A few days ago in the United States it was "Go Skateboarding Day". From what I can tell this is a day designed to celebrate the sport of skateboading. In most cases arrangements are made with city councils and local law enforcement officials to make allowances for public skateboarding... unless you're in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

As you can see in the video, a bunch of teenagers are harrassed, detained and assaulted for skateboarding down the path. Admittedly, there's no "before" footage so they could have been doing tricks or making a nuisance of themselves, though you have to ask yourself, "how bad could they have been?"

Well I for one was pissed off and disappointed, so I called the City of Hot Springs and voiced my complaint. I left a recorded message indicating that I was from Perth, Western Australia, how I was disgusted with the violation of basic human decency and how I presumed that those affected would receive adequate compensation. I made a point of how news of this had travelled to the "remote corners of the world."

This is the States - someone's gonna get sued.

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Last night I booked my airline ticket to the Machado Nationals in September. I'll be in Melbourne from the evening of Thursday 6th until the following Monday or Tuesday. The actual competition will be on Saturday 8th.

A few times lately - with the most recent being only a few moments ago - I've been waking up just as I'm about to fall asleep. This has left me lying in bed feeling wide awake when I'm wanting to be sound asleep.

The Frontier Group started out when Adam was contracting back to PACC and needed to register a business/company for taxation purposes. I then jumped on board and that's when it changed from being a one-man-show to a two-clown-procession. I look back at the humble beginnings and think that a lot of our success was based on the fact that we were just two dudes looking to have a bit of fun.

Even recently, a new client of ours awarded us the work because I rocked up to the first meeting (next door at Cre8tif) in shorts and a collared shirt - I looked like I should be on a yacht somewhere. I presented the casual, relaxed image but could back it up with my manner, knowledge and attitude.

Richie recently had "train tracks" down one side of his head. My initial response to Abby (the hairdresser we all see) was that she should give me some tracks on my eyebrows; gangsta-style. Me second response was that nobody would take me seriously in meetings anymore, and it'd take 3 months to grow that credibility back.

The difference with wearing boating attire versus having a stupid haircut is that you can turn it on and off when you like.

I think it's important that we recognize that when it's all said and done, we're still just a bunch of chimps having a good time. It's just that people pay us a lot of money to have that good time - they obviously think we're worth it.

So the next meeting we have at our office I'm going to wear my gi, as per Aaron's recommendation. That way they'll know we mean business, sort of. To compound the humour value I'll be sure to leave off any explanations. If it's successful* then I'll consider it my new uniform.

* for some value of success.