File this under pure craze. Legitimate longboarders have enough to contend with without having to explain why post-apocalyptic aluminum decks for ravers and S&M autoerotic asphyxiation freaks are now hitting the market. Yet someone still had to go and do it. If you see anyone on one of these boards, especially the two chicks above: RUN! More scary shit after the jump or peep total craze here.

In some serious bullshit, Scotty Lago got bounced from the Olympics today because of this picture that showed up on TMZ this morning. The official word that was just circulated says Lago volunteered to leave and miss the closing ceremonies but word around town is that the IOC wanted to take his medal away and going home was a compromise. Seriously, on the scandal scale, this pic rates like a 2 and to fuck a 22 year old kid over for something as PG as a little medal biting is ridiculous. Rad Collector is in Vancouver right now and can tell you that what’s happening across this whole city all day and night during the games is a lot more obscene than this. It’s a further mistreatment of snowboarding and snowboarding culture that doesn’t want or need to adhere to archaic Olympic jock standards. Snowboarding is supposed to be fun. Read the AP story here.

Columnist Michael Cohen called this out already but we had to bring you the full trailer for the upcoming mega-flop Frozen just so you could see how bad it is for yourself. There are so many things about this ridiculous trailer to go in on that it’s not even worth it. Booo – no stars!

Wow, Redbull is really buggin with this one. Not content to risk life and limb of their terrestrial athletes, they are taking their next stunt to space, or at least to the edge of it. Professional lunatic Felix Baumgartner is going to take a solo balloon up 120,000 feet so that he can freefall down at supersonic speed in the hopes that he will break the record for highest freefall set by Airforce pilot Joe Kittinger in 1960. Now that is some gnarly shit.

In a resounding victory for shredders all over the globe, the NY Daily News reported today that New York City park officials had reviewed the comments made by park officers in response to the incident in Brooklyn that we reported on last month in which park police shut down a jib session by claiming that snowboarding was illegal in New York city parks and the city of NYC as a whole. As suspected, it was total horseshit and based on the video posted by Rad Collector and other outlets, the Parks Department has formally declared that they were in error, saying “The statement that it is not permitted at all is not accurate, and our staff has since been advised otherwise,” and adding that snowboarding is permitted in parks, just as sledding and cross-country skiing are allowed when weather permits. Case fucking closed. At the epicenter of the brouhaha was Rad Collector columnist Brian Deka Paupaw. Read the article in its entirety here after the jump.

In some less rad news, we felt compelled to post this mind boggling video of ABC News’ ridiculously ignorant coverage of Kevin Pearce’s injury that frames the entire sport of snowboarding as one giant accident waiting to happen. On top of that they make it seem like snowboarders are still a brainless lot pushing themselves into injuries because they don’t know any better. Disgusting. Check out more commentary on Boardistan.

In a move so cliche that it’s laughable, park police in Brooklyn rolled up on an impromptu mellow jib session in Fort Greene Park, smashed the jump and told everyone they would get summonses for snowboarding because it is illegal in New York City. This all in the face of the fact that the NYC Parks Department has gone overboard in the last few years courting shredders with events from the Union Square Street Sessions to the Redbull Snowscrapers. This cop was apparently on a donut break during those events. From start to finish she’s got lines so dumb, you’d have a hard time making them up. Cops apparently just live to hate on the shred. Via BLK OPS.

This would be so easy to ridicule that there’s really no sport in it. Instead we should probably marvel at how a dirtbag dude who survived a racism scandal could possibly end up selling salon-only hair products to women and metrosexuals. Skateboarding man, it can take you anywhere! Via Boardistan.

We have only two words for this: Holy Shit. Via The Angry Snowboarder.

For those of you out there that still think this is a hoax, tonight is the moment of truth as Louie Vito really will come out on national TV and get his Fame on as part of Dancing With The Stars. You gotta admit, it sounds so stupid and unbelievable that you’re probably gonna tune in just to say “What the fuck?!” Congratulations ABC, mission accomplished. If you want to take it a step further and actually vote, all the info is right here.