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I knew there was a word for catching a ride on the back of a moving vehicle: It's "skitching," as I've just found out. I posted on some skitchers in northern Peru in "Dangerous Skateboarding in Peru" (October 30). Skateboaders in North America skitch rides mainly for the thrill of it, but in Peru, kids do it out of necessity. Skitching rides is the only way that some poor kids in the provinces have to get around. They kids sell food and drinks to truckers along the highway, but don't even have bicycles to ride. I think the Peruvian skitchers photographed in yesterday's post deserve this t-shirt: It's made and sold by Neighborhoodies, available online. The dangers of skitching -- which few authorities in Peru care about -- have led to several fatalities in North America in the last year and a half.  Skitching is now considered a criminal activity in a county in Washington State. Here is a recent AP story about a Vancouver, WA, skateboarder who was sentenced for his participation in a friend's skitching death last year: 

Teen sentenced in Vancouver for 'skitching' death

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VANCOUVER -- A teenager who killed his best friend in a skateboarding accident was sentenced in Vancouver to 60 hours of community service. Clark County Juvenile Court Judge Barbara Johnson told 17-year-old Christian Moothart at Thursday's sentencing he should speak to youth groups to warn other about the danger of letting a skateboarder hang on to a car, a practice dubbed "skitching."

Moothart was driving in August of last year with his friend Joey Madison riding a longboard and holding on to a window. He fell and was run over. The Columbian reports Moothart was convicted of reckless endangerment.