What will the supreme lesson of the Coronavirus shutdown be for the world? That your government has startling and hitherto unused powers?
In this short video, author unknown, we got it via @portugalsurfrental who got it from a WhatsApp group, a surfer is surrounded and arrested by masked police in Punta Hermosa, a beach resort forty or so clicks south of the country’s capital, Lima.
Peru is currently under a military-enforced lockdown to stop the spread of China’s best virus so far, eclipsing even their 2002 hit SARS. There’s a curfew between eight pm and five am for the next two weeks, soldiers and cops with guns patrol the streets, borders are closed, the military guards the airport.
No surfing, either.
In the clip, the cops behave pretty politely for this part of the world, a country where it ain’t unknown for police to carry out illegal killings, and where death squad the Grupo Colina and revolutionary communists the Shining Path were shooting and bombing into the nineties.
The surfer is told he has to be detained for the good of the community of Punta Hermosa.
“Let’s go! Let’s go!’ they tell him.
The surfer, scared, protests, says he lives nearby and that maybe it might be a little easier for everyone if they let him go.
“I can go home!” he says.
“Let’s go! Let’s go!” they respond. “You must go to the police station.”
The clip wraps with the cops saying they’re going to wait for a second surfer in the lineup.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-D8oWnDg9k/
(Here’s a longer version. I trimmed ours down for IG attention spans.)
Probably had something to do with cocaine…
It’s Peru after all.
Also can’t go past FARC
There was a semi-militant farmers group in Lombok in the late 1990s acronymed as FUCK.
Surprised it wasn’t already taken by a Gold Coast-based para-military outfit.
The “Palmy Army” aren’t smart enough to use acronyms.
Adios muchacho
If I am translating this correctly, I am pretty sure he was arrested for riding a thai pop out, not for surfing.
Good god, then we’re all doomed.
Sendero Luminoso
you gots to love the Latin Flare….. doesnt even rest during govt bombings…..
Can the Vic Police do this to all the hippy-dippy rental-van campers down at the Bells carpark? It seems this pandemic has only brought more of the gutter squatting cunts that like to put their fold-out table and chairs in as many parking spaces as possible.
How funny, have been seeing those sorta cunts around Newy a lot more too.
The fuckers up here actually camp in caravans in some of the beach carparks. One bloke was moving up and down the stretch of beach between Sunshine and Coolum for about 3 months. Suspiciously not seen after the last fire that threatened Peregian Beach, (the third in the summer series), which started at the carpark that he was camped in that night…
Day 4 of my imposed quarantine. Going batshit crazy.
Some helpful ideas:
– Bust out the old dried macaroni and lentils and make some pictures for your loved ones.
– Start shouting random abuse out window / balcony at passers by / cars/ neighbours. Claim you are inspired by the performative passion of the Italians.
– Get creative with sock-puppets or alias on websites you would not ordinarily visit. The more confusing the better for your own amusement.
– Start reviewing Amazon items you’ve never purchased but would like to be ‘helpful’ with.
– Get mad-jail-fit with some sort of self-created psycho exercise routine. End up being able to to do push-ups with your dick.
– Start writing a book and give Chas & Dezza run for their money.
I’m doing some of these. ‘My Vulnerable Journey as an Adult Learner’ is tantalising.
I think a no-handed pop-up would make you the king VAL.
Unless you burst right through the soft-top with priapic effort and went over the falls, trapped and screaming.
Still, that tale might be worth a few beers later.
You might even earn the nickname ‘Stiffiny Gilmore’.
AKA; what Steph answers to in NZ.
Maybe! I can still hang a wet towel on it!
-Ask Boomers if they accepted Jesus? Or at least John Smith.
“Have you accepted the love of Muhammad Buddha Vishnu into your kidney?”
It ain’t boomers getting iced, it’s the Silent Gen, vets of WW II, Korea, Vietnam, oil crisis, multiple recessions etc.
The opposite of the me too gen!
ive kept the kids and wife hold up for a week now….. wont even go to the bagel store for coffee at 6AM… F**k that…… numbers of infected doubling everyday…. good times….
Tom hanks lived somehow?
Yeah, it’s only going to get worse. Literally putting your life on the line by heading out. Crazy. If everyone stayed home for 2 weeks straight the virus would burn out, but MAGA/Don’t Tread on Me. And entitled 20 year olds.