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.