Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Yikes...
I really need to get a PS3 or Xbox 360 now. Sources say it will be the highest grossing video game of all time surpassing halo 3 and the gross income of almost all blockbuster movies in the last 10 years. Got to wait till after Finals though. I'm not going to have a life after getting this.
-Angmeister
Friday, April 25, 2008
Come out for a good cause
Caltrain hits, kills 15-year-old in San Bruno
On Sunday, the San Mateo County Coroner's office identified Anthony Rea, of South San Francisco, as the victim of a rail crossing incident at the San Bruno Caltrain station around 5:35 p.m. on Saturday. Train service was stopped for more than an hour after Rea, a freshman at El Camino High School, was killed.
Caltrain spokeswoman Christine Dunn said Sunday that a Caltrain engineer observed Anthony trespassing on the southbound railroad tracks moments before the collision. "He went around a lowered gate," Dunn said.
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Transit Operations Division is conducting an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident, said Dunn. The San Mateo County Coroner's Office is also conducting an investigation to determine whether Anthony's death was an accident.
One of Anthony's best friends, 14-year-old Patrick Legaspi, witnessed the death of his friend and described it as a horrific accident. He said they had just disembarked from a northbound train with a third friend after a day of skateboarding in San Mateo.
They ignored the lowered gate and warning lights and started across the pedestrian crossing to get to the other side of the tracks.
"There was this gate that tells us not to go when there were trains - we just went around it," recalled Patrick on Sunday, speaking by telephone. "When he saw the train left, he just got on the board and started riding. I guess he didn't see the other train coming, and it just hit him."
Patrick said Anthony didn't hear the southbound train approach because he was listening to music through his headphones at full volume.
"When he was right on the tracks I tried to get him, but he was kind of far out of my reach. I was shouting at him, telling him to stop, but he didn't hear me," said Patrick.
"He was a very funny and cool friend."
Saturday's death is the fifth Caltrain fatality this year. In 2007, the agency recorded 8 deaths, far below the 17 deaths of 2006.
High school friends of Anthony's spent several hours Sunday consoling Anthony's mother, grandmother and older sister at their home on El Camino Real. Longtime neighbor Gina Tandra said the family was devastated and that she and some other neighbors were chipping in to pay for the funeral, to be held later this week at the Garden Chapel Funeral Home in South San Francisco.
A bank account is being created for donations to the family, she added.
The news came as such a shock to Amparo Estaban, Anthony's grandmother, that she had to be rushed to the hospital at 4 a.m. on Sunday, Tandra said. She has since returned home.
"And his mother keeps saying, 'I don't want to eat anything until my son comes home.' She's lying there in denial. She can't function."
Tandra said Anthony loved skateboarding and was always surrounded by friends.
"He wanted to be a mechanic and wanted to take care of this family, because he was the only male of the house," she said. "He was a very friendly kid. Everybody knew him. He had a very natural look on his face like he was smiling all the time."
From everyone here at Dirtbags Anonymous and our extended family, our preyers go out to Anthony's friends and family.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Hello(Part 2)
Lately Arab George and me have been on a San Jose skate hype
We have some new friends down there. George sitting with fellow Sucakfree rider/my drinking buddy Pancho and our filmer friend Matt wiping his hands . ha
Bored on our boards(and tipsy)So we teach little vietnamese kids how to skate.
The reason we were at this park in the middle of East side San Jose on the hottest day in spring? This godamn ledge which everyone was eating shit on, but still skating.George with a 8/10th of the way switch tail, and Matt's homie Cody almost made this frontside blunt all the way in the 2 out of the maybe 40 times he tried. Don't be fooled, this ledge is small but gnarly as hell.That in all, was simply fucking amazing.
George has been going so hard lately filming, that he had to go and warm up on a dumb rail in a undisclosed location only to pussy foot it. Dislocated ankle with possible torn ligaments:/ Get well George!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Hello (pt 1)
This is Nicole, my girlfriend, my food critic and also quite the dancer when it comes to Top 20 radio hits in the car.Elliott's love of mopeds seeps from his veins. This is him warming up his Puch Cobra and also his Puch Magnum with glow in the dark mags. Whaaaa?!
Carlo Almazan coped a new whip .This is us proceeding to "break it in".My new job.
more later............