RIP Sunny Garcia?

Bob Dobbalina

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Yeah I noticed the same thing that night.

The guy had demons. Everyone always talks about how gnarly the west side is. I have two friends who teach at Waianae High School, one local and one haole, and they have told me some things that will haunt ME for life. Generational poverty sucks, and can lead human beings to do some pretty fucked up sh!t.

Poverty
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Colonialism/Imperialism
 

Autoprax

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Yeah I noticed the same thing that night.

The guy had demons. Everyone always talks about how gnarly the west side is. I have two friends who teach at Waianae High School, one local and one haole, and they have told me some things that will haunt ME for life. Generational poverty sucks, and can lead human beings to do some pretty fucked up sh!t.
My ex got her PHD in Psychology there and would go do counseling on the west side and she said there were some really sad stories. They would go there to do volunteer counseling for class with security.

Humans are wired to overcome trauma.

Some people get too much in relationship to how much they can take.
 

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Yeah I noticed the same thing that night.

The guy had demons. Everyone always talks about how gnarly the west side is. I have two friends who teach at Waianae High School, one local and one haole, and they have told me some things that will haunt ME for life. Generational poverty sucks, and can lead human beings to do some pretty fucked up sh!t.
Same here, teach in a community where generational poverty is a huge factor. Hard to address and hard to help.
 

Geopac

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Didn't his current GF, the PHD Stanford grad and Google exec, move him to an assisted rehabilitation facility in Texas or something like that in the past six months?
 

r32

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First wife: Angela
Sunny and Angela have three kids, Kaila, Logan, and Stone Garcia

Second wife: Raina

2007
Jan 11 - wife Raina served him divorce papers
Jan 12 - started 3m prison term for tax evasion

After prison stay, met third wife Colleen McCullough, while on house arrest in San Diego

2008
Married third wife Colleen McCullough

2017
At some point he and Colleen got a divorce

2018
Colleen married another dude

Current
Dating Lori Park, one of the first female software engineers at Google when they launched in late 90s. She has mega money.
 
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griffinsurfboard

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Yeah I noticed the same thing that night.

The guy had demons. Everyone always talks about how gnarly the west side is. I have two friends who teach at Waianae High School, one local and one haole, and they have told me some things that will haunt ME for life. Generational poverty sucks, and can lead human beings to do some pretty fucked up sh!t.
Walter Novak

Mike Cheape

Both survived the westside
 

corndog

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Drugs, unemployment violence.... and if hoale: lots of scraps. Little chances for lots. Good friend of mine been through 4 generations now and still strong, just have to fight for it.
 

bluemarlin04

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Drugs, unemployment violence.... and if hoale: lots of scraps. Little chances for lots. Good friend of mine been through 4 generations now and still strong, just have to fight for it.
The drugs is really what gets a lot people and breaks up families.

It just keeps compounding. Stealing to support drug habits, lying, leaving their families, prostitution. etc.
 

Muscles

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Drugs, unemployment violence.... and if hoale: lots of scraps. Little chances for lots. Good friend of mine been through 4 generations now and still strong, just have to fight for it.
One of my really good friends is from a very rough Hawaiian homestead area on Oahu.

He said the best thing he ever did was join the Navy and GTFO the moment he graduated high school. He didn't come back for 10 years. Did two long deployments on a carrier. He ended up using his college benefits from the military to become the first in his family to graduate from a University.
 
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Greg, you're from California, lived in hawai'i and ended up in Florida. if Oahu is such a paradise, why are you on the East Coast?

I've got zero interest in Hawai'i. I'd rather figure out how to get into Australia.
 

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Greg, you're from California, lived in hawai'i and ended up in Florida. if Oahu is such a paradise, why are you on the East Coast?

I've got zero interest in Hawai'i. I'd rather figure out how to get into Australia.
so MUCH surf there.
so many spots.
OZ i mean.
 
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Eimeo

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I can't stop thinking about what happened to Sunny and how as a public figure, we the public have been shut out from every seeing or hearing from him again? He's not dead, he has fans, how is that he has just been erased from the public and we will never hear or see from him or anyone that can even represent him ever again? I am baffled that this can happen to anyone that has public celebrity status?
 
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r32

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I can't stop thinking about what happened to Sunny and how as a public figure, we the public have been shut out from every seeing or hearing from him again? He's not dead, he has fans, how is that he has just been erased from the public and we will never hear or see from him or anyone that can even represent him ever again? I am baffled that this can happen to anyone that has public celebrity status?
These situations are incredibly difficult on the family and they have to think what is in the best interest for Sunny. Huge amount of stress on everyone close to him. Huge life changing situation for his family. Maybe they don't want the public to see him like this. Maybe they would rather Sunny be remembered for charging big Waimea and 2nd reef Pipe like a beast.

If you were in Sunny's position and struggling to be coherent, would you want someone taking pics of you for the gram and posting them online for all to see, even as you continue to deteriorate? Maybe you would, but everyone is going to handle these situations differently. All we can do is hope for the best and respect the fam.

Aloha