Blame Victoria.
In news that sent shivers up the spines of residents living in Australia’s seventh largest city, red barrels marked “Hydrochloric Acid” washed up on the beaches Sunday, exactly one week ahead of the upcoming Rip Curl Newcastle Cup.
Fire and Rescue New South Wales was immediately called to the scene and ordered terrified beachgoers out of the water.
Hazardous materials crews, dressed in neon orange, rushed in once the beach was cleared and carefully cracked it, discovering that it was likely filled with oil, not hydrochloric acid.
Hydrochloric acid is highly irritating much like the voice of Joe Turpel.
Fire and Rescue NSW released a statement reading:
As a precautionary measure, crews closed Shortland Esplanade temporarily while hazardous materials crews could work to safely contain and remove the contents of the drum. While the origin of the drum remains unknown, the area has now been made safe.
Public suspicion immediately turned south, toward Torquay, which has hosted the Rip Curl Pro at its Bells Beach every easter since 1961.
“Doesn’t it just seem too coincidental that the contest was brutally stolen and now this?” someone certainly thought.
It is unclear how the World Surf League plans to secure the area during the running window or if Torquay has anything else planned.
More as the story develops.
Been watching the live cam and you’re right, the sandbars look like hell. I’ll bet they’re going to run it in terrible conditions just to finish it ASAP.
haha ….well we know you and bex are racists….still can’t answer why you seem to be happy representing a paedophile priest ?
I think you left out Troll also…
That looks like a killer forecast for Snapper.. wait..
From the first word of the lead Chas… I just knew a Turpel reference would find its way into this piece… a true gem collaborating breaking news with literary toolbox gems like a simile connecting the voice of Mr. Turpel with the severity on the human body, specifically the ear canals with hydrochloric acid. This right here is why we keep coming back to Beach Grit. Word artists at work you all are.
you never answered why you chose Eugene Green as a forum name as he is a notorious Irish paedophile?.
It’s people like you and Bex that come here incognito and can just troll me with your racist BS, making unfounded accusations making shit up…I know this is the MO for you right wing nutters….who have really done nothing in their lives ….but just for the record , those barrels were sent from Vic and they were fulll of oil…..FFS Hash oil…..ahhhh
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Et tu, Brutus?
There’s something else weird in the shorebreak at Dixon
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What kind of pussies don’t use real hydrochloric acid?
An acid play list
https://youtu.be/yI7nEaCh2Lo
https://youtu.be/6zpWBA9hc4k
https://youtu.be/no1YHRhFr5A
https://youtu.be/OqExR5eO7WI
https://youtu.be/C6V9WBTJlhw
https://youtu.be/SMEJD3-9RlY
https://youtu.be/FEdiOBz4zeM
Just contact the old boys Nat and Fitzy from the “brotherhood of eternal love / rainbow surfboards” its most likely theirs.
you are in the know ….hmmmmm
Enough to leave it at that.
You wear this get up for “hydrochloric acid”, but wear a napkin on your face for the most super duper deadliest virus in the World!? humorous
Is that the same super duper deadliest virus that has successfully dropped all influenza and pneumonia deaths to approximately 10% of the normal yearly averages in most countries ?
Bright side is the way to go
Traffic deaths way down too.
Sad side
Many suicides, and many more to come.
I’m OK, thanks for asking.
Cancer diagnoses way down too.
Much higher survival rate than Covid apparently
Brilliant call from ELO
Goldcoast locked down.
Bad call from Longtom still stands…
Fuck! Meth shortage in Newy! Thoughts and prayers 🙏
Well Gil old man, there’s a first for everything I guess! The Pro’s best stay inside after dark or they may be rolled for their fancy sneakers down Jungo shops.
He gets away with it by paying off Negatroll with free boards.
Fair enuff.
“fair enuff” made me laugh..
Not too woke to joke.
trolling bex the trolling Bullshitter…..no-one get free bds off me!!!
I think it’s really sweet that they coordinated their outfits so as not to clash with the barrels, and you know, let them have their moment.
Clearly a communist plot. I mean the colour gives it away doesn’t it?
Communists don’t do plots. They do ploys.
Like that local ex-CT?
Matt Ploy?
Are you implying that it’s him?!?!?
Yes. I’m plying.
Poor Ployo.
Where’s the E’lo pic?
He is the one on the right.
I’m bored of that.
I dont wish to cast dispersions…but it may be difficult to buy a whiskey at the Great Northern Hotel for the next few days
they breed em tough in newy…and if you have more than 6 teeth, you will never be accepted as a local
I thought that was Stockton
Stockton has the best and shortest straight hander on the East Coast.
Shame, cause 20years ago up the beach could get amazing on a NE swell.
Swell situation not looking good either.
When’s the last time the WSL ran a contest in ideal conditions?
Fuck! I’d been looking for those.
Really one ups the marauding shark panic.
Squirrel’n away Vegemite for the apocalypse?
Wonder how long it was festering in the alley? Did you see everyone with their phones out as the firey’s were lugging it off, just waiting a precious viral moment filmed by them for facey?
Haha yeah I dunno. I just had an op last week and have been out of the water / up the beach so have missed all the latest acid barrel goss. It’s certainly a bad day for poor old pezza tho
It was definitely a scene.
Et tu Brutus?
fuckin’ just wrote the same, sans looking at your previously-arrived upon GENIUS
It wasn’t The People™.
our alibi is airtight. We were on instagram at the time of the crime, ask Ciao
Guess that excludes Kelly too. While we were on Instagram, Kelly was grttin’ off on Instagram.
Maybe it was Ke11’s pulling into in the bazz dodging quarantine?
Gosh I wish I knew what “bazz” means, but regardlessly impolite as it may sound, yes, a total maybe. Stuck at 11, the goat still wrestles with that elusive 12, and it is rumored that at the stroke of midnight, low 12, Kelly may uncage his Instagram mischievousness out into the world under cover of darkness. It may also come to light that Raimana may have unwittingly helped, lead astray by Kelly’s assurances that the barrels were an art installation to pay tribute to the Code Red Swell. Toeing the line he said. Raimana thought Kelly meant towing the line. All of this is of course a maybe mind you,
Bazz = barrel. or Baz, or Bazzaaaahh if you’re feeling extra bogan. Feel free to any, all or none. Cone seems to be gaining some popularity as shorthand for toob as well lately, not for me. I’m a bazz kinda guy, but I am willing change, much like those doochebag actors in the “I Take Responsibility” virtue bukkake tape.
I do like the flight of fancy you’ve taken here Otts and it truly is a matter of time before the master of shade takes a big steamy dump on Newy and all of her fine meth and hezz addled sons and daughters, and by extension our waves. He shan’t need a tow/fluff from big ole rainman for that either! I’m predicting something like a sequence shot post of shady slatey getting coned off his dial and spewed out of an early season Nias kegs and tagging the wsl “sorry, this passes as sick leave right Mr Logan?” while the tour are hoisting 5.7’s in onshore 2ft, shite@ dicko.
Word Ke11.
I finally understand the name Bazza Bitch. RIP.
What was the outcome of the autopsy ?
I never heard any findings about what they decided happened to her. Strange how the story kind of disappeared.