When John `Hurts` died, everything went a bit crazy. The rest of the squad wanted to crush everything, and they did. But they didn`t expect that trash truck to blow up the way it did...
John had run things for the gang around Badlands Truck Stop for as long as anyone could remember. The gang had decided to move there permanently, and John took the local squad out for a final, fateful roam just hours before `Big` Glenn arrived.
Thomas started as a driver, working his way thru the leagues. He didn`t win anything notable until the Geek Demolition Race that landed the gang a special, one of a kind Phoenix Chassis. Thomas became big headed and got heavy into addictions. It was those addictions that caused him to be very slow and unable to fire a rifle at close range, even to save his own life from a mutant beetle. It was for the best and now he can rest and we always will have that Pho to remind us of him.