"Coolangatta. Beautiful place with a horrible vibe."
Despite its superficial dazzle, Australia’s Gold Coast ain’t always the pretty, warm-water paradise you might imagine.
Kelly Slater keeps a three-million dollar pied-à-terre in a suburb they call “meth alley.”
As one resident wrote on a forum,
“Palm Beach. Full of druggies and bogans and has a very high crime rate. Last time I was down there, there was a chap on his balcony with guns to two people’s heads screaming and yelling. The SERT team came out and ushered us all into random people’s garages and stormed the unit complex. From what I heard afterwards the ended up shooting the dude from the road. It was like something off TV! Time before that the local video shop was broken into. It’s getting worse. Really beautiful beach though.”
As is the case is these sorta places, it don’t take much for matters to escalate real fast.
Like this wild melee at Snapper rocks as a surfer rains hellfire on a kid bodyboarder who’s dropped in on him, only to get a beat down from a former pro booger who dispenses a right hook of his own, a difficult manoeuvre while prone.
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The response is instructive.
“Coolangatta. Beautiful place with a horrible vibe.”
“There’s no etiquette at Snapper, worst place in the world for snaking, drop ins and general fuckery.”
“Hi everyone. My brother and I are coming over from W.A next month and I was just wondering where the best place to get snake-bashed would be?”
“Punching a kid multiple times in the head because he drops in on you on 3-foot wave is weak and embarrassing at best.”
“A drop-in has consequences. That’s why the GC is a cesspool.”
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Drop in’s should be discouraged at an early age, however smashing a kid in the head is inexcuseable. Justice rightly sevreved here though, being caught on film getting beaten up by a gut slider and now witnessed globaly. It will be a horrible existance as the bloke who beats up kids and gets beaten up by dick draggers
Classic Mike Damone move. What a little bitch.
Get your boogie on .. 🤣 when did it become an offence to slap a booger 👎
Must be awkward if you actually knock someone out in the water.
Obviously the goofy footer mini mal rider who hassled for what was the lid’s wave is not a local. Good chance that, like a fair percentage of the crowd, he’d just arrived off a JetStar flight from Sydney!
Gold Coast. Who was that guy, Mick Fanning?
So far the trial seems to be leading over the boarder and a name has been mentioned, I suspect our child basher will be avoiding all line ups for quite a while. Could be a little worried about how it plays out for his employment too I’m told.
Ahhh, social media…I think I’d rather a smack to my head than have this all over the internet for the rest of my life!
Social media is a tool of the surveillance state
Classic bully behaviour. Hit the smallest one you’re sure won’t fight back. Go the discussion route when a bigger one comes for you.
It’s exactly how most people parent until their kids outgrow them.
I was honestly hoping for footage of Parko smackin the kid for dropping him, juxtaposed with footage of him dropping in on someone a week earlier. A La the flood mud slide TikTok youths. Instead we get this.
Here is some classic Fanning burning a grom and Rip Curl wondering why kids don’t buy there shit. Hope it helps-
https://tracksmag.com.au/mi…
filming and posting a dust up is far worse than engaging in one
“…there was a chap on his balcony with guns to two people’s heads” I thought there wasn’t any gun crime in Australia, lol
Watch very beginning, stink-bug goofy foot back-paddles the boogie boarder guy.
your social problems are girlish and i’ll tell the tranny longboarder that to her face
Should change the title of the article, cause the standup snakes the lid at the start of the video… wasn’t a drop in.
Yet the other day everyone was cheering a guy stuffing a 14 yo kid. can everyone pick a fucking lane for christ sake!
It looks like that hook connected quite nice with that precious little chin.
Looked weak as f
The second body boarder didn’t do anything.
He padded away in fear when the surfer got on his board.
1st body boarder got what he deserved.
Though he should have just run him over
Look at the beginning of the video, the standup snakes the bodyboarder.
Teenage Boogie boarders go last.
In the old days he would have known to respect his elders or face the consequences.
I’m 52 and disagree. There was no respect by the snake standup, who didn’t look very old.
52 is old to be clueless.
Gotta respect yr elders
As your elder , I’m glad that we can agree.
“hes half your age” loserloserloser
Hard to tell, but the whitewater trail from the beginning of the video
appears as if the boogie was paddling wide and the surfer swung and
dropped in behind him as he paddled past.
Standup snakes him for sure…lame
I’m not a proponent of violence esp. in lineups but feels good to see grumpy locals standing up for groms and doing (what appears to be) the right thing.
The assertive finger-pointing-to-the-beach in the end while (what probably is a massive) dickhead surfer cowards out is too good.