Shanghaied

12.21.07 – Kevin Wilkins

I guess people used to get kidnapped from SF and then were made to work on American merchant ships sailing to Shanghai. That’s where the term Shanghaied came from.

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Now it means going to the biggest skatepark in the world.

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Uh.

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Click here for a quick tour of Shanghai’s SMP Skatepark.
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Tim to Gunes, “That was ridiculous.” Gunes to Tim, “What?”

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This might get you to a grass gap. Or an open sewer.

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Smells intense.

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Adidas Euro’s lovely Ricarda Kuypers.

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Keepers of the grass gap.

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The sunsets start at 12:30 and last about four hours. “It’s not smog,” the locals will tell you. “It’s just fog.”