Philosophy TIME : [now you'll read incomrehensible **** but it's ok.]
It's both.it's the same for everyone and everything.It clearly depends on the user.If say a basketball player goes around murdering people with his basketball,wouldn't basketball be a crime?So all in all it depends on the user.[Yes even weapons,if used for the sake of protecting your people and country would be what i would normally say but nowadays it doesn't apply anymore due to many factors.]Yet skateboarding and several other things are seriously just plain cash-ins for some people,namely the police of that news flash.The law around the places helps them too.
I'll go a little off here : Usually when people find something alienating to them,they quickly despose of it without even trying it.Victims of this case is the skating,which caused turmoils and in some places of the world is considered a crime.
By the way i don't skate.Though i tried to when i was little.I just love basketball.UP UP AND AWAY.[Slamdunks.]