After uploading a video that purports to show him skating in an incredible 68 mph through the center of a skateboarder is potentially facing jail time .
South African skater Decius Lourenco faces charges after officials of the city of Cape Town said that his high skating speed actually triggered a speed camera. The speed limit in town who was skating through Lourenco referred 37 mph.
"All I needed was one of those drivers to panic and divert incoming traffic and you have a large number of deaths, as we have already had on that street, security spokesman Jean-Pierre Smith, told the New York Daily News".If we do not act against him, any other aspiring skateboarders will try and one of them will come to a sticky end.
It is difficult to argue that the stunt was dangerous and reckless, particularly with incoming traffic in the opposite lane. But Ilaria is a professional videographer and Kloof Nek, the way it accelerates downward, was used for professional skateboarding events in the past. In addition, her YouTube videos of stunt ("Spoofing the traffic camera-Longboarding without limits") include disclaimers discourage others from trying to recreate his enterprise, which has already been viewed more than 600,000 since it was released on 26 January.
However, as Reuters, went skateboarding events hosted on Kloof Nek have always taken their seats when all traffic was closed off the road. And local traffic laws prohibit skateboarders on public roads.
For its part, Lourenco, 24, says he doesn't understand where it comes from all the negative attention.
"I was skating down hills from a young age ... often going much faster than that, said in an interview with ioL news."This is the first time I got any attention to it. "
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