Ben Gilley, the Birmingham Barbarian, spots
a narrow landing at a Gainesville anti-spot.
(Left) Ricky Espinoza backside tailslid this Gainesville flat bar,
but the trippy flairs on this crooked grind better address the
needs of our psychedelically-minded constituency.
B.A. and J.T. scout for talent.
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Claraval to Vinnie: "Did you eat my sandwich?"
DUSTIN CHARLTON INTERVIEW
When you were preparing for Tampa,
what were some of the things you
were worrying about?
I'd been there a few years before, so I
wasn't really nervous about anything. It
was just another year going to the
Tampa contest.
But then what happened?
We hung around in the hotel room'a little
bit before the party and had a few drinks
and then we went over to the party, And I
don't really know who the band was, The
Unholy Alliance, or something like that.
They're one of those novelty wrestling
bands?
Yeah, something like that. There was kind
of a mosh pit-slash-garbage on the floor
and everyone was all running around and I
was basically in the mix right there and all I
remember is kind of tripping and falling
and then next thing I know everyone's talk-
ing to me like, "Oh, What the fuck?" I just
thought I was really drunk. Everyone's say-
ing, "There was an accident! You were in
an accident!" and I was, like, totally oblivi-
ous to it. I was like, "Let's go to another
club!" and everyone's saying, "You can't go
to a club, your head's bleeding!"
So what exactly happened?
Basically, the drummer of the band
was sitting on a toilet bowl to drum.
And then at the end of their concert,
I guess their thing is that the drum-
mer smashes the toilet off the stage.
So I guess the dude had the toilet
above his head, ready to smash it and
I kind of fell in the way and then
down comes this whole toilet bowl.
The whole bowl? Tank and all?
Yeah.
So are you OK?
I just got my stitches out the other day.
Basically I went in and got twenty x-rays;
got a cat scan. They did all these tests-I
was pretty drunk when I went into the
emergency room I guess I blew four times
the legal limit to drive so I was pretty
loaded when they brought me in. They
ended up taking me away in an ambulance.
I got eight stitches in my head and chipped
two front teeth.
Oh gosh.
It sounds horrible, but two days later I
started skating again.
What was your worst injury prior to
the toilet bowl?
Last year I had a compound fracture of
my arm. I broke both bones, and both
bones came out of the skin. They actually
had to cut my arm open. I have what looks
like two old rails, like rails and hardware
holding my bones together.
Since the accident, have you had any
fears when you get around toilets or
go to the bathroom?
Nah, not really. A lot of people have been
calling me shit head though. It sucks. I tell
people the story and they're always like,
"You fell and hit your head on the toilet?"
and I'm like, "No, I got hit in the head with
a toilet."
Do you want to give some shouts out?
Yeah. Just say what's up to Andy,
Pepe, and John.
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