"It could have easily chopped them [surfers] up and landed on them..."
New Zealand is a gorgeous earthly paradise not usually confronted with bad behavior or dumb selfish ambition. Its small population generally greets each other over bowls of Weet-Bix, each morning, before continuing the day being polite and jovial. In the evening, parents tuck children into beds, regaling them with stories of when the Hobbits cared for the land. Bagginses, Boffins, Gogganses etc.
Well, the idyll was shattered today after video was revealed of an out-of-control boat purposefully speeding through Raglan’s Manu Bay, nearly hacking surfers to pieces.
Ben Barr, owner of a popular surf cam website, was stunned by the footage (watch here), telling Stuff, “It’s really unusual behaviour. They just drove like straight through everybody. It’s an absolute miracle no-one got hurt. It could have easily chopped them [surfers] up and landed on them because they [boatie] had no control over what they were doing.”
He continued to share that some surfers approached the boat ramp in an angry mood, ready to confront the potential executioners but they seemed addled.
“They came from way out at sea and in the area. They were really confused or something was weird because they went into a lagoon further out. You don’t go in there, particularly not in a boat,” he explained.
At the end, a few locals filed a police report.
No word, at time of writing, if Luke Cederman was one of them.
The following video is an artist’s re-creation of the offending boat’s crew and passengers.
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I’m a kiwi and your comments are disengenuine .dishonest.foolhearty and uneducated ..were not a tiny island like the world thinks ..
US Navy has been designing a new murder whale. Wonder if we could sick it on the line up invading pleasure craft boaters?
How long have you been sitting on that chestnut waiting for an appropriate fuckwit boat story.. ha!
Bikini girls completely ablivious
That pangas GPS is fucked
Forgot, which Aussie pie is made from minced Kiwi?
the serenity!
Trump forcing the boat people into new Zealand.
esto no se parece a san diego
FWI. Pipe starts in two weeks. Yeah i know, I was already on my comment writing sabatical in the Hymalyas. Mount up.
Backdoor shootout supposed to start in two days. Pipe on the 27th
so i gotta leave the Himalayers??
Pip getting ready at Cottons.
I was going to ask on his Ig if he’s getting ready for pipe but I figured I get banned.
normal behaviour from clubbies piloting IRB’s at any west coast beach in NZ
Also… was it ‘out of control’ (no one controlling it) or was it ‘being operated in an incompetent manner’ ?!?!
Can someone makes sense of the jibber-jabber report?
I’ve parsed it to mean ‘they were confused as to where they were’ but am myself confused by the syntax.
Oh and the link leads to an uncloseable full screen advert. (At least on my old-ass phone)
My vessel was purposefully out of control new years eve. I chose not to navigate the lineup inside the house. Dropped anchor in the backyard and waited for the storm to pass. Eventually a search party of one came to my aid, replenish my supplies point me in the right direction.
plastic lounge chair w/ many adjustable positions…
Wave pool events become more attractive and safer. Crazed sharks and tit head no marks doing what they do. It’s all part of the nwo of course. Wise up people. Look forward to the Abo Dhabi event. What could go wrong there. Watch this space.
Holy shit that video (with the rednecks) is a classic. For a new take on an old classic, go to the little settngs cog, slo mo 0.25 and enjoy in a whole new light and crash investigate. It’s the only way to make sense of the biblical level of flexing they all received courtesy of the bald pinhead at the helm. He looks like a human eel and death grips that wheel and throttle all the way til the bitter side fall.
Dude went down like a spaghetti noodle ha ha! My wife laughs at this every time.
It’s so funny. It looks fake!
That’s probably @raglansurfreport filming his next vlog…
Raimana on holidays, yelling encouragement
panga w/ recliners and no helm. flying a Dane’ish flag. better suited for Santa Barbara. Plus Fleet Week!” (I endorse no sponsors.)
sly fiver on drunk bogans. any goss @Twillsy?
Megan yielding a knife to better chop-up the dreary lives of American housewives. Not inspired enough, Harry calls the cops! More later…”My husband wasn’t even here. He was boat surfing in NZ.”
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That boat vid is best of all time! The bald driver – LMFAO
“I’m on a boat motherfucker take a look at me
Straight floating on a boat on the deep blue sea
Busting five knots wind whipping out my coat
Ya can’t stop me motherfucker cos I’m on a boat”
– Twillsy
“I’m riding on a dolphin…doin flips ‘n shit
the dolphins splashing…getting everybody all wet!”
post card o’r hallmark? turned on seaworld&disney: “Moby wasn’t a dick!”
2025 is the year of the vehicle/vessle death