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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: PeteSC on June 07, 2005, 09:51:22 AM
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Man who taped pal's fatal bare-bottomed motorcycle stunt fined
Associated Press
Posted June 3 2005, 11:53 AM EDT
FREDERICK, Md. -- A man who videotaped a bare-bottomed buddy during a motorcycle stunt that turned deadly was convicted of two misdemeanors and fined $1,000.
District Judge Frederick Bower said the September accident might never have happened if 23-year-old Ben Meacham had not been taping his almost-naked friend from a van he was driving alongside the motorcycle.
``Filming was a major part of their plan,'' said the judge.
Shaun Paul Matlock, 21, was wearing only tennis shoes, a T-shirt and a helmet when he lost control during a wheelie and crashed into a parked tow truck on a rural road south of Frederick, witnesses said.
According to testimony at Meacham's trial, Matlock wanted to do something unusual on what he called his last ride before he had to surrender the motorcycle because he had fallen behind on his payments.
Meacham declined an offer to join the ride but agreed to tape it. He was convicted of reckless driving and negligent driving.
A third friend, Brandon Edwards, who rode a motorcycle alongside Matlock and was similarly attired, was fined $1,000 in November after pleading guilty to indecent exposure and negligent driving.
The tape was later destroyed; it was unclear who destroyed it.
Meacham, who owns a production company called Holding It Big, testified that the stunt was being filmed for Matlock's own use.
According to its Web site, the Baltimore-based company puts on extreme sports exhibition shows and events, produces movies and video documentaries and conducts photo and video shoots for magazines.
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I wonder if he kissed his ass goodbye? :duh:
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Josh, Josh, Josh.....of course he did....just not the first time that his ass passed his face...maybe the third or fourth time when he realized just how deep in the do that he was.... :monkeymoon:
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If you ask me, it sounds like his head was up his ass already! :monkeymoon:
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ratbike...Jim my man...you're not going to try this are you?.... :motorsmile:
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No...not going to do anything like that. Mama didn't raise a squid!
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ratbike...Jim my man...you're not going to try this are you?.... :motorsmile:
Like Jims bike could go that fast to even thinmk about doing that :monkeymoon: