skyrider 0 #26 November 7, 2010 QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteYou may very well have had one bad experience with "a PD" in 1984. (I'm not even going to begin addressing all the possible variables that could have affected your individual case, none of which are in your post.) Same for Skyrider that time in 1974. Individual anecdotes do happen. [Insert skydiving analogy here.] I've been in the system professionally in multiple jurisdictions for 30 years; and based on my thousands of first-hand anecdotes, I stand by my posts. ETA: Oh, by the way: the San Diego Public Defender's office was established in 1988, four years after your experience. That tells me that in all likelihood, you did not have a professional public defender, you had a "court appointed" private attorney. A huge world of difference, as I have already explained in this and other threads. I think you are right that he was a court appointed attorney. As I recall, people were very much just ran through the process as fast as possible at the court on Broadway. I was pretty much told what my options were, and they were not promising. No money for a private lawyer, I took what they gave me, did my time, got on my scooter and left Ca. I feel your pain, they hunt bikers in San Diego , I was working at national City Cycle in 85 , I wonder if we have met...(My home bar was Dumonts) I do remember Dumonts on El Cajon Blvd. We partied there from time to time. I normally went to the El Cajon Lounge or Ed's Beer on University or to the Rathskeller in Imperial Beach. A number of the parts for the Norton build came from National City Cycles (or some bike shop in Nasty City on the main drag. I think it was called National City Cycles.) Pics are the Norton in 83 and 09. Yep...we met, I know your bike, we talked about british bikes in Dumonts several times , because Nortons chops are so rare!...(I have built many, and started my bike carreer at a Triumph/Norton/BSA/Guzzi dealership... My bike back then was a Rat Knucklehead or my wifes Honda chopper... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/toyrun.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freethefly 6 #27 November 7, 2010 I do remember your Knuck. Anytime I saw the Lichter photo of your bikes at Sturgis, I would bring up that I knew that bike from San Diego. I don't think anyone believed me. Much like the Flaming Shithouse Jump at the Buffalo Chip 20 years ago. My bro, tattoo artist Robert Balter and I built the ramp for that jump. No believes that, until I pull out the pics. The whole idea of the shithouse jump started at a party at a house near town the night before. Bob Foley was talking shit about being the greatest biker who has ever lived and that he can ride his bike up and over a wall or jump anything out there. Someone threw out there that he should jump his bike through a shithouse. Someone else added that it should be on fire, just to make it worth the effort. We built the ramp and the shithouse (the shithouse was actually just a lite wood frame and thin plywood) the next day. Someone came up with a great idea to place some C4 (don't ask where they got it. I don't know) in there so we can have an explosion as Foley goes through the flaming shithouse. All went well, except that the C4 did not go off. Foley talks about it on a youtube video, although he has the date wrong. It happened in 1991. Pics are of a buckle that a bro made for me in 89. One of a kind. The other is how I look. I looked near the same in the 80's."...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #28 November 7, 2010 HELP! I'M ADDICTED TO HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freethefly 6 #29 November 7, 2010 QuoteHELP! I'M ADDICTED TO HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP! Does it make you feel good? If so, then we need a law! Can't have people running around feeling good. Think of the children!"...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #30 November 7, 2010 Quotecrack is actually cocaine that has been cooked down to a much more potent product. Actually, crack is the freebase of cocaine. Regular coke that people snort is the hydrochloride salt of cocaine. CocaineHCL is very soluble in water and has a high melting point, so it's good for snorting, but bad for smoking. Crack has a low melting point and is not very soluble in water. The low melting point allows one to vaporize it in a pipe at a temperature low enough that the chemical isn't destroyed by the heat. Smoking crack gets the cocaine to the brain much faster than snorting cocaine hydrochloride. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
