Skateboarder Neil Heddings talks to Reader writer from jail When the cops showed up, he was sitting there with only a pair of cutoff Dickies on “Well, he’s like the godfather of skating." I asked him if he felt the jurors would be biased when they saw the tattoos. On November 18, 2002, pro skateboarder Neil Heddings drove his van to San Diego to pick up his two-year-old son, Marty. Heddings’s fiancée Christine Rams, their new baby, and Rams’s four-year-old son had come with him.