{"id":25348,"date":"2011-09-19T11:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25348"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:37:36","slug":"canadian-skateboard-towing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25348","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Skateboard Towing Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old skateboarder from Lethbridge, Alberta died Friday, September 16, 2011, from injuries he sustained while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=skateboard+towing\" target=\"_blank\">towing on his skateboard<\/a><\/strong> behind a Toyota 4-Runner, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/sports\/Skateboarder+killed+stunt+goes+wrong\/5420338\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SUV was traveling northbound on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Red+Crow+Blvd.+West,+Lethbridge,+Alberta,+Canada&amp;client=safari&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;gl=us&amp;t=m&amp;z=15&amp;vpsrc=0\" target=\"_blank\">Red Crow Blvd. West<\/a><\/strong> when one skateboarder lost his grip and hit the pavement, after 7 p.m. . . &#8220;The safest thing that could&#8217;ve been done was not to grab onto the vehicle while riding a skateboard,&#8221; Ballman said. &#8220;I think there still would&#8217;ve been injuries or possibly worse, even if the individual had been wearing safety equipment. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happens <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=skateboard+towing+death\" target=\"_blank\">all the time<\/a><\/strong>, but skateboarders just don&#8217;t seem to care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/sports\/Skateboarder+killed+stunt+goes+wrong\/5420338\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old skateboarder from Lethbridge, Alberta died Friday, September 16, 2011, from injuries he sustained while towing on his skateboard behind a Toyota 4-Runner, according to a story in the Calgary Herald. The SUV was traveling northbound on Red Crow Blvd. West when one skateboarder lost his grip and hit the pavement, after 7 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25349,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25348\/revisions\/25349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}