Post draws support from Kelly Slater who writes, "I'm disgusted to hear all this."
A female professional surfer has publicly accused Mexico’s Al Cleland Jr. of sexual and physical abuse during a relationship that began when she was 17, a day after the World Surf League confirmed a CT surfer had been provisionally suspended over “allegations of a deeply serious nature.”
The Papeete prosecutor’s office told Radio 1 Tahiti , however, that no investigation has been opened in French Polynesia.
She writes that she had told Cleland she would speak publicly if she learned he had treated anyone else the same way, and that news of the current allegations prompted her to do so.
The allegations have not been tested in any court or tribunal. Cleland has not been charged with any offence in connection with them.
The post had drawn more than 16,000 likes within five hours.
Among those commenting were two-time world champion Tyler Wright, who thanked her for her courage, 11-timer Kelly Slater (“I’m disgusted to hear all this”), three-time world champion Gabriel Medina, Selema Masekela and Hawaiian hard-man Johnny B Gomes who wrote,
“They lucky I wasn’t in Tahiti bcus the cops would never find their body’s again.”
The WSL’s statement on the suspension says the matter relates to a private, non-WSL gathering in Tahiti in August and that the league has offered assistance to the relevant authorities.
The WSL has given no further detail.
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Maybe trump was spot on about Mexicans?
I wonder how long till the TajB stories start to make the airwaves.
Try not to be a snivelling little cunt, trying to create fire when there is only smoke.
let sleeping dogs lie, and leave it to other sorry pedantic cunts to wake them. No need for you to do that, unless you have a story that you want to share with the world, in which case be a man and head to instagram to share it with everyone.
Cheers for suggestion Vance or Nancy or some other yallingup pedo stalker surfer.
Trying to SaboTaj him I see…
YIKES
Soooo heavy but who has said this? Why wouldn’t the Tahitian police be taking action? Has the WSL bought them off? Just soooooo many crazy things being said that I’m just struggling to know up from down at the moment so will stay quiet I guess
Right now the “facts” people are getting and regurgitating are coming from a rumor mill.
Case in point, the above rumor about the boyfriend of the girl being locked in his room was on another site, only on that site the rumor-spreader was claiming it was another female who was locked in a closet but still was able to witness the entire thing.
Mind you, zero police investigation according into this incident according to Tahitian police, and the incident happened two months ago.
Also, if so many people have all this information but never went to the police and instead just post about it on instagram, what should their punishment be for concealing a crime? The way people are talking about it makes it sound like they were in the room where everything went down.
Interesting that you’re spending far more time defending these guys than the guys have spent defending themselves. I don’t know about you, but if I were as innocent as you seem to think these losers are, I’d probably issue a broad public statement given the reputationally devastating nature of the various allegations and especially if I had a professional sporting career to salvage.
I haven’t defended anyone.
I’ve only pointed out all the “facts” come from social media, so there are no facts.
But if I were Al Cleland Jr I wouldn’t be saying a thing.
Because it’s best to say nothing when there’s no police investigation.
BTW, the fact you made a handle simply to respond to my posts is wild, man. What kind of meds are you on (off)?
“But if I were Al Cleland Jr I wouldn’t be saying a thing.”
I’m not surprised, given you’re an absolute fucking idiot.
“Because it’s best to say nothing when there’s no police investigation.”
100% true. If you’re guilty.
“BTW, the fact you made a handle simply to respond to my posts is wild, man. What kind of meds are you on (off)?”
The “facts” guy inventing an entire invented handle scenario.
I know this is the most attention anyone has paid to you in a long time, but you’re too stupid to keep responding to.
Should be enough for a formal criminal investigation, but everything in Tahiti is done under French laws and statues – the criteria may be significantly different than Anglo-Saxon legal practices.
Anyone here qualified to practice law in France?
Asking for a friend –
I happened to be in Hawaii earlier this year, when they ran the Pipe Challenger comp. I ended up being in the same little nightclub as a few pros one night. Interestingly I remember seeing Al Cleland trying his luck with a girl on the dance floor, he grabbed her arm but she wasn’t keen on it. At the time I just thought, well that’s just part of his deal. Hearing the latest accusations etc does make me see it through a different lens now.
Try a nightclub in Brazil. Makes grabbing a woman’s arm seem polite.
No need to travel to brazil, go to a club on the goldy and bali and witness the relentlessness of Brazos.
I was at the Wave nightclub in Town one night with a super cute girl. 1985. Gary Elkerton was there with Rabbit and Chappy Jennings.
I guess Elko kind of grabbed the girls arm aggressively to dance when I was getting us drinks and she tripped out and came to me like I was supposed to do something about it.
I was like that’s the King of Sunset I’m not saying shit to him
Never thought the only semi fun surf forum left would get moderated like this. Al and the creepy camera guys are just the tip of the iceberg, feels like BG trying to protect their mates now.
Griff got a free run dating a minor, Otis Carey a free run after domestic abuse too. These guys are not untouchable
First of all, I have a daughter. And my watch never came in the mail. I wouldn’t even care that much, except my wife thinks Beachgrit scammed me into becoming website traffic, and I’d like to prove her wrong. I have been, and always will be, here for shark stories and professional surfing drama.
I heard some whispers around the various sites that you had to have made over 1000 comments at a minimum ratio of 2 upvotes per comment to be eligible to win a coveted Vaer timepiece.
And seeing as you were a newcomer who’d only turned up to get a watch without putting in the hard yards in the BG comments area over the years you were automatically ineligible even though you got the most votes that day.
That’s what some were saying elsewhere on the other surf adjacent sites anyway…
I call bullshit on that. Repenter was here when I 1st commented here.
Never heard of him before the ‘event’ myself
And his low comment number shows that
Or was he one of the serial ‘name changers’, who continually zeroed out his comment numbers through changing his name so often.
First I saw that name was at the Vaer comp (was that Tahiti ? I forget now) with about 12 comments, so it definitely appeared he was from Inertia, Stab, or Swellnet etc and was just here to steal the prize.
And now he has 168, but only 1 upvote.
All of our upvote numbers got automatically zeroed at the change of commenting format, but notice you and I both have many thousands of comments under our names…
I think you can bring all that shit over (upvotes and comments) but I dunno how. And can’t be fucked trying to get my head around it.
What are you on about ?
It’s written clearly under your name here, I’m looking at it right now without pushing any other ‘buttons’.
You’ve made 6,288 comments, and have only 277 upvotes.
Repenter has made 168 comments, amd has 1 upvote. Yes 1.
Snapper has made only 3 comments (meaning he must’ve wiped his whole thing in the ‘turnover’ of the new system, whether accidentally or on purpose) and 4 upvotes.
Can’t you see it ?
It’s blatantly written there under everyone’s names.
So it all means that Repenter wasn’t here under that name before the watch comp, or had deleted his account and changed his name many times BEFORE then.
Ya know what I mean ?
Maybe my memory is shot, but I don’t remember Repenter here this year at all, and I’ve been here for years.
7514 comments, but only 138 upvotes.
Honestly, doesn’t that show on your screen ?
My memory is way worse than yours. Yeah Yeah I see the comments and upvotes. I dunno I thought I’d seen his username on here before. So all the upvotes from the old platform have disappeared into the ether Yeah? Not that I care really.
I hereby nominate Dogs for Chief Moderator…he be the best filter ever.
I second that
Dear Dogsnuts spell as mod was short-lived and completely made up but it was epic. Think Brutus and Negs would be off it cuz they consider wanking as filthy so fuck knows what they make of bumhole fingering but that makes him even more perfect now this joint is turning into Stab 2.0
How dare you. Been here at least since longtom wrote the contest wraps. I’ll admit to following those to swellnet, but never posted anywhere else, or changed my name. Cross my heart.
BG has wiped every post Iv’ tried to make on this subject matter..
Yep BG has been finnaly brought to heel , it took big surf some time but they got it done in the end.
Tried to post this morning and got wiped three different times..
You are on the shitlist!
Awaiting approval from a moderator , haha BG has finnaly been defeated by the big surf back room boys , Nick was the first stooge to try , i wonder who the cunt is that managed to bring it down , DR might know ?
I wonder how far people want to reach back on this pro surfer bullshit ?
Since we have “The Editors” we may as well have “The Moderation Team”. Just one person is fine. We could have a series of rapid and inconveniently located series of appointments and resignations announced out of order over 2-4 weeks or so. At the end no one would have any idea who actually is working as the BTL janitor and we’re all able to separate the regulation from the poster.
Posting as a red blooded American on a controversial topic when the east coast of Australia is asleep.
I’d read somewhere Al was suspended for a couple months by now. Odd bit all the pros speaking out now that there are some coattails to comfortably ride. Sure, I can hear the “i stayed silent because innocent until proven guilty…” argument but isn’t that still the status? (Not that I’d bet on his innocence. Guilty af is my guess.)
And RIP BG. Each time I check there’s some new comment bug/feature. Killed a good thing. Will look back on this experiment fondly the same way i see Lewis Samuels’ stuff, early Stab, etc.
We had a good run!
The uprising of the K0o_o0Ks.
other names are being named throughout the ‘gram
Seen up to 5 names of potential participants, mostly photogs.
Vaimiti Teiefitu is absolultely going off about it on her insta. Not holding back at all and posting links to other insta accounts that name names.
IG suddenly flooded w/ it but as far as I can tell no actual updates from *official* news sources
So the Slippery Gypsy was literally trying to get the clap from the Klapp
Hey cunt, you been hiding out, locked up etc..
The beautiful game has been sucked dry. It was inevitable in such a sport that uses the word fun as a parameter of their existence.
Nah. Shit happens in every sphere of life.
You’re blowing up something way, way out of proportion. Professional surfing will endure
Been going on years I would suggest. Somewhere someone would be gobbled up by their behaviour. The goblin has landed. WSL are on the edge of oblivion. Have been for years. The curtain is about to drop permanently on their failed state.
Chas you need to free your compatriots from the ugg boot of moderation thrust upon our necks whenever people on the east coast of Australia are sleeping.
And one for me while I wait for that one to get approved.
A little lounge music while you are waiting for your xomment to be approved?
Catchy. Makes me wanna dance a bit