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Yup, your paranoia. Evidently justifiable, when I look at your location according to your profile. 2014 - not going to be asbestos unless you're in, I dunno, Russia or India or China, where apparently they still use the stuff. So it wouldn't be considered a hazard there ;^)

Plain old boring cementboard with fiber reinforcement, not could be, in Russia, asbestos. Freeze-thaw and a bit of skateboarding (and/or sidewalk/pavement snow-removal equipment) would explain the state of it after 10 years. Not well chosen materials to be abused in the street.

Ah, but your profile says you are in Russia - so, could well be asbestos, there, but the authorities won't care. Or will consider you the problem...Quote from linked article above:

“We feel the absolute support of the state,” Denis Nikitin, a spokesman for Russia’s asbestos lobby group, the Chrysotile Association, told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Yup, your paranoia. Evidently justifiable, when I look at your location according to your profile. 2014 - not going to be asbestos unless you're in, I dunno, Russia or India or China, where apparently they still use the stuff. So it wouldn't be considered a hazard there ;^) Ah, but your profile says you are in Russia - so, could well be asbestos.

Plain old boring cementboard with fiber reinforcement, not could be, in Russia, asbestos. Freeze-thaw and a bit of skateboarding (and/or sidewalk/pavement snow-removal equipment) would explain the state of it after 10 years. Not well chosen materials to be abused in the street.

The authorities won't care. Or will consider you the problem...Quote from linked article above:

“We feel the absolute support of the state,” Denis Nikitin, a spokesman for Russia’s asbestos lobby group, the Chrysotile Association, told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Yup, your paranoia. Evidently justifiable, when I look at your location according to your profile. 2014 - not going to be asbestos unless you're in, I dunno, Russia or India or China, where apparently they still use the stuff. So it wouldn't be considered a hazard there ;^)

Plain old boring cementboard with fiber reinforcement, not asbestos. Freeze-thaw and a bit of skateboarding (and/or sidewalk/pavement snow-removal equipment) would explain the state of it after 10 years. Not well chosen materials to be abused in the street.

Ah, but your profile says you are in Russia - so, could well be asbestos, there, but the authorities won't care. Or will consider you the problem...Quote from linked article above:

“We feel the absolute support of the state,” Denis Nikitin, a spokesman for Russia’s asbestos lobby group, the Chrysotile Association, told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Yup, your paranoia. Evidently justifiable, when I look at your location according to your profile. 2014 - not going to be asbestos unless you're in, I dunno, Russia or India or China, where apparently they still use the stuff. So it wouldn't be considered a hazard there ;^)

Plain old boring cementboard with fiber reinforcement, not could be, in Russia, asbestos. Freeze-thaw and a bit of skateboarding (and/or sidewalk/pavement snow-removal equipment) would explain the state of it after 10 years. Not well chosen materials to be abused in the street.

Ah, but your profile says you are in Russia - so, could well be asbestos, there, but the authorities won't care. Or will consider you the problem...Quote from linked article above:

“We feel the absolute support of the state,” Denis Nikitin, a spokesman for Russia’s asbestos lobby group, the Chrysotile Association, told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Yup, your paranoia. Evidently justifiable, when I look at your location according to your profile. 2014 - not going to be asbestos unless you're in, I dunno, Russia or India or China, where apparently they still use the stuff. So it wouldn't be considered a hazard there ;^)

Plain old boring cementboard with fiber reinforcement, not asbestos. Freeze-thaw and a bit of skateboarding (and/or sidewalk/pavement snow-removal equipment) would explain the state of it after 10 years. Not well chosen materials to be abused in the street.

Ah, but your profile says you are in Russia - so, could well be asbestos, there, but the authorities won't care. Or will consider you the problem...

Yup, your paranoia. Evidently justifiable, when I look at your location according to your profile. 2014 - not going to be asbestos unless you're in, I dunno, Russia or India or China, where apparently they still use the stuff. So it wouldn't be considered a hazard there ;^)

Plain old boring cementboard with fiber reinforcement, not asbestos. Freeze-thaw and a bit of skateboarding (and/or sidewalk/pavement snow-removal equipment) would explain the state of it after 10 years. Not well chosen materials to be abused in the street.

Ah, but your profile says you are in Russia - so, could well be asbestos, there, but the authorities won't care. Or will consider you the problem...Quote from linked article above:

“We feel the absolute support of the state,” Denis Nikitin, a spokesman for Russia’s asbestos lobby group, the Chrysotile Association, told the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.