New site of WSL grand slam revealed as den of thieves!
A little excitement at Burleigh Heads today after cops were led on a two-hour chase by a middle-aged man who had, allegedly etc, snatched a board from the beach and dived into the surf.
Burleigh Heads has been in the news these past few days after it was chosen to replace a battered ol’ Snapper Heads as the venue of choice for the Gold Coast’s only surfing grand slam.
Cops say a forty-nine-year-old shredder stole a surfboard, a moody looking blue and black thing, around lunch time and gave chase with the man escaping the grip of the law by paddling into the surf.
Lifeguards monitored the man’s location, escape unlikely unless he could swing it around the northern or southern headland, abandon the craft and climb up the rocks, until cops in a boat nailed him around two pm.
The noted surfer Tai “Buddha” Graham captured it all on film and which was subsequently reposted, with commentary, on the excellent Nicka35 account.
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Once one of the grittier parts of the Gold Coast, third in shittiness behind Coolangatta and perennial winner Palm Beach, Burleigh Heads has been transformed into a paradise for investors, including the Chinese man who bought the Old Burleigh Theatre Arcade, the former home of Surfing Life magazine, for eighteen-mill.
Your ol pal DR deeply regrets selling his mid-century masterpiece at the very point of the headland, and which has a gun-barrel view of the Cove, for a little under six hundred fifteen years ago.
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He get the cuffs on underwater?
600k 15 years ago is like 10 million these days on the aussie real estate rocketship
We’ll get him when he comes back in!
But, but what about climatard change, and the fact that house will be underwater next month? See, you might be the brain child we don’t deserve….
That joint looks like an old peoples home
Regret’s a real bitch.
Lotta meth in a hocked Album
Watching Surfline cam right now. Punta Roca is PUMPING
Yago sick air in the offshores
Old Pal you missed nothing other than dollars. Anecdotal only and a generalist statement, but it seems to me that the people who ‘missed out’ on property bubble are advantaged/enlightened in other ways. This is not me to be clear. I was ‘lucky’ at least in monetary terms and timing but perhaps lost out in other enriching ways. Life teaches us more important learnings than those revolving around material irrelevant ones. Namaste 🙏
Good call. Hopefully he got a place with more land and privacy.
A few suggestions to you:
– get a girlfriend
– go to school
– read some books.
– learn about Yitzak Rabin life, and respect Jews.
– go surfing
– look for a shrink
or join your terrorist friend’s , go to Gaza.
This is a Surfing related chat.
You clearly need some professional help.
I told them to install the harpoon on the bow , for this very situation. But did they listen!?
Theoretically Australia should detain him and turn him over to the ICC. At least if it wants to pretend it’s a first world democracy.
Didn’t know the International Cricket Council was a player in this? BCCI yes, PCB for sure!
ICC has rightly lumped Neto and Putin into the same group as all sorts of Islamist terrorists and murderous third world leaders. Also why is cricket only popular in countries colonized by the British? Strange.
Visionaries!
Nothing to do with colonisation. It’s just a gentleman’s game that women are allowed to play. Uber inclusive.
Right, right…just let the whole World answer to Euro trash? I’ll pass! They’re being put on display right now for their inability to do ANYTHING without The United States of America. But it’s cute to watch them play out their relevance, to the tune of ignorance.
and then there was the war between USA/China, and poor ol USA is getting it’s butt spanked , as ol donny boy loves a stormy spanking……the rest of the world looks on as the USA has become a former power , butt we all pay the price of watching the current demise of a once powerful ally!
OK.
I feel for ya, ol pal.
Much sozz, matey.