Outrage building...
The peace-loving surf community was rocked to its core, last week, when footage emerged of a surfer being violently thrown to the sand in Belmar, New Jersey after failing to provide police with his “beach badge.” According to the Shore News Network, “The practice of charging for beach access in New Jersey dates back to the 1920s, with towns using the revenue to fund beach maintenance, safety measures, and public services. Despite legal challenges, the New Jersey Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of these fees, which have become a fixture in nearly all coastal communities.”
Surfing’s “almost George Floyd moment” quickly went viral, BeachGrit’s Giancarlo Guardascione describing the scene thusly, “The surfer appears to be calm and following orders. What happens next is a move only Conor McGregor could appreciate. A rear-naked choke with enough force to wrangle a Montana bison, thrown down face first to the sand like a beach pylon. It takes six officers to lead the dangerous surfer away.”
Receiving much blowback, the Belmar Police blew right back, Chief Tina Scott stating rules were followed to the letter as the surfer “was not arrested for not having a beach badge. He was arrested because he obstructed the officer’s investigation by refusing to give his identification or pedigree information.”
And also not voluntarily placing his hands behind his back when told.
Well, the police sneer did not close the books on the issue as a second surfer has now been arrested, in protest, and a petition is circulating online demanding the whole “beach badge” business be dropped. The brave dissident sits at the high tide line and just waits for the law to come down upon him. They do, carrying up the sand like a large Buddha figurine to a somewhat embarrassing miniature beach vehicle.
Most importantly, where do you stand on the issue of public protest? Are you the sort to get arrested for the sake of principle or… not?
More as the story develops.
What in the Nazi Germany New Jersey is going on over there?! Don’t make me send Kelly and Tulsi, cause I’ll do it!…. more as the Jackbooted Fear Mongers continue….
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Amigo
what’s a badge ?
nah I don’t give a fuck what it is
“wanna go back stage fella? here’s a badge!”
You think that’s bad.
Wait till the government says COVID (or another fake proxy) is back, and shuts down all the beaches in California again.
Who’ll be cryin then?
Those cunts in the coffee van I suspect
Hey chas congrats for baiting every clown on here to bicker about politics
https://youtu.be/ZW2tVNV2NJE?si=1xycMiWrSRBKB7tZ
snitch hotline:
https://reason.com/2024/08/06/tim-walz-was-a-covid-19-tyrant/
absolutely 100% happened.
Video of NG enforcing covid retsructions.
BerlinWalz wife said:
“I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing,” Walz said of the BLM protests that swept Minnesota and beyond, including the area near the governor’s home in St. Paul.
“I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening,”she added. NY POST Aug. 7, 2024
These people are really bad.
https://youtu.be/o0zeauprMJ0
Walz was present in that CNN “interview” tonight to cosplay as a bottle of Ranch Dressing for Kamala Hamas’ word salads
Can you believe that?
Didn’t see it but, What a weak ass fraud.
her first interview since the Coup and she can’t even handle an interview on her on….and people think she should be President? Gah, please..
That’s why she demanded being able to use notes in the upcoming debate against Trump. Imagine her trying to negotiate with world leaders.
they would literally have her bent over the table in Willie Brown fashion. .
Didn’t watch it. Just got a breakdown on Red State. What was funny was how he was propped up high in his chair and she looked like she was sitting in a kiddie chair at back to school night
The world did not need the “Weird Al” Yankovic album neither, but there we were
https://youtu.be/1GiStfp6X48?si=7SvMtxDZ7wVPmy8l
Should’ve sat below the high tide line and then occasionally put a toe in the sand above the line, just to fuck with them.
How about serial posting? Anything over -say- ten posts a day, you get the badge AND pay a fee. A price tag for excessive verbosity. Money collected will go towards DR’s transition. 😆
I resembled that comment. Have since been more careful. For the record, the only time posted 10+ comments was during Margs, Surf Ranch, and/or last year’s TRestles final. Won’t make that mistake again!
Its not how I want to go viral..
“BADGES…..WE DON’T NEED NO BAD-GES!”
best thing about this, and sadly the scariest is the crowd clapping and cheering as six cops man/woman/them handle this person.
reminds me of Covid days when neighbors would call the cops on their fellow neighbors for leaving their house…..or people would sneer at you, point and yell swears if you were not wearing your mask, surf journalists being ticketed at beaches whilst enjoying Thai.
did you know that Governor/Vice presidential Candidate Tim Whitey Walz actually sent the national guard into the streets to patrol and chase people back in their homes, and set up a “snitch” hotline so citizens could report other citizens for going outside, or not wearing a mask in public…..
and supposed “free” citizens cheered as people were dragged into the streets, thrown to the ground and arrested while Minneapolis and St. Paul burned and looters looted and BLM protestors torched buildings, businesses and cars murdered business owners and fellow citizens, and got away with it as Whitey Walz and his wife applauded and showed support for the miscreants because, well….they had grievances.
Let’s not forget about Walz’ daughter messaging the rioters on night 2 bc she found out through her father that that night the Minnesota National Guard would not be deployed.
Yeah:
“Could someone who actually has followers rely [sic] to the masses that have gotten ‘national guard’ trending that the guard WILL NOT be present tonight??” Hope (Walz) wrote on X on May 28, 2020.
“The guard can not [sic] be sent in within minutes,” she added in one of several posts, noting that “it takes time for them to deploy because they come from all over the state.”
On the same night that Hope posted on social media, the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct police station was overrun by rioters and set on fire. ~ NY POST
Berlin Walz and Kommiela Harass are the worst.
LA Riots in ’92 kick-started the whole shebang. Rodney King, OJ, the Motley Crue. Another ‘who’s the real criminal?’ tradition which started in Cali and spread like wild fire. BTW, my Dad handed me down a small white Ford Falcon p/u and while heading south had my new Jacobs 6’8″ blown onto the freeway. By-Gone Badge here, there, and everywhere….
“He was arrested because he obstructed the officer’s investigation by refusing to give his identification or pedigree information.”
Wait, pedigree information?? like a dog?? never heard of that in my life, is that seriously a thing in the States?
I thought the same thing.
we’re like……brothers.
You’re old enough to be my father.
Maybe.
How old are you.
Possible I lived in NZ for a couple of years over a 4 year span.
Was’ Up Son?
Think it’s about $250K to raise a child till they hit 18. I’ll send you my Mums bank details.
Never met her Negs, and if I did……I never met her.
We always had high hopes for you.
I suspect it’s bureucrat-speak for “identification”.
could give fuck all about NJ, but we all need to lie down in front of the bulldozers if they really try to put a golf course in Jonathan Dickinson.
If Chas were a better surf-journalist, he would have included a photo of this notorious “Beach Badge”. Can it be counterfeited? More importantly, can Negs utilize it for a new BG badge?
I can always do a new badge.
I feel sorry for Beach Grit commenters without Beach grit Badges.
This sentiment does you credit.
I miss my Confederate flag Badge.
ahhh…those were the days
Is that the one that got banned after some douchebag complained?
I think disqus made him get rid of it.
https://youtu.be/tZ2VKJQeFwo?si=85EBl9rNpWnw3upe
I have Black Friends!
Xox
you have a friend named Clayton too? https://youtu.be/BLNDqxrUUwQ?si=d6F8EpRWOZLYd2HO