“The places I liked always became marred by murder.”
In February last year, you’ll remember, a woman was charged with the unlawful stalking of three-time world champ Mick Fanning, breaking into his Hamptons-themed three-storey house with intent and two counts of stealing.
Sarah Foote, a thirty-nine-year-old from Ballina, “an obsessed mother” according to one newspaper, was accused of following Fanning between January 29 and February 4, the break-in of Mick’s pretty beachfront joint in Bilinga allegedly happening on Feb 2.
Fanning saw the mysterious strawberry blonde at the top of the stairs, asked her to beat it, which she did.
Foote was accused of sending four letters (“Rambling hand-written letters with accusations of pedophilia, declarations of love for Fanning and thoughts of wanting to kill him”), three by post, one personally delivered.
Each included hand-drawn love hearts, a self-portrait by Ms Foote, and one contained a beaded bracelet.
Some excerpts:
“For some reason (which I have (sic) a stab in the dark (pardon pun) at), we got on so much better when I thought you were someone else,” she wrote.
“Nasty voices … your voice gets nasty too sometimes …”
“I occasionally want to kill you … to end our occasional miserable bullshit … I wouldn’t want to end our best times though. Because I have so much love for you and I would like to see what’s in store for future for us two.”
“You really are a strange man.”
“What is wrong with you? Or for that matter, what is right with you?”
“I can be a real bitch.”
“The places I liked always became marred by murder.”
“I have smelt a murdered corpse in Rockhampton. She was very stinky, worse than any road kill I have ever smelt.”
“I met a kiddie killer, she smothered her baby. Only spent a year in a psychiatric hospital, then was released only to murder another child.”
“IDK when we will incarnate again together in this world.”
“I love you.”
“I also like looking at your photos. Especially in your book … I know that you know what I just did.”
The crown prosecutor said Foote now “acknowledges going to his house was going a bit far.”
The judge hit Foote with a fifteen-month prison sentence with immediate release on parole.
Friends of Foote, meanwhile, have rallied around their pal.
“Fucking asshole rich dude with his expensive lawyer and douche bag reporters shaming you like this,” wrote one. “So so sorry this is all happening sweet heart. Hope u ok. Stay strong, and big hugs and hankies from me…”
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She put her Foote in her mouth. Maybe she can get a cameo on Coffey’s site?
Mick better watch out, her friends seem like real darlings, too.
This bird belongs in a mental hospital not prison
What is it with Australians surfers and stalkers? Doesn’t Steph have one too?
I never really got into the bottle opener footwear thing. too hard to clean dog shit of the bottom.
“Rambling hand-written letters” is why I love this blog.
Seems legit…..
Nuttier than a bag full of squirrel shit..!!
“hugs and hankies”.
both are pretty frowned upon these days.
but “waves from the other side of the street and sneezing in your arm” isn’t nearly as catchy.
Maybe she was the one who told Mick that Chas was a “Fucking Jew™️“ and that’s where the relationship went south.
I mean if he’s right he’s right
Not me…I’m not a Chubby Chaser™️.
Dear Slim…
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Goofy Foote ? Possibly driven mad by being surrounded by right hand point-breaks …. Wondering if this obsession with the world’s right hand point-break specialist would have occurred if Ms Goofy Foote lived in Peru or on ,let’s say , the the Bukit Peninsula ?
She doesn’t appear to be the sort put-off by going backside.
Nothing exists without its opposite ….let’s just just hope she puts her best Foote forward in the future
I grew up surfing backside to the Goldy points. And spent a bit of time seeking/searching through Indonesia. Does this explain my part in Trump’s downfall?
Let us hope he is Left Right out …..
opposites attract, Mick’s a regular foote.
Yeah but what did she say to you Dez? Was she keen? Just take one for us
I’d post the Hurluley X Foote signature corkscrew sandal again, but I can’t be arsed finding it.
She sounds pretty corkscrew.
I was going to say something , but was afraid to put my Foote in my mouth ?
I dont get all the fuss…insanity, love, obsession, occasional fantasies of murder…sounds pretty much like any normal, successful marriage
Life is always stranger than fiction !
I had a stalker once. She used to send me these weird Valentines day cards signed “charlie” and disturbing messages on the voicemail at night. One time I picked up the phone and demanded who the fuck she was. She was ranting (it was creepy as fuck) and said “you should know, you fucked me in Torquay!” I said “sorry honey I never fucked anyone in Torquay, you must have me mixed up with my brother!”
Phone calls stopped after that 😀
What’s with phone obsession?
I had a stalker too, but she was an ex
She rang me non stop for an hour or so, so I left the phone off the hook.
Over the next 48 hours I put the phone back on maybe 4 times, thinking she surely must have given up…hearing that engaged signal constantly I thought would wear anyone down.
But each time I put the phone back on, within 1 minute, she was calling me again.
I got the number changed
She would break into my car when I went surfing and just sit there honking the horn…called the council on me saying my dog attacked her…wrote me a letter saying she was pregnant. Then two days in a row she parked outside my ex wifes house…and just sat there all day.
I actually then got her dad involved and he sorted it out for me…it was that or the cops
I don’t suppose this girls name was Helen ?
Leave Mrs matic out of this!
Oops sorry Brother Ric …. no offense was intended at your better half ,whose face launched a thousand ships .
Helen Beck?
She was the first girl i dated after splitting from my wife
So you can say after I left my wife, I went through Helen Beck
I feel your pain …. the name Helen still sends shivers down my spine 30 years down the track .
Yeah sorry brother…it all sounds pretty funny unless you’re tge guy in the story
Wont soon forget her old man’s reaction. I had only met him once so I had no idea how that would go down…but instantly I knew…it was very much a…oh no not again moment
I knew I wasn’t the first
Had an ex break into my place, and when I returned late one night from a dud surf weekend and found her asleep in my bed, asked what I was doing there?
Heck, I didn’t realise you were actually Tom Carroll…
She was no Charlie’s Angel ….
Oh Derek, she is not mysterious. Please stop. She is just plain bonkers.
WOW, if only she gets together with Tyler, Meghan and Oprah.
Harry could film it…
Another Irish Film …. a sequel to My Left Foot
Mick’s Left Foote ! with a possible worldwide surfing film franchise leading to Kelly’s broken Foote ?
She’s an absolute mess – but I can’t help thinking Eugene would have bonked her and left Mick to deal with the aftermath.
Mick gonna have to go permanent Eugene when this whack released.
Mate, what Mick has to do is to reject the WSL tit and get himself off that bullshit Get Heated. Neil will probably have a heart attack but fuck him – he’s been on the suck longer than all of them.
But yea, Eug is an X factor. Hahahahar
Mick had the best in/out timing of any pro in history and He still milking many titties.
So you’re saying…eugine got off on the wrong foote?