Human all too human.
Heroes always rise in dark times and Australia’s Gold Coast has been experiencing such recently. The skies opened over that stretch of land and poured much water forthwith which, in turn, swelled rivers and flooded vast stretches. Millions of dollars worth of damage. Properties and fortunes washed away but heroes always rise and, in Australia, the role fell upon a surf champion.
Joel Parkinson, ASP Tour Winner 2012, made headline news, days ago, for saving many people and pets from the deluge and also, yesterday, for castigating a group of semi-adult TikTokers who were disrespecting both gravity and gravitas by sliding down a mud hill.
Well, Australia woke up this morning absolutely rocked by the revelation that sometime in between saving many people and castigating influencers, their moral pillar had, himself, partaken in the sliding.
Heavy.
Does Parkinson’s abject hypocrisy tarnish his reputation?
Will Gold Coast moralists forgive?
More questions than answers.
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You must be really bored at your job or your just a drama queen. Find something to write about drama queen
“Freedom of choice is what you got. Freedom from choice is what you want”.
DEVO 1980
Unfuckingbelievable
The story has developed. The full clip of the tragic battle of Kirra hill showing the mudslingers has been released-
https://www.google.com.au/a…
Who was parkos enforcer? Same dude who drives his jet ski?
Now that’s a good one.
Chas, could you please explain to an old hippy why Parko was angry about mud sliding anyway?
He brushes off a home invasion and his wife’s auto theft, but goes “Get off my lawn” to kids having fun?
Is the slide on his own property?
Property is Theft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
Oh those crazy Chinese. at Defense Language Institute in Monterey we were taught by a former Colonel in the PLA all the good curse words and insults, my favorite was ni ma de chou bi meaning your mom’s stinky pussy.
It’s sounds delicious
Posted this in the other thread, but I was a bit late , such is the fast past nature of the modern news cycle.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
https://youtu.be/w5IOou6qN1o
People who are complaining about ‘damage done to the turf by ex-CT surfers and kids’ are spouting lies. The grass has been sliding down itself and creating mud to make visitors look bad. There are people there who are purely there to help, and are trying to repair the field which used to be there, by de-muddifying the grass.
This is yet another example of dangerous lies spread by those who are determined to destroy the freedom of people who love perfectly clipped clean grass, who are only gently visiting with fertiliser and aeration tools.
The mud is a crisis actor.
free your mud, and the rest will follow
If parko could have ridden his jet ski down that hill to spoil everyone else’s fun and get the best slides of the day, he would have.
That’s exactly what I was about to say re: VONR.
fbi website
All it was is a local “turf war” with real turf.
still have half dozen lp…
Hope the news reader is ok he was a bit excited
In Queensland the literally cum in there pants every time they say Parko or Fanning
Parko is determined not to slide into obscurity
gallina?
Possible Joel League theme tune?
“We didn’t start the Mud Slide”
“Glass Houses is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel”
If those kids press charges he might be thrown in Joel.