under attack tour
Tour: 1.3
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THE UNDER ATTACK TOUR
wordsby felix faucher
During the months of July, August and September of 2003, if you live in Canada chances are that you encountered them. They were young, athletic sometimes, heavy partiers at night, and they traveled from place to place celebrating skateboarding like there was no tomorrow. They moved around in a black bus meant to carry handicapped people. They were the Under Attack Tour of 2003, the first skateboarding tour to cross the country from Victoria, BC to St-John’s, NF. And I was lucky enough to be part of it. Our journey started in Montreal, with the French Canadian skateboarders of the Tour, soon joined by Brampton’s own Grant Patterson in the new Mississauga skate park. That night, we had our first encounter with the Ontario Police at the Hotel as they rushed in because of some illegal smoke floating in the air. When asked if he knew any English, Carl Labelle answered the pissed-off officer with an arrogant: “A little Bitch.” That didn’t help our cause and we came close to spending our first Tour night in jail.
