Kansas City Curb Thievery Makes News, Police Baffled

Saw this story this morning linked on Quartersnacks via Skate And Annoy and nearly fell out of my chair:
Keep in mind that this is an actual news story that happened in Kansas City, Kansas.

Holy shit.
Gotta love how the newscasters, property owners, and the police are completely clueless as to why someone would steal these.

Anyway, huge tip of the hat to these brazen bandits that made off with 30 parking blocks in one fell swoop, and in broad daylight to boot!







Can you imagine the amount of fun that these dudes just injected into their scene?
Shit, if one liberated parking block can bring this much joy, think about how much ecstasy thirty provides.

Seeing this made me misty-eyed and all warm inside.
You see, I am a recovering curb thief myself and now torn trying to walk the straight and narrow like a normal member of society who wouldn't think twice when coming face to face with a scene like this one:


This gold mine was literally outside the window of the home of my good buddy Jef for quite some time.

Also recently in my own neighborhood there sat unguarded an entire pallet of brand new parking blocks waiting to be put into the newly relocated Longs Drugs lot across from Down To Earth on King Street.
Somehow I stupidly managed to delete the one photo I took of this, but trust me it was difficult to pass by this juicy, chest-high stack on a daily basis and not act on my first impulse.

There was a war inside my head being waged between the rational, law-abiding adult in me (new, but he's definitely in there somewhere) and the skate first, ask questions later degenerate criminal that resides within all of us.

Bottom line, if you skate, you can relate.
I know these guys can definitely see where I'm coming from, they created one of the raddest graphics I have ever seen in my 25 years of skateboarding, and for that I salute them and anyone else that skates who has ever bent the law a little bit to enhance their stoke.