One day at around 2 PM we went to a spot by the water in downtown San Diego to ride. It was a chill manual pad type deal which you could session for hours. We all rode it for about 20 minutes, mostly doing manual lines. At some point though, Alex Platt got into a conversation with these 4 black dudes who were seated on the far side of the spot on a bench. I wouldn’t describe these guys as “homeless” but they were definitely “poor”. All wearing big Winter coats despite the sunny weather, all drinking in the middle of the day and most of them had bicycles (typically when a grown man is riding an old beat up Toys R Us bike, it means he’s got something wrong with him). Their ages were probably somewhere in the 30-40 range. I don’t know what Alex said to them, but he had a pretty normal conversation with them for a couple minutes, and then one of the dudes got visibly pissed at Alex and kinda told him off. I figured it wasn’t too big a deal and we kept riding. Then Hoang told me he wanted to film a quick line, so I grabbed my backpack and took my camera out. I white balanced and was standing there messing with the focus when one of the black dudes, by far the biggest one, let’s call him “Frank”, walked up and started telling me not to point the camera at him. I replied “then why don’t you move out the way”. This didn’t make him happy. He let me know, in many different words, that he wasn’t going to move and that I should get out of there. He was holding a beer in his hand and was obviously at least a bit drunk. It was weird because on one hand, I wanted to wind up and crack the guy in the face since he definitely wasn’t expecting it, but my better judgement kicked in and I looked at everyone else and said “let’s just get out of here guys”.
In standard Alex Platt form (I love him to death but he really doesn’t know when to shut up) he said something else to Frank and Frank stepped past me and yelled in Alex’s face and then grabbed his cigarette out of his mouth. It was obvious this situation was going to get physical so I lifted my bike up over my head holding my seat and the crossbar and smashed it down on his head. I wasn’t really excited to see this situation turn physical, but y’know, whatever. His beer went flying everywhere and in one fell swoop, Frank’s 3 friends all ran up on us. None of them started throwing punches immediately, but none of the dudes I was with seemed to mind… Hoang lifted his bike and smashed it on a dude, Kyle Hart knocked one of the dudes onto the ground and started punching him more while the guy laid on the ground, Chris Hervan started smashing some dude in the face… I ran 10 feet away towards my bag to put the camera in it, then kicked one of the dudes in the chin.
Frank was visibly shaken from the peg that hit him in the head so he grabbed Hoang’s bike and started to walk away like he was going to steal it. We all started to swarm towards him so he just dropped it. I grabbed a couple bikes and took off towards the car and started strapping them on the bike rack. Kyle then informed me that one of the dudes had a knife out when they ran up on us, which I didn’t see, and we hadn’t even wanted to get into a fight in the first place so I wanted to get out of there ASAP before it got worse or the cops came (also Frank had gotten on his phone and screamed “THE CRIP CAR IS COMING” which sounded unpleasant). Fortunately by that point everyone except Frank had relented and walked back towards their bench anyway. Frank stood there and berated us, all while shaking and looking visibly injured. He kept saying “that’s why y’all niggas are fucked up, because y’all don’t have no respect”. He even said “that’s why Osama hates y’all so much”, which is so mind blowing I can’t even begin to analyze it, I’m pretty sure Osama hates white BMXers as much as he hates poor black alcoholics, but I might be wrong.
Someone asked us after if we “beat them up” and I wasn’t sure what to say. None of us got hurt (I actually jammed my finger at some point during the situation, I’m not really sure how), and we definitely hurt them, but we also left while things were still going well. So it wasn’t exactly an all out beat down, but it definitely went pretty well all things considered, especially considering one of them had a knife. I also thinks this marks the first time I’ve ever hit a black person, and if my memory serves me correctly, it’s the first time I’ve ever hit any non-white person.
expected you to have way more encounters with non-white people decently funny tho
haha fuckin hobos…
So chances are these guys sit in the vicinity often….now the next group of riders/skaters etc want to peacefully use this spot, they may have to deal with the after effects of your decision. Way to go.
This makes me happy about how lucky we’ve got it in Australia. America is such a different world socially, there seems to be such a higher chance of something going wrong and getting yourself into trouble with other people/races, whether it be the ghetto or not. I’m glad our country isn’t full of this kind of stuff.
haha you fucking sheltered racist pussy. it’s not because they are fucking black!
good ass story hahahaha
wow. you must live a sheltered life bro. I see shit like this everywhere i go with abo’s, lebos etc
@Aus- Come to Kempsey dude.
I was gonna say the same thing lol – this town sucks
haha always using weapons adam. i hate you.
good story
“This makes me happy about how lucky we’ve got it in Australia. America is such a different world socially, there seems to be such a higher chance of something going wrong and getting yourself into trouble with other people/races, whether it be the ghetto or not. I’m glad our country isn’t full of this kind of stuff.”WOW SO FUCKIN TRUE AMERICA IS LIKE THE FUCKIN GETTO OF THE WOLRD BUT SINCE I LIVE IN IT I LIKE N RIDING IS REALY BIG HEAR….BUT YA I AGREE WE START ALOT OF SHIT N GET N TOO MUCH TROUBLE LMFAO xD
n that shit is mad funny adam n i dont think ppl realy understand how things are in new york …i know this didnt happen in nyc but still …just the other week me n a few of my ridin buddys where ridin st george in staten island n there were these asshole that were proly in sum sorta gang that wanted are bikes n we got in this huge rumble like situation until the cops got involved n we all diped lmao …………lucky skaters ridin on like 70$ woth of wood n we got these 1000$ hunks of matel that other ppl want so bad theyll hurt us for it wow
hahaha this is so funny, glad this kinda stuff doesnt happen here much.
sweet new site by the way adam, probably use this as much as TCU.
Dude, hilarious awesome story. Pretty intense. Just hope those guys don’t have the internet…
@RideNY, I wasn’t sure if you were serious then or being a smartass.. either way I’m glad this shit doesn’t happen where I live.
Does in Kempsey. And Kempseys in Australia.
hhaaaaaaaaaaaa, this shit is hilarious
fuck austalia, racist mother fuckers. you assholes all decended from murderers and rapists anyway
I believe that we all came from England anyway…. the difference is that the first American settlers left England so they could legally fuck/marry their cousins. This is evident in the mass amounts of similar cases still occurring in many parts of America today.
I’m not a racist person, but the truth is that in Aus it’s not so much white Australia that is racist. It’s the way that the current generation of Aboriginal people have been brought up to hate white people. Hope your a little more educated now.
@Sean, You’re a fucking imbecile..
@seany learn how to spell australia before you try to pay it out you dumb mother fucker.
i love the fact that in this country violence can break out at anytime keeps things lively and is the reason why we win every war we get into
Yeah! Like Vietnam. rofl I don’t even live there and I’m obviously know more about your political and military history than you. lol
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