"Talk about Topangry!'"
Southern California, as mentioned, is in the middle of a flat spell so brutal, so altogether miserable as to have surfers either terminally depressed or filled with uncomfortable feelings. There are no waves nor any hope of waves, Surfline’s week forecast calling for 0 -1 ft and fair from San Diego to all the way to Ventura.
Bleak.
Bleak, and sad or sad-mad, which might explain the absolutely brutal surf brawl that broke out at Los Angeles‘ Topanga Beach yesterday afternoon.
Video footage has leaked of one longboarder, riding a 0 – 1 ft wave, coming up behind another longboarder, this one a local favorite, on the same wave, and pushing him with such force, such vicious power as to send ripples of fear up and down the coast.
Topanga Lou, the wave’s “official photographer,” captured the moment and described exactly what happened.
This barney grabbed and threw Mitt off his board on Friday, 9-20-24. Then barney screamed and cussed at Mitt trying to get him to go on the beach to fight him. Barney was yelled at to go home! This barney was dropping in and snaking everybody stealing waves right and left. he had no respect for the line-up! this is clearly Assault!
Mitt did speak to him prior to this , telling him to slow down & to stop dropping in on surfers. Barney just screamed & cussed Mitt out. Mitt, did what any surfer with as many yrs experience would do…he showed him not to do it. Barney’s response was to grab Mitt & throw him off his board. Followed with screaming & cussing at Mitt.
This barney did these exact same things the week before this at the bu. barney is a repeat offender!
Last year, there was a radio show about “Topangry”. That the locals are all “Topangry”. I’ve never seen this barney surf at Topanga Beach before. Talk about “Topangry”!?!
Mitt is a local who has been surfing at Topanga Beach for many, many years. He’s also very well respected and loved.
Police, no doubt, on high alert.
If you were in Mitt’s place, how would you react?
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The resurgence of longboarding is ruining surfing. No HamSammish!
Longboarders Do Not Belong at Topanga. They’ve been the absolute ruin of a place that respected order and good surfing. This agonized message on the sidewalk there, from a dozen years ago. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
If that’s a vicious assault I would suggest staying in Topanga. I’m not saying it’s right but I’ve sure seen a lot worse at other breaks.
Mitt needs to throw them mitts and Barney will go back to his mom’s house with a fat lip from Mitt…
sushi on the elevator? going down?
wink wink
Sounds like a Boy Meets World sequel. Cory was always a bitch and never deserved Topanga.
anywhere Sam George’s travels there is a coastal controversary…
Honestly, looks and sounds like barney is the new top dog at Topanga. He’s getting any wave he wants and shoving drop-ins out of the way. It’s the law of the jungle down there, and old lions starve if they can’t put an upstart in his place.
Hopefully Mitt and co sort him out instead of whining like little schoolgirls on social media.
These are … actually great points
I think it’s more like 12 M, Twillsey.
Not kidding either. Concrete for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles….. infinity.
Nothing quite says longboard geezer like calling someone a barney.
Let Mitt surf!
#MITTSURFMATTERS
definitely true if you knew him, some good stories there
vague memories of some surfer mag travel story way back in the day about a trip to Mex when he was a grom and getting the nickname there – although maybe he already had it and it just stuck more after the trip?? Can’t remember all the details, had to be late 80s ish.
Shawn “Barney” Barron (r.i.p.)
I went to Topanga once , more feelings of pity rather than anger ? makes a shitty day anywhere else look pretty good
I’d say AI parody should be able to solve this…. but super not gay Gavin Newsom is banning AI parody
https://x.com/MrReaganUSA/status/1838231853754429511
Best public speaker in the country, you meant.
Would wipe the floor with your domestic pet cooking shows
His own party hates him. Dems hate Gavin more than Kamala, obviously. He didn’t get annointed. She did. Obama wanted Mark Kelly. If the Dems thought Gavin stood any chance against Trump, he would have been the Democrat nominee for President.
Kamala needed a teleprompter for her Oprah interview. The only difference with Newsom would have been that Gavin would have also demanded 2 green rooms, one for all his hair gel.
Gavin is a baller just for the simple fact that during the height of Covid he had an elegant prix fixe dinner at the French Laundry….unmasked. His billionaire friends and donors paying for sublime bottles of Napa red. Gavin’s worst mistake was ever dating that cokehead skank who now cucks Donald Jr. and probably lets him do rails off her enhanced bosom. Like I’ve said before, my family has done great under the stewardship of Mr Newsom and I hope for 12 more years! Truth be told I am starting to horde plastic bags though.
They’re just trying to force you to shop for less having to use your dog’s plastic shit bags for grocery bags.*
*working theory
All you need is take out plastic bags. They are perfect for picking up the craps of our feline friends. For some amazing reason the first “plastic bag” ban only applied to grocery stores. The Chinese and Mexican eateries love using the old school plastic bags.
She was nominated because she had been the Vice President for 4 years, a natural succession. Gavin read the tea leaves and did what is right for the party, integrity with dignity.
Republicans would have turned the same situation into Game of Thrones.
Kamala was annointed. Zero votes. Hell, even Nancy Pelosi tried to lie her ass off (more than usual), and said Kamala won a primary. Democrats are not only a threat to democracy, they’ve already threatened and obliterated any semblance of their “democracy”. Never mind that we’re a Constitutional Republic.
Trump hired criminals and his family IF there is a delineation of each?
Explain why Biden has not been removed.
You do understand you’ll have to be very persuasive with your argument explaining how he’s competent to serve as THE SITTING PRESIDENT.
when I saw the video of Barney shoving Mitt into DJ’s locker, I thought of how drunk Nance shoved old Joe into the pit of despair.
Dems fucking booted him like a Ray Finkle football.
Total coup to overthrow POTUS.
Also, Kamala is ABSOLUTELY breaking her Oath to uphold the Constitution by failing to demand Biden be removed immediately under the 25th. You didn’t elect Jill Biden to serve as President from now till January 20th, 2025
pfffttt…. Do you like your pets medium or medium rare?
remember, you all hate this guy now too….
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836120537883644049
The hair gel? Do you have a mirror? YOur boy wears make up, dyes his hair and uses a stronger gel. And is fat as fuck.
My guess he uses spray not gel..
Hey Otto, did you see that video/meme? that Gorge Conway put out where he made Donald Trump into a Chicken…….but it turned out the joke was on dumb ass Conway, because he used a rooster, making Trump into “Cock of the Block”.
tool time.
George Conway is such a toad.
check out this below. Kamala’s whole campaign is so astroturfed
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/09/24/revealed-kamala-harris-using-soros-funded-fake-news-sites-to-push-falsehoods-n2179699
Far out Charles. You might want to slap a NSFW label on that gory violence.
I’m traumatised.
Chas, I think you’ll find that Topangry is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.
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