Pro skateboarder says drinking, anti-hangover pills caused naked rampage

Pro skateboarder Jereme Rogers had to spend five days at Rikers Island (was he allowed to have a skateboard in there?) after pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief, so don’t let this happen to you. Upon his release today, Rogers said he turned into “something like The Hulk” during last week’s rampage at the Affinia Shelburne hotel in Manhattan, in which he cavorted naked and tore paintings of the walls.

“I was not on angel dust, by the way,” he told reporters. “Though I was incoherent. It was a little bit of drinking and a girl that I was drinking with gave me two pills that she said were hangover pills. But they weren’t.

“I don’t know what they were, actually,” he said.

The athlete told the New York Post he’s now abstaining from alcohol, and plans to do so for the foreseeable future.

“At the time that I was doing something destructive, I felt like I was saving the world,” he said, explaining that he didn’t realize his destructive state of mind until he was strapped to a gurney.”

Well, who hasn’t been there?

My favorite part of this story:

The incident wasn’t Rogers’ first run-in with the law, however.

He was arrested in 2009 when he took off his boxer shorts and ranted in the nude from a rooftop in Redondo Beach, Calif.

He apologized, admitting to police and he had “bugged out” after eating mind-bending magic mushrooms.

You can get arrested for that? Doesn’t every fourth roof in Redondo Beach have a naked ranting guy on it?

***
Naked skater ‘the Hulk’ [New York Post]