Best quotes of '08: Corey Duffel
Corey is gnarly. Every time I see that dude skate I get scared for his life, but then end up really impressed by what he pulls off. He actually got bummed on me a bit for rehashing some old drama in this piece, but we kissed and made up. I like the dude and it's pretty apparent from the story that despite some old mistakes the kid made, I took an optimistic angle and gave him the benefit of the doubt with the article.
His story about getting hit 'n runned by a priest is pretty classic. And when I say "hit 'n run" I mean, the priest drove over Corey, not just the car Corey was in. So here we go, the full unedited version...
RB: I heard a story about some dude driving into you with an SUV?
CD: “So this is a pretty hot story. I’m in San Diego skating with my good friend Chris LaRue. My friend Jeff and I we’re skating this brand new hubba that just got built at some kind of Baptist or Catholic church or whatever. All of it looks good. You don’t look at it and think ‘Hey it’s a church I’m not going to skate it.’ I’m like, ‘Fuck yeah this thing looks cool. Let’s hook this thing up!’
“So we start skating and some dude’s like, ‘You can’t be skating this!” I’m like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s cool. I’m going to make it right here anyway.’
“So I land my trick and he comes back and he goes ‘You guys are in big trouble. You're going to be arrested.’
“I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, whatever. It’s cool. We’re leaving.’
“So he starts to argue with me and we just get in the car. He takes off and as we’re pulling out, Jeff pulls a U- turn to laugh in the guy’s face. You know, like, ‘We got the trick, you wish we’re in big trouble!’
“The guy wasn’t so psyched on that. So he takes his big white SUV and pulls a hard left and crashes into our car, and it’s like, ‘Whoa dude! Like, take it easy!’
“He fully just hit us on purpose. I’m like, ‘Hey that’s fuckin’ manslaughter man!’
“So I get out of the car and I go, ‘Hey dude, take it easy.’ And of course he’s super bummed on that, like, ‘I’m not a dude. I’m a priest at this church.’ It totally reminded me of that Toy Machine video with Satva and the priest.
“We’re like, ‘Yeah nice behavior. You're supposed to be like, some holy dude. You just hit my friend’s car with your car cause we’re skateboarding in your spot? Whatever, dude.’
“Now he’s getting super frustrated with the whole thing and gets back in his car. I’m checking out Jeff’s car cause he’s got hit really hard. I look up and the priest is in reverse about 30 or 40 feet away from me. I had no clue what he was doing. I started calling the cops actually. Like, ‘This guy just fucking hit us and if you are already coming to bust us for skating I actually just want to get this guy busted cause he just hit my friend’s car.’
“And then all of a sudden I look up and the priest’s charging at me. It didn’t really click in my brain that I’m about to get run over. I was just like ‘Holy shit!'
“So I jump up to try to jump out of the way and I get smacked by this SUV. I flew up and cracked his windshield. Dude, I went like flying over there. Fully got toasted. They told me it was straight out of a movie the way I got hit by the car. Then you see the priest just peel out and take off as I’m laying on the ground just fucking fully looking pathetic in the middle of the street ‘cause I just got hit this SUV.
“And then this cop decides to come and I’m still in the street 'cause I’m just kind of shaken up by the whole thing. I hit my head and arm really bad. I flew up in the air like six or seven feet. So I’m on the ground, shivering—just being annoyed. And these fucking cops… typical cops. They take one look at us and see the skateboards and the tight jeans. I was just so bummed. And they’re like, ‘What the fuck do you guys think you’re doing? You guys are destroying this church.’
“As I’m like laying on the floor, I’m like, ‘No dude I just got run over by a car. The guy that kicked us out and called the cops is the guy who just hit me.’
“They’re like ‘What do you mean you got hit by a car?’ And luckily enough, three people were walking their dogs and were like ‘Yeah, we saw the whole thing. This guy hit him with his SUV. You guys have no right to yell at these kids. They weren’t doing anything wrong. This kid just got hit by a car.’
“And sure enough, we got in trouble for the whole thing. Destroying public and private property. I love that I get busted for fucking skating a hubba but it’s okay for a proper guy in society to hit me with his car? A hit and run and he doesn’t get in trouble but I am? It’s a strange world sometimes.”
RB: You didn’t have to pay for his windshield or anything like that?
CD: “No, nothing like that. So the cops made a whole report about it. And I wanted an investigator for the whole thing ‘cause I wanna fucking sue this dude. He just fucking ran me over. It’s a full-on attempt at manslaughter! The guy needs to get fucking taken away.
“So the detectives came and talked to us and wanted to know the whole story and were like ‘okay you guys obviously did nothing wrong’ and asked if we could identify the guy. And all three of us were like ‘Yeah, of course. We know exactly what the dude looks like.’
So the next week me and Jeff went to do it and they showed us photos of dudes that fucking looked like Pee Wee Herman. And we’re like ‘Dude, none of these guys look like the guy. They go ‘Well you said you could identify him. These photos may be from anywhere from 20 years ago to the present day.’ And Jeff goes ‘How the fuck would I know what he looked like 20 years ago?’
“It just turned into a bunch of nonsense and I was over it.”
RB: Do you think you’re a magnet for drama like this?
CD: “I don’t know why, but yes, I think they’re following me constantly. I try to avoid it and the worst part is I’m always stuck in the middle of it. Whether it’s with fucking girlfriends or fucking kids or whatever. And cops never leave me alone. I just want to sit down and have a peaceful evening and nope, it always seems to be drama.”
(5) responses to: Best quotes of '08: Corey Duffel
warie said:
That's such a fruitful story. I'd be pretty psyched to have a story like that.
Mikayla(: said:
that is gnarly, story is awesome if i had
a story like that i would tell everyone.
-c:
tyler said:
that guy needs to get fucked up the ass
or somthing
kyle said:
shit yeah,
theres this church by my friends house got a 4 stair a lil rail
this nun came out and just started yelling "bye"
me and my friend had mistaken her
we thought she said hi,
didn't get ran over or get arrested
but she was bitchen
but she could of been nicer i feel,
colty said:
what!! that's fucked up man. everyone's always bitchin bout us ridin a piece of fuckin wood its like wtf man i don't get it haha
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