You seen that before? Drive you nuts?
You’ll remember, of course, the surfer-turned-citizen cop Chad Towersey.
His Instagram account @ocinstanews is a treasure chest of gotcha journalism, Towersey’s leering mask behind the telephone camera a source of terror for Orange County wrongdoers.
The lantern-jawed Towersey aka Unkle Tito, who is forty-three, became the toast of mainstream American media one month ago after a video appeared on his Instagram page showing a gal gone wild in a three-wheeled SUV.
A brief recap,
Let us travel, together, to Newport Beach, California, where our scene unfolds in broad daylight. For here we witness a surf caricature, floppy blonde hair, sunglasses, attempting to parallel park a white older model Mercedes station wagon festooned with an orange longboard.
The “Chad” pulls up, cellphone out and ready, declaring, “Ahhh, now you’re hitting cars, bro, come on,” in classic west coast whine.
The “surfer” flashes a peace sign and responds, “Get a job, Chad. Is that your name? Chad? Go and hit up some açaí berries.”
Surfer girlfriend, girl friend or wife then appears as Chad tries to warn her not to get hit, that “He’s hitting cars.”
She says, “Dude, I know who you are.” He says, “Stop touching me.”
And the whole business devolves from there.
Towersey, who removed the video from his page soon after it appeared because the man in wagon said he was getting teased by Newport Beach locals, says the crude parking wasn’t even the worst of his crimes.
“It was a hot summer’s day and if you’re waiting for a parking spot you pull over so people can go around,” says Towersey. “And this was the most irritable thing. He was double parked and he had ten cars backed up for eight minutes. Not every street in Newport allows you to do it, but on this street you can. If you have half a brain, you pull over to the right. And then I pull up and watch him trying to park and he’s playing bumper cars.”
You seen that before?
Drive you nuts?
Mall, beach, and traffic backs up because one person is determined to jump into a particular car space and to hell with how long it takes?
Almost enough to turn a man into a lethal jack-in-the-box, ain’t it?
The correct response, as Towersey states, is to pull over and allow traffic to pass or move on until you find a vacant parking spot.
Or is he wrong?
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On a related note, if anyone saw me driving my truck from Wahiawa to Haleiwa with my coffee mug on the roof, don’t worry. It arrived safe, secure and still steaming hot.
Also Japan, a 99.8% conviction rate. Guilty until proven innocent.
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There once was a Manchild who needed to surf, but there was but little parking. However, he had his Betty with him and had to shred, so he asked a Chad to help him park. The Chad said “sure Manchld I will indeed help you”, but just then the Chad pulled out his phone and began to film. Manchild said “hark! I know you are a Chad, but why must you film? Do you not know that if you post this we both shall be shamed!?” But alas, the Chad replied “Manchild, I must. For I am a Chad, and it is my nature.”
Life will always find away.
That’s it, I’m moving to Japan!
You can’t, you may visit but never stay. There Emperors very strict on this
I wouldn’t like to live in a country that would have me!
Come to Aussie, we don’t give a fuck either way , so long you pay cash and lots of it, we’d have ya
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this rant on golf course is the bomb and should be the status quo for every surf event
Excellent !
Great use of the vernacular by both.
Commendable all round effort.
I didn’t realize Bexy played golf!
Heard on 3aw radio here in Melbourne last week that Victorians have a very bad reputation in Queensland as the most entitled, self-centered of all visitors.
TrafficGrit is my favourite.
Got any more almost minor parking infringement news.
All roads end up on the coast so it’s all fair game.
Lather me with your dashcam footage.
I’m just an old man on the internet.
I’m really missing France after my recent adventure, just parking like an absolute cunt wherever and it’s normal.
Cunt buy me love!
Okay, seeing as you asked so nicely xox
Ya know… like the song…*can’t buy me love…cunt. xoxo
Fuck yeah cunt xox
Roads? Where we’re going …we don’t need roads!
A classic. https://beachgrit.com/2022/…