Comments on: Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal Sk8 Ramps http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: bernie http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366337 bernie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366337 Tom - if the pool is full, I believe the owners will be held liable if someone drowns there while they are gone. (i think) My favorite part of this article is this photo which goes to show that skate photography isn't as easy as it looks - the guy is clearly bailing: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/29/us/29pools.large2.jpg Tom – if the pool is full, I believe the owners will be held liable if someone drowns there while they are gone. (i think)

My favorite part of this article is this photo which goes to show that skate photography isn’t as easy as it looks – the guy is clearly bailing:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/29/us/29pools.large2.jpg

]]> By: gollux http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366086 gollux Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366086 Start paying them to do this. In mosquito country, this is much needed vector control to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. Add to the kit, mosquito control discs to be left behind to prevent mosquito breeding in any water that might accumulate during rainfall. Start paying them to do this. In mosquito country, this is much needed vector control to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. Add to the kit, mosquito control discs to be left behind to prevent mosquito breeding in any water that might accumulate during rainfall.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366092 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366092 This is eerily similar to the skating in empty pools that was done by the Z Boys in the 1970's in Los Angeles. At that time it wasn't foreclosed homes, but rather still-occupied homes with pools drained due to the drought. See the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys." This is eerily similar to the skating in empty pools that was done by the Z Boys in the 1970′s in Los Angeles. At that time it wasn’t foreclosed homes, but rather still-occupied homes with pools drained due to the drought.

See the documentary “Dogtown and Z-Boys.”

]]> By: jaypee http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366094 jaypee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366094 Note to Xeni: A ramp is a ramp, a pool is a pool. Note to Xeni: A ramp is a ramp, a pool is a pool.

]]> By: Dan http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366097 Dan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366097 Related, but in my opinion, much cooler: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/388121.html Related, but in my opinion, much cooler:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/388121.html

]]> By: tishykb http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366612 tishykb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366612 Sounds fun, yea, till you actually buy one of these homes and have to have your pool replastered because the dry, hot las vegas sun baked the crap out of the empty pool and cracked the plaster, or at very least have to repaint the pool because of the graffiti... thanks to the skate rats here, i'll take my $5000 for the replastering now please. and another few bucks to fix the drain covers you smashed in... hey, i was a kid once, but as s'far as i'm concerned, go to a local skate park and skate there. quit doing damage to people's (future) homes. (and really, you should never drain a pool, it's not to much a problem here in vegas but in most cities the water table is pretty high, and a drained pool can eventually pop out of the ground and float on the water table like a rubby ducky in your bath tub. not good.) Sounds fun, yea, till you actually buy one of these homes and have to have your pool replastered because the dry, hot las vegas sun baked the crap out of the empty pool and cracked the plaster, or at very least have to repaint the pool because of the graffiti… thanks to the skate rats here, i’ll take my $5000 for the replastering now please. and another few bucks to fix the drain covers you smashed in… hey, i was a kid once, but as s’far as i’m concerned, go to a local skate park and skate there. quit doing damage to people’s (future) homes.

(and really, you should never drain a pool, it’s not to much a problem here in vegas but in most cities the water table is pretty high, and a drained pool can eventually pop out of the ground and float on the water table like a rubby ducky in your bath tub. not good.)

]]> By: Joe http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366102 Joe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366102 Given the West Nile virus issue, if these guys drain any abandoned swimming pools that were left full, they are doing a public service (getting rid of mosquito breeding grounds). Given the West Nile virus issue, if these guys drain any abandoned swimming pools that were left full, they are doing a public service (getting rid of mosquito breeding grounds).

]]> By: MomTheBlog http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366103 MomTheBlog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366103 ha - the perfect place to skateboard - plus you can use the slide and really break your neck :P ha – the perfect place to skateboard – plus you can use the slide and really break your neck :P

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-367127 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367127 #36 and #43 I skate, and I skate pools when someone else finds them and takes me to them...and it takes a long long time to learn and master them (especially if you're all grown up when you start out). I assume that graf artists can legitimately say the same thing about their "sport." And my point is that one thing is rarely the other, simply because there's not enough time and energy to dedicate to both if one were so inclined. My impression is that the people who skate and the people who "write," the graf crowd, are two distinct groups with little crossover. They both take advantage of unregulated space and use it to pursue happiness, only the skaters must do it during the day when they can SEE and the graffists must do it at night to avoid being caught. I've often skated a spot into the dusk hour, even a public skatepark, on one day, and then returned the next day to find it completely blanketed in half-ass graffiti (it's never the high quality stuff that gets into skatespots, somehow, it's usually the wannabes...) #36 and #43

I skate, and I skate pools when someone else finds them and takes me to them…and it takes a long long time to learn and master them (especially if you’re all grown up when you start out). I assume that graf artists can legitimately say the same thing about their “sport.” And my point is that one thing is rarely the other, simply because there’s not enough time and energy to dedicate to both if one were so inclined.

My impression is that the people who skate and the people who “write,” the graf crowd, are two distinct groups with little crossover. They both take advantage of unregulated space and use it to pursue happiness, only the skaters must do it during the day when they can SEE and the graffists must do it at night to avoid being caught.

I’ve often skated a spot into the dusk hour, even a public skatepark, on one day, and then returned the next day to find it completely blanketed in half-ass graffiti (it’s never the high quality stuff that gets into skatespots, somehow, it’s usually the wannabes…)

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366360 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366360 Based on my experience, insurance companies are much more nervous about empty pools than full ones. They threatened to cancel me if I didn't get it finished and filled. Based on my experience, insurance companies are much more nervous about empty pools than full ones. They threatened to cancel me if I didn’t get it finished and filled.

]]> By: Tom Hale http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366106 Tom Hale Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366106 Quick!, someone photoshop some helmets onto those kids in the photos. Remember, safety first! Quick!, someone photoshop some helmets onto those kids in the photos. Remember, safety first!

]]> By: bertin01 http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-391462 bertin01 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-391462 Check out the Skate Deck Show taking place at Columbia College Chicago March 6 - April 2 Click on the link and scroll down to reSESSION http://www2.colum.edu/sgc/Exhibitions.html Check out the Skate Deck Show taking place at Columbia College Chicago March 6 – April 2

Click on the link and scroll down to reSESSION

http://www2.colum.edu/sgc/Exhibitions.html

]]> By: Nomade Moderne http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366134 Nomade Moderne Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366134 Interesting that the article does not mention that fact that the entire style of skateboarding you see today was partially invented and perfected in empty swimming pools during a California drought as it allowed for moves similar to surfing. See the excellent documentary: Dogtown and Z-Boys. Interesting that the article does not mention that fact that the entire style of skateboarding you see today was partially invented and perfected in empty swimming pools during a California drought as it allowed for moves similar to surfing. See the excellent documentary: Dogtown and Z-Boys.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-901694 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-901694 Haha, this is awesome. If anything, it should be a boom to the <a href="http://www.sequim-real-estate-blog.com/">real estate</a> market. Someone please turn a house into a skateboarding shop and hotel with the pool in the backyard. Haha, this is awesome. If anything, it should be a boom to the real estate market. Someone please turn a house into a skateboarding shop and hotel with the pool in the backyard.

]]> By: ArtF http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366144 ArtF Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366144 Ah, the memories....nothing better in the world than grinding some nice pool coping. Ah, the memories….nothing better in the world than grinding some nice pool coping.

]]> By: Darryl http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366675 Darryl Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366675 I remember seeing a teaser for a documentary about skaters draining and riding pools in the Oakland hills after the 1991 fire (my high school English teacher lost her house up there -- I don't remember her having a pool though). Anyways, it was on Current TV, and here's the link: http://current.com/items/76390102/skating_through_the_ashes.htm I remember seeing a teaser for a documentary about skaters draining and riding pools in the Oakland hills after the 1991 fire (my high school English teacher lost her house up there — I don’t remember her having a pool though).

Anyways, it was on Current TV, and here’s the link: http://current.com/items/76390102/skating_through_the_ashes.htm

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366165 Cowicide Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366165 And the skaters and surfers shall inherit the Earth. http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/waveheight.html <br /><br /> P.S. <a href="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/Fanra/grammar-nazi.jpg" rel="nofollow">Note to jaypee</a> And the skaters and surfers shall inherit the Earth.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/waveheight.html

P.S. Note to jaypee

]]> By: SpaceMonkeyX http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366168 SpaceMonkeyX Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366168 It's all fun and games until some skater breaks his leg and sues the bank for not properly securing the backyard fence, which would have prevented the skater from trespassing. I joke, but you know it's gonna happen. It’s all fun and games until some skater breaks his leg and sues the bank for not properly securing the backyard fence, which would have prevented the skater from trespassing.

I joke, but you know it’s gonna happen.

]]> By: Itsumishi http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366438 Itsumishi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366438 @ #23 Frank_in_Virginia This skateboarding <em><strong>isn't</strong></em> a crime. The trespassing is, the skateboarding is just incidental. And whilst there is a chance that some kid could sue for damages after hurting himself in a pool, the event is quite unlikely. Skateboarding kids fall over and hurt themselves constantly, they understand this risk and accept it. People that sue each other over things that are their own fault are whats wrong with so much of this world (and the reason kids can't have fun doing all the things we did!) @ #23 Frank_in_Virginia

This skateboarding isn’t a crime.

The trespassing is, the skateboarding is just incidental. And whilst there is a chance that some kid could sue for damages after hurting himself in a pool, the event is quite unlikely. Skateboarding kids fall over and hurt themselves constantly, they understand this risk and accept it.

People that sue each other over things that are their own fault are whats wrong with so much of this world (and the reason kids can’t have fun doing all the things we did!)

]]> By: codereduk http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366187 codereduk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366187 Funny enough, I've just been re-watching my DVD of Dogtown and Z-Boys. I'm sure that's where these posers got this idea from. The writer of Ecclestiases is correct, there really is nothing new under the sun. Funny enough, I’ve just been re-watching my DVD of Dogtown and Z-Boys. I’m sure that’s where these posers got this idea from.

The writer of Ecclestiases is correct, there really is nothing new under the sun.

]]> By: Maddy http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366956 Maddy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366956 #36 -- you'd paint over skater graffitti? really? #36 — you’d paint over skater graffitti? really?

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366455 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366455 if you stretch polyethelene film over the top and put a potted plant on the bottom, is it a greenhouse? if you stretch polyethelene film over the top and put a potted plant on the bottom, is it a greenhouse?

]]> By: diluded000 http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366201 diluded000 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366201 I was doing this down at a drained municipal pool in Atlanta in, what 1977? The photo reminded me of an old magazine picture of a kid digging into a cereal bowl filed with tile and the caption, "don't ride what you can't eat". I was doing this down at a drained municipal pool in Atlanta in, what 1977? The photo reminded me of an old magazine picture of a kid digging into a cereal bowl filed with tile and the caption, “don’t ride what you can’t eat”.

]]> By: Ernunnos http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366233 Ernunnos Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366233 That is k-rad. That is k-rad.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366750 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366750 LOL at people demonizing skateboarders and the culture. Skateboarders are all growing up, and so is the sport. Don't buy the propaganda. Jeez, ever since they started building public skateparks all over the place, incidents of property damage and crime sure seem to have dropped. Cant find a waxed curb for the life of me, except in front of a few skateshops around town. I am all for guerilla skating when done like this. LOL at people demonizing skateboarders and the culture. Skateboarders are all growing up, and so is the sport. Don’t buy the propaganda. Jeez, ever since they started building public skateparks all over the place, incidents of property damage and crime sure seem to have dropped. Cant find a waxed curb for the life of me, except in front of a few skateshops around town. I am all for guerilla skating when done like this.

]]> By: Dillo http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366240 Dillo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366240 Wow...this just warms my aging skate-rat heart. Everything old is new again. This just rocks :) Wow…this just warms my aging skate-rat heart.
Everything old is new again. This just rocks :)

]]> By: hassan-i-sabbah http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366502 hassan-i-sabbah Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366502 It is if you're Cheech and Chong! It is if you’re Cheech and Chong!

]]> By: hassan-i-sabbah http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366505 hassan-i-sabbah Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366505 It is if you're Cheech and Chong! It is if you’re Cheech and Chong!

]]> By: arkizzle http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366521 arkizzle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366521 #19 CODEREDUK "<i>Funny enough, I've just been re-watching my DVD of Dogtown and Z-Boys. I'm sure that's where these posers got this idea from.</i> <i>The writer of Ecclestiases is correct, there really is nothing new under the sun.</i> What exactly makes these guys 'posers' and not 'skaters'? And since they are skaters (duh) they already knew about skating pools, because pool-skating never went away. This wasn't presented as a new turn in skating, rather a new turn in pool availability. #19 CODEREDUK
“Funny enough, I’ve just been re-watching my DVD of Dogtown and Z-Boys. I’m sure that’s where these posers got this idea from.
The writer of Ecclestiases is correct, there really is nothing new under the sun.

What exactly makes these guys ‘posers’ and not ‘skaters’?

And since they are skaters (duh) they already knew about skating pools, because pool-skating never went away. This wasn’t presented as a new turn in skating, rather a new turn in pool availability.

]]> By: Frank_in_Virginia http://boingboing.net/2008/12/29/pools-at-foreclosed.html#comment-366269 Frank_in_Virginia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-366269 @10 "...they are doing a public service..." I don't think so, nice words don't make a criminal act "good". Sorry, some skateboarding <i><b>is</b></i> a crime. @10 “…they are doing a public service…”

I don’t think so, nice words don’t make a criminal act “good”.

Sorry, some skateboarding is a crime.

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