Ok I just got home from the County corrections Dept, seems My addiction to Old School BMX got Me arrested,,

I was driving down the street yesterday, ( I have a work Van) an I see this Kid Riding what looks to Be a Patterson, So I slow down to take a look, then I go down the Street and turn around and slowly pass the Kid again, then I turn around and pass the kid Again It looks like a patterson But the Kid is in a area where I can't stop to ask him, so I go down the street to park, well while I'm there I get out a set of Binoculars and Start lookin, Man It looks like a Patterson Frame and Fork and with my high powered Binoculars I can almost read the serial #, well the Kid gets closer to where I'm parked so I get out of the Van so I can ask him If I can see it, ( i'm all dirty from working all day), well about the time I holler at the Kid as he is getting nearer if he wouldn't mind if I took a look at his Bike, Plus I'm walking his was as I'm trying to get his attention, the freaking cops pull up, 3 freaking cop cars, they jump out tell me to hit the pavement put my hands on my head, seems the liitle sh@# used his freaking cell phone to call the cops and tell them his location and to say he thought he was about to be kidnapped,that there was a stranger who kept driving by slowly and looking at him, well didn't want to here my story, they just wanted to make an arrest, plus the binoculars in the van along with all the duct tape didn't look good,and to make it look even worse I kept yelling at the kid while I was in handcuffs lying on the ground, Hey it that a Patterson frame, so I looked even more nuts to the cops, they jerked me up and threw me into the back of the crusier and off to the pokie I went, got to go to court in 2 weeks

Man I hope the Judge used to race BMX Back in the day

Wow, but it happens. I got detained as a terrorist a few months after 9/11 for taking pictures of a prison from a nearby hill top. Funny thing is, if I were a terrorist and wanted to blow up a prison, wouldn't I be doing everyone a favor? I work as a photojournalist so I had a reason for the photo.

With kids, it's real tricky these days. If I want to take a pic of a kid playing catch in his front yard, I make him get his folks first.

OK - hopefully you're someone with a great imagination/sense of humor who is riffing off the JMC story posted yesterday ... and pulling the very short chain 'round here

When I read that story I had similar thoughts, kind'a dangerous to be approaching a youth on the street - even more so if you're dirty, in a van, and you have binoculars and a roll of duct tape in your lap (and maybe you live down by the river).

But really, hasn't this old school collecting thing gotten way out of hand? I mean, c'mon - 5K for a hutch TrickStar and the like, tracking down old BMX luminaries with hopes of scoring a secret cache, traveling half way around the world to do so, and then there's all the misery about how someone with a bigger wallet beat you out on Ebay (for something you never had BITD and could certainly live without today). Own what you rode is my mantra, and even then - do you really need more stuff that you wisely got rid of before?

It's all about the gold rush, "I'm going to make some quick cash turning over that guys JMC" (because he doesn't know any better). It's all gotten a bit out of touch with reality, don't you think?

Funny story though (I hope it's just a story anyway).

Yep I was riffing off of protour's post seeing that kid on the JMC
it remided me of a few weeks ago when I seen this kid on what looked like a Patterson and i kept riding by in My van, then I yelled out the window at the kid and asked if I could see his bike, it wasn't a patterson, but it made me laugh when I rode away thinking about the look on that kids face when I approched him about his bike, and all of the Strange danger crap that parents put into their kids heads these days, yes I have been told I have a crazy imagination, But it isn't far from the truth of what being adicted to Old School BMX can do to you, when you get the Bug again,
it is Funny my friend Timmy and I were riding around the other day and everytime we seen a kid on a bike we stared out the window at em like guys do when they are approching a chick with a hot body walking down the street, and when we passed em only to see that they were riding some walgoose we got that disappointed look on our face that you get when you pass that chick with the hot body and she has an ugly face,,, Hey I would ride it but I'm not going to show it of to my friends

so yes I was just yanking a few chains,,,but hey it could have happened,,

This is half the reason I am afraid to contact him!!! I felt like one of those dudes on Dateline when I pulled over to ask him about his JMC. I don't want it to make a quick buck on it. I just really liked it and always wanted one and can finally afford some of the toys I wanted as a kid, but I have to agree that the prices on some of these things are outrageous!!!



Funny story by the way!!! LMFAO

Too funny. You guys are hilarious.

Ok Joey, I was wondering about that since you just talked to me on the phone today and didn't say anything about it.

I used my one phone call from the pokie to give you a shout,, ,,Dude I forgot to ask you got any bail money,,

They have computers in the Pokie now and they let you have one thread post,,,,,,,HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP

I cant believe you ruined that 0-9 plate folding over the ears

I just wish i still had it,,

Abduction vans always have that freaky looking tinted bubble window, and an AC unit hanging out the back , and some airbrushing artwork that only the owner operator can understand. I was buyin it until you broke out the high powered binoc's, thats funny stuff right there.

Really it was the A-TEAM and MrT came out and said "I pity the fool who dont have a Topic on Fire shirt

Wow, you got me. But like I said, I've had similar things happen. I coworker was once taken in for taking pictures up little girl's skirs at a park. They were silhouettes from under the jungle gym with the most amazing AZ sunset I have ever seen. It ended up an award winning photo. One could understand why people thought that though. But once the pictures were seen, everyone understood.

That was hilarious...!!! I can totally see that happening...

Tony

Yeah I understand that kinda thing happens I had a white van once . I also carried duct tape in it. My buddy started calling my van (little Suzy). Luckily out grew it and traded it for a boxtruck. All in all that story is some funny stuff.

If you drop the soap better hope the guy behind you is a mini and not and standard long in JMC terms.

I was thinking Micro Mini !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

man that is a funny story!

tt