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Vision??! How about Bahne? That was before my two SC kicktails. Oops, senior alert...

 

Hey, hey, hey... you leave Star Wars dolls out of this!

 

Yeah, those SW figures paid for a large portion of my Hightower.

 

!!! Lmao I knew about the dolls. I didn't realize there would be a play,,..ship!!!

 

Gator? That was my first nice board. With Gullwing trucks and SC Slimeballs.

 

That's no ship... it's a space station!

 

Ahhh...Mark Gator Rogowski...

Mark Rogowski
Born
Mark Anthony Rogowski

August 10, 1966 (age 52)
Brooklyn, New York
Other names Gator
Occupation Skateboarder
Criminal status Denied parole in 2016, Incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. [1]
Criminal charge Assault, rape and murder of Jessica Bergsten on March 6, 1992
Penalty 31-year prison sentence: six years for forcible rape and 25 years to life for the first-degree murder charges to be served consecutively.[2]

 

The only "dolls" I played with, played back.

 

After you blew them up?

 

If you haven’t watched the documentary on him (“Stoked”, I believe it was called) it’s a good watch. Not even taking into account the whole sociopath murderer thing, watching as an adult his persona was so incredibly different than I remember it as a tween/early teen skater.

 

Riight!!!

 

Don't be jealous. It's real love...

 

Until she gets a pinhole and ends up on the chandelier...

 

Not your first Rode0, eh?

 

I had me a Santa Cruz skateboard back in the late 70s.

 

It's what I've heard from those who know.

 

Oh... Sorry. I was thinking something else...

 

You met another and pfffft!
You were gone....


Too good to not use again!

 

Just in case you were thinking about riding up in Idyllwild anytime soon......don’t bother.

 

And it's in THE Riverside County!!! (mountains)

 

Alva with Powerflex fives (each a different color) and GullWing Pros - that was my last board.

Santa Cruz with Bennet front ACS back truck and Road Rider 4s (then onto the PowerFlex 5s).

Friend had a Bahne. Another had a Logan. E&H Wallboards with Kryptonics were popular then/there (CO) too.

Concrete Curl, Aurora CO

 

All y'all and yer urethane wheels. You don't know what skateboarding is less'n you did this...



Now git off my lawn!!

 

That kid was lucky, my first one I hammered together was on a 2x4. When I finally got ahold of a chunk of 1x I was able to use my dad's jigsaw to round off the nose like a Jacobs.

 

PM me for my address if you want me to accept delivery on the new bike. But I may test ride it.

 

Man admits setting Cranston fire near Idyllwild, sentenced to 12 years

Brandon N. McGlover, the Temecula resident charged with setting the Cranston fire and other blazes near Idyllwild in July, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of arson of a structure or forest land and was sentenced to 12 years, four months in prison.

In addition to admitting he set the Cranston and Sage Road fires, McGlover, 33, also admitted an allegation that he set multiple structures ablaze. At least five homes and 13,000 acres burned in the Cranston fire.

McGlover faced seven felony charges, a reduction from 15. The charges were reduced during a preliminary hearing. If convicted on the original 15 charges, he could have faced life in prison.

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that the charges to which McGlover pleaded better reflected the crimes he committed.

“The original charges filed against McGlover required proving to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that he had a specific intent to burn structures, which the evidence in the case does not support,” the statement said.

In sentencing McGlover, Superior Court Judge Kelly L. Hansen noted that many residents of the San Jacinto Mountains affected by the fires had hoped to attend the hearing at Southwest Justice Center in French Valley. But they remained home because of the threat of mudslides — a threat created in part when the fires McGlover set killed the vegetation that holds the mountainsides together.

McGlover’s motive remains a mystery, to the frustration of those victims.

“They’re still very angry; they all want to know why. We’ve not been able to answer that question in any way, shape or form,” Deputy District Attorney Dan Fox told Hansen.

“Frankly,” Hansen said, “the court has the same question the victims have. The defendant has elected not to share with the court what his motives were. But the fact is, because of his plea, the crimes he pled guilty to, he has acknowledged his malicious intent. … For whatever reason, he received some type of adrenaline rush from watching the fires burn, from watching people flee their homes in terror.”

Hansen also ordered McGlover to pay restitution, an amount that could be “hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars,” the judge said.

Fox related statements from three victims, who talked about building custom homes from the ground up, only to see them burn to the ground. They said that in addition to losing property, they lost something no amount of money can replace: peace of mind. The victims said they suffered depression, anxiety, shock, numbness and grief — and the loss of a husband.

Janine Munson could not even write out her statement, Fox said, because of her grief. She told Fox that her husband, Tim Hammons, suffered a heart attack as they drove down the mountain to Hemet. Hammons had previously had a quadruple bypass, but doctors told him that they could not repair the latest damage. He died Aug. 8.

“Ms. Munson wanted the court to know that the doctors and her hold Mr. McGlover liable for the death of her husband,” Fox said.

Andrea Bond, in her statement, said to McGlover, “You singlehandedly have affected my life in a devastating way.”

She said the forest, once beautiful, was turned into something similar to “a lunar landscape. All life, gone.”

Alta Kavanaugh’s statement said in part, “My home burned to the ground, and my life was forever altered.”

Police arrested McGlover about 12:30 p.m. on July 25, 2018, at Newport Road and State Street, south of Hemet. Witnesses told authorities that they saw him starting multiple fires, with one person following McGlover and providing police with a description of his car, a white Honda.

McGlover had no previous documented criminal record in Riverside County.

His attorney, Temecula-based Joseph Camarata, told the court, “He would like to offer his deepest sympathies to everyone who has been affected by these fires.”

McGlover declined an offer to speak on his own behalf.

Hansen noted that among those affected were McGlover’s parents, who sat in the courtroom behind their son.

“I want Mr. McGlover to know that I consider his parents victims as well,” Hansen said. “I hope he reflects on the pain he has inflicted on his parents.”

McGlover’s parents declined to immediately provide a statement.

Camarata had one last request of Hansen before his client was led away in chains: for McGlover to be allowed to hug his parents.

Hansen denied the request, citing security concerns.

 

Yeah, and here I expected him to do me a solid and pm me his discount code. I would have used it!

 

The justice system is broken, 12 years is a joke. He will be out before the areas he burned recover. 45 when released, and studies say even more of a sociopath after being institutionalized. One could get the more time with a felony drug possession. Bill Cosby could potentially be in jail for 10 years for sexual assault. F@ck OUTTA HERE WITH THAT Sh!t

 

GG has a deal if you order through a LBS they give the shop a %. I would do that instead of direct to consumer. If you have a LBS you are loyal to, and you tell them this is what you want to do to support the shop (give them free $) maybe they will share the love with you and give you some of the discount.

 

Ha, would love to spread the love, but it wasn't actually a code. I had to send them my build specs, and they sent me back a payment request.

 

You'll get yours first. The size 3 is ready to build. My size 2 won't be produced until sometime in March .
Hopefully the rain will have stopped by then .