Free Republic

<p>A brawl involving 200 people erupted at a Virginia roller skating rink around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, WDBJ reported.</p> <p>Witnesses told WFXR that a song ignited local gang tensions that led to the fight involving both teens and adults at the Star City Skate Center in Roanoke.</p>

A Muslim woman claims that a Connecticut roller-skating rink discriminated against her because it wouldn't allow her to skate in her headscarf. Marisol Rodriguez-Colon, 40, said she was "mortified" when she and another female relative showed up for a niece's birthday party at the Ron-A-Roll rink in Vernon and were barred at the door.

Skate Diva (from France doing in-line skating through slalom courses, and even on one leg!) Video - http://www.yahoo.com/s/446703 AWESOME! --- Some other comments so far - "I am French myself and it' awesome to see a french gal take her passion to the limit...C'est vraiment trop cool cte video. J suis fiere que tu sois Frncaise! Tu m'as trop impressionnee..." "Young and Gifted What More Could You Ask For... There's A Lot More Than Just Common Know How Going On Here... I Definetly See Practice and Refinement.... Much Respect For Taking Your Talent And Exercising It To Greatness... I'm Proud...

AP) The owners of a roller skating rink have fired an 18-year-old woman they called one of their "Top 10" employees because she moved in with her boyfriend, violating a company ethics policy that prohibits "live-in relationships of an intimate nature." "I loved my job and I didn't want to leave," Crystal Plotner told the Coeur d'Alene Press this week. She said she was fired after casually telling her bosses, Skate Plaza owners Marvin and Pat Miller, that she planned to move in with her boyfriend in mid-May. Before terminating her, Plotner said the Millers said she and her boyfriend...

DUNN, N.C. -- A family skate night at a local rink is being called anything but wholesome. Explicit lyrics were heard at the Wheels skating rink in Dunn last weekend. Two parents, upset about the music, filed a report with the Dunn Police Department.