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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: skateboarding

skateboarding stories: 3 news summaries

 Foreclosed Pools 
 a Mecca for 
 Skateboarders 

Pool builders hard hit by housing crisis

Dec 29, 08 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 board, the New York Times ... More »

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foreclosure • mosquito • housing crisis • swimming pool • skateboarding

 German Cops Hunt 
 Autobahn Skater 

Daredevil wanted for endangering motorists, speeding

Sep 5, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - German police are hunting for the anonymous daredevil who piloted a skateboard down a stretch of the autobahn at better than 60 mph, Der Spiegel reports. Police only recently got wind of the stunt, which has been making the YouTube rounds since June, but now want to find and charge... More »

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YouTube • Germany • stunts • autobahn • skateboarding • skateboard

Skateboarding
Welcomes Back
Dogtown Lord

Original Z-Boy is out
of jail and looking to
keep his life on track

Jul 30, 08 6:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Legendary skateboarder Jay Adams is slowly getting the wheels back on his life, the New York Times reports. Adams, whose '70s skateboarding career was immortalized in the movie Lords of Dogtown, is in a California halfway house for the final months of a 4-year sentence for his part in a... More »

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Los Angeles • probation • X Games • skateboarding • Lords of Dogtown

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