 Yeah what up guys welcome back to the channel hope you all are having a good day or good night or good afternoon or good evening wherever you are yeah I thought I'd switch up the style for this video so I'm going to tell you a story about my skateboard getting pinched when I was in grade seven if you like this kind of content let me know in the comment section below and I'll do more kind of stories that have to do with skateboarding but anyway so this is going back to when I was in grade seven so 2004 yeah that's how long ago I was in grade seven anyway so I would have been 13 I think and if yous are old enough to remember the brand world industries they used to be massive what happened with that brand was I'm pretty sure they ended up selling out the licensing or something anyway Target was selling world industry complete skateboards and they were like something ridiculously cheap for a whole complete set up at that time I think they're about a hundred bucks and you could get like a two-pack which is like 150 and you had got two boards and like trucks and wheels and everything I only got the one board but anyway for some reason these two kids that I knew that's skated in my neighborhood they lived like around the corner we all went to the same high school they wanted to skate to school so we would skate up the road I don't know why we bothered skating the school like the road is like this once you got to the school you had to go into the office and then you had to leave your skateboard in the vice principal's office and like we weren't the only few people that were skating to school there's a few other boards there too I think it was like a scooter or two maybe this is before scooters become such a big thing in Australia but anyway so you pretty much going in the morning going to the vice principal's office and you leave your board there so there's like a stack of probably like half a dozen boards in the vice principal's office first period second period third period fourth period whatever at the end of the day so last bell rang you go back to the office go back to the vice principal's office and you grab your board anyway this particular morning I had I had some weird gut feeling like I went in and I put my board right on the outside of where there was like five decks maybe I put my board so my board was the last board on the end and I had a feeling and I was like I should like shuffle the boards and like put my board in the middle so it's not so obvious that it's a brand new world industries setup but I didn't so I just kind of left it went to class so I went through school that day everything was normal normal school day can't remember too much about that day except for my board being stolen the last period bell rang so three o'clock to bell rang I started walking to the office I went to the vice principal's office and there was a few skateboards that were left there none of them were mine and yeah mine was gone so I wanted stolen my brand new world industries complete setup this is pretty devastating for me at the time like I was only 13 I think I cried actually yeah I was a bit of a soft kid back then so yeah I cried that someone saw my board anyway I told the vice principal and she kind of was like oh okay like kind of put a message out that my board had been stolen but I never got that board back and there was one other friend actually one other kid I used to go to school with and he skated to school as well and he told me that as he was walking back to the office that day our high school there was kind of like a weird kind of tunnel alleyway that kind of led from one side of school to the other it's kind of dark in there anyway he was coming from the field up to the office and there was another guy walking past and he was holding a skateboard but he was holding it like really tight to his body with the graphic facing on the inside so the grip tape was on the outside so no one could see and he had a funny feeling that would have been my board but he didn't say anything and then yeah he met me up at the office and it was my skateboard some some dude had stolen my my brand new world industry's complete skateboard to this day I believe it was like a a senior like a kid that was in a few grads above that stole my board but yeah damn I was so devastated about that hey like at that time yeah my skateboard was everything I didn't really like dabbled a bit in like BMX and like rollerblades and scooters so I kind of did everything but I kind of stuck to skateboarding so someone stealing my board back then yeah it really sucked the only exposure I had or we anyone had to skateboarding back then in Australia was Slam magazine was a magazine that come out every month I think it was like 795 but yeah this was like the Instagram back then like I was always like keen for the next issue to come out because I'd open it up to be a bunch of skaters in there a bunch of like reviews on boards and clothes and shoes and all that stuff so that was kind of my only exposure I mean we had the internet but this is kind of before YouTube and Instagram and social media and skateboarding on the internet existed so that was my only exposure to skateboarding I think once I'm I hired Tony Hawk strict tips from like a blockbuster video on VHS when I was probably like 10 maybe I kind of learned how to like kick turn and stuff from that video but that was about it so this dude stole my my board my board got pinched from my high school which sucked and I was Devo and there was this one kid that I was friends with for a while in high school he had older brothers and they had a bunch of boards they used to skate and they were pretty decent setups like I think it was a blind maybe but I had like what's that old brand of truck it's not thunder it's like the Rhine King thunder grinding yeah so this board had like a had grind Kings I think I had bones wheels and reds and it was like a blind board and yeah he managed to sneak that out the house and he let me borrow that for like a month until my mom could buy me another board that whole month sucked I mean I had another skateboard to ride thankfully but it wasn't mine growing up World Industries was a massive thing like for my year six graduation the formal they have in Australia I went and bought a World Industries t-shirt like we're supposed to wear a collared shirt but I just bought this brown world Industries shirt if I can find a photo of what I wore I'll chuck it in the video but yeah so World Industries was a big deal back then not like it is now I don't even think it's around anymore but everyone would know of like flamboy and wet Willy World Industries is pretty big thing they had those characters but yeah so this dude just jacked my board like I'm still dirty at whoever this dude is till this day I'm still upset about it that was actually the first time my board got stolen the second time my board got stolen when I was 15 I I ran away to Queensland to stay with like my pop and my uncle yeah so where I live I live in New South Wales and Queensland is a state above New South Wales for anyone watching that doesn't know states of Australia if you're from overseas or whatever yeah I ran away to Queensland when I was 15 I had a mountain bike I had at the time and I ended up selling it actually sold it to the kid that let me that he's older brother skateboard so yeah I sold my push bike and my parents were a bit sus they were kind of like where's your bike and I was like oh it's got a flat tire I left it at my mates house but little did they know I sold that bike to my friend I took the money and I bought a one-way ticket to Queensland but yeah that's a whole another video anyway I ended up in Queensland when I was like 15 I wasn't going to school I would have been in about grade 10 at the time so I spent about three months up there just skating every day and yeah just pretty much skating every day that's probably when I started to get really good at skateboarding but anyway I was skating the local park there and I had a friend there another skateboarder his name was Pipp he was like an English kind of kid but moved to Australia and he just moved out which is weird because I would have been 15 he would have been like 16 or 17 maybe and he just moved out to his this new place he was renting and he was kind of like oh yeah what are you doing this afternoon do you want to come and hang out tonight I just rented a new place like we can get a DVD or movie and like make food and stuff and I was like okay sweet like we can do that so where the skate park was there was a Woolworth's like right across there's like a little drain you go over the bridge and it's like Woolworth's for some reason we both left our boards at the skate park and it was starting to get dark at that time I don't know why I did that but again I had a funny feeling I was like I shouldn't leave my board here and I just ignored my gut feeling so we went over to Woolies we bought some steaks somehow we were like we were underage but we ended up buying some beer we bought a couple of long necks bought some steaks we bought a movie I can't remember what the movie was it was something stupid like it's probably like dude wears my car I think ashton kutcha ashton kutcha whatever his name is so we ended up getting the stuff we went back to the park his board was there and yeah my board was nowhere to be found so at that time I was out I wasn't living at home so I was out I had no money like I was literally living like off the small money I could like scab off people and stuff to buy like a KFC kid's box to skate every day yeah but my board was gone and I was like so devil about it I didn't know what to do myself literally like I'd wake up every day my routine was I'd wake up clean the house and then skate to the park skate all day then come home so I didn't know what to do with myself anymore and I think it was about like a week and peer-pee felt terrible about it he was like man we're gonna get your board back I'm gonna get your board back for you like it's gonna be one of these little kids he ended up telling me a story he had found some little kid that was at the park that day the kid was on the phone in Australia we have these phone boxes these Telstra phone boxes he was telling me this story this kid was like on the phone he waited for him to get off the phone and then he confronted him in this Telstra phone box and some of them back then they had doors you could like they folded in so you could like open it and close it so he pretty much closed his kid into the box and was like where's Sean's board like I know you took it but like just trying to call his bluff get him to confess and he was like no no I don't know I don't know I don't know where it is it wasn't me that went on he told me he went on for like five minutes and then finally the kid broke and he was like all right all right this kid was in tears he's like I'll go get the board I'll go get the board so the kid left the park come back with my board and he had spray painted like the trucks black and like the bottom of the board black and stuff and back then I was skating a lot of powerl mini logos because they were like cheapest chips back then they were I think they were like $80 of grip and they were just a blank board with like a little mini logo logo on the board so yeah I got these board back and then um yeah it was just weird because someone had like taken it and painted the trucks and stuff I think they were thunder trucks to be honest but yeah that was the second time my board had got stolen it sucks like damn after that like no one's ever stolen my board after that touch wood just remember how devastating it was back then because I literally had nothing my life was nothing just skateboarding I just go and skate every day anyway guys that was just my little rant or story about people stealing my board or my boards getting stolen over the years if you've had any other experiences with someone's like pinch your skateboard or your bike or whatever your scooter let me know in the comment section below it's pretty crappy thing to have like your skateboard stolen from you especially if it's like your one only thing you live for at the time if you like this kind of video make sure you let me know in the comment section below pretty much all I have to say for this video yeah don't steal people's skateboards because it sucks anyway guys thanks for watching the video appreciate all the support and I'll catch you on the next one