"I’ve had thousands upon thousands of dollars in claims for surfboard damage from baggage handlers..."
Surfers found common ground with guitar players and guitar enthusiasts, during the week, after a baggage handler went viral for abusing axes. The footage, caught from the window of an airplane sitting on the tarmac at LAX, featured a chill bro lackadaisically reaching into a baggage cart and tossing guitars into a pile.
Local Los Angeles news broadcaster, KTLA, featured the clip with the anchor asking, “What was he thinking?” before interviewing the man who shot the clip, Nick Ruiz.
Exciting though comment sections, everywhere, quickly filled with surfers sharing how our equipment, too, is often treated poorly.
Famous longboarder Michael Takayama swung in with, “I’ve had thousands upon thousands of dollars in claims for surfboard damage from baggage handlers. They are all union so they are not held accountable. Therefore, when we travel, we pay ungodly fees because the airlines are hit with many claims if the handlers were held accountable, it would be a win-win for not only the people paying the fees, also the airlines paying the claims, but why do I know?”
Even more famous shark attack survivor Mike Coots added, “You should see them with surfboards.
And on and on.
I am unsure if Joel Tudor leapt in, as I am blocked and cannot see his thoughts, but it would be cool if he did.
More as the story develops.
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He saw the Byron stickers and did what anyone with an ounce of decency would have done
Net zero… what a fuken joke.
” I gave my love a cherry…”
Was Bluto a surfer?
And those guitar travelling cunts. Hipster 6 string leg opener cunts…
An eightball was just as effective back in the 80s
Back in the days of travelling with 3 boards all glass in fins. Now that was traumatic. Maybe the sofboard cunts are onto something……
absolutely horrible flashbacks just from the mention of that scenario, shudder to think, these kids today have it soooo easy
Saw guys in tears in GLand early 90s from the States with their fins sideways. No ding repairs back then.
Why not just rent a soft top when you arrive?
It’s a double whammy for your old mate Dogsnuts, and if you think you’re cool traversing airports with surfboards well guitars and such are infinitely cooler!
Xox
I would kick the shit out of guitars if I was a baggage handler.
Call it a community service
Acoustics maybe, but not the humble Jaguar of Dogsnuts!
Xox
Daniel Tosh’s garage. He’s says that he’s OCD.
This fella is a hoot. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Very unkind of the Tudor to block you. Send word to him that he’s allowed to open back up the channels and lanes
This should surprise no one. The qualifications and intellectual capacity required for baggage handlers is just barely above those for carnys.
Talking of surfers and airlines – How good was it being a young, fit, blonde surfer in Indo back in the day! Rocking up to domestic flights and getting ushered to the front of the line like royalty. Always being positioned in the emergency row with enough room to stretch your legs whilst the micro-sized Indos happily occupied the baby chair aisles making up the rest of the plane. Getting flirty attention from the sexy hostees with their flashing minx eyes, perfect brown skin and liquid silk black hair.
Practicing Indo with the ultra friendly Indo person sitting next to you and who, despite you being a pretty bog-standard style of fella back home, couldn’t believe their good fortune to be in proximity to such a comparatively beautiful, towering Western Golden God. The reciprocal joy of finding yourself alone in some exotic foreign place discussing life with a fellow human with a profoundly different existence to your own, finding common ground and shared humanity whilst brushing up against an entirely dissimilar culture.
When the plane lands the Indos are super friendly and mostly deferential. Huge smiles and laughing banter. The piss take joking haggle with the taxi driver over price to take you to the coast and pretending the dirt cheap price you settle on is a financial mortal wound. Then it’s sit back with a bintang as they swerve crazily over the road, dodging cows, cars and kids whilst chain smoking . The boards held precariously on the roof with one frayed old rope . Watching the little villages scroll past with gangs of kids yelling out “Hello mister! “. Always the innocuously presented question from the driver – “ You like music?” before he cranks five thousand decibels of Bob Marley , Guns n Roses or Crazy Frog to the point you think it’s actually disrupting your anatomy on a cellular level.
Then you get there and score waves like this…
Good times.
You sure do have a way of putting yourself on a pedestal. That’s also a hell of a lot different than taking flights on SMAC when you could see the black fucking runway through the holes in the bottom of the plane. Or getting around the place via Pelni (planes don’t go everywhere) with the only form of entertainment being karaoke with the staff or finding foolish Euros sitting in the depths of hell with goats and chooks everywhere. The look when you disclose it was only $5 more to get a cabin with ac was epic.
Whinges about others telling an autobiographical story, proceeds to tell a story centred around his own heroic adventures.
Got it.
Anyway….thats just BG feudin’ fun. I enjoyed your reminiscing. Even if the glaring lack of attention you get as a Westerner in Indo tells me you’ve got a head like a dropped pie.
Haha rip in mate.
Xox
Not whinging, I was pointing out an attribute with no reference to negativity. We are what we are. We simply look at others and life differently. I never saw any Indonesians as fawning over me because I’m western. I saw people genuinely interested in someone from a place new they had never had a chance to see or meet. Granted, I didn’t spend too much time on Poppies II or bouncing surf camps so we likely had different experiences. So there you go. That’s how life works. Just don’t get offended so much.
You never had Indo chicks fawn over you? Geez…I thought that was a universal thing amongst Western Male surfers. It certainly happened to pretty much everyone I know. You never got flocked by groups of giggling Indo girls asking for your Facebook / WhatsApp and surrounding you for selfies?
Man, you missed out.
I swear something magic happened on the flight over because I’d leave Australia a middling 5/10 and land in Indo a solid 8/10.
I’ve heard too many funny stories of surfers getting rock star attention over there ala Aerosmith’s Love in an elevator. Even the most unlikely places seem conducive to spontaneous loving; hairdressers, shopping malls.
You thought about plastic surgery? There’s no shame in it. I hear they can do wonders these days.
Phillos even more rad.
You do you, you’re good at it. Just fill us in once you look a Moari or Hawaiian in the face and tell them that you think there are inferior to white people. That should go well for your pretty little face.
Ummm…..what the fuck are you on about now?
Some of us aren’t goldfish with pea brains that reset after one lap around the tank. Those are your words I used above from when you claimed that Maori’s and Hawaiians were inferior to white people. You said it, just own it. I would refer you back to the comment but you deleted it. We can probably ask Com if he has a screenshot of it.
No. I never said anything of the sort. I didn’t “ claim that Māoris and Hawaiians were inferior to White people”. I said I always found it strange/ funny that Māoris and Hawaiians are specifically proud of their warrior culture despite being self-evidently not that great at it as shown by their conquest and occupation by Whites. It didn’t matter about size, aggression or history of conquest if your opponent was more technologically advanced and knew how to lever that advantage into winning strategy.
But you, being a typically dopey cunt, leapt with joy at what you thought was an opportunity to box someone into one of your little categories that are meant to shut them down ie racism, misogyny, sexism.
Unfortunately for you this usually means either you just don’t understand what people are saying in the first place which shows you to be stupid , or you flat out misinterpret and misrepresent what other people have said in their comments. Both approaches just show what a desperate, low integrity pinhead you can be.
It’s clowns like you who ruin the internet. All the nuance and insight of a tree stump, your low IQ takes gumming up discussion like dogshit in the tread of a shoe.
But we are on Beachgrit, where you are amongst family. No one here thinks less of a malicious, drooling retard like Ol’ Barrelled.
Good to have you aboard, Champ. Keep swinging for the fences.
Aye, 5 bucks is 5 bucks
Fuck it was good, commandeering fishing vessels to the Hinako’s. The days mate, the days.
Xox
still good
Agreed, but heck 2002 were the days, epic boards and functional shorts. Hardly any cunt about.
Xox
You been to the zone around Stu’s island yet?
Stu and Maxi are long gone. He popped up on here few years back and quickly deleted the account. Great guys.
You been since the quake and tsunami? I haven’t but heard all those waves changed, some for the better, some worse. Nuke section not same, Machine gone, Bawa worse, Lagundri different but better than before when small. Back by the harbor is the new look.
not yet- looks good on Google Earth though
been looking Google earth at a few spots in Indo that I reckon would get swell with no one around
Only 2 waves around there anyway and Bawa is pretty worthless typically. Best to go above or below. About 30 years ago was the time to get it before the nuke section got funky and Patrick and Nicolai were still floating around.
Write these stories in long form…we hungry
I thought this was our common ground? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
That sweet voice singin’ his kids to sleep everynight.
Joel Tudor’s a cunt and his turds float
Too many dried apple rings?
That happened to my son at age 3.
Took like 10 flushes and physical assault with the plunger to break up the polystyrene-like mass.
Semen
Haha, little taddies holding them afloat.
Xox
Plastic hamburgers