DAREDEVIL & DAD; FATHER-SON TEAM RIDES MOTORCYCLE TO RECORD BOOKS.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Staff Writer Some fathers and sons are happy enough to toss a baseball around, but not ``Super Joe'' Reed and 5-year-old ``Super Joey'' Reed, a pair of motorcycle daredevils from Winnetka. On Friday, the daring duo took a shot at the record books with a death-defying leap before a screaming pack of Super Joey's playmates, some 40 kids at the Spoonful of Sugar Child Care Center in Canoga Park. Despite safety concerns, the stunt did not come under the scrutiny of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . or other public safety officials
since it was held on private property.
The Reeds' quest to make The Guinness Book of Records took Joey 13 feet over plywood ramps as he straddled the gas tank of a motorcycle driven by his father - who was wearing a blindfold blindfold worn by personification of justice. [Art: Hall, 183] See : Justice . ``I feel very good today because I jumped with my daddy,'' Joey shouted at his friends over a bullhorn. ``I was all protected because I have safety gloves.'' ``You did good Joey,'' said 5-year-old Cody Bausch. Enough to make father proud. ``There's no other team like us in the world,'' said Joe Reed Joe Reed may refer to:
The record, in this case, is the farthest jump by the oldest and youngest daredevils on the same bike, with the driver blindfolded blind·fold tr.v. blind·fold·ed, blind·fold·ing, blind·folds 1. To cover the eyes of with or as if with a bandage. 2. To prevent from seeing and especially from comprehending. n. 1. . Owing to owing to prep. Because of; on account of: I couldn't attend, owing to illness. owing to prep → debido a, por causa de the specificity of the record, it is in jeopardy of being broken only by the Reeds themselves, said the elder Reed. Reed said he began riding with his son last year and had to coax his wife to let him introduce their son to the world of professional daredevils. ``I would much prefer that they didn't do it, but if they're going to at least it's with someone whose safe about it and knows all the ins and outs ins and outs pl.n. 1. The intricate details of a situation, decision, or process. 2. The windings of a road or path. of the business,'' said Reed's wife, Jennifer Reed, 31. Joe Reed, a motocross motocross Form of motorcycle racing in which cyclists compete on a closed course marked out over natural or simulated rough terrain. Courses vary widely but must be 1.5–5 km (1–3 mi) in length, with steep inclines, hairpin turns, and mud. racer racer, name for several related swift, slender snakes, especially those of the genus Coluber. All of the racers are nonpoisonous, nonconstricting, day-active snakes. The black racer, C. who turned daredevil in 1983, said he took many safety precautions including using protective clothing and helmets on himself and his son. He wore three cloth blindfolds and was guided over the ramp by radio instructions from fellow daredevil ``Jumpin' Jamie'' Pamintuan. The kids in the audience relished the danger and showered Joey with chats of ``Jo-ey.'' ``That was awesome,'' Kevin Betsayad, 5, said after the first jump. In response, Joey flashed two thumbs up in true show-biz style. The elder Reed said he does not necessarily want his son to become a daredevil. ``This is just us playing around. I'll leave it up to him if he wants to do it on his own later in life,'' Reed said. But in the next breath, he said his son would take on the record set in England in 1979 when a 9-year-old jumped 14 feet through a ring of fire. ``By the time he's 6 he'll break that record,'' Reed said of his son. ``He'll go farther and he'll do it blindfolded with me training him to do it.'' Reed said his most recent Guinness Record-setting stunt was to jump 65 feet between two 14-story buildings in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or a year ago. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--2) ``Super Joe'' and ``Super Joey'' Reed take to the air, above, in a record-setting jump Friday at a Canoga Park day-care center day-care center: see day nursery. . At left, Joey Reed, 5, signs autographs for pals after the ride with his dad, who was blindfolded. John Lazar/Daily News |
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