Saw some boys riding down the hill in the park near my house. They looked about 14, and were bearing down on the rough asphalt of a step incline. My first thought glancing over was "Those boys should be riding skateboards. They are way to tall for those scooters." But they were smiling and hot-dogging their way over and around the many potholes in the park's path. Ok, so they were old hands in riding scooters, but it was only a matter of time before they took to skateboards. Now all over town there are signs "No skateboarding." So the next step past scootering was already headed in the direction of illegality. Never mind Foucault's essay on the forced prohibition of skate boarding. Nothing wrong about skate boarding except that it's illegal. And from there, young boys slide down more than the curving hills of central PA. All that fun, comradeship, daredevil thrill seeking, the local police will tell you where it will lead. Why not just let'm have a smooth ride?
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