Davidson's alleged attacker, meanwhile, fronts court on March 9.
Four month ago, the wildly talented Narrabeen shredder Chris Davidson died following an alleged “one-punch assault” outside the grandly named South West Rocks Country Club, five or so hours north of Sydney.
Davidson, who was forty-five, was allegedly knocked unconscious around eleven pm on September 24, treated at the scene by the ambos and taken to Kempsey Hospital but pronounced dead a short time later.
Grant Coleman, the forty-two-year-old brother of the noted rugby union coach Darren Coleman, was arrested thirty minutes after the attack and charged with “assaulting Davidson causing his death.”
Now, following a police investigation the country club itself has been hit with sixteen charges following Davidson’s death including, a licensee permitting indecency or violence on licensed premises, five counts of a licensee failing to comply with conditions of a licence, and 10 counts of a club breaching registered club rules.
Coleman, meanwhile, faces Kempsey Local Court on March 9.
Recent years weren’t so kind to Davo, although let’s be frank, he did burn the candle at both ends, as well as the sides and through the guts.
In 2006, he copped a ten-year driving ban and ten years later, officially back behind the wheel, he crashed his mum’s car into a tree while pissed, cops charging Davo with high-end drink-driving.
A resident who heard the terrific noise, went outside and found Davo slumped in his seat, unmoving. Apart from internal injuries, he suffered severe damage to the ligaments in his neck and would later undergo surgery to his right arm.
If you want to see surfing Davo at his best, watch any of Sonny Miller’s films for Rip Curl or if you want a taste of the man in all his raw glory, watch this.
Interviewer GT asks, “If someone wrote a book about you what would it be called?”
Without hesitation, Davo replies “Doctor Damage and his Tiger Blood!”
No mention of Davo’s deliberate glassing of a girl in a Manly bar.
GT huh, according to this thread, people either loved him or detested him! He was definitely a frother, seemed to get extra excited when interviewing Steddo.
steppenwolf ride my seesawa, creme going white room…crossroads…coronita’s
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Truth stranger than fiction.
low-end drink-driving is when the cop finds an empty bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill on the seat next to the driver. The cop’s statement always makes it into evidence. “That there is some low end seppo shit booze.”
2XX….yew, yuck, and spew! BFSH was in the bong water when I took my first hit. 2nd best was lathering up some redman and a feller baller said: “now swallow…”
Do you yell “fore” or call it a punch in one?
Im not a big golfer, maybe Kelly has some answers.
He was a pedophile. Not nice to say anything bad about the dead but that is the truth.
Kissed an underage girl. Yep that will get you on the sex offenders list but i think theres a semantic distinction between that and what we normally call pedophiles.
How would you feel if it was your daughter? The guy was in his 40’s. That is just sick. It only stopped cause she ran out of the house.
I’d feel worse if she was 3. Like what we normally mean when we use the word paedophile.
I dunno whether going in to bat for people that try to mack on to underage girls, not matter what age, is the hill you wanna die on tbh.
Not going in to bat, pedo is not the word I use for what he did (sex offender, dirty old man, creep would be better) but whatever.
Nah dude–pedos are groomers and people going after ages 7 to 17. Sickos. Fuck em. Take a baseball bat to their balls until no balls are left.
HA…
What happened to GT? Dude was funny, articulate, and entertaining. Basically the opposite of everyone on WSL staff and Cote.
You’re kiddin, right?
Not at all. Always enjoyed his interviews. Took a unique approach to engaging with the athletes.
Doctor punitive damages.
Probably not the most appropriate article to ask on… but what ever happened to GT?
Just seeing this. Asked the same.
dude was a wank anyway.
Bloke was ok, he was just reading his script.
You must miss the story.
After Elo destabilise Sophie Goldschmidt in order to gain her job one his “tasks “ would be to remove GT ( the persona they had tried to project and invent with GT hadn’t gained “ traction “ so he was gone)and take over his role.
Which he has done, fully. Look at all the stories about ELO!
The wages saved he than redirected too hiring two females for what they paid one man too tick the woke box for Ziff.
I believe GT is on a radio station in
Toronto, Canada in a afternoon slot and quite popular.
It’s really just business, the fact his ( Elo) salary is almost 80k less than what Sophie
Goldschmidt was earning in the same role just goes to show why Ziff is the man everyone in pro surfing works for or does not have a job anymore.
I hope pttz found work, fixing dings or whatever
I think he’s chilling at home on the Mornington Peninsula while the missus sells sunnies!
I grew up around there but don’t live there anymore so no recent first hand info. He was one of the 4 guys who founded Von Zipper before it was sold to Billabong. It looks like he’s still working for them.
Got me wondering also. Yesterday I looked up his IG and said “some of us Beach Grit commenters were wondering what happened to you” he replied getting sideways anyway” guess he races flat track motorcycles.
No winners here sadly
The photo prompted me thinking what if Elo tried his nose rub on Davo – he would have fucking knocked him out for sure!!
Oh hell yeah!!