Street skating and street drifting are totally different.
For one, when street sliding, you're in a fucking car. You're in something that weighs 2500-3500lbs, costs thousands of dollars, and you're doing like 60mph barely in control.
When street skating, you're standing on top of a skateboard that weighs 5 lbs, costs around $100, and you're going 5-10mph.
If you're seriously going to compare the two, then you're retarded. If street sliding had only the same consequences as skateboarding, then I would do it every single day. On the way to work, on lunch break, on the way home from work, on the way to the store, to my grandma's house, etc. Overdrift, never drive straight, I'd be a fucking dinosaur.
It's simple, you can't compare the two.
I'm not damning street drifting. I think it's cool. I do it sometimes. I do however think that the people that only "street drift" and never go to events aren't "drifters", are terrible drivers, and have really shitty cars like the one in ronchmeister's sig. "sohc ftw" haha that sucks soo bad.