Let them surf cake.
California, home to nearly 40 million souls, has long embraced open beach access to all. It is generally illegal to block access to those wishing to come build sandcastles or lovingly splash in the sometimes temperate waters. The state’s Coastal Commission has laws and whatnot on the books declaring such but that has not stopped the ultra-wealthy from trying.
Now, usually this business occurs in Malibu where multi-million dollar homes front the iconic sands and certain of their owners try to build fences, and such, to keep interlopers out. Up San Francisco way, though, as case has rolled all the way up to the United Supreme Court and back down again with no resolution thus far.
It features the very handsome Indian-American venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, his 32 million dollar estate and Martins Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay. The co-founder of Sun Microsystems purchased the property in 2008 and immediately built a fence blocking beach access to surfers, likely imagining them unwashed and generally gross. The Surfrider Foundation immediately sued and the two parties fought through the legal system to Washington D.C. where the SCOTUS refused to hear such a squabble and let the lower ruling stand, which favored Surfrider.
Khosla, unsatisfied, has asked the judge to vacate that decision but the judge has refused thereby, I think, reopening the whole business and keeping surfers out until all appeals etc. are finished.
Or maybe I’m reading it wrong.
In any case, if you had a oceanfront castle would you try to block your fellow surfer from paddling?
The BeachGrit way.
More as the story develops.
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Im offended.
Maybe they arent surfers. They are good folk, from the beaches of San Diego, Malibu, all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge that are seeking to make the U$A great again.
Cant recognize they arent surfers? Disgraceful. These are multinational friends trying to find refuge.
Mostly young men of military age, note very few children and woman.
Same type of men built the story of 9/11 thats a rich and dynamic part of the story Americana. Those too were just men looking for purpose. They couldnt even fly planes and look at what they did. Remarkable.
Very shameful this rich person acts so smug assuming it’s “surfers”, ewww. These are people looking for something greater.
Seems like a cunt of epic proportions. Maybe a dirty, unwashed surfer banged his wife back in the day.
Who is Martin? What about him? Is he (they/them)still allowed?
Chas, how do you run in long pants, a hindrance?
He is free to go back home and take a bath in the Ganges River along with couple million of his fellow Indians. No Cali surfers will bother him there.
I know youve been in Nashville where they are a bit behind the times but I don’t think they are 4 years late. This story came out in 2020
https://www.santacruzsentin…
Update, it goes back as far at 2014.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk…
My beach, go home.
Even if I had the money I wouldn’t buy a castle on the beach. Full time cleaners always hovering around the house, gardeners blowing leaves all day, something always needing fixings, annoying stuck up neighbors. Fuck that. Just give me a shack at an undisclosed beach break or point as far away from people like Khosla as humanely possible and I will be a happy man.
The irony of an Indian IT guy calling surfers “unwashed and gross” in the North American capital of the unwashed and gross including junkies and drunks living in the street and shitting on the sidewalk, software engineers, hippie vegans who don’t believe in bathing, and Boomers with grey dreadlocks who think patchouli covers up their odor, is truly amazing. 🤣
It’s like, has he ever left his house except by helicopter?
You do realize Chad made that up don’t you? Read it again carefully.
Me? I would take joy in loosing rounds from a rifle and innocently declaring that they were nothing other than marine rabbits. Nobody and especially the departments of sticks, leaves and municipal rubbish has any sympathy for rabbits. That’s be a good plot for a film I think? Innocent surfers’ skulls cracked open in the raging surf by the bullets of unknown assailants on land. Just add tits. Instant hit.
tits, and cocaine*
Yes, most definitely. All I need is some dickhead to help me with the screenplay.
Didn’t chas already publish that?
Dunno. Haven’t yet got to the point of buying any of his books.
Everything goes better with cocaine
Filmed at my local.
https://youtu.be/w-ALnM-R5C…
Electrified sharknets surrounding the break works for me.
That was excellent, thanks.
Those rabid comanche can wait on that hill all they want. They will still die. We will still honor their war song, in death.
I think he pussed out and flew home, so he’s probably tucked in bed next to his stuffed ELO doll.
Figuring out what court orders mean from newspaper summaries is like trying to read Mandarin using the Oxford English Dictionary. Also, what a ridiculous obsession to have as the first line of your obit.
Used to surf there with my dad. Good to see a rich cunt bought it and is keeping everyone out.
Descent wave?
No.
It’s on a beautiful stretch of coastline, however.
Pretty shit but a lovely and ideal location.