Awful truth: heck on wheels! Skaters shackled.WHITMAN--A pair of baby-faced Whitman boys, busted bust·ed adj. 1. Slang a. Smashed or broken: busted glass; a busted rib. b. Out of order; inoperable: a busted vending machine. 2. on a public street for illegal skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean , were arrested, booked and shackled before being hauled into a Brockton juvenile court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial to face charges, the children's irate i·rate adj. 1. Extremely angry; enraged. See Synonyms at angry. 2. Characterized or occasioned by anger: an irate phone call. parents said yesterday. "It's absurd," mother Stephanie Saltzman said. "My son is 12 years old and all he was doing was skateboarding. I mean, you gotta be kidding me." Saltzman's son, Josh, and 14-year-old neighbor. Ryan Maxwell, were arrested August 3rd when a Whitman police officer caught them skateboarding on South Avenue. A town bylaw by·law n. 1. A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization. 2. A secondary law. [Middle English bilawe, body of local regulations; akin to Danish prohibits using skateboards or other devices to "coast or slide" along public streets. Town officials would not comment on the specifics of the case yesterday, but they said police would not arrest kids unless their illegal actions were more severe than skateboarding. "They would have to be doing something that causes it to rise to that level," Town Administrator Frank Lynam said. "It's at the discretion of the officer to determine whether an arrest should be made." Dean Leavitt, the officer who collared the rosy-cheeked boys, declined to comment yesterday. |
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