walking around shady parts of town with a skateboard under arm has almost always kept me safe. the general eye of shady people at this point understand that its a weapon and a get-away vehicle. there is also next to no gun-violence where i am from.
does any body else have something they would like to share on the topic of " a skateboard as a weapon and get-away vehicle"
there has been countless times bar hopping and having my board with me to protect me from drunkards looking to get a fight going. also times when i just skated through the tent city to grab a 12 pack from the mini mart or something and just got a pass because i was probably rolling and they couldn't keep up.
one time i walked out from the skatepark and some dude and his chick with his other friend was sitting on a ledge in the parking lot and i took a piss like 25 feet away from them on a wall and he started throwing heineken beer bottles at me just missing my head .
so i went back in the park got my backpack told my friends im about to beat up this dude. i rushed out adrenaline pumping charging too the fucker and two of my homies was right behind me.
I didn't ask them to back me up or anything it was awesome to start running and you look back and two friends are behind you in triangle formation.
so it was 3 vs 2 1/2 because, the first dude jumped up and said "yo stop my friend is drunk" then boom punched him and kept charging for the dude and he got startled fell off the parking lot barrier i was trying so hard to stomp the shit out of him but his girl kept getting in the way saying stop and i was like "move bitch im about to hit you!" faked her out like 3 times and after that she moved out of the way he was up and running and got punched in the head and fell into the fence
his hat flew off so I taxed it.
his hat it was a golden state warriors hat (i later traded it for like 6 beers at a dive bar to the bartender her favorite team was G.S.W. because of steph curry this was around the time he was introduced to the NBA),his friend was running and my other friends chasing him boomeranged him with there board right in his back (shit just bounced off and made him run faster)
he ran through the underpass of the bridge into traffic and got hit by car (not to bad, was epic asf, car slammed on the breaks,old lady driving.) and kept running. the friends disappeared by the time we turned around and we all dipped out from the park. even better my friends car was in the auto shop and he had a ford mustang as a rental car that day.
a few days later at 6:30pm at night
i skated over the bridge to grab some beers at the mini mart
i got stopped by one of there bigger tougher friends. and he was like calling me over as i skated pass with the twelve pack i think i heard the dude say yeah it was him and point at me. "He was like come over here i wanna talk to you" but he was a Goon and i know better. what the fuck does this guy want with me i dont know him and he looks like he could rob me standing in the shade of the tree sitting on his moped next to a couple of boys we just beefed with so i told him "nah fuck you and kept pushing over the bridge back to the skatepark.
to be honest i was a just a little worried. and he jumped on a moped and beat me to the other side. obviously and was waiting for me. so im bombing down the bridge now and see him but i just keep bombing the hill and cut through the walk way and skate through a short cut and 1/2 the parks parking lot is skipped and he is yelling "come here" from the other end closer to the main entrance but close enough if he charged at me it would have been pretty close call.
i get back to the skate park and tell my older friend and hes like what tell him to come over here if he wants to talk to you and starts yelling at the goon "what,right here" looking at the way the guy is standing and drops his board from spread eagle position. the OG homie wants to get into a fight so hes yelling and trying bs 360s and telling me to chill out we got this if anything happens.
any way... no reprucussions happened and they knew exactly who i was and i never got caught slippin from them to this day.
thats why skateboarding is a sick asf and helps to gain a key to the city that not many others will get to experince the city in that kind of way.