"Four police officers arrived and made us get out of the water, but it didn't take us long to get back into the water.”
The Coronavirus Apocalypse sure has exposed many heretofore unknown truths. But two months ago who would have ever guessed that surfers, as a whole, are spineless tattletales just waiting to shame fellow surfers and call the police on them for not following the rules?
Who could have imagined that the French, by and large, are a bold, brave people who refuse retreat and will fight to the bitter end?
Certainly not me.
Just days ago, we met Frenchman Dylan Nacass who happened to be surfing Bells Beach when a very near relative of the mighty Great White shark attacked. Did Dylan tuck tail and run? No. He punched that shark twice in the face then calmly paddled to shore where he stripped down to the national uniform (trim underpants) and threw shakas (watch here).
And today? Today we have an unruly pack of Cannes surfers who mocked the law keeping them out of the water by paddling into some very attractive Mediterranean waves. When the gendarmerie came motoring across the sea to bark them out do you think they quickly formed a puppet gendarmerie force, much like collaborationist surf media Stab magazine, in order to enforce the “no surfing” rules?
No.
But we must read the rest of this inspiring story together and now.
A group of surfers in Cannes, in southeast France, defied a government ban to take to the waves on Monday amid a debate over whether beaches should continue to be closed to the public to stop the spread of Covid-19.
“It’s so much fun, we’ve got the waves, the sun,” one surfer, named Adrien, told Reuters.
The group of around a dozen surfers were in the water for about two hours, before local police arrived in a patrol boat to force them to leave the beach.
“We surfed for what? Two hours? Four police officers arrived and made us get out of the water, but it didn’t take us long to get back into the water,” said Nicolas, a Belgian surfer living in France.
France’s beaches, closed since March, have become a battleground in the debate over how far government restrictions to control the spread of the pandemic should go.
And now let us sing.
Allons enfants de la Patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L’étendard sanglant est levé,
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes!
Aux armes, citoyens
Formez vos bataillons
Marchons, marchons!
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!
I love French tits. Been a while since I indulged in that delicacy.
Delightful
They’re room temp straight from the pantry – hard little biscuity things covered in tomato & cheese flavouring.
So in your own words, you’re use this public comments section as a private messaging feedback loop platform with Otto and sometimes SSD.
Maybe exchange email addresses? Or occupy an old comments thread? I’m more than happy to brainstorm some other ideas with you.
This is a shark. No, This is a shark. Should have had Jaws theme playing. Bruce lives. Where are Discovery’s Shark Men when u need em ?
I made do with some pizza shapes and a glass of Glen Moray single malt last night. Might not have been better… I actually lead a rather sad existence.
you are so right…..now 84% of American/Republicans believe that the Don is right , and only 72% trust Faucci……because , ” they injected the bleach and he was right, the malaria drug will fix it , the Virus will just disappear , everyone can get tested etc…”
check out ….ya can’t make this shit up….http://disq.us/p/2991fvj
If I was given to repeating myself, I would be tempted to once again express my dissatisfaction at the term “surfers” bring used in this article…but I shan’t
Once again I shall suffer in silence
The first “ride” was exactly what I expected to see.
Plus one of them was Belgian.
Haha yeah, when I saw the image on screen I was thinking…just stay on your knees son…he should have
The bar cant possibly be set any lower? Surely
It’s all a hoax buddy…I think you guys got about 80,000 or so hoaxes
I guess to some that notion of respecting our precious elders…supporting them whist they age gracefully, pass on in comfort and dignity…surrounded by loved ones, is somewhat aaah…overrated?
I was in France when the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protests kicked off. The WHOLE country was protesting and shutting things down to protest the pension reform among other things. I’d say the French are MUCH more likely to protest and stand up for their rights than we are.
Maybe they can’t fight in a war, but I gained a lot of respect for them. Especially rolling up to one of their roadblocks burning tires and walking around with machetes and hammers. Gendarme there just looking at each other like wtf.
Viva la revolution!
“Don’t wanna eat the last bit that jumps over the faince.”
Hahahahar