"What about the dad with a pram and his kid in it having to dive down into the sand dunes just to get away from this f**king crim."
It may cost two or three or five mill to buy an apartment around these parts, just ask Josh Kerr, but it don’t mean the Gold Coast’s southern shank ain’t a gaudy Sodom and Gomorrah undestroyed thus far by God only because there’s worse places which call for immediate elimination.
Duranbah Beach, which is officially Flagstaff Beach and in New South Wales not Queensland thereby not exactly the Gold Coast, is the beachbreak that feeds surfers when swells don’t bend into the famous points.
If you were to stroll through the nearby town of Tweed Heads at night you’d enjoy the smell of cheap perfume, takeout food, stale alcohol and vomit. Men squint angrily at the world as if they expect to be attacked at any moment and from any direction; women squeeze their fat into iridescent outfits which leave no contour unstated.
Fighting and thievery are par for this particular course and therefore it was without surprise to be entertained this morning by video of a surfer’s four wheel drive being stolen from the D-Bah carpark as the surfer chases it on foot.
“How’s this shit at D-Bah this afternoon,” says Nick, “hype guy and surf reporter.”
“These guys get out of the surf and some prick had broken their lock box and stolen their car…but what about the dad down the road with a pram and his kid in it having to carry it and dive down into the sand dunes just to get away from this fucking crim.”
“She was asleep in the pram and I always for a walk around Duranbah, but I saw that something was wrong – a few guys start screaming and I saw the car coming in my direction on the sidewalk,” Daddy Roger Grassi told Today.
“And I just said, ‘Oh my God’ and it was super quick and I just went into survival mode to try and save my little one’s life – it was super scary, I’m still shaking… It was absolutely insane, I just hope this guy is already in jail and can never be allowed to drive again.”
Cops located the four wheel drive at the nearby Tweed City Mall, courtesy of the surfer’s phone being left in the back seat.
The thief is still on the run, howevs.
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Back in day had little 2 door toyota corolla panel van- was actually one of my favs
Left at north steyne one night – got flogged
Walked to cops in manly next morning to report – walking back diff way found it basically 200m from where i had left it!!
Had been spraypainted and tagged inside everywhere and driven about 20km overnight.
Went back told cops they basically thought i was pissed and forgotten where i parked it but eventually came had a look and were only convinced when saw the artwork inside and all over the inside windows!!!
In Frisco that’s called the San Francisco Treat! Sometimes they steal the car. Sometimes they just break in and steal everything inside. Sometimes they find your “hidden” key and steal the car or steal everything inside, lock the car and take the key leaving one completely screwed. If your lucky you come in after an hour long duck diving practice, work yourself into a panic thinking your car was stolen and experience sweet relief knowing you were on the drift and have 4-5 blocks to walk until you find your car.
maybe he thought it was his? there’s about 75 white tradie utes there!
The guys whose rig got stolen. Legend of human. Also i would be terrified of him. Look at him. Guy spends all his time when not working or with fam, focusing oh his BJJ. The cunt who nicked his car, is so lucky he didnt caught in the moment. Lucky lucky cunt. Fuck people.
I assume the gorilla that’s all swole holding the board is the (old) owner of the 4WD rig that got clipped by the anonymous new owner? If so, buddy does look pretty serious. Too bad this vid didn’t have a happy ending.
I found mine up the hill at kirra 3 hours later in 92
Dammm where’s Joel Parkinsheriff when you need him?
He’s stuck on the rocks
Lots of made up words in that piece. I need an Aussie Dictionary.
essential!! that’s a great clip. Right up there with Nicholson’s ‘you need me on that wall’ rant.
R.I.P. DSS
Itd be awesome if the crackhead stopped the car, stepped out to face that massive raging unit and uttered “back off, _war_child”
Seriously, when are people gonna give up those fucking lockboxes. Just cut a chipless key. Or get a normal car.
brutal …
is he out of jail today?? Thoughts and prayers!
Chiko rolls and winnie blues
,,,,…slap slip slop
Bridge painters showin knives to seppos, come on colonial come on!!!
I Tboned a stolen car NYE 85 Chevron island, mines a wreck , old mates done a runner.
The birds we were with one of ems dads got a 5 star joint on the water there.Its all ours for a week, forgot about the car pretty quick, Bombay rock not far away, guy dealing coke and acid on the 14th floor of the marriot, faark good times!!
You missed the bit about questionably cute strawberry blondes and getting gang bashed because you had a psycho missus.
Xox
You haven’t lived until your commodore station wagon has been ransacked on the goldy. Its a right of passage.
That’s right I ransacked my own just to be ahead of the pack.
Well that’s an interesting description of Tweed Heads and it’s twin town Coolangatta but way off the mark!
You obviously haven’t visited here lately?
The first most notable sight confirming you have reached the NSW/ QLD boarder is the sight of homelessness everywhere.
Confirm by shopping trolleys everywhere.
The poverty is third world.
Homeless, addicts and just normal people delight in abusing anyone who dared look at them.
Prostitution is the biggest employer in the area with every third shop a “ special time massage parlour “.
Stealing, assault and sexual assault are everyday occasions only beaten at times of floods when entire suburbs of Brisbane will arrive massed for the Queenslanders unofficial state sport of looting!
Next to this you have completely out of control development via a corrupt council as well as pollution of both rivers, creeks and surf following heavy rainfall.
Cancer creek that runs from the airport out to the ocean at North Kirra deserves special mention.
Still, as a glass half full kinda guy it’s way better than Palm Beach and reasonable distance from the toilet of South East Queensland that is Surfers Paradise/ Southport.
My brother on meeting people who are just new to the area (7 out 10 ppl you meet) always asking where they move from ( always Sydney) and reply
“ well that must be a really bad shit hole if you choose to move here to escape it!”
I’m currently in a country with HEAVY criminalization (I.e. pretty easy to get the death penalty) of drugs, and I must say, it’s nice to not have to walk the streets worried about junkies everywhere doing junkie shit. Also means my kids aren’t going to get offered fentanyl by some lowlife scum.
Are you allowed to fly Trump flags off your 4×4 truck?
I wear a red hat nonstop and died my skin orange and grab pussy nonstop. Anyone with a stutter, I tease them. Life is good.
don’t forget the t rex arms mocking of people w/ muscular disorders. That’s the real platinum level.
Thats a tricky one for ya.
Liberal hell cities back home and conservative thriving metropolis.
in Singapore im guessin
Apples to oranges. There’s one-party rule here, and has been all along. And of course you’re cherry picking and framing a la Bexy, but that’s par for the course after all these years, too.
It is what it is
Singapore?
Check your email and you’ll read all about it!
Coollangetto. Yes there is lots of unsavoury behaviour around the place. But it’s nice to have a bit of grit around. Makes it entertaining that’s for sure !
Ha! Yes! Maybe ten years. I loathe the joint.
So many deros in the gold coast (and honolulu). Round em up for vagrancy chuck em in some 20ft containers and send them out to the desert to dry out and maybe teach them something useful.
Yeah but who’s gunna wash Josh Kerr car windows at the lights for a buck if they do that?
Derek and chas?
wouldn’t be Kerr’s windows
Like isis do
Same beach but 50 years ago
Young tradie from Sydney came to the Goldy to work
Late arvo Dbah paddle
Lost his van full of tools.
Different generation of junkies now that’s all
Probably even worse back then , car window smashing and board stealing common place in Aussie beach carparks, 80,s smackie epidemic
trod on a needle at north steyne
OMG, thats my worst nightmare.
Ive stepped around them on the same beach and then i wore thongs to the water, or stepped in somone elses footprints.
Sorry bout that Riccy.
Thanks mate, went straight to the doctor in my wetsuit, peak aids hysteria
Faark.
me too!!! twice
… does every Queenslander own a white car?
You don’t see black cars in WA. It’s too fucken hot.
Queenslanders have a issue with “ Colour “
I had my car stolen from snapper carpark because I too was a fool and used those dumb lock boxes. I was super lucky the police caught them the next day in Logan, but they managed to evade police twice overnight. Worst part is insurance doesn’t cover you because you ‘left the keys on the car’. I thought I lost 30k
How’d they get your keys out of the lockbox?
Fuck I use one of those still. What’s the alternative? Swallow it and wait till it passes?
Every wetsuit and board shorts have a place to hide your key.
Yeah, but the flash keys. You don’t want then getting wet.
…. had mine pinched one cold & rainy Sydney Winter, many years ago.
Walked into the Maroubra Police Station drenched, wearing my steamer with board underarm, to report the theft.
Coppers laughed at me!
Still obviously scarred..
Probably because the station is a 30 minute walk from the beach