel, Chris Spinder and Catherine Donaldson-Evans

[paltz]

Chris Loarie has waged a battle against the boarders, inventing something he calls

[SauronOfMordor]

skatestoppers.com

[Keeper of the Turf]

Dude....totally un-cool.

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[Petronski]

I was going to post a photo here, but apparently the manufacturers have yet to discover JPEG file compression. LOL.

[anonymous_user]

Like, Yaah! Way dude. Way cool. Now if someone could just make some gnarly-fuzzy big tires to roll over those things, that would be so totally bitchin'.

[FreeAtlanta]

Great Idea! Necessity is the mother of invention and that is the American way.

I looked a the link, and the skatestoppers are pretty neat. Now, I will know what I am looking at, whenever I see some. :-)

[gitmo]

Each year millions of skateboarders, roller bladers, and bikers take to the streets in search of the best places to skate and ride. Even with the rapid growth of skate park facilities nationally, your property has become a practice ground for disruptive and destructive activity.



Shown here are custom bronze bars that are inserted and grouted into saw cuts in the granite substrate.



Shown here are standard parts affixed to bench edges.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Good business idea...

[mylife]

My kid is gonna be upset!

[Keeper of the Turf]

Dude...I was just imitating a skater-dude.

[templar]

My idea would probably been more along the line of those tire puncturing things they put in drive in theaters to prevent people driving in the exits.

Truthfully though, I had no idea skateboarders caused such damage. This is a nice product, but it's a shame that property owners have to go to this expense because of the lack of respect the skateboarders have for the property.

[MediaMole]

If skaters would just respect private property, there wouldn't be any problems. They damage property and have no respect for the property owners and managers.

I used to be the manager of a business that had a long curb local skaters liked to use. My only request was that they couldn't use it during business hours.

Finally, after (politely) asking a couple of kids to leave and receiving another "F--- Off A--hole," I called the cops and had them escorted off the property. Then I asked the cops to ticket anyone skating on the property at any time.

They lost another place to skate because of their own behavior.

[Moppith]

you have some serious problems with skaters man!!

i am a skater myself, but personally i think this stuff is a good idea, hell i know my friends and i were really annoying when we were younger (am now 19) because we did deface property. This is all that people have been waiting for , its sensible and a good buisness idea, you know perhaps you could even think about putting some of the large profits you must be making towards sponsership for area's that dont have skate parks.
you arn't taking away a skaters right, your just leaving them with less opportunity.
Show the skater community that your not out to attack them by putting something back into it! if they dont like it, then thats their problem, if you put money towards a skatepark near me i would be more than happy to skate on it!

[Texas Eagle]

"It's kind of stupid to put them on the ledges and just ruin a nice-looking park," said skater Jacob Witkowski.

Shut up, punk.