Matthew Ridge

We didn't have back in those days, right?

Three years.

That's hanging over your head.

That's hanging over my head, so I'm going through.

I've got...

And then it was real weird because John Graham, remember John Graham, the headmaster of Auckland Grammar?

This is when you know.

So we got out of going to see the cops that morning and I walked out and Rob's mum picked us up and I said, Rob, we've got to go straight to school and go straight and tell DJ.

Just straight in there.

And...

know john graham's a scary dude right like he's like you don't with john graham he was real cool i loved him to death but i was still scared shitless of him and when you're going in and tell him that you've run from a cab without paying you know he's not going to be happy right so anyway we just went in and we sat down i said dj we've got to speak to you and he took us into his office and we said look we've just come from the police they think we've stolen it yeah stolen 60 bucks and hold on and he said he just looked at us and he goes

And did you?

And we said, no, mate.

No, we just ran from cab.

And he said, right, I'm going to ask you one more time.

Are you telling me the truth?

And we were like, absolutely.

And so he was prepared to stand up with us, come to court and all that shit.

But our lawyers were like, oh, no, no, no, no.

John Graham's a little bit controversial, you know, this, that, and the other thing.