 I'm not trying to kiss too much butt, but he's a ripper, an original ripper ...He's an original Coors.In 2004, at the end of a four-week Australian road trip from Brisbane to Melbourne (the touring skateboarders were filming for the skateboard movie, "Tent City"), Cardiel was running alongside a van when he was hit by the trailer the van was pulling and then run over by the trailer.