A woman who claims she was injured when a skateboard fell on her from an overhead compartment is suing US Airways, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court doesn’t spell out how Diana Burgess was injured on the August 2008 flight. . . It only states she “suffered physical and emotional trauma” after the airline “permitted a passenger to board and place a dangerous instrumentality in the form of a large, heavy skateboard with appurtenances in the form of attached, heavy sharp metal wheels in a position of danger to fellow passengers, without security in such a manner,” the suit states.
Heavy, sharp, medal wheels? Sounds more like a prop from Rollerball.
During a Quiksilver demo at Anaheim, California’s Downtown Disney at 6 PM Saturday, July 24, 2010 Tony Hawk slammed harder than he has in a long time. “Did a tailbone 5 & my foot was a little off, sent me into b/s revert (chicken-neck) to flat,” he said on Twitter. “Hit my back & head HARD,” he said.
The fall resulted in a trip to the UC Irvine Trauma Center, according to Tony’s Twitter feed.
Doctors there told Tony that he had a “Pelvic vertical shear injury” & a hematoma,” Hawk said on @TonyHawk. “All I know is: I can’t lift my legs & it sucks.”
A little later things were looking up. “Thank you for all the well wishes,” he said. “Hooray for morphine & fentanyl, big fan.”
We are amazed that Tony was able to walk back out on to the ramp, thank everyone for coming, and promo the rest of the guys in the demo as injured as he was. The man is all pro. All the time.
A second San Diego Bank was robbed last week by a man described as the “skateboard bandit,” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
An armed robber used a skateboard to get away after holding up a bank in Torrey Highlands Friday, San Diego police said. . . .Witnesses at Wells Fargo Bank on Highland Valley Place believed the robber was carrying a black pistol when he demanded cash from a teller, police said. . . Officers are checking the area for a white man wearing a black hooded jacket, jeans, a green bandanna and sunglasses.
A guy with the same description robbed a different San Diego Bank on July 12, 2010.
In our continuing series of local news vs. action sports we present Newport Beach’s Andrew Doheny as he sarcastically decimates the bubble heads on Fox LA’s Good Morning LA via Skype. Nice work, Mr. Doheny.
Sierra Nevada College has awarded a scholarship to professional snowboarder Travis Parker. Parker will attend Sierra Nevada College on an annual art scholarship in the amount of $15,000 per year, totaling $60,000 over a four-year period. Parker will enter the college in the fall as a fine arts major in painting and drawing, and also plans to get his teaching credential.
It’s so good to see snowboarders getting a good art education. Because nothing is more important in today’s economic realities than a fine art degree from a school no one has ever heard of.
It is the dream of many distributors to either be brought home by the mothership with a nice cash buyout, or grow large enough to buy the brand themselves. Volcom Australia’s John Clapham went the previous route and is selling the distributorship to Volcom corporate, according to a press release.
“We are very excited to more formally be coming under the Volcom global umbrella,” said John Clapham, chief executive officer of Volcom Australia. “We believe this will strengthen the company’s main aim to grow our share of the market and will enable us to take the brand to the next level in Australia and New Zealand.”
As usual, details on exactly what Volcom paid for the distributor were not disclosed. They also say this acquisition will be “neutral to earnings in 2010.” For the entire release, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
People sometimes forget that Ken Block has always been a businessman first and an action sportsman second. In this interview with Transworld Businesses‘ Mike Lewis Block again reminds us that DC is worn by every kid in Hicktown USA for a reason–Ken understands what drives teen passions and how that passion translates to dollars. Here’s an example:
Even a brand like Vans or Nike, they’re doing it in ways that really are counterproductive to what people thought in the past would work. Those brands do everything, they sell everywhere. Vans and Nike are both sold in JC Penney’s,” Block says. “Who would think a brand that sold at JC Penney’s would still be cool to a core consumer and a core skateboard retailer today? Well, they’re doing it and it proves that as long as you can send the right messages to the right people you can pull off some pretty interesting business moves. It’s the same thing that we do today, and every brand in our market really does – you have to continue marketing in the right way, to the right people, with the right messages. It’s pretty easy to fuck up, but there are ways to find the right paths.
Yeah, it’s as ugly as action consumerism can gets, but from the sales side it’s genius.
