Chaotic scenes as 50,000 spectators flock to Waimea Bay during Eddie Invitational, sixty-four needing rescue, with a woman saved from certain death after almost being washed out to sea while stuck under a log, “Play stupid games, earn stupid prizes, bro!”

"That's so scary! She's stuck under that heavy-ass log!"

You didn’t have to look too far to find a little drama on the North Shore yesterday as spectators jammed every vantage point at Waimea Bay to watch the Eddie Invitational in building twenty-to-forty-foot surf.

Rescues, and there were sixty-four of ‘em as well as 10,500 warnings handed out by lifeguards, included a fourteen-year-old boy who lost consciousness after he fell ten feet out of a tree while trying to get a better view of the waves and the woman, below, who was filmed being dragged out to sea while holding onto a log.

Almost as wild as the event is the droll commentary.

 

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“On no! Is there someone on that log,” says a woman. “She’s stuck on the log! Someone needs to help her! That was fucked up. She was stuck under that heavy-ass log.”

“What did I say? Play stupid games, earn stupid prizes, bro!” replies a man.

Slightly further afield near Pipe, a woman was sent to ER after being belted by a concrete barrier just behind the lifeguard tower and at a beachfront house nearby, a baby was washed under it after the joint was hit by a wave.

 

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