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Editor,

I really admire the cartoon of the two “criminals” in a bunk bed wondering if a skatepark built in their town of Laguna Beach could have helped channel their energy towards their passion of skateboarding.

A park should have happened years ago but it seems the stereotype of “criminals” and the atmosphere in which a skatepark would have on any area in Laguna is apparent in your publication.

It’s really sad with all the action sports companies that started here and the pro skaters that call Laguna home that not one single park has been built. It will never happen with this mentality even if you meant the cartoon to be funny. It’s not funny to be stereotyped as a criminal is it?

 

Brandon Haymond, Laguna Beach

 

O’Malley responds: My cartoon deals with the absurdity of complaining about living in Laguna Beach.  It was in response to a column published in the Indy comparing kids without skate parks to the plight of Syrian refugees.  If you are lucky enough to live in Laguna you are lucky enough.  With or without a skate park there is probably not a kid in America who wouldn’t change places with yours.  Count your blessings.

 

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  1. Skateboarding is a crime because it is difficult to regulate and control as a sport it offers very little profit to spectators because on it’s professional level participants salaries are sponsorships which extols a moral image be maintained.

    It is a crime to waste your health and time recreational practice on something that cannot make someone else rich.

    Don’t do that you’re having too much fun.

    * (Pick one of the above)

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