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[pronetoaccidents]

"Extreme sports", mainly skateboarding was my segway from innocent little cherub to finding about underground culture and passions of my own, etc. However, I respected it all and remember Dave Mirra, (also remember playing Dave Mirra pro bmxer for ps2).

suicide is a sad, sad thing. Especially when children, spouse, family, etc are left in the smoldering wreckage

[manmagic]

http://www.dailynews.com/obituaries/20140815/dogtown-skateboarding-rebel-jay-adams-dies-at-53

more sad news.

[manmagic]

apparently thats an old article he's been dead for a few years.

I must not spend enough time on the internet.

[pronetoaccidents]

How the hell is duane peters still alive. He's like pushing sixty, shoots dope and smokes crack then kills it. I like self deprecating skate boarders, in literary and artistic theory. The story of gator, his iconic swirly eyed  board I had,.thrashed for.vision street wear but couldnt stay off dope and outta prison

[skateandannoy]

Yeah Jay has been dead since 2014. Hard to grapple with your heroes being terrible people, like Jay making skateboarding what it is today, but also being a hate crime-murder-committing homophobe. http://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/maybe-we-shouldnt-be-so-quick-to-idolize-a-gay-bashing-skateboarder

Maybe this post belongs in the Bowie thread. Sorry to derail. What happened with Dave Mirra is a tragedy.

[skateandannoy]

How the hell is duane peters still alive. He's like pushing sixty, shoots dope and smokes crack then kills it. I like self deprecating skate boarders, in literary and artistic theory. The story of gator, his iconic swirly eyed  board I had,.thrashed for.vision street wear but couldnt stay off dope and outta prison

DP almost had one of his legs amputated from having gangrene in 2010/ 2011 and luckily one of the doctors said "We can't remove his leg! He's The Master of Disaster!" Duane, despite being a legend is also no saint, and is on probation for a domestic violence charge for five years.

Gator rode for Vision before it was called "Vision Street Wear". And what he did is a whole lot worse than some minor drug offense that would warrant the phrase "couldn't stay outta prison."

Now I'm really derailing.