The owner of the Discontent chain of skateboard stores, which once included a location in Bismarck, could receive up to 30 years in prison after a South Central District Court jury found him guilty of four counts related to the sale of synthetic drugs and drug paraphernalia.On a whole entirely lighter note, Boil the Ocean hit us with another banger:The jury deliberated nearly nine hours over two days in the case against Thomas Teply of Moorhead, Minn., and his employee, former Bismarck Discontent store manager Steven Johnson.
The jury convicted Johnson of three charges: possession of synthetic cannabinoids with intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to deliver and delivery of synthetic cannabinoids. Johnson was acquitted of three charges, including two counts of conspiracy and one count of delivery of drug paraphernalia.
Johnson could receive up to 25 years in prison.
Several skateboarders at New York’s Nike-augmented Lower East Side skatepark, which some advanced internet flunkies already had begun to scour for cracks and weeds and other signals of lax upkeep, expressed confusion toward the commercial.More east metro rumblings:“Lacrosse, fam?” remarked a bearded driller who gave his name as Skinny Todd.
Longtime skeptics of Nike’s expanding profile and influence in the skateboarding sphere were quick to argue the ad confirmed years-long suspicions that Nike would inevitably pull out of skateboarding at some inopportune moment, leaving certain skaters “high” and various others “dry,” in favor of the more-established legacy sports that require more advanced and expensive shoes and equipment, and where Nike’s technological prowess can draw deeper distinctions between its products and those of rivals — versus pitting its vulcanized soles against those of less deep-pocketed competitors.
“Lacrosse, fam,” said Burt Ballwickey, an artist specializing in dinosaur tattoos who sported a vintage “Don’t Do It” tee to a local bar. “Everybody knew when Nike showed up 15 years ago they wouldn’t stick around when things went south, and now this commercial proves it.”
“And at the end — the football gives the board a final shove, as if to say, ‘the jocks won,'” Ballwickey ranted.
@mmunzenrider rumors of a shop (Vicious Circle?) at Ruth & 94; dude was giving out shirts at oakdale last fall. Jul7 open date. very curious
— Dan Rusin (@DanRusin) July 23, 2015
2 comments:
We sure are fortunate that I'd already resuscitated the topic of Open Iris before this post; otherwise, it would've been so hard remembering who he Steve Johnson was.
(Though the posted footage helps a little, too.)
And I simply don't know on what all that Nike hysteria is grounded.
Heck, I despise corporate fat-cats and hot-shots with the vulgar elevator-manners as much as the next guy. But Nike has been a commanding empire for a while now, and much as in the case of the Roman Empire, it was only a matter of time before Nike started slighting its specially acquired provinces - this example being skateboarding.
It's worrisome, but that's just what happens in life. I've seen it a thousand times.
Post a Comment