The trouble is that in this day & age, kids see stuff on the TV and in films where extreme sports are considered to be not only 'cool', but have an awful habit of actually becoming accepted AS sport. Take'free jumping/running', where it's considered OK to be jumping across large gaps onto narrow walls, between roofs etc. Only this morning I turned on the TV, and a movie called 'Extreme Ops' showed grown youngsters (some taking drugs) achieving hero worship by doing such stunts as: skateboarding along the top of a train (USA), leaping from the top of one coach to the next using a skateboard and ropes with hooks to swing on and off; snowboarding using the train as a power source, leaping across each other and the track, not to mention trees, chasms etc, all the time being filmed from an awestruck cameraman lying upside down beneath the rear of the train. It's no wonder that kids do dumb stuff when there's this sort of thing about.
