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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => In Memoriam => Topic started by: IHOP on June 08, 2018, 11:24:31 PM
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This year keeps on taking, sad news. Grew up skating parks grindline built, my view of skateboarding wouldnt be the same without all of the work he and his crew put in.
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man I hope this is a rumour
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man I hope this is a rumour
Not too many noteable ones, but if you check grindline's tagged posts theres quite a few
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it is sadly true.
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Mark "Monk" Hubbard was our Anthony Bourdain. He got to travel, live a free life, and instead of some tv show, he built temples for people to skate on. With Sleestak, we had to deal with city people and tried to explain how it was for the best of the community. Without F Bombs...that was tough.
As what is posted on the Orcas Island / Scott Stamnes park : "there is no amount of good a person can do, as long as they do not take the credit for it".
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Fucking bummed... i never met or skated with him but have stayed at his house with the vert ramp a few times. His family always took care of us. Skateboarding lost someone who gave it all...RIP MONK!!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3-CSI6RIEY
rip in peace
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RIP... seems like a cool guy. not a huge fan of the grindline parks i've skate though.
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Fuck, that’s a harsh loss.
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Terrible news. Skatepark pioneer. My sympathies to any who knew him.
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RIP... seems like a cool guy. not a huge fan of the grindline parks i've skate though.
Damn my favorite parks I've ever skated are Gridline parks, followed closely by Dreamland. Such a huge loss. RIP.
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fuck a skatepark but the whole DIY cement culture goes back to Burnside, for that we all owe.
RIP
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https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/4xzx7m/one-mans-plan-to-restore-balance-to-the-universe-through-skateparks (https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/4xzx7m/one-mans-plan-to-restore-balance-to-the-universe-through-skateparks)
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Really shitty news. RIP. Toured Washington an Oregon last summer an skated a bunch of his parks.
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RIP man, hellride
anyone know what happened?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek3Dt_5Pdho
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RIP to a real one. NW legend
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RIP seemed like a great guy
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Fuck RIP. anyone know the cause of death?
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http://q13fox.com/2018/06/09/iconic-northwest-skateboarder-and-skatepark-designer-mark-monk-hubbard-dies/
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This is a real loss. I'm sorry to hear of anyone passing, and say what you want about his music, but the dude cared enough about skateboarding to build a skatepark in Israel. Hope the afterlife is pad free.
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Sad day. This guy left a legacy across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. I feel sorry for his family. RIP
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all these random fucks keep flopping like a fish and i never heard of em.....
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all these random fucks keep flopping like a fish and i never heard of em.....
Judging by the comments above, surely you can see that plenty of people either knew him or had heard of him, so why bother even commenting? Guess you just wanna be edgy in this guys memorial thread. Cool contribution
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My home park is a grindline, lots of people are bummed on it because it's so transition oriented but it's made some damn good skaters out of the children. A large mark that will never be unmade. Rest in Power
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People like Mark are the real heroes of skateboarding. We've lost a real good one.
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RIP
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Here's to hoping he'll make some nice parks up in the sky. RIP.
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Damn, talk about leaving your mark on the world.
Grindline parks are some of the gnarliest out there.
RIP
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I have a “Monk and Red” article burned into my brain as a child. Thanks for burnside. Thanks for defining what skateparks should look like for decades to come.
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What a life to lose. His legacy is literally set in stone though, and his spirit will live on through burnside and the rest of his amazing creations.
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Damn I feel so bad for his family. On last years road trip we went to his house and skated his vert ramp. He wasnt there but his wife let us skate the ramp. when we were leaving my fucking car wouldnt start so I had to go knock on the door and ask for a jump start. She jumped the car for us and and i gave her a squash that my wife grew in our backyard. She said Mark was gonna be hyped on the squash, and I always wondered if they ate it. life is short and fucked up.
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(http://i65.tinypic.com/4kzhps.jpg)
One of the best quotes ever!
Made some amazing stuff.
RIP
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People like Mark are the real heroes of skateboarding. We've lost a real good one.
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People like Mark are the real heroes of skateboarding. We've lost a real good one.
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(http://i65.tinypic.com/4kzhps.jpg)
One of the best quotes ever!
Made some amazing stuff.
RIP
lol I remember going to a grindline park for the first time when i was 16 and tripping on how dangerous it was. An eye opener for sure
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What a beautiful fucking legacy he left.
Spraying concrete is one of the filthiest, grimiest tasks around and he did it all for us.
R.I.P. Monk.
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This is a huge loss...Monk helped lead the way so concrete transition was still an important part of skating. He didn't just do it for himself but everyone.....
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Dude was skateboarding personified. RIP.
Poser666, pick your spots better man. Come on.
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https://www.gofundme.com/Mark-Hubbard-memorial
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https://www.gofundme.com/Mark-Hubbard-memorial
Let's keep this right at the top. This is a skateboard forum. Everyone here should kick in whatever you can if we really value skateboarding. If you've EVER skated a DIY spot, you can thank Hubbard. If you ever learned to mix mud and form transitions, you can most likely thank Hubbard. The parks he left behind will live on forever, and the knowledge he passed on to skateboarding as a whole is enough to carry skateboarding into the next millennium.
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RIP Monk.
I live my life every night on the dark side
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Living in a small town, I benefitted so much from having an early Grindline park built nearby. It's where I met people who are my best friends 15 years later.
Stories about Monk, Red, Rabbi, etc., were like currency to us, the stories were so unbelievable. The first time Hubbard showed up at the park, carrying an iPod and a guitar speaker blasting Geto Boys, I was too scared to talk to him. My friend jumped off the bench and said, "Hey, are you Monk?" and they shook hands. My friend reported later that Monk's hand shake was kinda weak – no idea if that was true or if my friend was showing off.
By the end of the day he invited our whole crew to skate the West Seattle bowls, and we were not "cool." We were awkward small town teenagers; some of us thought we were hip hop, or punk rockers. Some were homeschooled. I wore a helmet and we were all just weirdos. When we showed up, it was like looking through a window into another world. That was a really cool thing for him to do. I'll pitch in for sure because I know I would be a different person without him. We all would be – every hot young kid can skate transitions now and I'm not sure that would be the case without Hubbard and Red.
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Living in a small town, I benefitted so much from having an early Grindline park built nearby. It's where I met people who are my best friends 15 years later.
Stories about Monk, Red, Rabbi, etc., were like currency to us, the stories were so unbelievable. The first time Hubbard showed up at the park, carrying an iPod and a guitar speaker blasting Geto Boys, I was too scared to talk to him. My friend jumped off the bench and said, "Hey, are you Monk?" and they shook hands. My friend reported later that Monk's hand shake was kinda weak – no idea if that was true or if my friend was showing off.
By the end of the day he invited our whole crew to skate the West Seattle bowls, and we were not "cool." We were awkward small town teenagers; some of us thought we were hip hop, or punk rockers. Some were homeschooled. I wore a helmet and we were all just weirdos. When we showed up, it was like looking through a window into another world. That was a really cool thing for him to do. I'll pitch in for sure because I know I would be a different person without him. We all would be – every hot young kid can skate transitions now and I'm not sure that would be the case without Hubbard and Red.
Respect, there's so many stories like that about him. I met him a couple of times through mutual friends, but the things those dudes all have done and will continue doing for skateboarding is what will keep skateboarding what it was always intended to do.
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https://www.gofundme.com/Mark-Hubbard-memorial
Let's keep this right at the top. This is a skateboard forum. Everyone here should kick in whatever you can if we really value skateboarding. If you've EVER skated a DIY spot, you can thank Hubbard. If you ever learned to mix mud and form transitions, you can most likely thank Hubbard. The parks he left behind will live on forever, and the knowledge he passed on to skateboarding as a whole is enough to carry skateboarding into the next millennium.
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https://www.gofundme.com/Mark-Hubbard-memorial
Let's keep this right at the top. This is a skateboard forum. Everyone here should kick in whatever you can if we really value skateboarding. If you've EVER skated a DIY spot, you can thank Hubbard. If you ever learned to mix mud and form transitions, you can most likely thank Hubbard. The parks he left behind will live on forever, and the knowledge he passed on to skateboarding as a whole is enough to carry skateboarding into the next millennium.
I thought your whole message was touching, but particularly the last sentence. Much love and be safe out there Pals
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https://www.gofundme.com/Mark-Hubbard-memorial
Let's keep this right at the top. This is a skateboard forum. Everyone here should kick in whatever you can if we really value skateboarding. If you've EVER skated a DIY spot, you can thank Hubbard. If you ever learned to mix mud and form transitions, you can most likely thank Hubbard. The parks he left behind will live on forever, and the knowledge he passed on to skateboarding as a whole is enough to carry skateboarding into the next millennium.
I thought your whole message was touching, but particularly the last sentence. Much love and be safe out there Pals
Thanks, I only met Monk a few times, but the dude was skateboarding personified.
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Living in a small town, I benefitted so much from having an early Grindline park built nearby. It's where I met people who are my best friends 15 years later.
Stories about Monk, Red, Rabbi, etc., were like currency to us, the stories were so unbelievable. The first time Hubbard showed up at the park, carrying an iPod and a guitar speaker blasting Geto Boys, I was too scared to talk to him. My friend jumped off the bench and said, "Hey, are you Monk?" and they shook hands. My friend reported later that Monk's hand shake was kinda weak – no idea if that was true or if my friend was showing off.
By the end of the day he invited our whole crew to skate the West Seattle bowls, and we were not "cool." We were awkward small town teenagers; some of us thought we were hip hop, or punk rockers. Some were homeschooled. I wore a helmet and we were all just weirdos. When we showed up, it was like looking through a window into another world. That was a really cool thing for him to do. I'll pitch in for sure because I know I would be a different person without him. We all would be – every hot young kid can skate transitions now and I'm not sure that would be the case without Hubbard and Red.
Fuck, this is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing.
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I grew up in Vista, CA and learned how to do a lot of my fundamentals at the old Carlsbad and Vista parks. Most of the parks around here with the exception of the YMCA were built by companies that didn't give a shit about or know anything about skateboarding. Vista's skaters petitioned our city for eight years to build us another park and last year, Monk and the Grindline crew built us two incredible parks right in the middle of Vista. Thank you Mark for giving us parks all over the US and a skatepark in Vista again. RIP Monk
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he was a heroin junkie? sad.
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Gonna go ahead and bump this
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Keep Monk on top
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he was a heroin junkie? sad.
proof?
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he was a heroin junkie? sad.
i love how everyone immediately says it was H when someone dies. Yes he was of young age to die so it could of been an od. also could of been suicide or a heart attack so were not gonna know till its official.
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he was a heroin junkie? sad.
Most of the time, if cause of death is not mentioned in obituaries it's drugs or suicide and the family doesn't want to advertise it.
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he was a heroin junkie? sad.
Most of the time, if cause of death is not mentioned in obituaries it's drugs or suicide and the family doesn't want to advertise it.
"died suddenly at home"
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You're most likely right every time I've lost a friend to drugs or suicide they never mention it in the obituary
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
they took my prime skate years fucking doctors prescribing autrocious amounts of opiates then cutting me off
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I've been at Burnside trying tricks and nothing made me commit more was having either Monk, or Red screaming at me to land it. Those dudes are old school, and can be harsh at times but, it always felt like that they were the dad that believed in you, and knew you could do it. I've been there at 8am and seen them hyping up little kids. Monk was a skater through and through didn't matter how rad you were getting as long as you were going for it. I plan on grabbing one of his beer city boards when I get my next paycheck.
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
I will say the pnw has a horrible dope problem
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
this thread not be about you unless your name is mork hubbard. if you want to talk about your own life problems, go start your own thread.
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
this thread not be about you unless your name is mork hubbard. if you want to talk about your own life problems, go start your own thread.
shut the fuck up seriously
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
this thread not be about you unless your name is mork hubbard. if you want to talk about your own life problems, go start your own thread.
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i was merely mentioning that everyday normal skateboarders and people have addictions. wow i'm so important saying i am an opiate addict. did you have a bad time at the grocery store today?
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
this thread not be about you unless your name is mork hubbard. if you want to talk about your own life problems, go start your own thread.
why would you take a thread that is out of respect for someone else and make it about yourself. dont know if he was on drugs. but respect to you for getting clean.
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Its not evidence, but every recent picture of the dude looks like he is pretty strung out. Of course that look could lead to assumptions.
Opiates are fucking garbage and take people in their prime
this thread not be about you unless your name is mork hubbard. if you want to talk about your own life problems, go start your own thread.
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Bumpin this to the top again
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Bump
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Bump
Marginal Way was the first skatepark that I ever broke myself off at. Not even going for it just got wrecked cruising around. I had just started skating again after years. Something about that actually got me fucking hyped to be on the board again. Thank you Mark.
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fuck. these dudes changed everything. In the late 90s/early 2000s when a lot of small parks in CA started popping up, we would be clamoring for cities to be bold enough to hire Grindline. Few did, but those are the parks we would get in a car and drive a couple of hours to. Even if they were massive and scary and we couldnt skate it all too well, they were works of art and friggin genius.
At 42, Mark's quote about kids getting dropped off at the park resonates more now than ever. You only get one chance to build a park. A city is not going to tear down a park and rebuild it. Do it big. The kid that is 6 today is going to be 16 in a fast decade and be able to absolutely shred, and itll be thanks to people taking a chance on these kinds of parks. RIP Monk. To the top.
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Monk on top
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Drugs are bad guys
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Drugs are bad guys
Weed kills?
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Weed kills?
Especially weed. I know 12 people who overdosed on weed. They had a little bit of heroin and oxy in their system but weed was the main cause i assume.
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Especially weed. I know 12 people who overdosed on weed. They had a little bit of heroin and oxy in their system but weed was the main cause i assume.
sorry for your loss man.
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I used to listen to his band grindline. He was also in the Anti hero vid where they go to Israel.
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Bump for the 3 year anniversary. 3 years is a lot of portal space time exploration. Much respect. Hope it’s getting rowdy in concrete Valhalla.
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I recently scored some original screen-prints he did for Hitz while he was in Israel building some skate parks years ago.
Sam had a bunch more but you could see that it was hard for him to part with them
Got them hanging in my office
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https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/grindland-red-monk-and-the-birth-of-diy-full-movie/
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Got to skate the Arlington, WA grindline park last week. Everything else was covered in frozen scum pools but got some runs in the full pipe. Thanks Monk
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https://youtu.be/qVYvGE94tyg
Was watching Mark hubbard footage and stumbled across this video, the woman filming sounds psycho. Her channel is full of crazy videos saying Phelps and hubbard were all murdered crazy. Anyone else seen these or know anything about what her deal is?
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https://instagram.com/scottstamneskatejam?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
The instagram is fucking wild. Claiming olympic gold medalist snowboarder from sochi iouri Podladtchikov murdered them.
This is a fucking rabbit hole
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https://youtu.be/qVYvGE94tyg
Was watching Mark hubbard footage and stumbled across this video, the woman filming sounds psycho. Her channel is full of crazy videos saying Phelps and hubbard were all murdered crazy. Anyone else seen these or know anything about what her deal is?
Mentally ill. This has been going on for a pretty long time.
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This lady is like an amalgamation of Jerri Blank, Shutter Island and Cara Beth Burnside.
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Was watching Mark hubbard footage and stumbled across this video, the woman filming sounds psycho. Her channel is full of crazy videos saying Phelps and hubbard were all murdered crazy. Anyone else seen these or know anything about what her deal is?
Mentally ill. This has been going on for a pretty long time.
There's definitely mentally ill people from Coast to Coast in this country. Unfortunately, Social Media gives them a platform to lay out their crazed and far-fetched ideas.
Homeless man in my hometown films a blog everyday from the BJ's parking lot, something about how climate change isn't real and Bill Gates is behind it.
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Monk and Phelps both Overdosed plain and simple . it sucks for the families, but thay made that choice
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Watched this woman fall into the deep end of a bowl last year and break her ankle. Called an ambulance for her and everything. Like a lot of deeply disturbed people, she's actually quite sweet and nice in real life. She asked me for my Instagram and I told her I didn't have one.
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Was watching Mark hubbard footage and stumbled across this video, the woman filming sounds psycho. Her channel is full of crazy videos saying Phelps and hubbard were all murdered crazy. Anyone else seen these or know anything about what her deal is?
Mentally ill. This has been going on for a pretty long time.
Holy smokes!
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Watched this woman fall into the deep end of a bowl last year and break her ankle. Called an ambulance for her and everything. Like a lot of deeply disturbed people, she's actually quite sweet and nice in real life. She asked me for my Instagram and I told her I didn't have one.
Met her at a gas station about halfway up to Coal Pad. Agreed she was actually quite sweet and nice there. Was just hanging out front handing out flyers related to her Hubbard conspiracy to everyone who went past (including me). Saw her some months later at the Coal Pad itself and she was absolutely wilding. Feel sorry for her.
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Watched this woman fall into the deep end of a bowl last year and break her ankle. Called an ambulance for her and everything. Like a lot of deeply disturbed people, she's actually quite sweet and nice in real life. She asked me for my Instagram and I told her I didn't have one.
Met her at a gas station about halfway up to Coal Pad. Agreed she was actually quite sweet and nice there. Was just hanging out front handing out flyers related to her Hubbard conspiracy to everyone who went past (including me). Saw her some months later at the Coal Pad itself and she was absolutely wilding. Feel sorry for her.
Can't the cops get her a psych referral? She needs help.
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if someone can get her internet access we have a 30+ page thread of people calling her a narcissist and then freaking out when she responds just waitin’ for us
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Watched this woman fall into the deep end of a bowl last year and break her ankle. Called an ambulance for her and everything. Like a lot of deeply disturbed people, she's actually quite sweet and nice in real life. She asked me for my Instagram and I told her I didn't have one.
Met her at a gas station about halfway up to Coal Pad. Agreed she was actually quite sweet and nice there. Was just hanging out front handing out flyers related to her Hubbard conspiracy to everyone who went past (including me). Saw her some months later at the Coal Pad itself and she was absolutely wilding. Feel sorry for her.
Can't the cops get her a psych referral? She needs help.
This is America, buddy. Unless you've got a wealthy family, our mentally unwell live in tents in our parks and alongside our highways. Cops aren't going to get her help.
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Watched this woman fall into the deep end of a bowl last year and break her ankle. Called an ambulance for her and everything. Like a lot of deeply disturbed people, she's actually quite sweet and nice in real life. She asked me for my Instagram and I told her I didn't have one.
Met her at a gas station about halfway up to Coal Pad. Agreed she was actually quite sweet and nice there. Was just hanging out front handing out flyers related to her Hubbard conspiracy to everyone who went past (including me). Saw her some months later at the Coal Pad itself and she was absolutely wilding. Feel sorry for her.
Can't the cops get her a psych referral? She needs help.
This is America, buddy. Unless you've got a wealthy family, our mentally unwell live in tents in our parks and alongside out highways. Cops aren't going to get her help.
That's true. Unfortunately. I'm used to cops that actually help people like her, for the most part.
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This person really does need an intervention before they harm themself or someone else. Looks like she created an IG account under Ken Wormhoudt's name and is harassing people in Santa Cruz
https://www.instagram.com/kenwormhoudtskatepark/ (https://www.instagram.com/kenwormhoudtskatepark/)
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This person really does need an intervention before they harm themself or someone else. Looks like she created an IG account under Ken Wormhoudt's name and is harassing people in Santa Cruz
https://www.instagram.com/kenwormhoudtskatepark/ (https://www.instagram.com/kenwormhoudtskatepark/)
She has a number of Instagram accounts, many for whatever random skateparks she's near. She will reply to her own posts with her many sockpuppet accounts. Santa Cruz is a new one, she's usually hanging around in Northwest.
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She passed through our town in February. Only found out because a duplicate skatepark page popped up on IG. To say she has some mental health issues, is an understatement. Here's a video from Coalpad, looks like she she worked that place over pretty good.
https://youtu.be/1d9g9lXP5kE
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i could fix her
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Shoutout to Warren Miller!
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Lady out here doing the opposite of letting these people RIP.
to quote her from that vid ^ “Fuck Youuu”, Crazy B!
RIP Hubbard.
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Isn't Warren Miller the guy who would do those skiing videos where he would get, like, Toyota to fund them so they ended up being one big huge Toyota commercial?
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Isn't Warren Miller the guy who would do those skiing videos where he would get, like, Toyota to fund them so they ended up being one big huge Toyota commercial?
Yes. Although I remember him shilling for Nissan on the ones I saw. Those movies did kinda make me wish I lived an itinerant snowboarder lifestyle. Not enough to do it though.
Didn’t know he was killed by a cabal at age 93.
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She passed through our town in February. Only found out because a duplicate skatepark page popped up on IG. To say she has some mental health issues, is an understatement. Here's a video from Coalpad, looks like she she worked that place over pretty good.
https://youtu.be/1d9g9lXP5kE
When I clicked her YouTube all the suggested videos became either pro Trump or conspiracy theories. It could happen to any one of us-develop a mental illness and go off the deep end without access to help, and then be exposed to and more susceptible to right wing politics and goober head conspiracies.
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Holy shit I was wondering about this lady because I stumbled upon her instagram a year ago and wanted to make a post about her on slap but never got around to it.