Staten Islanders: Bumper Hitching With Skateboards / Skitching / Bizzing Highly Dangerous!

On Staten Island in recent months, we have noticed a new trend: bumper hitching on the streets of the island.  This is an incredibly dangerous practice, and it can lead to lifelong injuries in some instances.  See the below video showing a bumper hitching teen lose his grip and tumble in an intersection.  Luckily, he was able to get back up again and run to the sidewalk.  But this could have been worse.  Remember: this is NOT Back to the Future! Staten Island teens considering this dangerous practice should think more than twice about it:

About this activity, Forbes Magazine has written:

“The overall act of skateboard hitching has lots of slang names such as skitching, skate-hitching, bumper hitching, bizzing, bumper shining, and so on. One thing for sure is that it can be assuredly labeled as ultra-dangerous and an altogether bad idea.

You might be tempted to think that a skateboarder that rides up along a moving car and grabs onto the vehicle is perhaps demonstrating tremendous prowess as a skater or boarder. There are plenty of online videos and amateur social media postings that seem to highlight this crazy act. The person riding the skateboard is usually waving recklessly at the camera and acting like they are having the time of their life.

Oftentimes, these brazen efforts are done without a so-called brain bucket (that’s lingo for wearing a helmet).

Acrid critics are quick to point out that those trying to do these inappropriate stunts are probably brainless to start with, thus the omission of a helmet is (smarmily) suggested as befitting the circumstance. Anyway, without getting into endless name-calling, some also point out that you don’t see the number of times that the skateboarders took a fall, including suffering an injurious abject face plant into the unforgiving street and experiencing a total and calamitous wipeout.”