Just driving home from work at 5.30, stuck in the usual traffic jam, but watching a guy kiting just south of the Narrows Bridge where all the Jet Ski wally's normally hang out.

He jumps, crashes, lets go of the kite, no leash, it ends up going across 4 lanes of traffic and crash into the bus lanes in the centre of the freeway. Stopped the buses running as I went past. Cars driving over the strings, all very nice to see as the police arrived.

Anyway, that will be the end of kiting anywhere near the freeway...


A sad day for kiting.

Waz

Saw it happen. Took a picture of it with my Phone as I dribbled past at 20kph....

OMG! my sister told me that exact same story a year ago of someone kiting at that spot. But nothing bad happen like his kite flying on to the freeway. I wonder if it was the same guy, what a moron if it was! I hope he learnt his lesson....

Far out .. send me any photo's and I'll ping em up for all .. laurie (at) seabreeze.com.au ...

i also saw the guy around 5ish not holding any ground

takoon wook bright green, hes the guy popping right in front of the launch @ peli (notice noone else jumps there?)

rigging on a beach 20 metres from a 6 lane freeway (maybe 8 there?) in a direct onshore with frontal winds. lofting and winter is a reality. did you think of CLEAR? your life? any other kiter being allowed to kite on the river again?

take a long hard look at yourself dude

woah..this is shocking!

Don't really know what to say.

Sad and funny at the same time.

I saw this guy put his kite into the tree at pelican point last week. He took about 20mins trying to get it out

I was watching him in disbelief from the South of Perth YC. What a complete **** wit. No wonder all the traffic was backed up on the freeway.


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As Jan said this idiot kites at peli a bit and is just an absolute nightmare He comes screaming in to the launching zone, tries to pull some trick all of abot 1.5 meters from the beach. I gave him a speach while I was out on the water, but it didn't seem to make any difference. As far as I'm concerned this bloke got exactly what was coming to him, it's just a pity the rest of us get dragged through the ****e because of his overt display of stupidity. Congrats to WAKSA for getting on the front foot with the relavent authorities regarding this peanut.

Cam

I think this guy could have made the Darwin awards! Some people are unlucky when it comes to the gene pool, at least someone's trying to remove this blot on humanity. I would have slashed his kite, in the interest of every kiter and the public, if I'd seen that happen.

also saw this guy as i was riding home along the cycleway around 4pm.

almost stopped to have a bit of a chat with him ala john geyer style "excuse me, but i think the situation you have placed yourself in is a little dangerous can i suggest that you take a moment to review your actions..."

O.K hate to piont the finger but if this is infact the person we all think it is .He is about 20 years old and has dark brown hair with undercut short sides .He speaks with a accent ,i think he is from europe or some where and kites at peli piont with a light green and blue takoon wook .
About a week ago a group of us where waiting for the wind at peli piont and decided to have a pleasent chat with him about the disreguard that he shows for safety and other people and he said that he is use to flying his kite over the trees and next to the beach and that it does not bother him . even when one of the guys mention that he saw him crash his kite in the tree it did not seen to bother him . heres hopeing that this time he has distroyed his kite so much that we will not see him for a while .
If i have got the wrong person i am sorry but from the sound of it i am spot on .
the thing that shi$ts me the most is that i think this kid is a tourist so once he has wreaked the kiting for the rest of us he can move on .
If the police want to talk to him i am sure about 20 of us down at peli can piont him out .
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or better even that he was seen still hanging on the handle end of it

Geez I'm glad I don't fly a green Takoon. I wonder if the green model might not sell well here for a while...

airhead, you should have had a chat to the guy. I hate having to tell people off but we have to do it more.

You obviously have to be a complete selfish p***k to ride a green/yellow Takoon. I've only seen two diff riders using this kite and both have behaved with the same complete lack of regard for themselves and everybody else.
Do Takoon give away free labotomys with these????