The Nightlife: Las Vegas (The Nightlife Series) (28 page)

Mike got in the last dig, “That'll make a killer Facebook
video!”  He held up his cell phone-digital-camcorder to record Justin.

Justin looked back over his shoulder in surprise, attempting
to pull up his pants at the same time.  The knee-jerk reaction caused him to
lose his delicate balance atop the cupola apex of the plastic airplane, and he
fell onto his right-side hip, sliding down off the playcenter.  Justin let go
his pants, hands splayed out wide across the airplane seeking something to grab
to slow his fall.  There was nothing to catch except smooth plastic.

Justin slid inexorably down the side of the playcenter,
pants and underwear still down around his thighs.  He tried rolling over onto
his belly to get positioned for a feet-first landing.  The maneuver would've
worked if not for the fence positioned so close to the playcenter.  The bright
yellow powder-coated aluminum fence that aided his climb to the top now blocked
his landing on the way down.

Justin's momentum came to an abrupt halt as he hit the top
of the fence ass first.  He emitted a blood curdling shrill scream of agony as
the two inch long three quarter inch diameter aluminum tubing extended above
the top crossbeam of the fence impaled him where the sun don't shine.  He was
pegged right in the holiest of holies, two inches of aluminum post going in
through the out door.

Mike saved the twenty five second video clip of Justin's
playcenter adventure on his Motorola cell phone and promptly emailed it to a
group of friends in his contacts list, mostly skaters who knew both him and
Justin.  Within fifteen minutes the video clip networked its way to over 100
students at Moses Lake High School and had been posted to dozens of Facebook
profiles.

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Coming
December 2012