ON BOARD
Poet's Corner
Soul Wings
Soar through the sky
Fly through the street
With this board
Under my feet
Skating is life
Life is skating
Everything is possible
Dreams come true
To this board
It is due
Emotion pours through
My veins
Also this board
In difficult terrains
Skating is life
Life is skating.
-CMS,
Valencia, Spain
Eternal Nocturnal
All by himself in the middle of the night
The pavement acts tough like it wants to fight
Wheel noise to others may cause some fright
So the law says no, but he knows he's right
Old ladies reach for the phone when they get uptight
But by the time the cops get there, he's out of sight
Out late hours until the dawn daylight
He could be sleeping, but, yeah, he might
He seems all alone and alone tonight
But many brothers are out there, out late at night
In far away places, others skate without light
Somewhere out there is family, and family is tight.
-Mike Patcher Kamnik,
Horsham, PA
Q: What do you call a dog with no legs?
A: Nothing, the fuckin' thing wouldn't come anyway.
-Beuvis Nelson, LaCoste, TX
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5 Greats
1. Way
2. Stranger
3. Carroll
4. Burnquist
5. Gonz
-Danny
Sargent,
SF, CA
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Firing Line: Brian Tucci
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 190
Age: 24
Sponsors: Venture Trucks, Fresh live,
Rockwell Clothes, and People Skateboards
Years Skating: 10
First Deck: Santa Cruz, Micke Alba
Favorite Movie: Malcolm X
Favorite Music: Any reggae or hip hop
Favorite Book: Every Sleep Eye Ain't Shut
Favorite Dessert: Ice Cream
Ladies: I love 'em
Fears: Government
Inspiration: Skating fast
Favorite Skate Spot:
Welfare Banks,
Washington, DC
Shout-outs:
The whole East Coast
Words of Wisdom:
Skate to create
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ORANGE COUNTY
Man Accused of Hitting Officer With Skateboard
Violence: Attack
follows disturbance at
gas station. Two other
officers arrest suspect.
BY THÁO HOA.
TIMES STAFF WRITER
HUNTINGTON BEACH-A
man who allegedly attacked a
police officer with his skateboard
was captured moments later by
two other law enforcement off-
cials and arrested on suspicion of
assault, authorities said Wednes
day.
The offer, whose name was
t released, had just out
of his patrol car about 9 pm
Tunatay to check on a disturb
ance at a gas station in the 21500
block o
k of i
Brookhurst Street when
"
a man hit him in the face with a
skateboard and began pummel-
ing him,
Dan Johnson said.
The man "knocked him to
to the
ground and then kicked and
punched the officer repeatedly in
the face and body, Johnson said.
The officer oned pepper spray.
but it didn't work. He used up
half a can
The officer, who fired his gun
at the assailant but missed, was
"bleeding profusely from the
face when an off-duty Califor
nia Highway Patrol officer and
an Orange County marshal ran to
asist him. They detained Shane
Cole, 21, of Huntington Beach
"It took five people to hold
Cole down long enough to be
handcuffed." Johnson said
The police officer,
fered minor injuries, was sum
moned to the Mob service sta
tion after
problems forlegedly caused
tendant Police said Cole had
the station's at
swaggered into the station
shouting profanities and had
thrown the skateboard at an
attendant. He also jumped over
the counter and took a swing at
the employee, they said
"He was aiming at the station
attendant, but he missed." John-
son said "He told the attendant,
Give me your money and give
me a job and then left without
taking any money."
Cale, who suffered minor facial
cuts, was taken to the jail wand at
Western Medical Center-Ana-
helm because authorities sas-
pected he was intoxicated He
was being held in beu of $50,000
bail on stapleion of assault on a
police officer and attempted rob
bery.
The injured officer was treated
al Pacifica Hospital in Hunting-
ton Beach and released. The
station attendant
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