Which is more dangerous: Selling a skateboard without a warning label or criticizing the government?
In lieu of a definitive answer, skateboard sellers throughout the realm are rushing to slap stickers on their decks after unprecedented enforcement of a consumer protection law saw one of their own hauled off to jail.
The alleged crime – common practice for decades – that could see Jakrit Jaipleum jailed for a year? Selling skateboards without stickers warning that, yaknow, people could get hurt.
“You don’t need a sticker to know you might fall if you step on a skateboard,” Simon Pellaux said Monday as he printed ones destined for the decks sold at Preduce Skateboard’s Siam Square shop. “Most people won’t read it anyway.”
But the law, however selectively enforced, is the law.
“It is actually the law, even if we didn’t know about it, so we’ll…
