"YOU DON'T OWN SURFING!"
“Surf rage” etc. etc. has become quite the topic in these the triggered years of our lives and, thanks to social media, surf ragers are vociferously named and shamed.
Take a recent incident in Malibu where well-known local Andy Lyon and a young single-finner became entangled.
In a video posted to Instagram, Lyon took out a bit of anger on the offending board which led, directly, to the end of his professional life.
The Instagram account, it must be noted, was created directly for publicly lynching Lyon with a handle @andylyonsisakook.
View this post on Instagram
The caption reading:
This is Andrew (Andy) Hollis Lyon (59) of Malibu, stealing and destroying a young persons surfboard, simply because they took off on a wave that Andy had decided was his.
This is a “man” who has run for @cityofmalibu Council, intimidating a young person and aggressively damaging their property in full view of the public.
After hearing from locals who are familiar with Andy, it is apparent that this is not an isolated incident. Andy has a reputation for behaving aggressively while surfing, and seems to be under the impression that because he is an OLD local, he has the right to behave this way.
We believe that Andy should be held accountable for his actions, and feel that this needs to be brought to the attention of the wider community, as well as the surfing community as a whole, to show that this sort of behavior is not acceptable.
Andy is a Malibu resident, and has worked in the Real Estate industry, most recently for @theagencymalibu (@theagencyre).
We are asking you to please share this video around, so that anyone associating with Andy is made aware of his violent behavior, and to also bring attention to a side of surfing that is present, but not welcome, in the community.
Well.
Lyon’s employer, a boutique real estate agency in Malibu, tagged in the post, instantly and publicly fired the man though the mob is still demanding more publishing his address, phone numbers, email address and penning,
“The internet doesn’t care who you think you are. You don’t get to behave like a criminal because of some self appointed hierarchy that only exists within your own group of old junkies. YOU DON’T OWN SURFING!”
The internet.
Do you trust the internet to mete proper justice?
Would you prefer it to rule over your trial?
Down with the mob?
Moreover, have you ever surf raged but only lucky enough not to be caught on camera?
Share your story and get fired old school!
Andy is confused.
Malibu is a wave for old men, kids and girls.
Not old men who beat up on kids and girls.
He deserves the Angie Reno/Matt Johnson treatment.
Not sure this guy Shane Lotz is a “kid”?
Dude looks like he’s in his 20’s, shaves, has a job, drives a car…
just saying.
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Does Andy own a dog?
Andy and the guy who posted the video are both idiots. People are so weak these days.
“YOU DON’T OWN SURFING!”
No, but Dirk Ziff does.
Anyone who plays the “l’m a local” card and burns someone deserves to be vilified. Is a local a tax-paying property owner who bought into the area last year, or is it the guy living in his van who’s been surfing the same break since he was in the 10th grade? I’m down in Oaxaca; the guys from the village where I’m currently residing take any wave they want whenever they want – does that suck? Yeah. Is it fair? No. Are there too many surfers on an excellent right point? Yes (30?) It used to be that you could have a great session surfing the waves the locals passed on, but now it’s a madhouse fighting for anything that slips through. This is my last trip here. I’m heading back to where I’m a local so I can burn these fucks! Vilify me…
That place was so good less than 5 years ago now all the idiots posting endless videos of “perfect rights in Mexico” have turned it into a zoo. A lot of the secret spots used to be empty now you have to pay somebody to surf any of them. There’s still uncrowded waves in Mex but not in that area. Dam shame. Hope the “pros” got enough YT views to get a 12 pack
turn down the humidity and heat before you leave as i am sweating bullets in VTA, CA.
Yes !
The Hippy was buried in the Haight in ’67
Just shelve it next to ‘angry mom gets angry at teenage queue jumper in the dry fruits counter at whole foods’.
Sorry but can’t support anything done by a boutique estate agent riding shit waves in a crowded spot.
Jonah will get triggered if you keep using the ‘Shelving’ word.
Sorry got lost there – is ‘shelving’ just poor grammar, or is it some type of minority niche sexual orientation i.e getting aroused from reorganizing shelves: ‘did some awesome shelving today with some random buff guys at walmart i’m so tired now, need a nap’
Either way sorry jonah, didn’t mean to offend bro all good peace out!
It means to hide drugs or other contraband up one’s ass to smuggle it somewhere.
Unless you work retail in which case it just means… Uh.
Oh I see it now.
My street cred just got shelved.
this is all child’s play…now, take for instance…
Woodstock 99…250K naked whiteys (boys and girls)…no water, no toilets…Korn, Bush, Limp Bisqit, fueled with booze and drugs…
now that’s a riot!
set out to watch U.S. Open the other day… couldn’t get through 2 heats before I went over to Netflix and binge-watched that entire Trainwreck docu-series… the 90’s were truly the final days of days we didn’t appreciate ’til it was too late – except those 1/2 inch thick, 17.5 wide thrusters we thought were for us…
KG: my first custom-shaped boards were similar to Ben Aipa’s…2-3/4″ thick, 18-1/2″ wide…your’s was 1/2″ thick…I suspect a typo? like some of the crap I posted and later erased from last night…could have caused a riot!
Maybe that’s all that’s breaking within an hours drive?
Are there not also repercussions with friendly gentlemen who are missing a finger or two and collect tattoos hidden beneath otherwise business-like attire?
Tokyo Vice was legit cik
Fucking instagram warriors … society is going backwards
I thought we decided at BG that all the commentariat would paddle on whatever wave they wanted at their local????
I think the actual goal is to affect an air of insouciance in which one almost does not even see anyone else, let alone rage at them.
BG editorial:
Post-pandemic: The six-foot social distance gap on land is fine and should be decreasing…but in the water we (the commentariat) kindly request a 50 meter distance gap and maybe more enforcement!
we say it…we sprayed it!
Not sure how hard this is to digest.
The hippies of the 60’s are the same crew of hippies in the 70’s. Just ten years older.
but by the 70s, they had become Proto-Yuppies
Surf raging at 4-6′ Surfline Bu…Boutique Real estate…ig do-gooder’s…fuck all that shit. Punch em all in the throat.
4 sale…as is…former lagoon property…plant mangroves…
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360 ocean views!
189…recordin…
480 radio…
flauvios/
Andy’s board nearly decapitated a “local” at a point further north on a very large day several years ago to the tune of 15 staples, or something in that neighborhood. He “didn’t see” the victim. So…Karma.
Malibu is dead. Has been for quite some time.
Performance is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
Plot
Chas is a member of an East London gang, led by Harry Flowers; his specialty is intimidation through violence, as he collects pay-offs for Flowers. Chas is very good at his job, and has a reputation for liking it. His sexual liaisons are casual and rough. When Flowers decides to take over a betting shop owned by Joey Maddocks, he forbids Chas to get involved because he feels Chas’ complicated personal history with Maddocks may lead to trouble. Chas is angry about this and later humiliates Maddocks, who retaliates by wrecking Chas’ apartment and attacking Chas, who in turn shoots him, packs a suitcase and runs from the scene.
When Flowers makes it clear that he has no intention of offering protection to Chas, but instead wants him eliminated, Chas decides to head for the countryside to hide out, but after overhearing a musician talk about going on tour and leaving his rented room in Notting Hill Gate, Chas goes there and pretends the musician was a friend who recommended him. He tells Pherber, a woman living there, that he is a fellow performer, juggler Johnny Dean. She lives there with Turner, a reclusive, eccentric former rock star who has ‘lost his demon’, and Lucy, with whom he enjoys a non-possessive and bisexual ménage à trois. Floating in and out of the house is a child, Lorraine.
At first, Chas is contemptuous of Turner, who himself attempts to return the rent paid in advance, but they start influencing each other. Pherber and Turner understand his conflict, and want to understand what makes him function so well within his world. To speed up the process, Pherber tricks him by feeding him a psychedelic mushroom, and Chas accuses her and Turner of poisoning him. He soon accepts it, and in his hallucinogenic state, he experiments with clothing and identity, including the wearing of feminine clothes. Chas opens up, and he begins a caring relationship with Lucy.
Before all this, he phones Tony (a trusted friend who refers to Chas as ‘Uncle’) to help him get out of the country. Flowers and his henchmen use Tony to track Chas to Turner’s flat. They allow him to go and collect his things upstairs. Chas tells Turner and Pherber he is leaving, then shoots and kills Turner before being escorted into Flowers’ car. As the car is driving away, Chas still wears his feminine clothes and wig, but his face is identical to Turner’s.
See also: ‘Behind Her Eyes’ – Netflix
Actually now that I’ve researched the matter, The First Stone was probably actually Brian Jones.
But I’ve never seen him act, so…
Yep, Brian was the guy who put them together & named the band.
I will be sure and never cast him for any roles.
He was fabulous at playing off his scone, but I don’t think he was acting!
No wonder I felt out of place when my parents would drag me along to the free concerts in Golden Gate Park during the ’60s. Hippies were into peace & love; I was into war & destruction.