Tim O'Connor Tells A Tale of Tom Penny
This is the last of my 2002 Tim O'Connor storytime tales. Once again, Tim told me this story a few years prior and I just had to sit him down and turn the tape recorder on:
I was staying with Gershon Mosley, also known as the “Chocolate Football,” and we are going all over California with him. This was around the time that Joe got shit on the neck. I meet up with Muska, and ended up staying there at his house, and he lived there with Tom Penny. I was there for a month—freeloading with nowhere to go.
Then Bam comes along, I forget where the hell he came from. And Tom was with us—everyone else was gone. We were all just stuck there. And Tom would just wake up and drink this Irish cream stuff, Bailey's. Wake up drinking it, go to sleep drinking it, “Good night Timmy Tims.” Smoke a spliff, eat a bag of chips, drink a Corona and go skate.
One day we were watching the old Toy Machine video and Tom has a trick in the friends section—he kickflips over this rail. So Tom goes “Oh that was sick!” And somebody was like “That was you Tom!” So he goes “Oh, even sicker! Right on” He had no idea it was himself. It was amazing.
Okay, this one day me and Bam and Tom are at the house, and Tom has no liquor, drinks nothing, smokes nothing. All of the sudden this dude is sparked with energy. He is just like Tony Little—he has that much energy. Like some guy who has taken vitamins his whole life and has had nothing but sunshine and happy days. He starts cleaning his room, all singing “Tom's gonna clean his room laaaa, Tom's gonna clean his room!”
Me and Bam were like “What the fuck?” So Tom starts taking all this stuff out of his closet, he has shitloads of shirts. Every single shirt has a beer stain on it—liquor stain on every single shirt that he took out. And he was giving stuff to me and Bam. We were hardly even sponsored at that point, so we were like “Sure, give it to me.” Bam's like taking tons of shirts, everything else with all the beer stains on it, Tom is putting in a bag, and singing “Look at all this shit, la da da. I'm gonna get rid off it, doo dee doo.” He's like “I'm gonna burn it, on the beach.” So we are like “Right on, let's do this! This will be sick!”
So we take this shitload of gear, so much stuff. His room was insane, just, clothing everywhere—just fine cotton. We load it in a bag, take it to the beach, and then we light it on fire—just throw some fuel on it, lit it, and then it blows up. Just big gigantic combustion—a gigantic inferno.
So all of a sudden there's this helicopter that just happened to be flying by. It is dumb high, it has no idea there is this burning fire on the beach. So all of a sudden Tom starts running and yelling “Oh my God, they're after us!” and he like dives behind a rock. I was like “What are you doing? That helicopter has no idea you are burning t-shirts down here.” So then we started seeing all these people who had houses on the beach start looking out their windows, so we just ran away—broke out.
(16) responses to: Tim O'Connor Tells A Tale of Tom Penny
gnz said:
damn, i think we were listening to tim tell this story on the same day... hackettstown over some horribly red icees
joe said:
acid
joao said:
"...So Tom goes “Oh that was sick!†And somebody was like “That was you Tom!†So he goes “Oh, even sicker! Right on†He had no idea it was himself. It was amazing."
crazy trick, crazy life. envy of you guy. big ups from Chile
matt thomas said:
trippin shrooms and acid
slimobese said:
Has Tom become the master of Frontside Flips by smoking, drinking, etc?
Anyway. He remains the best.
Zack said:
U KNOW THE STEEEEZO BLACK GOTTA GO DOWN LIKE THAT THE PENNY'S DROPT AND NOW ALL OTHER SKATERS LOOK WAK
Zack said:
Tim u sound like youve had a good life hangin with penny doin funny shit and that if u got any mo info on penny and wot hes up to now can u send it me p.s allways wanted to meet the guy and do a bud wiv him and maybe skate a bit i wish i had your life and u tell good funny shit storys
Fresh steez said:
penny is dope
dan said:
penny kicks ass but wat shoes is he on now ???????? i loved the penny 2s they were sick and well nice to skate but the best thing is that he is english !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andy from jersey england.. said:
Penny is the shit!
Kyle Chondor said:
Tom Penny must be so fun to hang out with and sk8ing it up with him would be a such great feeling.
P.S. Penny is still the king of skateboarding.
KrpN said:
Haha great tale =) Which year was this?
petrock75 said:
whole life make his himself tom penny , super-human like we all
tom was pioner for technical skate boarding,he was one,god gome and say: tom man you will be the dude who take to skate boarding next level,so he for sure did.TOM PENNY RULES!but hey live tom a lone and let him skate. great artist like tom need his big chill what you earth worms don´t know.
tom the penny is still king.
zack said:
is tom penny still a pot head and a shroomer also does he do acid
shimmy said:
Tom Penny is such a sick skater!!!! One of my favs!!
Wish i could get to meet him one day.
Biko said:
... I saw penny at southbank a couple years ago. He was tryin to switch frontside 540 ollie the seven.
I know people are gonna be like " Yeah right" but u know how amazing he is.... He didnt make it while I was there but he did get pretty damn close. He skates like I dream of skating. Mad flow, mad skills and super humble. What a G.
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