SEASIDE - Nothing says the freedom of youth like whizzing down the street with the wind blowing through your hair.
But in some cases that wind can be interrupted by a fall, as was the case with Nicholas "Nick" Betts, a Seaside resident who fell while longboarding at the end of May.
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