We’d like to hear more stories like this one from the Baltimore Sun:
A Baltimore police officer was suspended Monday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor.
On the video, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to “smack” him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as “man” and “dude.”
Here it is in all it’s glory. A nice reminder to keep those cameras rolling no matter what. Guess this is what happens when a grown man is forced to patrol the city in an electric golf cart. Congrats, Officer Rivieri, you deserve all the trouble you’re getting, dude.
For the average person, days are comprised of routines. But Todd Grossman’s days are anything but normal. The Spaulding graduate has spent his adult life pursuing his passion, lucky enough to find success and make a living at it. And every day is different.
We’re glad Skate and Annoy is all over this Tony Hawk celebrity spotting stuff, otherwise we’d miss it completely. We especially like their comment “expecting his fourth child from his third wife.” We know what they meant.
Zumiez Inc. (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) a leading specialty retailer of action sports related apparel, footwear, equipment and accessories, today announced the company’s comparable store sales increased 1.7% for the four-week period ended February 2, 2008, versus a comparable store sales increase of 12.4% for the four-week period ended February 3, 2007. Total net sales for the four-week period ended February 2, 2008 increased 16.3% to $20.7 million, compared to $17.8 million for the four-week period ended February 3, 2007. Due to the addition of the 53rd week in fiscal 2006, January 2007 had five weeks of sales versus January 2008 which had four weeks of sales. Total net sales for the four-week period ended February 2, 2008 decreased 11.7% to $20.7 million, compared to $23.4 million for the five-week period ended February 3, 2007 due to the loss of one week of sales in fiscal January 2008.
To hear the Zumiez prerecorded January sales message, please dial (888) 317-6095 (no passcode is required).
We’re going to dial it up right now just for kicks.
We’ve all known about this since October, but it took until today for the official word to go out that Burton is moving in on the skate hardgoods market by picking up Alien Workshop, Habitat, and DNA Distribution. Follow the jump for the complete press release with all the glad quotes.
Forbes Magazine kicks down on the details on Nike’s new decentralized domination plans for different market segments thanks to a big tear-down by Nike Chief Executive Mark G. Parker, 52.
The biggest thing he did: reorganize the company. It used to be divided into categories of products (shoes, apparel, gear like golf clubs). Now it’s divided by sport. There’s a division for soccer (shoes and apparel combined), a division for running, one for basketball, one for men’s fitness, one for women’s fitness. Each has its own product-development and marketing executives. In this taxonomy a running shoe is entirely different from a cross-training shoe—why, running is an entirely different sport from training. There are parts of the company that sell only to golfers or only to kids on skateboards. Dreamer athletes, the people who don’t run or pole vault but want to dress as if they do, have their own division (called Sports Culture at Nike).
No wonder Nike is the number one selling “skate” shoe.
Up To 40 protesters gathered on the streets of High Wycombe today, upset at the police’s handling of a recent street brawl.
The group, who were mostly Asian but with members of the white and West Indian community in the crowd, converged opposite the police station in Queen Victoria Road.
The group stood outside cheering and passing motorists beeped their horns in support.
Police have not yet commented on today’s protest, but Supt Rob Angell has told the Bucks Free Press that last Saturday’s incident was a “low-level” event which began after a misunderstanding over a skateboard.
