"He didn't do anything wrong. He was just going for a surf before he went to work."
A couple of weeks back bright-faced young surfer Kye Schaefer, twenty-one, a stonemason, had just wrapped up a surf and was readying for work when, well, no one knows exactly what happened, but he was stabbed by an unknown assailant and found dying in the beach carpark, still in his wetsuit.
‘This guy’s been coming about six o clock, last three or four days, putting on a wetsuit and going surfing even when it’s flat. Likes to get wet, I guess. I just saw him drive in… did some stretching, came back, and it looked like he was sitting down on the ground against his driver’s door. All I could see was his black legs in his wetsuit. I just thought it was another guy on his phone.”
Kye Schaefer was found suffering multiple stab wounds in his chest and neck beside an orange sedan just before seven am and taken to hospital where he died.
With his alleged killer yet to be caught, Kyle’s parents, ruined by grief, their lives irrevocably darkened, are pleading with the man, or woman, to turn ’emselves into the local cops and atone for his, her, “senseless” act.
“I think no words can sort of ultimately describe how we’re feeling,” said Kye’s mum, Pam Schaefer. “Just the sheer loss of our faith in humanity, really — that’s pretty much it… He didn’t do anything wrong. He was just going for a surf before he went to work.”
Mama Schaefer went on to thank the Coffs Harbour community for their support.
“The love and support of our family and friends have been absolutely phenomenal,” Pam Schaefer said. “That’s what’s kept us out of this black hole.”
As I wrote at the time, the darkest secret of the supposed milk-and-honey run from Sydney to Byron is how soaked so many of these supposedly happy holiday hamlets are in meth and its various cuz’s, its mesmeric pull and fascination swallowing so many souls, as well as the accompanying gun-wielding outlaw motorbike gangs and a general gangster mentality.
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shut up fuck face. you’re just a hairy backed Bakers Beach tart, pretending to be tough guy.
get a dick up ya’
Pretty sure Jesus wouldn’t be down with the death penalty though. Didn’t even get himself killed properly.
Jesus on the death penalty:
“let he who is without sin, cast the first stone”….though I’m much more a fan of Lingchi
Saw this young blokes photo today and realized i had chat in surf with him last time stayed up there!!
Right off the surfclub was real fun
Condolences and so fucked
See, we need more KNIFE CONTROL. If people were simply required to have a waiting period to get a set of nice cutlery at William Sonoma, this could be stopped. No doubt the killer has a history of mental issues and should never been allowed to buy a knife.
There’s already knife control in Oz matey, has been for a long time. You can’t stop crazy but you can severely restrict crazy access to tools.
Fucken Americans man. Always bringing up the knives like it’s even anywhere close to their insane gun violence.
Oh my goodness, people are stabbing people! Give the people guns!
Yeah, you could actually go to the US and look around.
All that “gun violence” is concentrated on a few places, and they’re not even the places with a lot of guns.
It’s a real problem. It’s just not the same problem that you’re being told it is.
Do elucidate then, what is the problem we are not being told about?
Crickets. As expected. Fucking loser.
Everything you’ve ever posted here has been stupid. I don’t argue with stupid.
Really? Seems you are incapable of argument and only good at baseless postulation. Shame and very boring. Everything you may have posted here has been immemorable, but that’s on you sunshine.
It obviously doesn’t work.
You can observe empirical reality, or you can be an idiot.
Choose wisely.
Where’s the empirical evidence that either or both of gun controls and knife controls in Australia don’t work?
Don’t let your ignorance make you appear a fool.
Choose knowledge.
Hard working young fella looking after himself with a morning surf. There’s demons amongst us.
another innocent victim of liberal policies.
luckily guns are illegal in Australia….”otherwise he would have killed more”…..or so they say.
Seems to be shitload of deadly stabbings in Oz.
I guess psychos gonna psych out and murderers gonna murder.
It sucks. We should have the death penalty in aus. I know it can be corrupted but some deserve it.
apathy kills….but these heathens are only in the street(s) because of the politicians you elect….but hey, drug use is a victimless crime, right?
They’ve been too soft on them for years. And yes agree , aus. citizens have been apathetic for years. Too worried about kicking up cos of mortgages and tacking the new boat onto it to keep up with the Jones’s. Deep down people are scared of losing material shit like that. It’s truly pathetic
Such a fucken deadshit you are.
Love you too babe
but tell me where I’m wrong.
if it wasn’t for liberal policies allowing violent drugged up crackheads to roam the streets, people wouldn’t be getting brutally murdered in the streets.
this is an absolute fucking tragedy which is absolutely avoidable with proper policing and facilities to house these nutbags.
now get your skirt off and sack up.
Is alcohol being legal a liberal policy, cos drunk people are killing motherfuckers way more than people on any other drugs.
then by all means, crackheads should be free to roam and kill people.
you truly have a way with whataboutism like most liberal shitards.
That’s not whataboutism, it’s drawing a parallel, and a question: Do you think alcohol should be illegal, and if so, should illicit use be harshly punished?
why do you insist?
you’re “that guy” that’s so opinionated on the internet because at home you say what you think and your wife tells you “shut the fuck up idiot and do what you’re told”…and all you can say is “yes, dear”.
get over it you sad little remnant of a man.
Now, now, fella, I didn’t wait until I was forty to get married just to end up in that situation, but It’s obvious that you’ve necked a few shandies tonight, so I’ll let that particular insult slide. My wife got a good kick out of it though, and says thanks.
only thing your wife got a kick out of was you putting on your apron, grabbing your bucket and getting on your hands and knees to scrub the floor…while she kicked you in your bare ass.
how long you want to go on with this?
you’re a pussy, so I can fuck with you all night.
when you have absolutely no connection to the victim or the scene of the crime, don’t leave any witnesses, evidence, and/or DNA, and are reasonably discreet, you can get away with most violent crimes.
“IF”,….if you don’t have Mindquad, and Jimmy Boombox investigating…..*
Multiple wounds to neck and chest? Malicious. Thats some thug shit. We cant even go surf? RIP lad and my condolences to his family.
You’re right, you can’t go surf. Way too dangerous to go wave dancing until later notice. I’ll let everyone know when the coast is clear.
So true.
Surfers all over the world should protest this random violence in Australia by quitting surfing indefinitely.
As long as I don’t stab a pickle ball player down at Tallebudgera, we are all good.
It’s Australia mate.
I walk with my head down and avoid any eye contact.
Random murders and stabbing all over the country.
This guy is still walking around.
You might say hi to him next time you get out of the surf and get a kitchen knife to the chest.
It’s almost normal daily occurrence here?
What do you tow behind a sedan, and why?
The murderer, would be my suggestion.
Otherwise, there are small trailers for bikes or other gear.