USE
SWATER
GO TO
PRISON
by the Wordman of Alcatraz
Dedders was high and dry in a maximum
security twilight home.
On calm days, he swore he could hear
the barking of trucks and sliding of
wheels from across the water in the City
by the Bay. His mind dwelled on the free
crew back home and the fair days of old.
All he could look forward to were his
Oppressed and observed. Tommy Gun remained a lethal
weapon, loaded with 4-wheeled ammunition.
ave you ever heard the story of Dedders the
skate pirate, victim of the first wave of skate
harassment? It was on a date unknown that
one ill-judged crack of the gavel doomed the life
of this happy go unlucky naughty nomad to 20
years of exile. All for a crime he did not commit!
Dedders used to.cruise the streets
of his home burg daily. He had no one
to impress, no one to tell him how to
skate or act. He'd been free as a bee,
but those days were all at once
history. Once locked up, minutes be-
Game years, uncharted, unskated. ►
This account is purely ficticious and is not meant to foster subversive behavior of any kind. The skaters were professionals and the skating on Alcatraz Island was done by
permit from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The possession or use of a skateboard on Alcatraz is expressedly forbidden by federal laws
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