{"id":6066,"date":"2009-03-04T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2009-03-04T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:40:48","slug":"california-town-votes-to-fingerprint-skaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"California Town Votes To Fingerprint Skaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/skatejpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/skatejpg.jpeg','popup','width=528,height=298,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/skate-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skate.Jpg\" \/><\/a>Last night, the city of Poway, California voted in favor of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5035\" target=\"_blank\">a fingerprinting system<\/a><\/strong> that will allow skateboarders to use the city&#8217;s skatepark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Park users who break the house rules or indulge in roughhousing, bullying or vandalism will have their thumbprint voided. &#8220;So the next time they put their thumb in (the thumb pad), it will not work,&#8221; says Poway City Councilman <strong>Jim Cunningham<\/strong>. &#8220;Then they will contact someone and find out why.&#8221;To critics who may see all this as somewhat Orwellian, Cunningham has this comeback &#8220;We&#8217;re not Big Brother. The thumbprints are not going to Homeland Security. They&#8217;re being used specifically for this particular facility, and we want people to enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how it all starts. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29508442\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the city of Poway, California voted in favor of a fingerprinting system that will allow skateboarders to use the city&#8217;s skatepark. Park users who break the house rules or indulge in roughhousing, bullying or vandalism will have their thumbprint voided. &#8220;So the next time they put their thumb in (the thumb pad), it [&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\/6066"}],"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=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}