skateboarding

The author uses plenty of evidence to support his claims. he first describes a situation in which he was skateboarding. In this scenario, he describes the law enforcement as if they are criminals, implying his complete innocence and the excessive unfairness of the policemen. He then attempts to sympathize with the reader by pointing out a mistake that an average person would be likely to make, and he refers to his friend who had to pay $50 to make it sound more tragic. He backs his argument further by using a stereotype of his own to describe how stereotypes are afflicting him. Nearing the end, he re-states the point that skaters don't have anywhere to go, using ambiguous rules as an example and over crowded and poorly built skate parks as an example. He follows this point up with argument that skaters make the environment cleaner because they don't drive or sail in gasoline powered boats. This argument, while worded cleverly, has many faults, which the writer purposefully ignores. This writer's cunning impresses me, however, his argument does not.