“This same one nearly got me twice last summer! Had to roll up my mat and swim in with shoved into my suit”
A surfer is five hundred bucks poorer after an otter made off with his high performance 4GF Omni surf-mat at Santa Cruz on Saturday.
In a short video filmed on the sort of device usually reserved for alien or Big Foot sightings, we see the otter, an animal famous for its territorial nature and who will fiercely defend their turf, giving hell to the surfer who is forced to give up his beloved craft.
“Dr. Dave had his 4GF Omni stolen on Saturday in Santa Cruz … by an otter. Apparently, the otter has been behaving aggressively towards surfers in the lineup, and authorities are looking to relocate the spirited fellow,” writes Surf Matters. “Dave wasn’t able to retrieve his mat. If any locals have found a stray Omni along the coastline, let us know.”
It wasn’t news to one commenter, “This same one nearly got me twice last summer! Had to roll up my mat and swim in with shoved into my suit.”
The man’s treasured surf mat is called an Omni because “it’s an omnivore…it eats up anything! Tubes, mush, offshore, onshore, high tide, low tide…it seems to thrive in any environment.”
Don’t let the otter’s insane cuteness fool ya.
It ain’t the first time a confrontation with a human has escalated into a violent showdown. Last year a pregnant otter commandeered surfer Nick Ericksen’s board, baring its teeth when Ericksen tried to retrieve it.
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Not all otters are mean, howevs.
Some are imprisoned in zoos and get to place their paws through holes in their cells so they can be stroked by loving humanoids.
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Crime has gotten out of hand, thanks to Newsome.
Saw an ad on SC Craigslist for that mat, said it “Tasted like a Subaru and has a small leak or two”. Poster listed as “Rotter”.
a leaky mat was a horror #1 back in the day…for those that couldn’t swim. and the extra glue from the patch kit was all dried up. horror #2. surf was up and there was nothing left to ride. horror #3. had to purchase a styrofoam 3′ 6″ ‘mini-rocket’ from the drug store. horror #4. pedaling the bike up the hill to get there…free-riding back down the hill with said board…oh my.
Someone buy that otter a beer.
I had to look up the item in question and was amused to see the various mat model options available to purchase are all represented by the exact same mat, with different background colours.
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I’m not a broken bodied senior just yet, so have no idea about surf mats. I have a self-imposed minimum age requirement on alternate craft, but $400 seems reasonable. Or is that 400 US which is a house deposit in $AUD.
euthanasia via crescent city and right into Eugene, OR/
Finally the real story comes out! Thanks Mr Meoff for delivering the goods.
With which set?
I’m guessing Dr Dave is known for taking more than his fair share of waves and the otter is the enforcer in the lineup. Paybacks suck Dave!
finnegan; putz prize winner…
The best thing about Otter Women is,…….no penises!
THIS!
’60s young south bay wave riders would be in denial to say they (we) never rode/bought one. but never two!
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Typical of the PV and Manhattan beach rich kids
dad made $300/mo. me & mom saved blue chip stamps. hand-stitched wetsuits from scrap from Dive n’ Surf, cut our own plywood skate & skim boards; and never forget styrofoam pop-outs from the drug store. could live on $5/day and buy a sixer, a taco bill’s burrito, smoked old roaches before sinsemilla, and cruise the Strand on schwinn’s…with banana seats. buy my book. your, you’re…like.like.like in it. Chapter 3-drugs & Surfing. re: we took acid in mazatlan and surfered 6 hours straight; found a perfectly rounded & rolled doobie; smoked it; got munchies; got Monte’s Revenge! remember?
haha I remember my mom taking me to the stamp store, I think I got a checker set!!! thanks for bringing back a memory fellow oldster
DUUUUDE you forgot about the replica Logan Earth Ski I made in shop with ACS trucks!
supply problems even then. tearing off a postcard order fill for surf stickers…off old surf rags.lick stamp, order. wait. response: “You’ve been selected to surf in the menehune windadsea 12 and unders.” Sheez, I was still riding a surfmat.”
Lets hope more kids experience what we did…while not getting too banged up
quite the oppposite of the Frontier Days…think pelts.
Enterprising NorCal surfers could raise an army of trained otters and rent them out to locals for clearing overcrowded surf spots.
worked well with Orcas, some of which are now sinking small ships…
When I hear surfers talk on video I always hope I don’t sound like that.
as young groms, very localized and fluent in Three Stooges lingo, some went by the code names of…Stooge, Koog, Jethro, Growler, E-B, Flathead, Boor, Goatboy. some of these guys went into adulthood and still prefer these over birthed names. Me? T-Bird.
I am going to hit an AI voice generator and ask it to say in Sean Connery’s fucken excellent Scottish brogue “Looks sick out there, few toobs, some nice clean ones and the odd 6 footer. But fuck it, I don’t like the looks of the crowd, I’m going home to jerk off”
Otter Been There
as the progs delve into the bizarro world of human/animal husbandry and cross-coupling, i would note that the fem otter with a penis is exempt from prosecution in Cali (and Santa Cruz) for goods valued at $900 or less. f’ing beast knows he/she can get away with skyping two 4GR Omnis.
Facts. I looked it up tomorrow.
After years of surfmat domination and 11 world titles (cue the ad for o11er merchandise) the now bald, selectively injured and aging otter goes on to establish her own luxury label for fashion and environment-conscious sea mammals, Otterknown.
Otto otter comment on this one.
Furry animal stories. A new low. Click.
I’d say he was already robbed when he paid 5 hunnit for a surf mat. Xox
fuckin ‘a
he otter be embarrassed riding that thing