RIP P-Stone

[Hairy Ballsagna]

Sorry if this has already been posted but the Vashon newspaper's story was updated again last night. It quotes multiple Vashon Islanders who describes Cory as a super humble guy who was involved in the local skate scene: http://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/one-dead-one-injured-after-suspected-dui-crash-wednesday-night/

She said Kennedy has always seemed happy to hang out and goof around with the kids.

?He was just always really accessible to the kids. It was never, ?I am too cool for you,?? she said. ?He was a happy go lucky guy, like a big kid himself. He is a pro skateboarder, so surprise, surprise.?

She recalled that during one really hot day in the summer of 2015, Kennedy went to Raab?s Lagoon with several island families to swim and cool off. That was the first day he started to talking about moving to Vashon. She said news of the crash and the grieving process is surreal in part because of how well known Kennedy is in the skating world, but not not known to many islanders.
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Marc Brown, an island father of two teenage boys who skate at BARC regularly, said Kennedy has been?just really nice and really giving? and would often hang out and skate with the teens. He would bring extra shoes from his Nike sponsorship down to the bowl and give them to Brown?s son Matt, who has the same size feet as Kennedy.

?It was jaw-dropping for my kids because here?s this pro skater that they see in magazines and videos hanging out at the skate park and skating with them,? he said. ?He was involved with the kids. He wasn?t this standoff pro athlete doing his own thing. He skated with them. There was no attitude to the kid.?

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first off RIP P-Stone

cory blew a 0.10 - 0.11 thats like 5 beers MAX and if hes as big of a pile as everyone seems to make him out to be 5 beers isnt going to effect him like it would someone who doesnt normally drink, im not saying its right or justified at all but i mean shit its obvious P-Stone liked to drink maybe more than a "normal" person does so its possible he was WAY more intoxicated than cory so cory feeling okay (1 beer over the LEGAL limit) decided to drive, im just going to assume both of them have been in this situation tons of times before (only because personally i have been on both sides of this more times than i can remember), if you think this is the first time cory drove after drinking or pstone got in a car with someone who had been drinking youre delusional. if cory was the one who died im sure all of you would be calling pstone a drunk. this whole thing sucks, its a shame that one bad decision can turn into something so tragic

 

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Indeed, a 0.11 is pretty much more a distraction than drunk driving.

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I respectfully disagree. I have a pretty high tolerance but definitely feel distracted at 0.05 (the legal limit in Australia). �I also don't think Cory could be anywhere near as much of a drunkard he's made out to be when he still rips as hard as anyone. I don't really recall his drinking to be something that sponsors or even editorial articles focussed on or glorified. He just always looks wicked happy which is often associated with booziness. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) �A few beers at a sesh does not a piled out drunkard make. As was said, this was a MISTAKE not an accident. Drink driving is horrendous and I every time I've done it, which is not often, I have felt a brutal sense of shame and regret in the sober light of day. That's without hurting, let alone being responsible for the death of anyone.

R.I.P-Stone. Good luck Cory.

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I hate to argue this but .05 is like half a light beer

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Dunno what happened above. You're thinking of alcohol content in the beer, not in your bloodstream.

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Nope. Buy a breathalyzer. I did for shots and giggles. Or use an app like alchodroid

2 beer in 2 hours is about the the max then you need to chill Abit before driving.

2 beer is nothing to me but I still won't drive. Got pulled over hammered when I was 17, no license or fuck all. Luckily for me I got a warning and an escort home. Never drank and drove again

It's way Stoopid and gnarly

Last summer my homie hopped in a car with two intoxicated girls and tried to go an hour or so away. Girl missed a corner, went through a guard rail and off about a 15 ft drop into the lake. Both girls drowned. My buddy broke his back and kneck. Adrenaline I guess but he tried to free them twice.

He's almost physically recovered but he is no longer normal. He's super depressed and that's all he talks about. He's a mess mentally

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I used to live in the highest policed part of the western world when it comes to drink driving and can tell you that 2 average strength bottled beers in the first hour and you're on .05 give or take for your size, weight, other activity and no matter your "tolerance" you are still impaired. Just because you do it all the time and and you "feel sober" doesn't make you a better driver.

The place I do most of my driving now is in Sweden where the limit is .02 and they are considering dropping that to zero. I won't even consider driving after one beer and I sure as fuck won't drive the next morning if I tied one on the night before.

Ghostface and Julz sound like misinformed teenagers trying to argue around the fact that any intoxicants impair your driving. Sure the road can be dark, winding, have poor surface and whole bunch of other factors but if you were at the wheel after "only five beers" and your friend died are you gonna stand in front of everyone and say "Hey guys it was only five beers and I have a high tolerance because I drink all the time, chill out"?

Pretty much sums up up my point. And 2 beer (which can be altered by numerous factors) will take at least 2 hours to be clear of the system

Ikobakai I agree. A zero limit only makes sense

[CAPTAIN NOBODY]

A lot of friends I skate with drink and drive almost everyday. Hopefully they look at this as a lesson of what could happen. Such a sad situation, RIP P Stone!

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which one of you hacked bawtawds account

[Sleazy]

0 limit is so stupid and impractical, sorry... these guys were way, way over that.

when thinking about limits and saying just take a cab or uber you are forgetting that that is only a city thing. in rural areas moderation is often the only choice. most people are perfectly capable of driving safe within the legal limits which is why they were set a those levels.

[BacksideWallride]

BUCKLE UP. Article said he wasn't wearing it. So sad

[PincherBug]

Some bitch rear ended me the other day on the freeway. Completely totalled my car. If I wasn't buckled up I might of died.... People on their fucking phones all the time.. Driving distracted is just as bad if not worst than driving drunk

[slothflip]

i assume the chances are good a considerable amount of thc could show up in blood sample further aggravating his situation. Awful situation for everyone involved. rip

[McCly]

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I saw that the crash site is less than a mile from his house in his neighborhood. Based on direction from report they were almost to his house.

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That's were a lot of people crash, your brain hits autopilot when you get close to a familiar destination. A friend drove into someones living room 2 houses down from his.

Someone drunk drove into my parents' living room, which was right next to my bedroom, while I was sleeping. They got away with it because, despite having a very unique tree from their yard stuck in the front of the fucking car, they couldn't pursue DUI charges because the car backed out and parked at their house two doors down before the cops arrived.

[TheDraught]

According to the Seattle Times he was released on Friday on personal recognizance and he has not been charged. Is that common in the US, is it good news in legal terms?

[Matthew_James]

i never brought up race in my antwuan comparison simply his actions and slap's usual answer to shit. Well at least we know what yall are thinking.

You definitely set it up right.



Btw, did anyone realize that in insta comment section, Fred Gall said he met Preston at his son's BBQ. Fred Gall has a fucking kid?

[legalbeagle]

According to the Seattle Times he was released on Friday on personal recognizance and he has not been charged. Is that common in the US, is it good news in legal terms?

It's common but doesn't mean much.

[Griselda Blanco]

According to the Seattle Times he was released on Friday on personal recognizance and he has not been charged. Is that common in the US, is it good news in legal terms?

PR bond is the same as being released on bail but without having to actually pay bail. It doesn't make a difference in whether he will get charged or not. He likely got a PR bond because this is his first major offense and the judge is confident that he isn't going to skip town. It happens all the time here in the U.S.; I see it mostly with people who committed very minor first offenses and can't afford bail. I've also seen people with gun and drug charges get it as well; it really boils down to the individual circumstances of the case and how the judge is feeling that day.

[wheelies]

PR bond isn't too common where I live, sheeeyit. People who get it though are usually dealt with less harshly. He lives on a small island too and is a pretty big community figure, so hes got a lot of good stuff going for him so far.

Thrasher got a lot stories about P stone on their site. Sounds like he was one of the best dudes ever.

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PR bond isn't too common where I live, sheeeyit. People who get it though are usually dealt with less harshly. He lives on a small island too and is a pretty big community figure, so hes got a lot of good stuff going for him so far.

Yeah, all of the local articles are full of praise for him. The original article has been updated and almost has more praise for Cory and his contribution to the community than information about the actual incident. Seems like everyone there is getting behind him.

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Finally finished reading this all, so fucking sad, bur-rays were my personal favourite on thrasher i still watch them often. RIP P-stone condolences to his family and for what cory has to go through the rest of his life.

[Willie]

The news article says .10-.11 meaning there is some wiggle room in whatever measuring device they used.

I won't argue that he wasn't impaired but it may have been only a hair over the old legal standard so it's not as though he was falling down drunk.


It sounds like speed was a factor and although the article didn't specify what kind of Audi it was, this wouldn't be the first time somebody lost control of some kind of sporty eurocar.



Everything about this is just so sad.

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first tattoo I've seen so far, I'm sure there will be multiple more soon

[SodaJerk]

The news article says .10-.11 meaning there is some wiggle room in whatever measuring device they used.

I won't argue that he wasn't impaired but it may have been only a hair over the old legal standard so it's not as though he was falling down drunk.


It sounds like speed was a factor and although the article didn't specify what kind of Audi it was, this wouldn't be the first time somebody lost control of some kind of sporty eurocar.



Everything about this is just so sad.

No. They test you several times at different intervals and take a medium. They test to see if you're going up or down depending on when you had you last drink.

[Atiba Applebum]

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PR bond isn't too common where I live, sheeeyit. People who get it though are usually dealt with less harshly. He lives on a small island too and is a pretty big community figure, so hes got a lot of good stuff going for him so far.

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Yeah, all of the local articles are full of praise for him. The original article has been updated and almost has more praise for Cory and his contribution to the community than information about the actual incident. Seems like everyone there is getting behind him.

One of the most recent articles posted on here mentioned that he was the only one not wearing a seatbelt in the car, which was going too fast, and hit a tree on the side he was sitting on.  I know that gets into the icky territory of victim blaming, but things happened and the worst possible result occurred

[Buck Russell]

things look different a couple days later. by the time they did the blood test (what they count for actual offense?) he likely dropped even lower than the already low .1-.11% alcohol factor now way down. the outstanding reasons for the fatality being an accident and no seat belt which is...

i feel more bad for ck as this progresses.

[DannyDee]

things look different a couple days later. by the time they did the blood test (what they count for actual offense?) he likely dropped even lower than the already low .1-.11% alcohol factor now way down. the outstanding reasons for the fatality being an accident and no seat belt which is...

i feel more bad for ck as this progresses.

That really depends on when they stopped drinking. Alcohol tends to take 50 minutes to 3 hours to be absorbed. So it could just as easily rise. Either way, it is a terrible situation.

[j....soy.....]

Guys....guys....I know this is Slap and shit but......

Likely ABP but here it is again....

https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/remembering-p-stone/

Thrasher is the only mag that seems to have kept relavent.....this was because of the online content which p-stone was a huge part of.  Im not sure anyone could capture the fun and adventure of a trip like this guy.....

[Atiba Applebum]

I love that his kids are named after the Odd Couple

[doyle]

Sammy Baca's tattoo

[Theme For A Jackal]

Apparently the crash was right around the corner from Cory's house. Weird that he wouldn't recognize that sharp turn. Especially at 0.11. They also must have been hauling ass. I looked at the maps at the road from the article. He probably made that corner 1000 or more times.

Distracted driving was probably a major contributor here.

Most accidents happen within five miles of the home. People get too comfortable.

[Theme For A Jackal]

I saw that the crash site is less than a mile from his house in his neighborhood. Based on direction from report they were almost to his house.

If Nike really dropped him they are hypocrites for having no problem cashing in on his piling out image.

Sorry, but when were they cashing in on his 'piling out' image? Because I've never seen any of that

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Apparently the crash was right around the corner from Cory's house. Weird that he wouldn't recognize that sharp turn. Especially at 0.11. They also must have been hauling ass. I looked at the maps at the road from the article. He probably made that corner 1000 or more times.

Distracted driving was probably a major contributor here.

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Most accidents happen within five miles of the home. People get too comfortable.

I've been thinking about this quite a lot, there's a million variables we don't know, could've just accidentally came off the side of the rode and lost control, could've been a blow out, could've been a car malfunction, the thing that sucks is cuz he was drinking all of those will be thrown out the window and it's gonna be cuz he was drunk driving in a court of law.  So I was talking to a friend about the .11, a friend who ruined a part of his life cuz of drunk driving, and he said the .11 really doesn't mean anything cuz of an accident like that he probably didn't blow in a breathlizer till he was at the hospital, so all we can ascertain is that he was legally drunk, his level may have been much higher at the time of the accident. Regardless everything is fucked, and Cory will be persecuted for his party boy lifestyle. We should all think like adults here and just understand multiple lives were ruined and bethankful that no one else that just happened to be around got hurt. Think if the situation was reversed we'd all be condemning P Stone for killing Cory Kennedy cuz his party lifestyle was out there also.

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The news article says .10-.11 meaning there is some wiggle room in whatever measuring device they used.

I won't argue that he wasn't impaired but it may have been only a hair over the old legal standard so it's not as though he was falling down drunk.


It sounds like speed was a factor and although the article didn't specify what kind of Audi it was, this wouldn't be the first time somebody lost control of some kind of sporty eurocar.



Everything about this is just so sad.

It says they also took his blood which is way more accurate so they'll probably use that in court

[CHONGO]

Sammy Baca's tattoo

damn that looks so good.