"Safe travels and hopefully you are mowing more foam, and ripping again somewhere better."
It was reported here yesterday that a 26-year-old surfer was killed by a fatal shark attack a mile south of Manresa State Beach, very near Santa Cruz. He was surfing 100 yards from the shore, at about 1:30 in the afternoon, when the attack occurred and was pronounced dead at the scene from a leg injury.
Today, it was revealed that the surfer, Ben Kelly, was a local shaper.
Per his Ben Kelly Surfboards website:
I am a self-taught shaper bringing the core fundamentals of board building into a fresh new mindset and clean modern feel that works for you! I love the process of creating: taking something raw and formless and making it into something both functional and aesthetic. This involves working directly with surfers where they are at in their surfing journey and equipping them to take the next step.
Disbelief and sadness are being expressed on his Instagram account with fellow shaper at Route One Surfboards writing:
you were doing it brotha!!!! Your quick rise and hard work was inspirational and it is really hard to think that the central coast is all of a sudden going to have to move on without you. So much love to you and your family. Safe travels and hopefully you are mowing more foam, and ripping again somewhere better.
Capitola and surrounding beaches remain closed.
I thought you hit the sod off button? bored much?
This is the last effort I’ll offer you. It’s only just so sad because you have nothing better to do than to absolutely destroy something that Derek and Chas created with a light heart and humour in hoping to capt an ironic and intellectual conversation until you came plowing through with your fucking misery, Ben Marcus.
The rest of us have lives, kids, jobs, get out for the odd one and are giddy to joke about a bit. You have killed that entirely, for everyone. It would be something if you were clever, active, integrated and someone we all respected, like others present here, but you are full of weight, hate, frustration and failure, and instead of absorbing your lack of pertinence in grace and humour, you lash out, at precisely who you interpret to be the weakest link because you sure as hell cannot go for the alphas.
Why do you feel the need to question my legitimacy as a mother, a surfer, a woman? It was never in question, however yours has always been so. You do not even know me. You haven’t surfed since I was 16 and that was 34 years ago. The fact that the only place that anyone will tolerate you is an online website with a groove, jive and irony that you’ll never possess amd needs to become the spot you haunt uninvitedly in order to talk shit like someone cared what you said and insult a person like myself to the point that I file traces and restraining orders against you may just be the moment you need question your motives.
You’re a phony.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
All those that hate me as Ben Marcus claims, raise your hands in “Aye!”
Ben Marcus doesn’t hate you, you hate yourself.
Yes. Apparently, Ben Marcus. Which is why you’ve been called a monkey and an idiot and all sorts of other things by people who are not me. And agreed, I must hate myself because you said so and you have not seen me since I was 15 years old. Does your van have heating, at least?
Yes. Apparently, Ben Marcus. Which is why you’ve been called a monkey and an idiot and all sorts of other things by people who are not me.
By idiots and monkeys and anonymous surfer dolts on BitchGripe. Remember when surfers were cool? What happened?
And agreed, I must hate myself because you said so and you have not seen me since I was 15 years old.
Well young and dumb is better than old and dumb, most likely.
Does your van have heating, at least?
Van is retired and in storage in Washington. Right now sitting in the yard of a house on Malibu Road, arguing with idiots on Breitbart, cooled by the afternoon onshores, listening to Rolling Stones on Sirius XM, wating for the girls to bring dinner from the Old Place (Remember the Runman videos? Morgan was the Run, and he now runs the Old Place)
It’s kinda nice, really.
Yep. That’s for sure. Now, let’s compare educational parcourses, professional itineraries, existing contractual agreements and the entities providing them, the fact that you have no progeny before you discuss mine and the fact that you never… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
The worst thing is that he hates me for all he wished he had the balls to do, but didn’t. And along came a little girl who did. That’s not a coherent reason to hate a little girl, much less call her crazy because she accomplished what terrified him. 🤦🏼♀️
You haven’t accomplished anything.
He’s not really that smart. If he was, he wouldn’t be living in a van and lying all the time, or at least he would know how to lie better.
So in fact, silencing a voice of reason (that also happens to be feminine) is more important to you than silencing Ben Marcus’ deluge of delusional brain-vomit that has clogged the siphon of reason and is going to ruin your shitty site even faster than you could have imagined? Between Ben Marcus, the person who threatens people from his “home town,” except no one recalls ever surfing with him and Sean Volland, the psycho-bitch from hell who never made it out of the ECSA 14-and-unders and Jen See’s fucking grey-pinkish blather, you’ve got a full plate destined for success. Go, Ben Marcus, Go! Team Win! 🤣🙌😅
She’s quite mad you know.
A combination of P.M.C, maternal guilt and just going troppo.
Lack of brains lack of relevance.
A common problem among commoners.
Are you willing to explain to me why you’d describe my adversary as a lower hominid, but delete my comments and leave his crazed nonsense? Are you that desperate for attention? Yes. I’ve filed restraining orders against that creepo in the state of California. Are you okay with that?
Proceed.
“Crazed nonsense” indeed.
To paraphrase John Lennon: “Isn’t it a pity, isn’t it a shame, what age and disappointment does to formerly nice girls, and makes them so lame.“
Sorry, George Harrison. He’s underrated by the way.
Oh and as for wanting to be “One Of Us.”
This is what happens to Some Of You:
https://www.magzter.com/art…
Top right on someones comment is a drop down menu. Push the block button on Ben and hey presto he’s gone.
Or continue to argue pointlessly and in extremely poor form under a article about a fellow Surfer who was tragically killed.
Yes. thank you.
Just hit the sod off buitton.
This might be the only human communication she has, or she might just like abuse.
Whatever. Another lost soul in the surfing world.
There’s plenty of them.
Can you just do that for me? I’ll try, but he keeps coming back under 100 different pseudos to snark. It’s evidently all he has to do with his days. I’m busy. I just wanna give you guys a nudge and a laugh and a giggle and move on.
No I cant, its real easy though… click the arrow on their comment and then hit block.
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That really was weird.
No dialogue!
I’m obsessed! equally Beautiful and dark!
Wow that is SO weird. Guess which movie I am watching, right now. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
No kidding.
How could you have know that?
It’s the scene where Tuco takes Blondie to the mission to get patched up, after Bill Carson tells Blondie the name on the grave.
That’s really weird. I watched The Big Short and then finished TGTBATU
I have the same problem with Tuco that I had with Josh Brolin as Tom Cheney in True Grit – his teeth were too white and clean.
Weird.
As for BazzaBitch.
She’s just P.M.C.
It’s becoming more and more common.
Women get older and they just LOSE IT.
Guys a legend!!
Have you seen this? An absolute masterpiece.
https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/r…
This is amazing. Say hi from Genghis
You just go right ahead and send them to anyone you want.
Post them on your website – if you have one.
No one is paying attention to you and if they are, they are crazier than you are.
Nobody cares, and anyone with half a brain knows you’re a nutcase.
You do understand that anyone who reads the above instantly understands who the nutcase is, correct? I’m curious as to how delusional you actually are, Ben. I’ve also got your IP, so I know you can’t hurt me.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
No apologies needed. Seems a bit pointless is all. Nice to see you back, if only briefly.
Not entirely convinced we were wondering.