So yesterday started off wonderfully enough, at a Dunkin Donuts in Virginia Beach, with some homies getting together for a skate. First stop was a gap that was a little big for any real tricks for Old Man Ash, but fun anyhow. Neal wrecked himself on it for a frontside shove it and Matt finally landed the 360 flip which you might be able to make out in mid flight through the trees...
Then after Neal and Matt both broke their boards we stopped off at the local skate shop, got new boards for them, and gathered a few more people to go shred this construction site/foundation. It was basically a flat gap to do some tricks over.
This young guy Trevor (junior in high school!) ripped it with a heelflip, varial flip and this pop shove it pictured below.
Matt clocked a 360 flip (part2) first try, switch flip, and the backside flip shown below.
It seemed safe enough until the police rolled up and the owner came out fuming at us. I figured, we'd just be asked to leave, blahblah blah, same old routine. Well, not today.
The owner was furious, as evidently, this was not the first time he's had to deal with damn skateboarders. He demanded that "something be done" and told the cop he recognized "all of us" though none of us had actually been there before. The policeman was actually pretty mellow compared to this insane Ukraninian guy (no racist). He told the policemen he wanted to "kill someone!" The guy was so pissed, talking about how we were ruining his foundation, etc. (really, we were only skating a flat gap that was the basis for a future elevator shaft of which our skateboarding would have very little, if any, effect on). After a very long wait (while the cop processed our ID's) we were all issued court summons for trespassing! Now I have to go to court in April (along with like 6 other people) for fucking skateboarding when it should have been only a warning. Oh well, I guess I am lucky it took this long. On the ride home Temp and I couldn't help wondering, "What are our wives gonna say about this!?"
(you can see the asshole in the picture below, in the background, if you look closely, by the ladder).
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