Introducing Frank O'Rourke!
It is impossible to know north Florida and not to love north Florida. I, like you, used to be a doubter. I used to think the Sunshine State was a crock of dumb and its worst bits were those that pushed up near Alabama and Georgia but then one fine summer I traveled myself and learned the truth.
North Florida is filled to the gills with the best sorts of surfers. Brothers and sisters you’d want by your side during the “worst flat spell in history.” Sisters and brothers you’d want around if you happened to be chomped by a shark, encouraging you to do the right think and go to the bar for a drink instead of the wrong thing like going to a hospital where bills will pile to the ceiling and let us read about Frank O’Rourke. Let us read together and memorize, locking some of north Florida’s elan into our own hearts.
A professional surfer who was attacked by a shark in Florida didn’t go to the hospital after the incident — he went to the bar instead, according to his friend.
Frank O’Rourke, 23, was surfing at Jacksonville Beach around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday when the shark attacked him in the water.
“Shark comes out of the water and grabs onto my arm right by my elbow,” he told ABC News. “Kinda tugs a little bit and throshes.”
O’Rourke joked: “I guess it tasted me and was like, ‘Nope.’”
His friend RJ Berger, who said he was swimming with O’Rourke at the time, said the shark “pretty much came fully out of the water, his tail like splashed everywhere.”
Berger said his friend kept saying “I think I got bit, I think I got bit,” and noted that “once he got to the beach he just started bleeding everywhere, the blood started rushing to his arm.”
O’Rourke was quickly treated by lifeguards but opted not to go to the hospital. Instead, Berger told WJXT that O’Rourke “immediately went to a bar, because he’s like, ‘I got bit by a shark!’ and people were like, ‘I’ll buy you drinks!’ So he went and hung out at the pier.”
And have you ever read a finer tale?
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Haven’t been stoned in a good while. Maybe thats my problem.
Haha, I step aside.
Care to drop a couple names? Not sure if you are local enough.
HAHA!
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Brilliant! Schooled and publicly shamed.
Both a couple of brosplianers.
Almost forgot them…but it turns out they’re from the Tampa area, which is like…..sheesh
As for sharks, I work a bit in south Florida and the Venezuelan chicks will eat you alive if you smile at them. You’re welcomed single men traveling to Miami. Forget the South Beach obvious, troll around the Doral warehouses and you’ll be blown away.
Was in the customs area of Miami last week and the flight from Bogota Columbia came at same time. My jaw was dragging on the floor. I assume some serious high maintenance but still the view was spectacular
I worked in a warehouse that was housing transitional workers in a large refrigerator, all wearing parkas, gloves, hoods etc. next to Miami Int.
Lunch bell rang for them and they walked through my space on the way outdoors to eat velveta cheese slice white bread sandwiches, they are poor as all fuck. It was blazing outside and they removed the winter gear to get some sun. HOLY FUKC.
Dozens of twenty year old super models, dozens. A bunch of them crowded me with curiosity and were all talking, wanting to know about my work and my IG account and my assistant fucking gave them the address. It was overwhelming, they were all dancing and so so so sexy…. very thin. But curvy skinny. WOW.
Next day I bought them all pizzas for lunch and forgot to order any for my staff. That is still brought up three years later during staff meetings.
Ha
There are so many pros now I can remember all their names.
What about the cons?
I meant I can’t remember all their names…. seems like every surfer on the news is a pro.
Nice to have you back CB.
(Winky face, winky face)
I think the majority of the apparent pros are cons…
I surf with a lot of florida folks in CA, they are great people. wouldn’t want to live there and their stories are kind of fucked up, but good people for having made it through it. what is that name LT called an old been through the washing machine of time and experience in WA? Florida is filled with them.
My old band once played in Tallahassee, the show was total shite and by the time we got back to the shitty motel it had turned into a brothel. It was an intense night! Hicks with guns hanging out by their cars. Incomprehensible screaming right outside the window. We were rather happy to leave in one piece. The rest of the tour was fun as hell.
NB: friends of ours in another band, on another night, had a show cancelled there when the power went out in half the city, so they joined a show on the other side of town and said it was one of the best they’ve ever played. Win some lose some.
Tallahassee is not FL, it’s GA trying to pretend to be FL
haha. so FL is governed by foreigners? that explains a lot.
Yeah, it has been a shit show for a while. I mean we elected a blatant crook not once, but twice and now he was elected to the US Senate. New gov has been better than I thought he would be so far.
The best thing about North Florida may be the Hobgoods. It’s a strange land, with even stranger people.
Hobgoods are from Satellite Beach (Central Florida). North Florida is like New Smyrna to Jax Beach.
Anything above Jupiter is North Florida to me. Culturally is almost the same as Gainesville or Ocala. The real difference is South Florida, where it’s more like a sixth borough of New York or New Jersey and also the Caribbean mixed together.
“frank is just going to the bar to reset”
How dare you not post the video footage of the attack!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0hQLqrHBc9/
You blew the headline, it should have started ‘Florida Man…’
Everyone knows Florida Man
Southern Man!
I’m sorry! In Paris and utterly jet-lagged!
Paris , Texas … ? Or the City of Light ?
I’m whistling La Vie en Rose this very second!
La Vie est Belle …..
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Had a local identity down here get nudged out of his kayak by a 5m white just off our breakwater. He froze for fearing if he made a movement it would attack, he was even too scared to make his way back to his kayak. A passing recreational fisher plucked him out. And yep, straight to the rubbity dub.
Haha!
Extras please
Special occasion!
Oh shit you mean the pub.
Got my pubs and rub and tugs mixed up
Saw the waves on Surfline video.
Shark did the guy a favor.