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My first trip out to Blood drag would be a memorable one in many ways. Everything from drinking way to much to seeing my first alligator in the wild to the night time hang outs and the dumb drunk fuck that hit 4 or 5 rides through out the hotels before wrestled down to the ground by police officer. I'm sure through out this write up I'm going to forget to mention a ton of stuff and to keep things short and readable there will be a lot left out. But to all those that I hung out with through out the week I was there it was good times and thanks for everything!I arrived into Orlando on Tuesday with thoughts of doing photo shoots Wednesday and Thursday but found myself leaving snowy weather to fly into cold rainy weather. So instead of doing shoots I was found alligator hunting which was pretty much out as well because come to find out they don't really like the cold either so I had nothing more to resort to then drinking and hanging out. Yeah poor me I know…hahaWhile helping put Selena's car back together (okay watching mostly as my hang over was kicking in… lol) I watched a masterpiece put back together before my eyes. After it was back together we headed to RAW where it was painted and where most of the custom work was done and hung out with Anthony and the rest of the crew. From there we went to get a trailer Troy was planning on using to tow his ol' ladies bug for the weekend. Needless to say the rainy weather over the past few days kicked our ass as we managed to get the trailer, Tahoe that was on the trailer, Troy's work fan and some farm truck all stuck in the mud. That is where the fun would begin. When Ahmet (no idea how to spell your name bro.. haha) got off work he got one of his buddies out with a full-size on 44's to help pull things out. After breaking his 4-wheel drive we managed to start pulling ride after ride out of the marsh. The hilarious part was the 6-7 inches of mud COMPLETELY covering the front of Troy's van. I have a picture on my camera phone, only if I could pull it off it was some funny shit. That and drinking some beers made it one enjoyable night.As Friday came it was time to get ready for the trip to WPB. The trip down to West Palm Beach was an exciting one. With Troy, myself, Magnet and Brandon loaded up into the Navigator we managed (umm.. minus Troy since he was driving, cause drinking and driving wouldn't be good. ;) ) to finish up a half gallon of Captain and a fifth of something else so needless to say arriving into our hotel area we had a good head start on most everyone else.
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There was a blurry time over the next few hours after throwing an RA logo on Troy and Salena's bug while they weren't looking ( aaah that shit was funny) and arriving back at the hotel. From what I hear we went to a club and then ate at Chilies where the apparent Magnet Slap took place. I remember parts and pieces of that. J On our return to the hotel we had a run in with rent-a-cops who where going to tow the Navigator and trailer with the bug on it. With choice words exchanged, an almost fight with some dumb ass thinking our business was his, and a cop on scene things where worked out and everyone proceeded to their rooms to finish drinking for the night. With a keg in the RA room we proceeded to run around the hotel ditching the rent-a-cops pissing them off as much as possible before calling it a night.As Saturday rolled around we hit the show where it was the first nice day in Florida that I had seen that entire week. That would also be the morning I saw my first alligator at the entrance pond of the show. While passing the tons of coolers and bottles also known as the entrance of the show we proceeded in where we would see the nicer rides right away. The show lay out was nice and down every line there was something interesting to look at. After covering the show with the boys we rounded up some features and did some shoots before the day was out.As Saturday night came about, the hotels where hoppin'. A bunch of us headed to Roadhouse for some steak where RA Kenny decided it was his turn to get plowed and made some friends at the bar while we were eating. There where buckets of peanuts flying everywhere, I can't even begin to describe to you all how fun it was trying to eat while dodging buckets of nuts. As we arrived back to the hotel we moved the Keg from one RA room to another, mine. Since my room was closer it left us with less walking to fist some beers. On one trip I was filling up my second beer to ensure I had a double fist going on when I heard a loud crash and some people yelling. As I stepped out I watched some dumb fuck try to hit some people, try to hit a cop but then slammed into the rear of a fullsize truck which then bounced into Brandon's Protégé 5. I managed to run down 2 flights of stairs while double fisting both beers and beat most everyone to the scene without spilling any beer. Yeah I know… I'm proud of me too… lol As we assessed the damage Brandon got out his camera and took a couple pictures of the cops beatin' the guy down. I can honestly say that the cops saved that man life that night because there was a swarm of atleast 100 Minitruckers waiting to beat him down.
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