Skateboarder busted for speeding at 68 mph
 

A professional skateboarder is potentially facing jail time after uploading a video that purports to show him skating at an astounding 68 mph through the middle of traffic.

South African skater Decio Lourenco faces the charges after Cape Town city officials say his high-speed skating actually triggered a speed camera. The speed limit in the town Lourenco was skating through is reportedly 37 mph.

“All that was needed was for one of those motorists to panic and swerve into the oncoming traffic and you have a large number of deaths, as we have already had on that road, safety spokesman Jean-Pierre Smith, told the New York Daily News. "If we don't take action against him, every other aspirant skateboarder will try it and one of them will come to a sticky end."

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That's heavy.

How did they up with 68 mph from this video?

I think the trailing vehicle was tracking his speed. He exceeded a "speed detector's" limit that brought it to the attention of authorities.

You can see the flash of the speed cam at 1:05 mark.

Cape Town city officials say his high-speed skating actually triggered a speed camera.


With speed trap cameras that's how.

Good eye, that's pretty ballsy.

That was pretty cool video though with the music they used.

And he knew he tripped it by raising his arms in defiance. Pretty funny.

Awesome.

Yeah, that song is badass. Here's more fun with it...

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I like how he uses his ass as a brake. LMAO

AWOLNATION : Sail

I got a speeding ticket on my roller blades...34 in a 25...steep hill that I would coast down on my way to work...BS..

you cannot be serious

I listened without sound. That's sort of lame, since that song is already associated with wing suit dude.

Yeah. There are only millions of skateboarders and less than 100 wing suit flyers. A skateboarder flying down a busy street at 68 mph is lame. :rolleyes:

Dude. Epic.

A dude I know got a speeding ticket doing 40 in a 25 on him bike. You better believe he framed that thing and it hangs on his wall.

Music choice is lame, not the stunt.

21 million views of this extreme "stunt", but the skateboarder people use the same music:

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There are a jillion songs they could have chosen, and they chose the same one that is, famously, used for another extreme stunt.

Unfortunately I am...although I laugh about it now it was weird and stressful at the time...I didn't have a car at the time and roller blades were the new thing..1988

wish i had the balls to do that
and the song sucks

Cape Town must have the cleanest streets ever.

Catch even a pebble going that fast and you're ****ed.

Willie Coyote wants to know who provided his wing suit. Obvious not ACME.

Disagree. I dig it.

Can't even imagine going that fast. I skated a ton growing up but never rode those long boards like that. They must have much different wheels and bearings because the ones I used would probably burn up if I would have got going that fast.

****ing cool! Again!!! LOL!

How do you train to do that? I doubt you could really ride along with anyone, your first time would be pretty scary. I guess maybe they base jump for a while and eventually move on to this? Can't imagine what the first time would be like though.
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If you haven't seen it, check the Jeb Corliss crash video. Crazy. I'm on mobile so can't link.

You can go pretty fast on flat ground with a nice bike. 40 on the right road, would be NOTHING like that board shit through traffic. I hit a fairly deep pothole I didn't know about at probably 20-25 on my mountain bike on the way home late from a bar one night. Didn't even phase me, probably the booze, but ****ed up some expensive parts though. LMAO Did hurt some the next day. That is impressive as hell. No way I could do that.

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Me too, hope that worked. Was he trying to get as close as possible to that shelf for effect?
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You need some major balls to even think about skydiving much less trying to fly like a bird.

JFC.

How the **** did he not get speed wobble doing that?

Just watching again because I was kinda down. Don't really appreciate the threadjack over the song. I love he just nonchalantly rides by the last car waiting to turn, real close.

some other crazy ones linked to that. More impressive to me because there is no chute, you hit a car, you die. Fun stuff

speed wobble ftw
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?. You beat this ****er to it
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