"U lookin' good king."
Yeah, you know about the Hot Felon cultural phenom, started a doz years back when a mug shot of Jeremy Meeks landed on the Stockton, California Police Department’s Facebook page.
Within hours it had 100,000 likes. Within days, the blue-eyed, chiselled convicted felon had a modelling contract offer and the internet had a new obsession.
Meeks, who was serving time for grand theft and had gang affiliations, walked out of prison and onto the runway. He signed with White Cross Management, walked at New York Fashion Week, and landed campaigns with Phillip Plein. He also blew up his marriage by having a very public affair with a billionaire heiress on a superyacht, which added even more ballast to the legend.
The hot felon effect taps into the primal nature of human attraction, danger, rebellion, cheekbones. Psychologists call it hybristophilia, the ol Bonnie and Clyde syndrome, attraction to people who have committed crimes. It exists on a spectrum from the mild flutter people felt about Meeks to the terrfiic phenomenon of women mailing marriage proposals to convicted murderers on death row.
After Meeks, the internet industrialised the format.
Every police department mug shot upload became a potential talent search. Sean Kory, the guy who attacked a man dressed as a fox with a tennis racket. The various abs-having drug dealers of Florida etc.
Now, there’s a new daddy in town, sixty-seven-year-old Kenneth Morrow who is wanted by the Honolulu PD for “dangerous dog offences”. Kenny, as you can see, looks real fine for almost seventy, a startling corona of golden hair, a beautifully squared-off jawline, eyes that look into your soul.
A dangerous dog charge doesn’t mean Kenny beats hell out of dogs. More likely, his own pooch got a little feisty.
Possible scenarios: Dog attacks and injures a person or another animal, Dog has a history of aggressive behaviour and owner ignored warnings, Owner failed to restrain a dog previously declared dangerous Dog running at large after being classified as dangerous, Owner failing to meet conditions set after a prior incident (muzzling, enclosure requirements, registration).
Many positive comments,
U lookin’ good king.
Damn. He’s 67????
I guess the secret to youthfulness is kicking dogs
Bro has the genetics of god
What’s his skin care routine?
Clearly, a surfer yeah?
Defiant, good looking, adored by women, imitated by other men etc.
Question: how would your mugshot stack up against Kenny or Jez Meeks? Would you be internet sensation too, a hot felon man?
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I don’t not like you, banning you wasn’t about differences of opinions.
I’ve tried so many times to explain how it rolls here, my role here and the discussions we want encourage. It’s not personal, you just don’t quite get it. That’s fine too.
I’m actually over having to constantly go here and do this.
As I said BeachGrit isnt not your personal wank sock. Let the commentary breath, don’t take up a 1/4 of the commentary, turn off the auto repeat posting and you’ll be fine.
If you don’t get any of that. I don’t care, nor do I care to explain anymore.
Hey ! Brudda Brudda how do I turn on auto repeat ? Sounds fun.
Hey…
Could have just told him as much, but decided to go full bore wax on wax off so as to look like the smartest guy in the room
Is it just me, or is this possibly an older photo of the suspect when he was younger? You should get the mugshot when they find him and compare.
I just think stepping back and looking at the chat overall you’ve degraded not elevated discussions since you’ve been here. That annoys me, not so much you and your piss weak trolling attempts. Should’ve just left you banned really. Still might just toggle that switch back.
Oh! you harping on about everything I say is annoying, but fly in the house, not snake in the pantry levels. Had to deal with far greater players trolling me around here than you.
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Christ. I’ve said Manu is a super fun high performance wave. Sorry I keep forgetting you’re a high level A grade pro with different expectations. I’ve enjoyed and had some real good surfs at Manu, sorry! also EL Salv, sorry! hell even enjoyed Margs and Bells Sorry also enjoyed that last Newcastle QS qualifier on a sloppy beach break. Apologies for enjoying pros surfing waves and drawing lines far beyond what I’ve surfed on those waves. Yes, they’re not Fiji or Pipe (enjoyed surfing those too) but I’m excited to finally see the likes of Gabe and Italo actually go left and do some high performance surfing. Fiji and Chopes are a different beast for a totally different style of surfing. I’ll enjoy those even more.
Basically I enjoy watching the best in the world surfing a mixed variety of waves. The good and the bad, it’s all part of it.
I didn’t pick Manu, and certainly dont wave a New Zealand flag over my eyes.
You drove by so many good set ups to arrive in Manu
I hope you took your time getting back to Welly
Can’t say I’ve ever been to Raglan just for a surf trip. It’s always been a judging a comp, side mission for a big city gig or passing by on a drive somewhere.
That said it’s a fantastic place to go and just surf, eat, drink, eat and chill with a few buddies or the wife.
Wait tell us more about Pipe, and Cloudbreak!
Not much to tell really did a 3-4 weeks on the worst winter in memory on the North shore and the only time I’ve been near Cloudy it was shit.
Ethan Kryptonite:
He never surfs out of his skin, always safely within his skill set.
Like Sally or Steph only with a better ass according to super fans like our aussie friends
Fittingly, his coach matches that same ceiling
As a purist, one can appreciate the polish, how smooth and clean out of breaks.
General public wants to see quick twitch, spontaneity, wreckless chaos unveileng mastery.
Ethen is a perfectly cooked chook with no seasoning. Perfect boiled potatoes, no gravy. White bread, no sourdough starter or french salted butter. Bland vanilla pudding that everyone will try, but no one intentionally orders except fawning super fans
Toledo set a bar for ceilings at Snapper. Ethan’s floor was immaculate. A carpenter should grasp this
Nice. Riling up the crowd with some hot takes 🌶️
Even Hippy knows he’s oversold the menu here. Ethan is most people’s favourite surfer.
You listen to SC rant on and on cocaine forcing insults into square holes and you push back on actual critique?
Most people is not beyond the Gold Coast. If Oz has a kid to get behind it’s Robbo and I fear he’s lost interest
No way he’s a serious surfer. Impossible to hide 50 years of sun exposure at that age. It catches up with everyone, no matter how careful you are.
Fuck if I remember. Somewhere down Woolongong if I recall correctly.
How does Ethans bum look in real life?
Xox
Ask Sawyer
Ahhhh hot gossip.
Xox
Hahahaha yussssss!
Xox
Jack Robbos surfing peaked 2 years ago and has stagnated since, he is just another stocking filler now.
Hey, SC. Negs keeps giving you shit because he knows he’s got under your skin. It’s also what mates do, although you’ll obviously aren’t mates.
Just ignore the jabs and jibes. I’m a sensitive cunt too. Overly sensitive. Just thicken up that dark, olive skin and ignore him. It’ll be all sunshine and rainbows after that.
I’m sure he loves your stories as much as we all do. Just keep them R-rated and not NC-17 and you’re golden.
….also I started surfing at 13 (very late) and decided that I was going to go Pro immediately. But then, at my fourth ever session, me da’ who was coaching me at the time told me that I needed to catch more than 3 waves every 35 minutes and I told him to fuck off. I Decided that day to remain an amateur. True story.
Unless you grow up or have a house by the beach, or get full nepo’d by a surfer parent, there’s not many chances to start surfing before 13, once you can get on a bike / car ride / public transport and haul yourself to the beach.
He grew up on the beach
Oh
In that case
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Nah his stories are literally R13. But as in only a 13 year old might be impressed.
the new Iluka pub is fcuked and the food is shitt -heaps better off at the Bowlo
Iluka is a proper shithole
shaper’s interview. Gold Coast
You just said a lot of us think coaches are used to stop waving arms around. We’re not stupid, you’re speaking to a surf educated crowd here. lol, Arm waving on pros was probably well and truely coached out by about 11.
not girl pros.
Funnily when I’m talking Pros my brain doesn’t even register anything outside the men’s draw.
Take your velcro gloves!
Xox
By text? These kids are all bent out of shape.
Wonder if Yago is getting coaching this year.
It’s Duke Nukem without the shades.
“A lot of crew here think the coaches on tour are telling surfers where to put their arms” lol, such insight… Sounds like someone learnt that from their best mate Dan last week.
I have been advocating for a significant change in the approach to surfing for a considerable period. The professional surfers, in general, are highly competent and can be explosive and innovative given any opportunity. It is surprising that these coaches have been instructing them to wait for opportunities to come to them rather than actively seeking out opportunities. If I had the ability, I would consider removing all coaches who have adopted this tactic.
One of the many stats that came on screen during last comp was Avg Waves Per Heat, which i found pretty interesting.
Rio waida top of the list like a rabid chihuahua, close to 10 waves per heat.