please Boycott places that knob or cap their property.



Boycotting places that knob or cap their property.

By Nate Sherwood.

The other day my lady and I went to Loews to pick up a giant tub for her turtles as well as some soil and a bucket for her tomato plants. After we left the Loews I did like any skater would do and drove out the back way to investigate the place for new spots to skate. We got to the back of the store and I noticed some perfect ledges that were knobbed. I told my lady, "Yo, this is fucked! I am not going to stand for this. We need to return the goods right now. Lindsey was pissed and was like, "Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind?"



I said, "Look, we will return the stuff and go to Home Depot where they are not skater haters. In fact, I have skated their carts in the parking lot for hours and never had one person come out and bug me."

So back into the store we go to return the goods. I said "I am here to return this for I am against the discrimination you guys are imposing on skateboarding."

The pimple faced kid looked at me funny like, "Okay dude," and I gave him my receipt and he gave me my cash back. My grand father was a union man; he worked for AMC motor company back in the day and would never cross the picket line. If there was a strike he would go put pamphlets on doors of houses making sure people did not support the people who were being boycotted. I think skaters should do the same. We are not a union but a brotherhood. That is similar in many ways. It is rad to let the people know who mess with us that we have money to spend and that it is not cool of them to hinder our skating. They claim that we do damage but I doubt that we do any more damage than strollers or cars leaking oil all over their parking lots. They do not ban strollers or cars though. So I filled out a comment card and I wrote down the amount of money they lost due to this and it was a small amount of only 50 bucks. But still, 50 here, 50 there, it ads up. I hope it plants a seed so businesses think twice about capping spots by loading docks where nobody will care if it is scuffed or not. I urge you all to let your local business that are knobbed, that They need to know that skaters spend money as well. Not much of course. In fact, most of us are broke but the few who have money, cough, cough, hint, hint, should let the people who mess us over know that. Rome was not built in one day and a journey of 1,000 miles starts with one foot step. So go boycott anybody who hates on you for skating. Make flyers, post things on line, etc. Keep street skating alive.


thanks.






Comments (12)

pushinwood93
Posted on December 17, 2008 11:18 AM
how it needs to be. knobs and blockers are whack, NO MORE HATTERS!!!!
NATE SHERWOOD
Posted on December 16, 2008 10:07 AM
thanks guys 4 the back up. keep your eyes out 4 "robby big nutz" he must be a cop or a rent a cop that thinks skating is only 4 parks in fucking fact I am 100 percent sure with a screen name like his he goes to sites like this and skate spots and parks to just pick up victims this dude is a predator 4 sure. watch your colon friends if he writes u an email and tell him to go to hell. Robby leave this site now or I will get your IP addy and send the cops to your house to find the bodies in the crawl space. you sick john wayne Gacy WANT TO be fuck nut go back to riding your scooter to the d n d show and stop posting on here.
K33P$$K83R
Posted on December 14, 2008 01:39 PM
thats right loews did that to ...there was a 4 and all that was great then they soe how removed it and put railing there ...... also they put railing on the only good ledges and gaps now all there is, is a manual pad and a complicated gap..
Element11997
Posted on December 12, 2008 04:40 PM
U kno wat Robby bignuts, shut the hell up!! If u were a real sk8er u would boycott these places!
robby bignuts
Posted on December 11, 2008 04:12 PM
You twat. That's a really stupid reason to boycott something. "Oh they don't want me destroying their property! this is no fair!" Boo hoo, grow up.
Dankskate
Posted on December 9, 2008 08:21 AM
Agreed way to stick it to em Mr.Sherwood
Antman777
Posted on December 8, 2008 08:26 PM
i agree
L dubbs
Posted on December 8, 2008 09:04 AM
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NATE SHERWOOD
Posted on December 8, 2008 08:48 AM
ISSAC . my man I think the school needs to open there eyes up. tobacco smoke kills over 1 million people a year. drugs kill thousands. Fast food kills many of us in our later years. Skateboarding has not killed more than 4 people in it,s 50 some year old history. Many more people have died in track meets. foot ball and even basketball. there are blanket laws guarding schools fro being sued in court for injuries from any PE or sport taking place on campus. read about my blog on matt cole a PE coach who teaches skateboarding. Your school needs to understand just like any sport skateboarding is valid. You guys are keeping your minds sharp. and you are keeping your body healthy. as opposed to as you said being another looser who sneaks of campus to smoke cig,s weed or snort coke. I was there at one time as well I hid my set up in a duffle bag on campus and as soon as I got off the grounds I would put it out and shesh the Manuel pad at the local Arby,s parking lot on my lunch break. I had to hid it as if it was a sin to skate. times were much more rough then there was only 3 skaters in my school including myself. we would all meet up and shred when it was nice out. if you are trapped on campus you should draft a letter to the head of the PE department or head coach. site articles on skateboarding . show that there are other schools who compete in it like matt Cole,s does and Show how it is growing. If he gives you any lip saying you will not go any place in it ask him the last time you saw a pole vaulter driving an s class benz and owning two houses like my friend Rob does who happens to be a pro skater. I made a great living as a pro and got to learn a lot about the globe and people from it. if they try to say skateboarding has no merit send them my way. I will put them in there place. let me guess the rent a cop was fat and driving a golf cart right? like he knows what is good for anybody's health.
NATE SHERWOOD
Posted on December 8, 2008 08:36 AM
A fellow skater named Isaac just sent me this email in response to this blog. i read it and i love it man so my highschool is pretty boring and well its highshcool and me and most of my buddies are not troublr makers or anythng bad but we like to skate at school it helps us to keep our mind clear and focused on the positive things in life we have never skiped a class to skate we skate during our lunch time we only skate flat concrete were we dont hurt anyting or others and my security guard is always takin my and my friends boards and i think we should be aloud to skate at school as long as one has a maintaned gpa level i mean we skate all lunch it helps us stay out of trouble we dont smoke or do drugs during school or skip class to have a cig lol we just skate so thats my story any pointers or tips on how maybe i can get my school to alow us to skate would be much apriceated thanks for yurr time .
NATE SHERWOOD
Posted on December 8, 2008 08:19 AM
Bstain thanks man 4 the props. U can do the same brother. "The one who waits on the river banks the longest will see the body;s of there enemy;float by" Sun TZU the art of war. I think that quote rings true with this. it will be a long up hill fight but well worth it in the end....
Bstan123
Posted on December 8, 2008 07:25 AM
way to stick it to the man. its cool that your motivated.

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