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GrizzlyBear -> RE: Too Rough, Or Doing His JOb? (7/5/2007 12:35:18 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: bifemaleNeeded
Skateboarding is a sport, a bicycle is a mode of transportation. Would you snow ski down the sidewalk because there is snow on it? The sidewalk is for the use of pedestrians. Laws against certain activities are for the protection of the pedestrian. You want to engage in a sport, go to a area reserved for that sport. Don't insist others accept the risk of your chosen sport by insisting it is other then it is.
Please provide a link showing the legal distinction between bike riding as a mode of transportation and skateboarding as a sport.
I used to ride my skateboard all over the place to go from point A to point B.
The US legal system really is not set up to allow one to make up the rules of the game as they go along.
Sinergy
p.s. Unless one is President, of course.
In my state, bicycles are declared in state law to be vehicles and while on a public roadway are therefore subject to the laws of the road that other slow vehicles must obey. Skateboards are not covered in that law. However in my city, both bicycle riding and skateboarding are prohibited on downtown sidewalks. (Nothing is said about skiing there, although there is an ordinance that states snow and ice must be removed from sidewalks by 9 AM each day.) Violations are punishable by jail time or fines. I would imagine that it is not unlikely for Hot Springs AR to have similar ordinances. It is certainly within the power of a city government to make such ordinances, and to enforce them.
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