Police have labelled the actions of a skateboarder being towed by a car at Mount Maunganui at a ''ridiculous speed'' was high risk behaviour ''at its worst''.
Tauranga police released the image of the skateboarder overnight after a concerned member of the public snapped it on Marine Parade at 7pm on Wednesday.
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Senior Sergeant Wayne Hunter said the photographer sent the photo in to police, who followed up with the registered owner of the car ''who in fact turned out to be the skateboarder and as you can see he was not wearing a helmet''.
I asked him what would have happened if a car or even a child ran out in front of him, how was he going to avoid coming off and possibly hitting his head which at that speed would most likely have been fatal and he did not have an answer to that.