So I hope everyone had a good turkey day....mine was weird.
The tattoo shop, Bombs Away Tattoo in Jacksonville NC I helped opened and build burnt down Thanksgiving night. The guy arrested Jim was part owner in the beginning.Here is the bulletin that got posted on myspace......
I cant believe this happen!!!
This shop means so much to me and a group of people I call my family. This shop was the shop I called home for about a year, working the counter with these people really has a amazing tendency to to grow a close bond. We are so close we are truly a family. We if not work together still see each other daily. Fortunately I was there to see this happen. After eating Thanksgiving dinner at Brian's house we went to Hooligans where I got the call about the fire. Jared, Kat and I rushed over. We were there right after the flames were put out. There were 3 fire trucks, cops, EM T's....it was a lil too overwhelming, I had to smoke a cigarette, I mean I helped build that shop and someone....NOW known as NUMBER 1 oxygen thieving asshole burnt the mother fucker down. Brian, Bart, Jared and the rest of the crew could do nothing but stand there in disbelief. We have all stayed in touch with all the details that we find out. The artist as you know are now all at the Bombs Away II shop, they need you more now then ever to come support them and keep there spirits uplifted. Go in hang out, send them your regards, ask if you can help.....and get tattooed. This request comes from me personally, I always consider myself the original momma of the house and really want to take care of my boys.
And for my Boys I love you so much!!!!
--Erica Adams
This one strikes a little close to home. Bomb's Away Tattoo is the shop I hang out most because those guys use to talk to me when this magazine was in its infancy. Erica was even working the counter there and thats where I met her.
My good friend and our tattoo editor, Mike Eaton had just started working there a couple of weeks ago and lost everything that chronicles his life as a tattoo artist. His legacy are now the tattoos he has been doing for the last 10 years. All his flash, all his paintings, the book he was writing, his machines, his trophys and plaques...every fucking thing.
I personally am disgusted that someone could take anyone's livlihood, the ability to support yourself and your family, the joy you bring to peoples lives with evry well done tattoo.
Bryan Wolfe. owner of Bomb's Away, will rebuild this shop. His other shop is now home to all the artist and they are more hungry than ever to do their chosen profession.
The following comes from news sources and photos from friends...
It makes me sick and it should make you sick too.
David Melvin
East Coast Ink Magazine
News Article--
A Jacksonville man has been charged by police with burning a tattoo shop he helped open.
Flames tore through Bombs Away tattoo studio on Western Boulevard early Friday morning, charring the inside of the building and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
The fire was reported at 1:28 a.m., half an hour after an Onslow County Sheriff's Department deputy arrested a man behind the other Bombs Away location - Plum Point Plaza across from New River Air Station - after seeing him dart behind a trash bin.
James Montgomery Stamford, 32, of Catherine Lake Road, was initially charged by the Sheriff's Department with possession of burglary tools and attempted breaking and entering with the intent to burn an unoccupied building.
Deputy Larry Nobles said Stamford had a pry bar, a DeWalt reciprocating saw, saw blades and two gallons of gasoline in his possession when he was arrested.
After an investigation by Jacksonville Police Department detective A. D. Lang, police charged Stamford with burning an unoccupied building and burning personal property in connection with the Western Boulevard Bombs Away fire.
Stamford's bond was set at $20,500.
Bombs Away owner Brian Wolfe said he could not believe what he was hearing when police called to tell him Stamford had set one of his tattoo shops on fire and intended to torch the other one as well.
"Jim was my best friend at one time," Wolfe said. "I would have never suspected him."
Wolfe and Stamford opened Bombs Away together but, after a disagreement about how to run the business, Wolfe said he bought out Stamford a year ago and did not hear much from him.
Stamford is now an employee of Ink Slingers tattoo studio, police officials said.
"We were not fighting. I am sick to my stomach; my legs hurt. I took care of Jim; he lives at my sister's place," Wolfe said before becoming too upset to continue.
Emergency workers driving by the Western Boulevard Bombs Away noticed sparks coming from the roof of what they thought was the nearby dry cleaner, said police Capt. Tim Akers. Officers who responded realized the fire was actually at Bombs Away.
The fire was mainly in the ceiling area and the top of the walls of Bombs Away, said Battalion Chief Randy Raynor with the Jacksonville Fire Department. But the heat and smoke caused extensive damage in the shop, and smoke spread to Domino's Pizza and Sub-Sational.
Firefighters were able to put the flames out relatively quickly, Raynor said.
But the fire, smoke and heat had already destroyed the specialty tattooing equipment, signed guitars, two computers, plasma-screen televisions, artwork, and trophies and awards one artist earned in 20 years of work, said Nik Ferranto, a tattoo artist at Bombs Away.
"We pretty much are at a loss here," he said.
The shop generally sees 40 to 50 customers a day, Ferranto said, and just a half hour after the studio would have opened Friday, employees had already sent 15 customers to the sister shop near New River Air Station, where all the tattoo artists will be working.
Other storefronts near the tattoo shop have suffered damage from fires recently, and Jacksonville police are investigating those incidents.
Ferranto said he believed a recent fire at the submarine sandwich shop next door was meant for Bombs Away.
"Somebody doesn't like that we're very busy," Ferranto said.
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The tattoo shop, Bombs Away Tattoo in Jacksonville NC I helped opened and build burnt down Thanksgiving night. The guy arrested Jim was part owner in the beginning.Here is the bulletin that got posted on myspace......
I cant believe this happen!!!
This shop means so much to me and a group of people I call my family. This shop was the shop I called home for about a year, working the counter with these people really has a amazing tendency to to grow a close bond. We are so close we are truly a family. We if not work together still see each other daily. Fortunately I was there to see this happen. After eating Thanksgiving dinner at Brian's house we went to Hooligans where I got the call about the fire. Jared, Kat and I rushed over. We were there right after the flames were put out. There were 3 fire trucks, cops, EM T's....it was a lil too overwhelming, I had to smoke a cigarette, I mean I helped build that shop and someone....NOW known as NUMBER 1 oxygen thieving asshole burnt the mother fucker down. Brian, Bart, Jared and the rest of the crew could do nothing but stand there in disbelief. We have all stayed in touch with all the details that we find out. The artist as you know are now all at the Bombs Away II shop, they need you more now then ever to come support them and keep there spirits uplifted. Go in hang out, send them your regards, ask if you can help.....and get tattooed. This request comes from me personally, I always consider myself the original momma of the house and really want to take care of my boys.
And for my Boys I love you so much!!!!
--Erica Adams
This one strikes a little close to home. Bomb's Away Tattoo is the shop I hang out most because those guys use to talk to me when this magazine was in its infancy. Erica was even working the counter there and thats where I met her.
My good friend and our tattoo editor, Mike Eaton had just started working there a couple of weeks ago and lost everything that chronicles his life as a tattoo artist. His legacy are now the tattoos he has been doing for the last 10 years. All his flash, all his paintings, the book he was writing, his machines, his trophys and plaques...every fucking thing.
I personally am disgusted that someone could take anyone's livlihood, the ability to support yourself and your family, the joy you bring to peoples lives with evry well done tattoo.
Bryan Wolfe. owner of Bomb's Away, will rebuild this shop. His other shop is now home to all the artist and they are more hungry than ever to do their chosen profession.
The following comes from news sources and photos from friends...
It makes me sick and it should make you sick too.
David Melvin
East Coast Ink Magazine
News Article--
A Jacksonville man has been charged by police with burning a tattoo shop he helped open.
Flames tore through Bombs Away tattoo studio on Western Boulevard early Friday morning, charring the inside of the building and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
The fire was reported at 1:28 a.m., half an hour after an Onslow County Sheriff's Department deputy arrested a man behind the other Bombs Away location - Plum Point Plaza across from New River Air Station - after seeing him dart behind a trash bin.
James Montgomery Stamford, 32, of Catherine Lake Road, was initially charged by the Sheriff's Department with possession of burglary tools and attempted breaking and entering with the intent to burn an unoccupied building.
Deputy Larry Nobles said Stamford had a pry bar, a DeWalt reciprocating saw, saw blades and two gallons of gasoline in his possession when he was arrested.
After an investigation by Jacksonville Police Department detective A. D. Lang, police charged Stamford with burning an unoccupied building and burning personal property in connection with the Western Boulevard Bombs Away fire.
Stamford's bond was set at $20,500.
Bombs Away owner Brian Wolfe said he could not believe what he was hearing when police called to tell him Stamford had set one of his tattoo shops on fire and intended to torch the other one as well.
"Jim was my best friend at one time," Wolfe said. "I would have never suspected him."
Wolfe and Stamford opened Bombs Away together but, after a disagreement about how to run the business, Wolfe said he bought out Stamford a year ago and did not hear much from him.
Stamford is now an employee of Ink Slingers tattoo studio, police officials said.
"We were not fighting. I am sick to my stomach; my legs hurt. I took care of Jim; he lives at my sister's place," Wolfe said before becoming too upset to continue.
Emergency workers driving by the Western Boulevard Bombs Away noticed sparks coming from the roof of what they thought was the nearby dry cleaner, said police Capt. Tim Akers. Officers who responded realized the fire was actually at Bombs Away.
The fire was mainly in the ceiling area and the top of the walls of Bombs Away, said Battalion Chief Randy Raynor with the Jacksonville Fire Department. But the heat and smoke caused extensive damage in the shop, and smoke spread to Domino's Pizza and Sub-Sational.
Firefighters were able to put the flames out relatively quickly, Raynor said.
But the fire, smoke and heat had already destroyed the specialty tattooing equipment, signed guitars, two computers, plasma-screen televisions, artwork, and trophies and awards one artist earned in 20 years of work, said Nik Ferranto, a tattoo artist at Bombs Away.
"We pretty much are at a loss here," he said.
The shop generally sees 40 to 50 customers a day, Ferranto said, and just a half hour after the studio would have opened Friday, employees had already sent 15 customers to the sister shop near New River Air Station, where all the tattoo artists will be working.
Other storefronts near the tattoo shop have suffered damage from fires recently, and Jacksonville police are investigating those incidents.
Ferranto said he believed a recent fire at the submarine sandwich shop next door was meant for Bombs Away.
"Somebody doesn't like that we're very busy," Ferranto said.
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abbiss:
I wish you the greatest birthday darling!
gujsel:
hi my fantastic friend...i hope for you a great birthday 