World's Most Dangerous Place.
When I was a younger man, one of my favorite things to read was The World’s Most Dangerous Places by Robert Young Pelton. The travel guide detailed various countries/autonomous regions like Afghanistan, North Korea, Chechnya, giving each one a danger ranking while providing tips on how to move around, where to eat, who to look out for etc.
Very fun though if written today, the beaches of these United States would rank the most dangerous of all, or at least would have one month ago.
Surfing outlawed, standing still while gazing at the ocean outlawed, eating Asian fusion cuisine within a chopstick throw of the beach outlawed. Much police officer harassment. Many bullhorns used at maximum volume.
Restrictions have, thankfully, started to relax but are our beaches any safer?
The answer, sadly, is no and let us fly, metaphorically, to the Sunshine State where a man soaking in some vitamin D was run over by a large police SUV.
A man lying on a Florida beach was injured Friday after an officer drove a police cruiser over him, authorities said.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, William Koziarz, 66, of Michigan, was taken to an area hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Deputies said Indian Shores Police Department Officer Natasha Hindman, 27, was driving a fully marked 2018 Ford Explorer police cruiser Friday at 6 p.m., WTSP reported.
Hindman had just begun her beach patrol and was driving slowly along the sand when the left tires of her vehicle drove over Koziarz’s hips, the Times reported.
According to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office, Hindman stopped and immediately gave aid until paramedics arrived.
But have you ever seen anyone become run over by law enforcement on a beach? What about a surfboard?
I have only seen a lifeguard cruelly bulldoze a made-with-love drip sandcastle that took me over an hour.
Very sad.
A beach inspector parked up near our gear on a chilly winter morning a few years back to check the rip current. Then proceeded to run straight over my board snapping fins and putting a hole in the deck. My wife went nuts as our toddler daughter was sitting there moment before. I negotiated a healthy cash settlement from the terrified dude who didn’t want to tell his boss. Wife still wasn’t happy. So I shouted her a babysitter and an sweaty tequila-soaked overnight getaway at a coastal retreat. And I went board shopping. Everyone wins.
What the hell is a beach inspector??
A friend of friends was run over by a 4WD on the beach where he laid his head after a big night on the tiles. Fucked him up big time for a few years physically, learning to walk again after 4 months in hospital with crushed pelvis. Sounds like Michigan man was lucky.
There was also the wonderful case in the UAE of a local guy who kidnapped a business partner who he had a disagreement with, took him out in the desert and filmed the ex-partner (I assume), dancing while he shot at the sand at his feet with an AK-47. Then partially buried him in the sand and drove over him with the car. All filmed on the phone of local guy’s driver. The guy got off because ‘he was affected by drugs/alcohol and so not his usual self’. Try using that excuse as an ex-pat there and see how you go. Check it: https://www.theguardian.com…
Cunt of a region.
Well sure, if you look at that in isolation. But I did get to surf some peachy beachies and points in Oman by myself.
you love em. conservative like u.
Fuck could of at least run over a SUP
About 30 something yrs ago a few mates and myself were sitting in our Valiant station wagon in front of the Lennox lifesaving club late one night after the pub and were about to spark up a fat one when the cops pulled up and made us empty the back of the wagon and searched it for contraband.
When none was found they drove off so we finally sparked up. Very nice hash too.
About half an hour later in a stony haze, the driver, a bloke we call ‘The Duck’ suddenly starts the car and guns it in reverse.
Straight over our pile of boards.
Two were snapped, two had the fins broken off and two were a bit dinged.
‘The Duck’ was even less popular than normal after that…
The new face of….evil?
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Oh man… I feel bad for her.
where’s the shot of this cunt from Michigan?
I find her to be attractive so I would have told her that it was no big deal and not to worry about it.
Unfortunately, this happens from time to time. Fortunately, sand is soft and relatively forgiving.
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TLDR: Hawaiins surfers are like Floridians who will use everything they have to get you out of the beach (i.e. coconuts)
The importance of having ones automobile on the sand eclipses the second amendment in Florida.