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Question: Is skateboarding a crime?
Answer: Skateboarding itself is not a crime. However, skateboarding in certain locations may be a crime.
The owners of property - homes, shopping centers, parks, etc.- have the right to set reasonable rules for what visitors to their property can do while they are visitors. Owners could be individual people, in the case of a house, a company, in the case of a shopping center, or a city government, in the case of a park. It is common to see signs on property that prohibits skateboarding. This prohibition would be a reasonable rule because skateboarding could cause injury to both the skateboarder and other visitors. A property owner can be held responsible for injuries incurred by visitors while on their property and so most property owners try to set rules that reduce the likelihood for injuries occurring. If skateboarding in a certain place is prohibited and you are caught skateboarding there, you could be charged with the crime of trespassing, as well as other crimes depending on if anything on the property was damaged due to the skateboarding or if someone was injured.
Some cities have passed ordinances (city laws) that make skateboarding illegal in certain places. It is illegal to skateboard in the street, other than in a crosswalk, in Mesa. It is illegal to skateboard in or around city buildings in Chandler. You should check with your local police department to see if there are specific restrictions like this in your city.
There are many public places where skateboarding is encouraged like Scottsdale Skateboard Park. Its best to skateboard in areas made for skateboarding.
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On 03/05/04
Zach from SC said:
Sk8n a crime, Here we get in all sorts of trouble and there is only 1 place to go and its bad enough that this state is all dirt and no ramps!
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On 03/05/04
Zach from SC said:
The day I had got my fisrt por board, me and some friends went out to sk8 around 12:00 at nite, we found a good area and I had fallen and my board rolled into a ally behind a store. Some cops caught me rettriving the board and I was arrested and I lost my first pro board before I could even get in onto a rail or ramp! ;(
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On 03/04/04
kenny from CA said:
sk8ing should not be illegal, sk8rs should be able do do what they want, we should be able to use our own rails and ramps and mindy ramps, but i do agree that some areas should be illegal to sk8 but wen we do sk8 it, dont be all hostil to sk8rs
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On 03/01/04
Tim from IL said:
ya this is dumb. i hate when we get yelled at for skating. or not even skating sometimes
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On 02/27/04
joel from AK said:
I think skateboarding is not a crime. We all have the right to skate,
but I see where the owners of businesses are coming from, it's a pain
in the ass to have to repaint or remake something because some
skaters destroyed it.
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