**** man i woulda been so pissed off... its good to have a crew who'll back you up.. but i woulda called the cops or at least shown em some of your own law enforce ment to show them y they shoulnd't come back

They got mine right at the same time little f**ckers .Orange phantom bag nothing in it.Have you got a discription or something I would really like to catch up with them.This tops off a bad week.Don from Stockton emailed me last night his Flexifoil mountainboarding kite was pinched at the pines yesterday and my car was stolen with my kites wallet phone etc in it from Booti Botti beach near forster on the weekend and was torched .


Cheers

Lach

Two visiting kiters got their van broken into a few weeks ago at nobbys. One of them had just heard a guy say that his kitebag with his keys had been stolen so he went back up to the carpark to check the van and there was a guy smashing the window - and a bunch of people sitting in the park watching. Anyway, he chased the guy and the guy tried to escape by getting into the back of a slowly passing car. The point is, he rang the cops who said not to touch anything and they would come down to investigate, and they waited for hours and in the end walked up to the police station to make a report (about five mins away). If anyone thinks the cops are gonna give a ** about theft at nobbys then they are wrong. So, 2 things.

First, don't take anything to the beach you can't afford to lose -makes it bloody tricky and annoying, but there it is.

Second, the cops clearly consider the beach off limits, so you can bash the perpetrators to within an inch of their lives with total impunity! You could probably boil up a batch of P in the carpark at Nobbys and get away with it - except the locals might take off with the produce.

wow, it really does seem to be a problem, sorry to hear about your car Lach.. i guess all we can do is look out for each others gear

Cheers thanks .I'll pass the info onto the cops and the lifeguards.Gordo got a good look at them up at the spit too.They were lurking around .He said the 3 all had white shorts and no shirts.Does that sound right?
Next few NE were going to leave some kite bags on the beach that look full and get Joey to keep an eye out.

regards

Lach

PS STinky.it seems unless its a life and death situation don't plan to do anything else for quite a while the cops are underesourced but are doing their best.I'M sending off a letter to Bryce Gaudry and Minister for cops.They always respond plus i'm sending letters to the editor .It does get results .I'll post the addresses here if anyone else would like to write in.

the cops are pretty good too .I was CC defrauded last year and part of the info I gave lead to the busting of a one million oz wide cc fraud scam and the arrest of the mongrels behind .
Yes flks take stinkys advice make sure that you don't take anything of value to the beach inc in your car and make suire that your car is stripped down to chassis engine and seats

Lach - when I went up and grabbed my bag, I saw jonny's bag further up the beach, but no-one was near it at that stage, just a couple of kites. I remember seing 3 guys up near the point in the dunes jumping around, they all had white shirts on - they just looked like young kids mucking around.

As for your bag, I didn't even see it on the beach, there were a couple of guys on the shoreline doing their best to try and impress each other on a skimboard, but apart from that, I was mostly looking up toward the northern end of the beach convincing a guy who is into paragliding to get into kiteboarding.

Doesn't help I know, but i'll be a lot more vigilant and leave my bag in the car from now on - I must be too honest, I can't believe anyone would be low enough to steal stuff off a beach.

Craig.

Have seen some young kids working the scam up on the Gold Coast Beaches.

They chase each other around and one will tackle the other right on top of a pile of clothes left on the beach by someone swimming.

They pretend to wrestle for the benefit of anyone who may be watching, but the one on the bottom is going through the pockets looking for valuables.

Scumbags

Fitzy Gold Coast OZ

I have an idea that could help.
i have been thinking for a cupla years of putting a streaming video cam in at Nobbys lifeguard tower .I'm gonna speak to Gordo(NCC lifeguard boss) and Smithy head Nobs lifeguard and Jeremy our computer guy .This will show wots happening there and also be a good security camera.Also i'm going to suggest to NCC lockers in the dressing sheds .
This theiving prob, particularly when they pounce when you go to help someone is beyond a joke and whining to the cops and gov about it prolly wont see an improvement .Perhaps these ideas will help

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Originally posted by jonny_6767

This afternoon I came in from the water at Nobby's after helping a bloke in trouble drag his kite in only to see three young (12-17yr old) boys a few hundred metres up the beach bolting off with my kite bag. I gave chase and caught them after a few more hundred metres in the dunes, they seperaterd and bolted leaving my bag with everything in it but a bungee and wrist attatchment (kite was rigged on beach). So a warning to everyone watch your stuff, and other kiters please!

Also a shout out of thanks to the boys who backed me up when i saw the clowns in the carpark afterwards and made them empty they're bags and pockets. If we catch them again i dare say they won't be so lucky.

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police have a saying they call contact counselling
and the whole thing about you not being able to touch some-one or it is assault is bull****. I caught some 16 year olds busting open my shed in Freo where all my tour company stuff lives and I tell you they bolted up the road I gave chase one fell down and I smacked him in the side of the head 3 or 4 beauties.

They told the cops (it only took 1 hour for them to turn up!) and the cops laughed at them and told me nice work, 'cause they can;t really do that anymore.

Sorry hippies, don't care how old they
Give 'em a clip around the ears

Yeah kiting at kingscliff last week and one of the boys spotted two guys cleaning out a car in the carpark.

jeez ive been looking forward to a kite a nobbys on my holidays...looks like ill stick to redhead no thieves there i once left my bar there over night and it was still there the next arvo ready to be setup.

Ive had to take up skateboarding again soo sh!t just doesnt compare to kiting im hanging out for winter tho im only an hour from mt hotham and falls creek. missing the kiting lifestyle and the newcastle crew, hope to see you all soon.

xo matty

if the kid is under 18 give em the old phonebook treatment they need to be taught but not pay for it forever (ironicly all records get cleared at 18) if there over 18F$%%% them call the cops let them give them the phonebook treatment

its neighbourhood watch...but kite style
every1 keeps an eye on everyones stuff :) everyones happy

I had a similar idea to what Doppelganger posted - buy one of those personal alarms that activate when the pin gets pulled out, attach the alarm to the bag then the pin would be attached to 'something' that is buried in the sand. The 'something' in the sand would just need to be heavy enough or have enough surface area to stay put when the pin is pulled. Fairly simple and all easily bought locally and can be adapted to any kitebag.