The Ricker invented the skateboard.

I'll type that again so it has impact. The Ricker invented the skateboard.

This is another one of those great Ricker stories. He claims he forgot to patent it. When he was in school in Seattle (again during his college odyssey. To get around in the hills, he took the wheels off a pair of roller skates and bolted them onto a 2-by-4 or some other piece of wood. The Ricker and his buddies rode all over town on these things (including through a grocery store for a little bit of shoplifting, but that's a whole other story in itself).

The Ricker invented the skateboard.