Extreme drama.
Joel Parkinson, longtime fixture on the Association of Surfing Professionals’ Championship Tour, was best known for his effortlessly stylish approach to wave dancing. His smooth, born and bred on Australia’s Gold Coast, won him many admirers that reminisce together to this very day and also, once, a slap from a bodyboarder though that may have had more to do with something else.
The 2012 champion was recently spotted helping ferry flood victims to safety on a sled while his wife’s car was being stolen.
No good deed going unpunished etc.
Well, Parkinson had an opportunity, yesterday, to release some pent up anger at a gaggle of… not kids but not adults either… who were enjoying a mudslide.
The pell-mell, mostly caught on camera and posted to various social medias, was titled “This guy tried to bash us for going down a mudslide in the Gold Coast” and included the caption:
This is @joelparko ex professional surfer . Picking on young people trying to have some fun in hard times. Actually getting violent towards them. @wsl. Who do you think you are? we have all seen videos of you and your idiot mates running amok when you were younger. Why don’t you grow up, you want respect? You have to give it to earn it ..@ripcurl_aus
I do believe the insult “you smell like an old man’s fart,” or some variation, is used in the melee but there are, likely, many more so best to watch with a pen and paper in order to capture.
Back to the “young people,” though. Would you call the sliders “young?” I’m having a real tough time categorizing them. Help?
But, most importantly, where do you fall? #TeamParko or #TeamSlide?
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
At the end of the full treatment course, the disease is totally under control. No case of dementia, hallucination, weakness, muscle pain or tremors. family doctor started me on Health Herbs Clinic Parkinson’s Disease Herbal mixture, 2 months into treatment I improved dramatically. At the end of the full treatment course, the disease is totally under control. No case of dementia, hallucination, weakness, muscle pain or tremors. visit healthherbsclinic . c o m
Fo shizzle, my go-rizza.
Stupid tit head
repurpose…
Joel would def be a trumper if he lived here.
I like parko more now. Just a local heavy doing local heavy things
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Classic
Fair enuff
If those little pricks came to my yard, and tucked it all up with their “having fun” bullshit, and then mouthed off when I told them to leave: I’d throw all those fuckers, head first down that hill. There could be slaps involved (wrestling slaps; not ear drum breaker). Maybe some knee on belly, and/or a well placed forearm in the neck. Little punks. They should have just said sorry, we’re leaving.
It’s not his yard it’s a public park that parko put on tv doing the exact same thing days earlier.
No one gives a shit.
I’m told locals ( parko doesn’t even live in Coolangatta) told him to sort it out because every cunt had seen it/him on tv and driving down from Brisbane to have a go.
You want blow up? How about the looters ripping people off!
It’s nothing. The whole northern rivers has been washed away and people are blowing up about some grass on Kirra fucken hill?
Ffs
No, I don’t want to “blow up.” haha.
Bullshit. You’d just go inside, close the door and hope they’d go away
Wouldn’t ever happen to me; but if those Instagram donkeys did come to our culdasac, they wouldn’t mouth off. The XL pitbulls, pig jaws, etc., are deterrent enough. But yeah, if you don’t know how to defend yourself, you should just do what you would do, go inside, close the door, and grumble. Non-violence is always the right way, but sometimes it’s fun to teach people lessons.
I wouldn’t react to something so benign as a couple of dickheads sliding down a hill but you do you champ
Doesn’t look so “benign” to me. Looks like they messed up that hill in the name of “fun.” If fun is an excuse for messing up public spaces, well then, that’s the weird world you live in. It makes sense you wouldn’t “react,” which is what most people would do, not react.
Sounds like you need a hug bro
You want grumpy!? Some of the judgmental commenters on here are tarred with same camel cock breath colonge as these oxygen thiefs who get cheap thrills destroying nature and/or giving the finger to the majority of the general public (well it was a nicely groomed lawn).
All well and good for kids to slide down wet grass after rain but that situation at Kirra went well beyond reasonable fun antics.
Unfortunately the GC City council, who days ago said that they were monitoring the situation, did fuck all.
Good on Parko for standing up for sense and reason, and you finger pointers can keep sucking camel cocks!
In honour of this fateful event I have created a small batch of commemorative bees wax candles.
I have amalgamated the time honoured scents of Old mans fart with Camel cock breath and tied it together with BG commenters Old dick cheese.
Pls follow the link below to purchase.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/…
I clicked, genuinely hoping for a cock-shape candle.
Yeah I blame the local government!!!
Grass is a waste of space and energy for the most part. Absolutely shit for biodiversity. A bit here and there is fine for amenity, but FFS who cares about this bit of mud. Worst thing that’ll happen is someone will be employed for a couple of days to fix it. Helps the local economy.
Be hard to keep a nose like that out of others’ business
Sadly almost no one under 60 even knows about the chambers bros. While “before my time”, I was weird enough to buy records from the thrift store while everyone else started buying cds. I think almost every record I found that had the red Columbia 360 Sound label had at least some redeeming qualities.
Parko proof that if you build it and put it on tv….they will come-
https://fb.watch/bFbZJxnPed/
What a dead set fukwit
What an absolute knob!
Ouch
whata fuckin hypocrite!
Are these those Imma Island Boy singers?
Dude, if true you gotta post a link or something to that.
““Have some respect,” Parkinson said as he moved to de-escalate the situation.
Parkinson has since told The Courier-Mail, the camera used “ended up in the mud”.
“They weren’t hurting anyone but I just thought it was disrespectful with everything the community was going through with the floods.
“I’d put up a slip ‘n’ slide up for the kids on the first day of the rain but these guys were adults, we’d had two days of sun, the hill reeked of mud and they’d climbed over a fence the council had put up.””
https://www.news.com.au/spo…
It was on the local news as well with him sliding down it.
I have zero idea why it’s a big blowup now, no one cares.
This guy, summing it up.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
His IG is pretty on point too.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Rip Curl and the WSL are going to be very disappointed in this carry on.
Oh JMD gunna come down harrrrrrd on this one.
Why did they even tag Rip Curl when he’s sponsored by Billabong?
Out of respect for AI maybe?
The Search continues…
Parko joins the Fun Police! A snap shot of Australia now, forget the ‘Happy go lucky she will be right mate’ rhetoric. Australia by and large is a nation of small minded petty narc’s.
That’s totally different, totally, I dunno how but it must be?
Funny how the whole lefty crowd on here are outraged
Get a life, fun police.
Parko is a hard right JW.