"We don't have a family anymore."
The surf world was rocked to its core, last spring, when news came out that two Australian brothers, Callum and Jake Robinson, and their American friend, Jack Carter Rhoad, had been murdered while on a Baja California surf trip. So many travel south, to Mexico’s northernmost peninsula, for warmer waves and better food making the brutal killing that much more visceral.
After having gone missing, Mexican authorities found the burnt pick-up the three had been driving before discovering their bodies pitched into a well at a remote campsite. Four Mexican nationals were soon arrested, the motive described as “a robbery gone wrong.”
Now, for the first time, the Robinson parents are speaking out about the anguish, the torture of losing it all. Martin and Debra sat down for an interview with 9News, Debra saying, “We had these dreams, as every parents do, for their children.”
“And I just wanted them to have a good life. Now, they’re not going to happen and we have to readjust to that, that fact we don’t have a family anymore,” Martin added, heartbreakingly
Callum, 33, and Jake, 30, were both ambitious, talented and successful. Callum a member of Australia’s national lacrosse team, Jake set to start working in a hospital in Geelong. Through the tragedy, hundreds of people donated money to the family, some $500,000 USD raised. The parents have set up a charity to be used for people wanting to go into sport or medicine.
“Something that we learnt about our children which has become more apparent is that they really encouraged other people, so we are hoping that the money will be used to encourage other people to pursue what they need to,” Marin closing at the end.
Impossible to imagine this pain.
Northern Baja is frigid cold.
If Chas had ever surf traveled there, he would know to bring heavy rubber.
yah sweetie let’s hear about your real trauma 🙄 “fake ass bitch” is about the best possible description of beachgrit you could come up with
my friend got blasted in the face on my street in Baja, THANK GOD the beachgrit bitches didn’t hear about the story or it would have been open mic night for all you fuckheads on the 300 different stories about it.
shut the fuck up donkey
Let’s all show the surf world and the victim’s family how little attention we received from our parents as children and how horribly privileged and out of touch we are in our little douche orgy!
EVERYONE LOOK HOW FUNNY I AM!!!
You GED educated “journalists” monetized the tragedy, pushed idiotic theories, chummed the waters for your idiotic echo chamber fools to mock the victims (which the family undoubtedly saw while scouring the net for any info in the early days)
“impossible to imagine this pain” but 100% possible to monetize it and give the world’s biggest idiots 50 opportunities to mock it!
Ad revenue!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$
fuck all you heartless sociopath loudmouths
Shit is tragic.
I’m not sure I would survive that as a parent.
I’m no Liam Neeson.
Not blaming the victim but was thinking about theses guys a few days ago when the number one draft pick for the forty niners got shot through the chest when he walked out of a store in SF with a Louis Vuitton bag and got held up. He fought back and got shot through the chest. It’s not worth your life for a set of rims or a watch.
Don’t fight back if you’re being robbed, fight back if you’re being shot at. All so confusing!
Some might suggest that open carry limits attempted robbery.
I remember a video of a guy in a supermarket that tried to be a hero during robbery and pulled out his gun and didn’t realize that there were two robbers and got shot and killed. Some would say more guns on the street is not the answer to
America’s problems.
Agreed! Threat assessment is rule number one.
Yes, but open carry swords would be almost as effective of a deterrent and would look way cooler.
Agreed until someone shows up at the sword fight with a gun
the reality is that there’d be a good chance both parties ended up dead in that exchange unless that gun had some stopping power and/or a good 20 feet of distance from time of drawing to firing. all kinds of historical examples of soldiers getting shot but then still running the other guy through with a bayonet.
Speaking of swords and supermarkets. That reminds of the time that dude went apeshit with one at an Albertsons in Irvine: A kid that worked there came in on his day off wearing a trench coat (which concealed the samurai sword he had squirreled away on his person) to ask the manager for additional time off. The manager said no and so the crazy fucker went ballistic. The scene was apparently heinous.
Fuck, that was wild. Was working in the area when that occurred.
But if there’d been a good guy with a sword there, it obviously would have deterred the guy, amirite?
Yeah several years after it went down I was working for a beer distributer in the Irvine/LH/Aliso Viejo areas. I called on large chain accounts like Albys and got know a few folks who were working at that Albertsons location when it happened. Total bloodbath.
Now, if a good guy was outfitted with a katana, or even some throwing stars, things def would’ve been different!
Something needs to wake up Irvine, may as well be a sword.
Problem with open carry are the idiots that feel emboldened by open carry. Responsible gun owners (open carriers) are not the problem, it’s the morons that shouldn’t have a gun in the first place that are the problem. And let’s be real, California is not Idaho. The population of the entire state of Idaho is 1.8 mil while the city of LA is 3.9 mil with LA metro around 13.2 mil. Lots of fucking idiots among those 13 mil.
This couple is the ultimate example of people who shouldn’t be allowed to possess guns https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
kind of like arguing that having more cars on the road would reduce the risk of fatal collisions because other cars are a deterrent to crazy, reckless, and/or intoxicated drivers.
Dems be smart yo.
Youll work it out.
Dude + purse = got shot
Had a thirty thousand dollar gold necklace and a Rolex on too. Not the way you want to dress in downtown SF.
Cute outfit I’m sure!
How about uptown?
Anywhere?
Japan town!
Imagine all those little hiroshiman kiddies.
Makes gaza look like childs play
You watched the show Warrior? Pretty good.
No, I’ll look it up
Go molest a kid