What a relevant day to revisit that Billy interview from the previous post: “One morning, I go to buy this dude coffee, and I come back out with his coffee and the dude is running down the street with my backpack, like full crackhead style. And, not really thinking of the consequences, I chased the dude down the street. I got in a scuffle with him and ended up tying him up to a telephone and calling the police on it, like, ‘Yeah, I made a citizen’s arrest. This dude just stole my stuff, come and get him.’ The police get down there, they look at the situation, this dude’s all scuffed up. I’m like, ‘Ha ha, what’s up?’ And they didn’t think it was very funny…they said if you want to tell someone, ‘Hey, stay here, the cops are coming,’ that’s fine. But the minute you touch someone or restrain them, you can get in serious trouble for that.”
After one day, this video, which has more or less been impossible to avoid if you have Facebook friends who post occasional skate-related things, has created a fallout for this guy that definitely wasn’t worth his (possibly PCP induced) rant. These people need to be a lot more cautious of blinking red lights, and the various outlets there are nowadays for releasing their contents. Even though the after-effects from the video are probably worse than this dude could have ever imagined (Note: The six or seven pages of absurd reviews got taken down), and fairly immature (but expected, and occasionally funny, in a really irresponsible, lowbrow sort of way), the people coming to his defense need to realize that you cannot assault another person even if they commit a pricey, $50 a week crime on your property. Especially when that person’s response to this guy calling the cops is more or less “Ok, I’ll wait here.” That’s both for the obvious legal reasons that exist, which older people who think all skateboarders are runaway pot-moking morons tend to disregard in unanimous faith that everything works in their favor, and the internet’s way of handling things. Even more so when they begin at the helm of resourceful twenty-year-olds who probably have 1,000+ posts on Slap.
The above person’s defense of the dude is, “He’s passionate about his business.” Yeah. (Also, anyone who uses the word “assclown” should not be taken seriously under any circumstance.)
Anyway, Slap has the comical angle covered with a Photoshop contest of the owner.
Stooooooopppppssss…..
November 10, 2010 @ 7:23 pm