Broken Magazine Issue 9

Peanut's Pool Finds
Why the title? Easy. Let’s start a war and Kill ‘em All!
Trillions of dollars spent on this war looking for some
goon living in a cave in the hills of Sumplacestan. Why
know just have dropped an N bomb at the get go and
wiped that zone off the fucking map along with O.B.L.
All this money spent ruined our economy. Just as
planned. Those fucks are laughing every day watching
as hundreds of thousands of people are loosing their
jobs and houses. It is tragic. Just have to hope that, well
our friends here in the skate community or family is hit
by this. I for one am shittin bricks.
Peanut at work at a nice repo. Photo NG
Well, we all know that over the recent year’s boy the
housing marked skyrocketed and now as hit an all
time low. I am a simple skateboarder with one desire
in skateboarding. I’m not trying to do all these sick ass
tricks and learn a bunch of new shit. All I want to do is
skate and sample every empty backyard pool I possibly
can.
With my mother having lived in the SGV and myself
in San Diego, I made a lot of road trips back and forth
and tons of rubbernecking! I have to say that the effort
I put into it paid off. I don’t count on anyone telling
me where one of their secret spots are, but every now
and again I get to share some spots with friends and
sometimes just happen to do a drive-by, hop a fence
and barge an empty swimming pool. Usually in the dry
months all ya need is a broom.
These days I see tons of “For Sale” signs and “Bank
Repo” signs. Still, as many signs I come across chances
are slim that epic pool will be in that back yard, dry and
waiting for some coping to get smashed.
Some of the seedier neighborhoods you might get lucky
and find power and drain a full pool all the way and
have fun for a couple of weeks. Or, you can do all the
work only to be shut down the next day to find that the
bank or realtor has filled the pool again. Either way, it’s
up to you. If you want to skate a pool be proactive and
get out there and find that shit!! Most importantly don’t
be a dumbshit if confronted by someone.
Example: After cleaning a pool and getting it ready, the
pool guy showed up baffled that the pool was dry. We