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Foreclosed Pools a Mecca for Skateboarders

Pool builders hard hit by housing crisis

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 29, 2008 8:12 AM CST

(Newser) – Skateboarders in California are making the most of the mortgage crisis: they’re turning the swimming pools at foreclosed homes into skate parks. Tracking local foreclosures, one Fresno skater arrives at empty homes with a pump and buckets, drains the pools, and hops on his...   Read full story »

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