{"id":5035,"date":"2009-02-07T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2009-02-07T19:44:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:44:14","slug":"socal-skatepark-fingerprinting-skaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"SoCal Skatepark Fingerprinting Skaters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skateboard park in Poway, California may start fingerprinting skaters before giving them access to the park according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/05\/news\/inland\/poway\/zf728a1226591a55088257553008146de.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new turnstile would unlock only after a scanner read and recognized the thumbprint of anyone who wanted to enter, said Poway Community Services Director <strong>Robert Clark<\/strong> of the city&#8217;s plan to curb vandalism and misbehavior at the park. Use of the park would still be free. . . . The system already is employed in parking lots, gyms and other facilities, but this may be the first time it would be used at a skate park, Clark said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds us a little of the old Bible verse, Revelation 13:17: &#8220;And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.&#8221; Then again, it&#8217;s just for the lock and fingerprints are a lot harder to lose than keys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/05\/news\/inland\/poway\/zf728a1226591a55088257553008146de.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skateboard park in Poway, California may start fingerprinting skaters before giving them access to the park according to a story in the North County Times. A new turnstile would unlock only after a scanner read and recognized the thumbprint of anyone who wanted to enter, said Poway Community Services Director Robert Clark of the [&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\/5035"}],"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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}