Two hurt in 'hot-boarding' incident in Ocean Beach neighborhood in San Diego
Two men in their early 20s were injured -- one seriously -- while engaging in the increasingly popular but dangerous sport of late-night "hot-boarding," police said Friday.
The two were skateboarding in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego after 2 a.m. while being towed by a vehicle, police said.
The car was going too fast for the two to hang on and so they let go. One fell off his board and suffered scrapes.
The other hot-boarder collided with a 1999 Chevrolet truck driven by a man in his mid-20s, suffering serious head injuries, police said. He is listed in critical condition at a local hospital.
The vehicle towing the two sped off after the two let go, police said.
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Photo credit: Christina House / For the Times
EDITOR'S PICKS:
Skate or die!
Posted by: westsidejesse | April 01, 2011 at 12:51 PM
"Hot-boarder" = SoCal slang for "idiot."
Posted by: Malby | April 01, 2011 at 01:40 PM
SEEMS LIKE PULLIN LOGS OUT OF GATOR INFESTED WATER
IS SAFER THAN "HOT BOARDING"
Posted by: SWAMP MAN | April 01, 2011 at 03:24 PM
Or even a sheer panic possibly.
Posted by: Joe | April 01, 2011 at 03:30 PM
So Cal equivalent of a redneck saying: "Hey y'all. Watch this!"
Posted by: EdwoodCA | April 01, 2011 at 03:41 PM
"That's HOT!!!"
Posted by: Hot2Trot | April 01, 2011 at 03:44 PM
Why is this news? Wish the media would stop rewarding idiots with coverage.
Posted by: swhitS | April 01, 2011 at 03:49 PM
Come on, give these kids a break. All they were trying to do was have some fun. I do remember Michael J. Fox getting around in town on his skateboard in "Back To The Future" by hotboarding.
Posted by: Califrat | April 01, 2011 at 03:52 PM
Thats nothing i have been towed by a motorcycle at 50 mph.
Posted by: Canyon Ed | April 01, 2011 at 03:57 PM
Stupid Is As Stupid Does, Sometimes The Dumb Take Themselves Out. Darwinisim In Action.
Posted by: DZ | April 01, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Ah, thank god for people like these.... healthcare, its the safest profession out there!
Posted by: Mo | April 01, 2011 at 04:07 PM
O.B. is the skating stoner capital of the world
Posted by: Rob | April 01, 2011 at 04:20 PM
A little cleaning of the Gene Pool.
I feel sorry for the guy in the car, He had to clean all the blood off his hood
Posted by: Ed Dart | April 01, 2011 at 04:32 PM
Duuuuuuuuuuude! That's Stony!
Posted by: Joe | April 01, 2011 at 04:33 PM
YOU!!!! Out of the gene pool. Please don't let these 'brainiacs' breed.
Posted by: GottaSayIt | April 01, 2011 at 04:37 PM
In Texas we call it Culling the Herd, But it will also work in California.
Posted by: rcbanker | April 01, 2011 at 04:37 PM
When I was a kid back east we used to do a similar things. In the winter when the roads got icy we would put on our slickest dress shoes and grab car bumpers for a ride. We used to call it skeechin'. We had a great time and nobody ever got hurt. In the summer we would hop freight trains that went by our houses for a ride. None of us ever got hurt doing that either. We were a lot younger than these kids though. By the time we were in our twenties we were too busy chasing tail and getting loaded to have time for that. Now that they have outlawed fun, I'm not sure what we would be doing...
Posted by: Skeecher | April 01, 2011 at 05:02 PM
As kids living in Illinois, we would hold onto a car bumper and slide on icy roads with just our shoes. It helped to wear two pair of socks because the friction got those shoes real hot. We would hit forty mph and there were a few bare patches that would positively launch a kid. We lost a kid once. Then somebody noticed a round patch of clean snow in an otherwise dirty snow bank. We found him about three feet inside the bank in a fetal position. Not dead but pretty buggered up. Come to think of it we weren't kids at all because I remember trying to explain to his wife why we brought him home unconscious and what happened to his shoes.
Posted by: Tigerloose | April 01, 2011 at 05:05 PM
I can't believe these comments! If you didn't get hurt when you where a kid was it dumb luck? I bet if you looked back on the record, some kids DID get hurt or even die doing similer stupid stunts like this. I know kids DID die jumping trains and to say they didn't is being an ostratch. Pull your head out, dude!
Posted by: My opinon means nothing | April 01, 2011 at 05:31 PM
Skeecher,
We called it bumper riding. On one night ride, my feet overheated so I let go just before a fork in the road. The car went left and I went right. There was a man shoveling his walk and I hollered "help" at him as I shot by his house. I heard him shout a woman's name as he ran for the house.
These days, it would be all over u-tube. Kids would be dieing left and right.
Posted by: Tigerloose | April 01, 2011 at 05:53 PM
darwinism works in mysterious ways- if you're dumb enough to try a stunt that you're not qualified to perform, sometimes you get hurt badly. i feel for the driver of the chevy truck. . .being involved in a traumatic collision can leave you emotionally scarred even when you have no blame whatsoever.
Posted by: drdean | April 01, 2011 at 07:48 PM
Off hand, these too aren't CEO material. Two more almost bite the dust.
Posted by: Dave Fairburn | April 01, 2011 at 08:19 PM
Darwin. . .
Posted by: Jim | April 02, 2011 at 09:27 AM
I thought it was called "skitching". Ski plus hitching..."skitching".
Posted by: El Guapo de la ciudad de Los Angeles | April 02, 2011 at 11:37 AM
WOW. Stupid decision? Yes. Darwinianism? Cruel. This is my friend. This is also somebody's kid, somebody's big brother. Please think before you speak, just like this person admittedly should have thought before he hitched a ride.
ouch, we people can be so mean to each other.
It's Saturday. Go live life, thank God that you have it and enjoy! Don't sit around here bashing people & suggesting they should be dead. Leave the comments to those who are sitting around praying that these people will live.
Posted by: tyty | April 02, 2011 at 08:22 PM