172: Skateboarding is Not a Crime
| Skateboarding is Not a Crime |
 Title text: 'Arrest me, I'm a skateboarder' is an even more obnoxious variant. |
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The skateboarding subculture has taken up the phrase "skateboarding is not a crime" as a protest against many cities banning skateboarding in certain areas, such as parks. Some people dislike skateboarding because they see it as connected with dangerous people or deem it unsafe. Another concern is a belief that many skateboarders drink or do drugs and people don’t want this to rub off on their children. Randall apparently really does not like these stickers and states that when/if he becomes president (a common expression equivalent to "If I were in charge, ..."), any and all displays of stickers bearing the phrase (like the one on the locker in the comic) will be considered a felony, though skateboarding itself will still be legal.
The title text also shows another protest phrase, "arrest me, I'm a skateboarder", that Randall appears to hate even more than "skateboarding is not a crime", potentially for the more stand offish tone of the message. This phrase has basically the same message, so it is unsurprising that he hates both, if he hated either.
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- [A set of lockers, that are dark pink, blue, yellow, dark pink then blue. The middle one has a white sticker stuck to it proclaiming "Skateboarding is not a crime".]
- [Outside of the Box] When I'm president, skateboarding will still be legal, but display of those stupid stickers will be a felony.
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How would the second locker be opened by its user? Would s/he and the fourth locker's owner break the law as well as the third's? 67.188.195.182 22:28, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- I'm glad I'm not the only one. I can't get over the fact that the sticker goes over the second and fourth locker. 199.27.128.203 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Skateboarding can be outlawed; "Stupid stickers," on the other hand, are conditionally protected free speech Mountain Hikes (talk) 04:23, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
- Skateboarding cannot legitimately be outlawed. That is an example of an unjust law...and an unjust law is no law at all. — Kazvorpal (talk) 04:11, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Just a note, a lot of people are taking the same kind of stand with police brutality nowadays, people agree that it is bad, but whenever a black person is arrested most people usually associate it with police racism, even if that was evidently not the case. 162.158.255.162 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Yes, associating police brutality with racism helps corrupt officials cover up the real problem: The police brutality itself, which is part of a systematic problem. Even if the cops doing it are racist, they wouldn't dare express the racism in that way, if not for the mentality the police state has toward the people it's supposed to serve. —Kazvorpal (talk) 04:13, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
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