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On 11/21/2000 Glen
wrote in from
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My story is not very heroic.
After the West L.A races, Solidskate Glen, Michael Breem, Brad Edwards and Mike???went to skate some banks. I wanted in on that and met them there. After skating over to say hello, and feel the scene, I headed back to my car to get my helmet, pads and video gear. My plan now is to ride down the walkway, hit the bank, and ride over to my car. I get up on the bank, compress for a turn and WHEELBITE, launch, hit, stagger, ooze, and then bitch-n-moan about my hurts.
Like Chris, I too lost my glasses, although my Drew Carey Ray Ban's held up and didn't break. I did take most of the skin off of the back of one hand, the wrist of the other hand, my shoulder, a minor knee thing and a lump on the head. The hand thing still burns like all hell, doc says it's like having a third degree burn. Sterile wraps and nothing will help the pain. Lucky for me, I don't use the brain much, I work in TV, so the head thing is no biggie.
Lessons learned.
1. always wear your helmut, even for a nothing ride down the street.
2. always wear my pads, if I had them on, I would have automatically gone for them most likely.
BTW, skateboarding has a bad enough rap and is being banned in too many places, and the people who keep stats and read them, don't need any more ammo against us. When the doctor asked me how I did it, I responded "Roller Blading".
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On 11/21/2000
Johngilmour
wrote in from
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I have two short crash stories- but with happy endings as I did not get hurt. The first was on teh steeper fast slalom at West La College. I took my first run very easy and made it though with a bit of a struggle so i decided to go for it on my second practice run. The cones kept coming faster and faster, but the traction was there and I still had room to runthem quicker.... I figured at this time that I had to chose between a controlled slide and making the cone, BTW which were some weird discs with holes in them and rather floppy, or hitting the cone. As we are allowed to hit two cones with no DQ I figured to go for the strategy of hitting a cone to allow for a faster line and to insure I would be on target for the rest of the offsets. What a surprise hitting that marker was!!! It got stuck onder my wheels instead of being struck to the side- the lowness of the discs allow for this, and I was UP UP and AWAY doing the superman. Luckily all I got out of it was a mildly sore shoulder which is almost completely better thanks to my sicko anti inflamatory cocktail Three Aleves (Naproxen) and 800mg of Ibuprofen taken as one dose- one time only.
With such good luck in the previous three events ( I really did not get to skate much this year with my moving, and not runningthe slalom course this year- I figured if I did so well on the fast course without riding anything that steep all year and and doing well in the slalom as things were... I figured.... HELL I haven't Luged since High School- why not? I got on this strange Butt Board and had no idea of where to sit to make it work. I tightened the trucks for the first run and had the holeshot the whole way down the hill, but.....I couldn't turn it. First....became last.
So I decide the loosen the trucks, but still did not have a good idea on the line required. I had the hole shot again....and psyched I hit the wooden transition boards at the bottom, but had over loosened the trucks and caught the wobs...took about 20 feet to fix that, but now I was late into the turn..... that would make me go wide at the end-----but to my horrors everyone was to the outside of me already. My apologies to the guy I took out- thankfully no injuries for the both of us as we really smacked hard along the whole sides of our bodies and he was launched off his board. Not wanting to be a dick, I didn't sprint to the finish- and apologized as I really shouldn't have entered- but I did have a lot of fun- and this did inspire me to get back into Luging/butt boarding again. I choose D. Lott's LUGE SURVIVAL GUIDE for one of my prizes. You can imagine me chuckleing on the plane ride home reading it when I got to the rules section and saw EXACTLY my crash outlined graphically in the book. For such a short book there is a lot of useful info crammed into it. Thanks DL. Mental note to self---read it a couple times more..and actualy practice and run the course at low speed first. ;)
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On 11/21/2000 mikez
wrote in from
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You guys should have seen my buddie craig today he's such a stupid retard he was going around a corner doing like 65 kph
and he then decides after the corner to go straight for the biggest damn pothole in the road and slam to halt as he slides off his board like an idiot while doing so he thinks
wow mikez is the cooooooolest guy in the world I wish I was as cool as him. But that isn't what I am here to tell you about. This guy wayne that we were skating with doesn't know how to stop with his foot properly yet and when the light turned red very suddenly he dicided that it would be better to do a colmans slide then he remembered that he didn't have his gloves with him and then he thought that the taxi ahead was getting very close and it was better to have a blistered hand than a broken body and he went into the hugest colemans slide that I have ever seen. On a bare hand he slid for about 4-5 metres and stopped literally centimetres away from the taxi ahead. I think he needs a good wheel sponsor because he busted the slide on 76mm kryptonics and rubbed off a solid 3 mm of wheel that is like 25 slides and you won't have any wheels left. The reason I am telling this story again is because craig's story telling abilities are very weak as he was one of the sad babies who didn't have very much air to the brain.
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On 11/21/2000
Chris S
wrote in from
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This happened at the slalom race at West LA College last weekend. There was thing that I don't think that anyone mentioned. There was a bit of oil on the lower part of the road. Scott did a pretty good job placing the cones to avoid the worst of it. That said, here's my story.
I was planning to run in both the open and longboard class. I figured that I had a much better chance in the longboard class, so I decided to run my short board first. I was riding a Lee Dansie Fibreflex with R2s and 78a Power Paws, a pretty good combo on that hill. My first run I took it real easy. I wanted make sure I got a clean run in, so I'd at least place higher than anyone, who DQed twice. Well, I got a clean run but quite slow. For the next run, I figured that I'd be more aggressive on my second run.
It turns out I only had to knock about 14 or 15 seconds off my time to be in contention for the Turner, no problem in a 30 second race. Well, I was a bit more aggressive and had a pretty decent run going. Toward the bottom I was pumping for extra speed. About two feet passed the finish I hit a patch of oil. I must have still been pumping because the back wheels went right out from under me. The first thing to hit was the back part of my left shoulder. Next to hit was the back of my head, and for the second time in three months, my life was saved by a good helmet. Anyone who does any serious riding without a helmet is an idiot destined to become an organ donor. My glasses broke and flew off. I'm sure I tumbled a bit. When I stopped I realized that I had hit my head, but I was still conscious and knew exacty what had happened. Marcus, George Orton, and Ed Economy come running over. I said, I'm okay and George tells me to lie down. He's asks if I know waht day it is. And I say, "Sunday, November 19." He asks if I know where I am. I say, "West LA College." I was able to bat out the answers in a split second, mainly because that was the first thing I had thought about.
After about a minute I got up and was a bit dizzy and was helped off to the side. A sat down and asked about my time. It turned out that they didn't get it. The clock resets after a few seconds and since I stacked right in front of the table, Marcus ran over to see if I was still alive without looking at the time. I'm sure that I shaved 4 or 5 seconds maybe more off my time. Brad found my glasses; they had broken at the bridge leaving a cut on my nose. The one frame was completely squished and had to be bent back into shape to get the lens back in. Then the whole twisted mess had to be taped together with nice unabtrussive bright red electrical tape. Chaput's got some nice geek pictures of me wearing the taped up glasses. Chris, let's talk. I'll fly to Boston, break into Gilmour's apartment and steal the Turner if you don't post those pictures.
So I'm playing with my glasses and I can see, but everything looks slightly off because they're so bent up and not sitting on my face right. John Gilmour asks if they work and I said that I can see but I'm getting a bit of doubling because I can see two cones on the one side. John says there are two cones. Oh then they're more or less okay.
I sat there feeling pretty lucky. I'd slammed hard and came through pretty much unscathed. I had a bit of road rash/burn on my shoulder, but I hadn't broken/torn anything. I'd hit my head but other than a bit of dizziness and a dull headache, I was okay. The foam core helmet had cracked, but the mellon seemed alright. I had a small cut on the bridge of my nose from where my glasses broke, but it didn't bleed very much. Then I stood up. Ouch. I had pulled my groin.
I went ahead and raced the tight slalom, but took it pretty easy. I didn't want to make anything worse. As the day wore on, the groin started to hurt more and more, and I was hobbling around like I messed my pants. By the time I got home, I could barely walk. The next day I spent three hours walking around Kaiser (my HMO), so I could get checked out, 800 mg Motrin (woohoo), and new glasses. Actually, the walking was the best thing I could have done.
My wife is pissed. This is the second time in three months that I've hurt myself pretty seriously skating. I made a deal with her that I'm going to start exercising and lose some weight or quit skating. Well, there's no way I'm gonna quit skating, so I guess it's diet and exercise for me. And I don't think the "But honey skating is exercise" thing is going to work this time. But that's cool. I'm too old to be fat and out of shape and try to do this stuff. So come the next race, look out. I'm gonna be a lean mean slalom machine. Either that or I'll be the fat guy begging with his wife on the cell phone, swearing that I won't hurt myself this time.
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On 11/21/2000 Craig
wrote in from
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Has anyone here ever seen a person do a Coleman slide from about 55KM/H, with NO GLOVES on??? and then stop with his nose about an inch from the back of a stopped taxi???
His whole hand blistered up, it kind of eclipsed my wipe of the session where i came around a bend, tucked, hit about 65km/h and then a pothole. I did a superman, and landed flat on my stomach, and smelt a lot of resin as my sliding gloves got crushed on the tar. It was a hard wipe, but not much of a story
Ps..Mike Z is a saggy pair of breasts!
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On 11/17/2000 French Frog
wrote in from
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Salut Olivier !
Glad to see you there !
I definitly got them ! (just in case, you know how it is...;)
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On 11/17/2000
drakkars
wrote in from
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Well didier I can tell you it wasn't me !!! ;)
C'est moi olivier
And now how are you going
Did you get your leather pants :-))
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On 11/17/2000
Didier
wrote in from
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Hi from France,
Don't laugh! That is a true story...
As I was a beginner last season, I was practicing sliding quite slowly on a pretty sloping mountain road and at the end of a hairpin turn, the speed swept me along to the side of the road. I was not riding very fast but the problem is my board got suddenly stuck in the grass and one of my bum stuck on the grip. As the other one followed my front leg, I heard a sort of painful crack in the middle.Then I felt blood on the back of my legs and had to face the evidence :
I had sort of ripped myself apart.
I'll spare you the details at the emergency service as I was exhibiting my most private parts to the doctors asking "How the hell have you done that?" and me answering "No, that's true! Believe me! I'm not gay!" and I am definetly NOT !(I don't have anything against gays and lesbians though !Everyone must feel free to ride what/who he/she wants :)
Result: one week sick leave, war and tears in the toilets,"the overweight duck walk" for 2 weeks,purchase of hips protections+leather trousers+doormat bits in the rear pockets.
Lesson : keep standing up when you go too fast. You may be injured but you won't feel ashamed.
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On 11/15/2000
clark502
wrote in from
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Day after the Cops were goin for points at the
Dump run.I get sidelined with a busted hand.The
every day wheel lock to rock and fly.First time my
fingers had been bent back as far as to touch the
top of my wrist!Definitely not even close to when
I snapped my ankle to where my foot pointed towards
8 O'Clock.That one really felt good! Get well people!
c502
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On 11/14/2000
Chris S
wrote in from
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JAC,
I know what you mean. If you had come into work on crutches because of skiing or tennis, no one would say a thing. I'm in San Diego, and things are a little more enlightened, but I still get a lot of the same. Take care and heal fast.
Chris
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On 11/13/2000
Ben
wrote in from
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Skateboarding injuries & being taken seriously at work:
#1 Be up-front about & maybe even proud of your injuries - don't try to hide them.
At my desk I have my most gruesome X-rays mounted right in front of
my under-cabinet desk light, so I can flick it on and it looks just like
you're in the doctor's office. The way my bones look, it's scary and kind of Halloweenish. Some people (esp. girls) cover their eyes.
That's from Halloween's crash; everybody asked about it. The fingers are fine & will be operational again in two weeks tops (dislocations).
People were down with it and it became a little point of interest - have you seen the X-rays?
Friday night I was exiting an intersection when the light turned green and a taxi floored it, T-boning me at full throttle at about 15-20 mph.
Rag-doll 360s in the air with heels over your head faceplants onto the pavement can be harmful. For safety & style points I always try to break the fall with my forehead, nose and upper lip if possible.
After all, it's not how you look during the fall, it's how you look at work on Monday that counts. It cleaned up pretty nicely and the surgical glue even came off cleanly Monday morning. So I thought "I look pretty good" and didn't tell anybody about it today until about six.
I thought I played it off pretty smoothly. A girl who's really up-front said to me about six "what happened to you? You get punched with some glasses on?" I said, "No, I got hit by a car, can you tell?" and she said "yeah, from about ten feet away, you have two black eyes and your nose is cut."
First, only one of my eyes is half black and the nose looks pretty good. But, I looked and you can see the whole thing from far away. So, if you're not going to "play it off" show it off. Anyway, I figured everyone assumed I'd been fighting and that I just didn't want to talk about it. So I'll tell 'em tomorrow so they relax.
Just be glad you're not those other people with their sedentary lives. You know when archaeologists dig up the skeletons of the ancients? I have more respect for the ones with the battle injuries & mended bone breaks than I do for the sedentary ones with the perfect skeletons - no story there, huh?.
Let your lame co-workers channel-surf while you land-surf.
And brandish your injuries with pride. It's the mark of the adventurous.
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On 11/13/2000
JAC
wrote in from
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Sunday I was skating at the local public skate park and blasted off the side of a quarter pipe only to land on the side of foot. Now I'm sitting here with a set of crutches and a broken foot (a Jones Fracture). It looks like the skate season is over for me. I can only hope I recover in time for the snowboarding season!
The worst part of the whole ordeal is showing up at the office on Monday with crutches and a messenger bag to haul my stuff around in while I scoot along on crutches. Everyone asks what happened and when they find out it was a skateboarding injury I always hear the same shit - How old are you? When are you going to learn not to play on your kid’s toys? You have to understand I live in Cleveland, OH., a place where the only concern is baseball, football and the latest draft picks. These people don't understand skateboarding beyond what they see in Mountain Dew Commercials and the XGAMES. A longboard is way out of the average person’s mental reaches, much less a person who still skates at age 35 and has no intentions of stopping after 20+ years of skating. My kids toy? My kids don't even have their own skateboards yet, and when they do - they won't be toys!
After the about the 20th lecture I couldn't help myself and I went into this ramble about the joys of a prework skate session at the local park, or spending a Sunday afternoon carving and sliding down hills. The fun of skating by the lake, just carving and seeing how long I could hold a nose wheelie. Hanging out with the shortboard groms while they try out my longboard as they realize I could be their dad, but their dad doesn't skate, he just watches sports on TV and cuts the lawn and has a large beer gut (Alright, I'm stereo-typing, but it is probably true!).
Anyway, I don't where I'm going with this post, but I had to get it out of my system and this seems like the only place that I would be able find people who can relate.
Skate on!
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On 11/12/2000 craig
wrote in from
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I did that once before...the really tight front truck, really loose back truck thing. I hadn't ridden for a long time.
So I hit this hill with two insane switchbacks, that i'd never skated before, in the middle of the night. There were man hole covers everywhere. I tried to carve to keep my speed down, hit a manhole cover and somehow fell landing on my back on my board. then i fell off the board. I didn't stop and fix the trucks, i got back on and carried on riding, took the first harpin, carved slid, fell on my knee, the knee pad slipped down and pulled the scab off a big roastie on my knee, it hurt so badly i wanted to cry. I got back on??!! after the second hairpin the road just drops off steeper and steeper, and i was no good at foot breaking at the time, so i started early. needles to say, my back foot got tangled in my wheels. This led to that characteristic set of sounds which accompanies any skateboarder who tries to run off at high speed: sssshhhhhshshshsh.....SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAPBRGGHK>LHJHJFHGF??!FUCKMNBVNHDFETUT!!! the shh=wheels on tar, the slapping was my feet on tar, and the rest was my luminous pink kneepad slipping down again, allowing the s**t to be gouged out of my knee. It was so sore and so deep...i shiver thinking about it (over a year later). And guess what? I finally caught on, got in the car, and went home.
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On 11/12/2000
justin
wrote in from
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i live in a little city called novato. one day my friends and i were skating in the rush creek projects, the hills arent that great there but theyre good enough to practice carving on. so i was goin down the hill when i got some badass speed wobbles and hit a rock. i did out 4 judo rolls as soon as i hit the ground and it sucked cuz i had road rash on my hip, arm and shoulder. ya know what, there is no morale because i was dumb and for got to adjust my trucks after i got the board. the back truck was way too loose and the front was really tight.
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On 11/10/2000 mikez
wrote in from
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I was skating down signal hill (the South African one) and doing about 60 kph racing against a couple of buddies I was falling behind so decided to get super low and in doing so put my foot on scew over my front truck. I went straight in to a wobble and fell forwards. In doing so I put my foot forwards first and my big toe got hammered into the front of my shoe I flipped around in the air and landed on my ass bounced and then skided. and got up and ran after my board( which was just about to go over the edge).not thinking much about damage yet I started to feel pain my toe felt like it was very broken and my poor behind felt like it been ripped in half.. The results were : a very badly sprained toe and a large scratch across my b.... Thank you very much leathers and gloves damn you stupid shoe. if I did not have my leathers on it would have been very much worse
leason leanrt: always were you're protective gear
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On 11/9/2000 Ben
wrote in from
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Man, that Drifter post was funny as hell.
What a "Poster Bro!"
Dude, tell us another chapter of "mybro 'n Drifter: not in a good mood"
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On 11/9/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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God, the school system sucks,they just let people drift through:)
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On 11/9/2000 craig
wrote in from
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Huh?
May I please have an english translation!
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On 11/9/2000 Drifter xgs
wrote in from
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Me and my bro matt were cruisin down the street on our boards and my bro tried to pop on ollie down the huge hill screwed up the board flew out from under him and he hit the ground rolling. Well me being stupid thought he lets build a ramp jump well we buit it after mybro got bandaged up then I went to the top of the hill and went down, over the ramp after ollieing then kickflips landed on the side of my board and went down on the side of my board, then I hit a friggin bump, flipped off and did a 6 foot roll and landed, I was not in a good mood.
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On 11/6/2000 drakkars
wrote in from
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Ok here's my latest crash story
this last wednesday i was just cruising in this small skatepark
I didn't noticed that one of my laces went loose
Just rolled over it the SLAM !!!! on my right side
- Scratched my elbow and some other places
25 years skateboarding : first time with a loose lace
- Lesson : always tighten your laces
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On 11/5/2000
Vlad Jones
wrote in from
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Alright, here's a wimpy little story but sine no one's posted in a really long time...
I was practicing walking on my board the other day, on a nice smooth side street. Not much of a grade, just enough to keep moving about 10mph.
I was standing backwards on my board and I hit a manhole cover. Pretty f*$%(ing stupid, huh? I had quite a headache that day...
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On 10/24/2000
DT
wrote in from
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Good point, i have played team sports my whole life and have always studied the medical and training side of sports and their related injuries, etc. and what i dont know, i use the internet as a resource and find out for myself. Fortunatly the swelling has gone down 70% and the minor bleeding stopped with the addition of the ice pack treatment.
But i'll be skating by the end of the week for sure.
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On 10/23/2000
JON WARBURTON
wrote in from
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DT, regarding icing of bruises/contusions etc; NEVER apply ice for more than 20 minutes at a time, and with 60 minute breaks in between. NEVER apply the ice pack directly to the skin, rather use a towel to wrap it in. I have had frostbite and I can assure you it hurts more than any impact injury!! I,m sure you knew this and did so anyway, but I just wanted to point it out for other readers.Remember the mantra R.I.C.E.- rest, ice, compression, elevation. Repeat after me..... ommmmmm
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On 10/23/2000
DT
wrote in from
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oh man, i'm hurting right now, i went and skated a mean parking structure named ANTON (check the events forum for details) and on one of the last runs i was dicing it up with my friend Sean as we cut through some pilelings i cut back real late inches between it and Sean, and just barely clipped it at about 18-20mph - right on my left hip. It instantly swelled up, and i'm sure i got some bleeding going on inside, but nothing too serious. I iced it right away for several hours and will keep doing the procedure.
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On 10/22/2000
elad leshem
wrote in from
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last week i was rideing at thr biggest downhill at my city
(in israel) and i rideing about 50 kp"h
i didnt was very smart and a stone in the middel of the road
toke me down
it was very sad!!
what can i say
dont try this at home!!!
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