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"It's clearly a public park adjacent to the skate park, or else people wouldn't just be walking around out there."

you're ignoring the possibility that those people don't know where the hell they are

8/22/2013 1:03:48 PM

I don't know if anyone else remembers being a kid, but you fall down and fall off of shit all the time. The kid was startled but not upset. No broken bones. It wasn't intentional. This video wouldn't exist if the Mom wasn't an irresponsible cunt. Yeah the skater was outside of the zone but that's kind of the point of street skating. Its the same as graffiti. Yeah I could totally paint on this canvas in my $2000 a month studio apartment but I'd much rather do this shit under a bridge. I was going somewhere but I forgot

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[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ]

8/22/2013 1:05:05 PM

you're ignoring the probability that it's a public park

8/22/2013 1:05:15 PM

^^^ slim to none. that would be a shitload of people not knowing they were standing/walking through the middle of a freaking skate park.

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ]

8/22/2013 1:05:55 PM

^^there is a 100% probability its a public park... because its a public park


https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=37.665207,-122.096073&cbp=13,224.1,0,0,0&cbll=37.665224,-122.096052&q=22643+Burbank+St,+Hayward,+California+94541&ei=V0UWUu32HY_-8QSxnYCQCw&ved=0CCwQxB0wAA


That is a piss poor skate park. It has a basketball hoop on it, 3 rails and 2 shitty bowls

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8/22/2013 1:06:58 PM

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"you're ignoring the probability that it's a [non skate-park portion of a] public park"

ftfy

8/22/2013 1:08:02 PM

The real question is why would you put a basketball hoop on a skate park when there are two other full basketball courts like 200 feet away?

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8/22/2013 1:09:59 PM

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"I'd say the dude's velocity was much higher than the kid's"

So? They both converged on the point of impact and collided. If two people both run a stop sign and hit each other, it doesn't matter who was going faster. They both should have followed the rules and watched where they were going.

(I'm not saying a toddler should know the rules of the road; kids will be kids. But it's not like the skater bowled headlong into a little kid who was just standing around, minding his own business. The toddler was running into the skater's path as fast as his little stumpy legs could carry him.)

8/22/2013 1:27:05 PM

skating on pedestrian area =/= following the law

8/22/2013 1:43:58 PM

^^ the point is that if you are skateboarding in a pedestrian area, shit like that can happen. it's the skateboarder's fault

8/22/2013 1:45:39 PM

sure he reacted properly, and sure the Mom overreacted. but had that been a big black dude he hit rather than a kid, it probably would have ended much worse.

8/22/2013 1:46:50 PM

it's a multi-use area. skateboarding is allowed there.

8/22/2013 1:46:53 PM

so skateboarding into innocent pedestrians is allowed there?

8/22/2013 1:49:03 PM

innocent pedestrians? lol the kid bee-lined into him. is the skateboarder partly at fault? probably. completely? no.

8/22/2013 1:51:40 PM

mandatory minimums for skatboarder assaults

make it happen

8/22/2013 1:52:20 PM

so if you are throwing a football with your buddy on the beach, and I happen to just be walking in your path, and you hit me in the face with the football......that's my fault?

8/22/2013 1:52:46 PM

yes, if you run into it with your face.

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 1:59 PM. Reason : v lol, you're literally a neanderthal]

8/22/2013 1:57:53 PM

^

also hit somebodys girl with yourfootball and see if you dont get pounded

8/22/2013 1:58:33 PM

Let's take the football analogy another step.

Say you're throwing football with a buddy while tailgating for an NCSU football game. The parking lot is a "multi-use area" by your definition, so throwing a football there is allowed. However, you know that there is a risk in throwing a football in a crowded area. You overthrow a ball and bust out my driver's side window. Who's at fault?

8/22/2013 2:00:22 PM

^
the guy throwing the ball in that situation

8/22/2013 2:02:25 PM

as is the skateboarder in this situation

if you are willingly doing something dangerous in a populated area, and an innocent bystander gets hurt, it's your fault

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 2:04 PM. Reason : a]

8/22/2013 2:03:52 PM

he didn't hit a bystander though. he hit a kid running from a diagonal direction.

you ever hit a deer with your car?

basically they both should have been paying more attention.

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 2:08 PM. Reason : .]

8/22/2013 2:06:51 PM

You ever accidentally overthrow a football and hit a car?

oh, I see. So the 2 year old should have been paying more attention

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 2:09 PM. Reason : a]

8/22/2013 2:08:50 PM

no, his mother should have.

multi-use park. skateboards allowed. bikes allowed. large moving objects. keep him in the playground.

8/22/2013 2:10:37 PM

8/22/2013 2:55:47 PM

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"The toddler was running into the skater's path as fast as his little stumpy legs could carry him"

Which isn't nearly as fast as the grown ass adult was riding his skateboard. Watch the video again...he clearly didn't look up/ahead before he preformed that trick.

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"is the skateboarder partly at fault? probably. completely? no."

probably? come one dude, obviously the skateboard deserves some of the blame here, most of it in my eyes since he's the adult and he was moving way faster than the kid.

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"if you are willingly doing something dangerous in a populated area, and an innocent bystander gets hurt, it's your fault"

+1


^^ Not that I'm doubting it, but where are you getting this multi-use stuff from? Are you on the park's website or something?

8/22/2013 3:33:33 PM

the

mother

prevailed. . . .

8/22/2013 3:38:57 PM

^ lawlz

8/22/2013 3:43:58 PM

i just realized how dumb it is to argue about this. sorry guys

still, fuck that lady

8/22/2013 3:46:55 PM

and in this case "multi-use" clearly means "feel free to hit toddlers with skateboards".

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM. Reason : t]

8/22/2013 3:47:46 PM

but for real

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"Not that I'm doubting it, but where are you getting this multi-use stuff from? Are you on the park's website or something?"

8/22/2013 3:47:46 PM

^

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"it's all waxed up for skating on. if it wasn't designated for skating then the town probably would have put skate stoppers on it."

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 3:49 PM. Reason : v correct]

8/22/2013 3:48:36 PM

So this is based on your observations, not anything written anywhere. I thought you saw a link a link at reddit or something the way you're talking

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 3:49 PM. Reason : ]

8/22/2013 3:49:23 PM

every skate park I have ever seen has manicured trees on it

8/22/2013 3:53:15 PM

8/22/2013 3:54:32 PM

lol, nice try

8/22/2013 3:58:29 PM

who the fuck cares whether it was in a skate park or park that allows skating or whatever? The points remain no matter where they were at:

- The skater should have been watching where he was going (as the child should have as well).
- The mom went way overboard in punching the skater.

8/22/2013 4:07:10 PM

^ This.

Also, she seemed really concerned about her kid. You know, since she couldn't be bothered to walk quickly and she didn't even check on him when she got there.

8/22/2013 4:16:00 PM

its not a sucker punch if you're facing the punch.

8/22/2013 6:11:58 PM

Twas a pretty good chick-punch.

8/22/2013 6:22:05 PM

twas man

twas

8/22/2013 7:20:34 PM

shoulda had a leash on that kid

8/22/2013 7:25:57 PM

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"- The skater should have been watching where he was going (as the child should have as well). - The mom went way overboard in punching the skater. "

8/23/2013 12:05:11 PM

this is one of the worst endings (maybe THE worst ending) I've ever seen in any medium

bitch punches skateboarder in face, and then video ends. the forces of evil win.

8/23/2013 6:43:30 PM

So...what is so fucked up about this again?

[Edited on August 23, 2013 at 6:55 PM. Reason : finally watched the video...seems about how things should've played out]

8/23/2013 6:55:27 PM

Skateboarding is not a crime

8/24/2013 6:46:33 PM

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"In reality, ill go to great lenghts to not hit a woman.... But sometimes I do wish women like this find out what can happen to you if you instigate a fight with man."

thats all i be sayin, but i get called a monster for it

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"^^ http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/07/former_rta_bus_driver_sentence.html Guy only got 3 days of jail for that That's pretty fucked up too."

its fucked up because he was punished at all..that black little fuckin rat spit on him maybe people spit on you where youre from and you enjoy it but most people are gonna knock your chicken head off for that shit.

[Edited on August 24, 2013 at 7:15 PM. Reason : k]

8/24/2013 7:12:46 PM

They are both in the wrong but the skateboarder started it and the mother finished it

Fuck skateboarding.

Charge them both

8/24/2013 7:21:43 PM

I skate. Therefore I am.

8/24/2013 7:30:25 PM

I was waiting for the skateboard to connect with the mom's face at the end. Kind of a disappointment.

I guess she can be forgiven since it was her son's birthday and all. . .

Hey all you entitled brats out there (adults included), your birthday is just another day. There are almost 7 billion people living who have been born, yet only 365 days in a year. You are not special. You don't get to be king for a day because you were born.

8/24/2013 7:43:14 PM