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Acts of skate aggression being what they aren't, The European Economic Union Commission has labeled skateboards skateboards

mini surfboard supported on roller-skate wheels; 1960s craze enjoyed renaissance. [Am. Hist.: Sann, 151–152]

See : Fads
 as terrorist weapons. As quoted by the London Times, the EEU EEU European Economic Union
EEU Environmental Exposure Unit
EEU Energy Efficiency Utility
EEU Engineering Evaluation Unit
EEU Europa Esperanto Unio
EEU European Esperanto-Union
EEU Eurasian Economic Union
EEU Electronic Equipment Unit
 says they are "weapons that could be used to hijack an aircraft." As a result they have been banned from the cabins of all planes taking off anywhere in the EU. Tennis rackets rackets

Game for two or four players with ball and racket on a four-walled court. Rackets is played with a hard ball in a relatively large court (approximately 9 × 18 m), unlike the related games of squash and racquetball.
, however, are still considered safe and non-threatening. A high-level diplomat further commented, "Skateboards are pure evil." The EU further states that "they have wheels that you could unscrew and throw, and you could use a skateboard to break a window."

Despite sporting some of the, if not the most thigh-supporting pants in the biz, Walnut Creek's Corey Duffel Corey Duffel is a popular professional skateboarder from Walnut Creek, California, United States. He was born on April 11, 1984 as William Corey Duffel to Steve and Sharon. He is known for skating big gaps, rails, and stairs.  managed to fracture one of his four-foot-long femurs in a nasty spill.

Pat Duffy's got the rod out of his arm and is into a soft cast. The surgeon wondered about the tell-tale skate abrasions on Pat's cast, but Duffy denied that he had been pulling stairs while he was supposed to be totally immobile im·mo·bile
adj.
1. Immovable; fixed.

2. Not moving; motionless.



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