Update: Tom's out of hospital with stitches in head and sore neck.
The Australian Tom Carroll, who would win two world titles and three Pipe Masters, was a rare gem in that eighties manicure and bruises surf crowd, looking like a quizzical Botticelli nymph but equipped with the intellectual heft you’d expect from the son of a one of Australia’s greatest newspaper editors.
Earlier today, Tom, who is sixty-three, suffered a suspected spinal injury while surfing three-foot windblown waves at Sydney’s North Narrabeen.
Vividly described as “small and well-muscled (5′ 6″, 145 pounds), with huge energy-storing thighs” and “a power surfer with uncommon finesse” he was pictured holding his back before being placed on a spinal board and rushed to hozzy.
Tom Carroll is no stranger to injury. The tough little man has experienced, at different points in his career, infected fin gashes, a ruptured stomach, knee reconstruction, ankle ligament tears and various cuts and lower-back strains.
His most famous injury happened in 1987 when his surfboard fin visited his rectum during a shore break re-entry, or rear-entry as The Sun called it, at Nijima Beach in Japan.
Tom Carroll was warming up for a contest when he attempted a re-entry in the shorebreak. His board dug nose-first into the sand, and as he fell, legs akimbo, a fin lodged itself in his anal canal.
The injury resulted in a significant anal perforation. Thirteen stitches were required to close the wound, with eight of those stitches being internal.
After his injury, during subsequent surfing sessions, spray could often be seen spouting from the site of the injury, particularly during violent backhand hacks. This incident has been humorously referred to as giving him a “brand new arsehole” or an enlargement of the existing one.
More on Thomas’ latest injury as it unfurls or he jumps back into his DMs.
Update: Tom’s been patched up and is back in biz!
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‘quizzical Botticelli nymph’
Good stuff, DR.
Who is that old prick anyway.
Waves have a way of rippin you a new one when you least expect it.
Ohhh that is who dropped in on me… Thanks for tip…. He owes me ding repair.
Taking a dump with stitched up hole had to be next level agony. All respect for Tom, guy is a charger. Was on the beach for the 91 Pipe contest, he was going nuts!
Goddamn that’s a lot of effort just to segue into talking about TC’s asshole. You could have skipped that entire clickbait title and just wrote I Love Bumholes as the title. Probably would have got more clicks and definitely more akin to what you wrote in the actual body Dez.
ur a free agent!
Not many descriptions more cringeworthy than anal perforation
TC been dropping in for a change?
Dez mate you’re a fucken cunt of the highest order. I counted five times where you could have humoured us all but mostly me by saying bumhole.
Actually fucking devastated.
Xox
DR really applied himself on that one.
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DR now identifies as a fin
2/3 of the article on 2/3 of his areshole.
Like a board up ya bum it seems fitting.
Did he get run over AGAIN dropping in for for the hundred millionth time?
OK guys calm down…….he slipped on his board because of the sunscreen , LOL…….just spoke to RCJ ……had a chuckle as neither of us use sunscreen as it’s really dangerous……I have used sunscreen 2 x in my life/both times I slipped on the rail and nearly broke my nose dangerous shit that sinscreen…LOL!
Yeah but you guys have some rad genetics, personally I have basal cells from arsehole to breakfast!
Xox
Use to love me some RCJ.. Remember seeing a Bushman gun stowed up in Owens rafters that was said to be his. That thing looked like it meant business!
Stitches top to bottom!
Butthole Surfers
were not fairies
but their fins were kind of scary
for by mistake,
their buttholes’ splayed
How many doctors did it take?
Penetrated, wrecked him, ay Dez.
Living the dream.
But yea this time – carted off, never good.