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Bunker: “A train wreck’s still a train wreck!”
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“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”
A great man once said that, and it’s as true today as ever.
Adolph Bernard “Bunker” Spreckels III (1949 - 1977) is the surfing world's entry in the tragic 27 Club.
Drugs and surfing go together like peanut butter and bananas and while we like to pretend we’re a culture of hard-body vegan sun worshippers the truth is that more than a few of our heroes have hoovered enough illicit substances that a simple blood test would earn them a Balinese death sentence.
We acknowledge the hard partying eighties, but the notion that drug use on tour ended the day Kong became Elko is about as realistic as the belief that Volcom’s B-team house is the safest place for a single woman on Oahu’s North Shore.
Now let’s discuss.
Opiates: Oh, opiates, the silver lining to injury’s grey cloud.
I should write a love sonnet expounding their merits. They’ll make you f