Dirty feckin B**tards

Feel for your mate, that's just rediculous.

D

localism sucks....i am sick of hearing stories like this

2 things-

if you aren't local ask

if you are local communicate

then we can all get along.

and reported to the Police ?

blah, blah, blah. Look, i've kited lano regularly for a few years now, never once have i had a problem with the mighty german and his peanut gallery . You don't have to go near them "on land", as for out on the ocean, do the right thing and chill out when someone makes a mistake, if a poley starts snakeing you, do the same back, they hate it far more than us because of there slug like mobility.
I was up there last weekend and i think there's a bigger problem looming, blow in euro kiters !!!!!!!!!
If your german friend is a great guy, perhap's someone should of told him not park there.
What happened to this guys car is well out of order and i'm sure it will add more fuel to the fire, Herman and his hermits are running scared at the mo but proof is what is needed. The local police we're even asking for kite lessons, the circle of life will win !

the walks said...

blah, blah, blah. Look, i've kited lano regularly for a few years now, never once have i had a problem with the mighty german and his peanut gallery .

Generation Me: So you don't mind what happens to fellow kiters as long as it happens to someone else and continues not to affect you personally into the future?

the walks said...

The local police we're even asking for kite lessons, the circle of life will win !

Agree: Our German friend was once an experienced windsurfer.

Well our German friend has had a great time, met a bunch of friendly kiters, had a great trip to wedge and walpole and margs and wedge again soon no doubt... so it sucks he got his car key'd, but overall i reakon he'll go home with a smile on his dial despite this. And its at least partly thanks to us, the friendly kite community in WA, so thanks guys, keep up the good work

true blue english ray, but no blow-in, no forum junkie either, i just try to do my bit and give an opinion, if that upsets someone or body i'm big enough to say sorry !!!
whoops, sorry, i think !!!!!!!!!! oh s#it, where's that real world again.

Lancelin needs new slogan


lano the place is a REAL HOT SPOT.................................................



Lano the place is.............

Bully said...

Benz said...

Lancelin needs new slogan


lano the place is a REAL HOT SPOT.................................................



Lano the place is.............

Lano the place is ACE...well it is if you bugger off a few k's up the beach and get a patch to yourself

The major issue is you shouldn't have to because of one douche who thinks he owns the beach. What disturbs me more is the fact that he can come along swearing and people and the parks guys support him. Whether he is right or wrong, the parks people should be telling him stop swearing and penalising him for his behaviour and throwing tantrums in public. He's tried to run people down on the water before, thats beyond abuse in public, its downright dangerous.

If its an issue with people kiting in the wrong areas, then if he had any common courtesy, he would walk up to someone and say "sorry, mate, you can't kite here, please move there and you'll be fine" not "F7ck off" and the latter is likely to be more positive for Lano itself as a location and leave people with a positive experience of the place. The council's support of him isn't helping much either, because instead of punishing him for his behaviour, they've supported him by giving windsurfers access to the spot and forcing kiters away. If you support bad behaviour, then people continue to think they can get away with it.

The only place in Aus that consistently has these issues is Lano, there is a post once every 3 months about problems there and generally with one person. That means one of two things:

1. There is a problem with Werner
2. Every kiter who goes to Lano instantly gets a dickwad personality

I'm kind of guessing that the latter is not the likely scenario unless Lano has something in the water that makes kiters become dickwads.

sounds like a good spot to hold kitestock this year

Yep,

I vote Lano for nest Kitestock. It would be hilarious to see Werners face when 200+ kiters show up for a weekend. Can we put the main tents etc on the grass area please?

He's a frustrated old poley stuck in a time warp of the 80's when windsurfing was big and even considered cool. We should "pity the fool" to borrow a quote from BA Baracus of A-Team.

Take comfort in the fact that he's old and can't do it forever. [}:)] And Lano will become the Epicenter of kiting in WA. The Government even built a shiny new road up there so downwinders to Wedge are possible with a 2 wheel drive

If Werner did key the car, he should be brought to justice. That's just wrong and cowardly.

KH

Kitehard said...
[ The Government even built a shiny new road up there so downwinders to Wedge are possible with a 2 wheel drive

by shiny you mean a dirt road that is not offically open yet and the only time you can travel on it without copping grief is at night then yes its a shiny new road . And i would like to see a two wheel drive get onto the beach north of wedge without any issues as well

sounds like a witch hunt
no proof
no one saw the person doing it

good idea for kitestock at lano though

Since nobody saw Werner do anything I don't think anyone should be talking about bringing him to task on this. It seems that there generally is an excessive amount of dickhead behaviour that occurs in WA beach carparks from Woodies to Scarbs to Lano.

I have only been there once, was blown downwind past the club, had a guy in a tinny rescue me because I was being blown crosshore in a fading breeze. I even went up to the park and used the shower afterwards with no troubles!

Maybe a local kitesurf club could be set up with similar facilities and if the application is denied you could say that you aren't being granted equitable treatment.

Why do most of these issues seem to happen in WA? I have never heard of dramas in say, Queensland. (On SB anyway) NSW and VIC have a few dramas (mostly related to people riding in officially banned areas where common sense clearly prevails ie. riding Bondi or landing outside the St Kilda seabaths), but WA, despite its abundance of space, low population, masses of kiteable coast and perhaps the worlds most reliable seabreezes seems to have a disproportionate amount of problems.

This is a shame, because every time I have been over there, I have a spectacular time, see some amazing scenery and run into as friendly a bunch of crew as you hope to find anywhere (was down at Margs over New Years, riding out of Augusta, top bunch of people)

The person in question is from Switzerland...............they were Nuetral during the WAR!!!