Skateboarding is not a sport

Thrasher Magazine, Nov, 2009

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CINCINNATI -- Police say the owner of an Ohio sports bar took an 11-year-old girl's skateboard at gunpoint and has been charged with armed robbery.

Police say 50-year-old Jack Connerton was angry over children cutting through his parking lot on skateboards. He was arrested on the felony count Saturday after police say he pointed a gun, took the girl's skateboard, and snapped photos of four children.

The girl's mother, Misty Bragg, says neighborhood children have to pass Connerton's Towerview Sports Pub in Cincinnati to get to a recreation center and park. She says they stay on the sidewalk and are respectful.

Bragg says police seized Connerton's camera and got her daughter's skateboard back.--Cincinnati Enquirer