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Monday, December 21, 2009 5:08pm PST

Stump The Chief

By: Tom Morin

Stump The Chief
The folks over at Thunder had a cool idea of how to determine Jamie Thomas' next truck. They decided to play a little game called "Stump the Chief." First they had the design department draw up some of the worst ideas for a signature truck. Gay rainbows, pot leaves, his face, etc. Then, they got the employees of Metro skate shop to come in. Next, it was off to the airport to get The Chief himself, and it was on.

The Metro crew asked Jamie questions about himself, Alabama (where he grew up), skateboarding, etc. For every right question he could remove one of the design ideas. For every wrong answer, the kid who read it got a set of the trucks that would normally be in Jamie's monthly box. Check out the video.

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