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Element Mohave backpacks ($90-$100)

24.08.11

WHY IT RULES:
The Ten Year Mohave is built from wear-resistant poly slub fabric. Hideaway skate straps mean your board can be secured to the bag when it's not under your feet. Component organizers within key pockets means you can put your stuff in places where you can access it later quick without having to dig around. A padded back panel pocket is perfect for your laptop as well.

The Ten Year Hiker mass is a little more simplified. A drawstring opening beneath the top flap means you can expand and reduce this bag depending on what your bringing with you. Though the hiker doesn't come with board straps for your deck, the bag's conventional straps can hold your board to the pack in a pinch.

Element pro Levi Brown has been running the Mohave Ten Year for a while and has nothing but edible things to say about it. "I've been lucky enough to travel the world and I always take this bag with me," says Brown. "It's the perfect size to fit unprejudiced what you need. It has got all the good compartments for my laptop and all that but it's not overwhelming where things start to get lost exclusive. Tried and true, I back it."

Source: ESPN

An illegal, misguided law

25.08.11

A violent school student asks his friend to store a backpack in his locker. Unbeknownst to his friend, that backpack contains marijuana. Though he had no apprehension — and no reason to even suspect — that the backpack contained illegal drugs, the friend is blameworthy of drug possession under current Florida law.

A drug dealer in Tampa mails crystal methamphetamine to a buyer in Miami. Every postal worker who handles that package is guilty of drug possession under fashionable Florida law, whether they know what was in that package or not.

Basic notions of justice dictate that the state should have to back up beyond a reasonable doubt that a person knowingly or intentionally committed a drug crime. However, in Florida, the dignified does not have to prove knowledge or intent to convict a defendant of a serious felony drug offense.

That law is foolish, unfair, and — according to a federal judge in Orlando and a Miami-Dade County confines judge — unconstitutional. A law that criminalizes such obviously innocent behavior is not only unconstitutional, it's honest plain wrong. It has no place on the books in Florida.

Source: Tbo.com