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This “skate” story really hits home for me.
I used to be one of those kids that would skate abandoned homes with pools throughout my childhood in my hometown of Anaheim, Ca. in the 1980′s. Even though it wasn’t the most legal of things to do, it kept my friends and I out of trouble because we would just skate with our free time as opposed to sitting on the street corner.
I say, let them skate! Heck, at least they are cleaning up the pools for free and thus preventing mosquitoes from breeding and spreading the West Nile Virus…
Here is some silver lining that has come out of this foreclosure crisis in 2008:
· Homes for the homeless
· Empty pools for skaters
· Cheap homes for the speculators
On a recent morning, a 27-year-old skateboarder who goes by the name Josh Peacock peered into a swimming pool in Fresno, Calif., emptied by his own hands — and the foreclosure crisis — and flashed a smile as wide as a half-pipe.
“We have more pools than we know what to do with,” said Mr. Peacock, who lives in Fresno, the Central Valley city where thousands of homes, many with pools behind them, are in foreclosure. “I can’t even keep track of them all anymore.”
