Citizen cop Joel Parkinson MIA after Burleigh Heads turned into mud bath by surf contest

World-famous Burleigh Heads "smells like a sewer" and looks like a "big mud pie" only weeks before surfing grand slam.

The residents of Burleigh Heads, site of May’s Gold Coast Pro, were left wondering where the hell the city’s most famous citizen cop Joel Parkinson was over the weekend when its famous grassy headland was destroyed after a surfing team’s event there. 

Joel Parkinson, who is forty-four, earned his citizen badge two years ago when he was at the centre of a “wild Gold Coast pell-mell involving mud-sliding, tiktok, ageism and alleged hand-to-hand contact!” 

Chas Smith reported, 

Only those living under a rock will be unaware that, days ago, Parkinson approached a group of prepubescent twenty-five-year-olds enjoying a mud slide and told them to knock it off. They appeared to back-sass kicking off a wild pell-mell where it was alleged that the Billabong star knocked a camera into the muck. 

Over the weekend, the Hyundai Australian Boardriders Battle Grand Final was held and according to residents the contest “destroyed” the grass hill.

Speaking to Gold  Coast press, local Cindy Ames said the Point was “an absolute mess. All for two days of competition. I hope it was bloody well worth it. As if Burleigh isn’t a complete eyesore already, our beautiful suburb has been turned into a construction zone and parts of the town town resemble Beirut scene with smashed windows and graffiti. Now our beautiful grassed beachfront has been destroyed and all the green grass is now a big mud pie just in time for the school holidays, Easter period.” 

Another, Lisa Evans, wrote  Facebook, “Locals are throughly irritated and disappointed by the use & abuse of the park time and time again” while another said the joint stunk like shit.