The only time I was ever a victim was when I was at a beach up on the North Coast many years ago, I wasn’t surfing but I was on the beach with my family, the girls were really young.

The perps had tried to get into my fuel tank to siphon gas and had put a screw driver through the body work of the door handle and the tank flap. They also damaged several other cars.

A witness on a headland came down and told me who they were plus he gave me their rego numbers (2 cars, 4 blokes and 2 girls). As I drove down the road a bit I spotted the cars pulled up at a shop and I got out and told them to wait until the police got there and asked the shopkeeper to call the cops for me.

In the end there were just too many of them for me to hold even though I took a set of keys from one car and threw it into the bush (the little turd found them). To my discredit I got so upset I planted a right on the main dudes face and he hit the deck with arms, legs and hair flying all over the place. I swear I have never done that before or since and I’m ashamed of myself for loosing my self control and doing it then.

Anyways, the guy gets up all righteous and saintly and says he’s going to the cop shop to report me for assault. I wanted to do the right thing and take my licks for loosing control so I gave the shopkeeper the address of where I was staying.

A bit later the cops show up at the house and I tell them the whole story while they were still sitting in there car, as I finished, a call comes over their radio to say that “there’s a bloke in here who wants to report an assault down at the beach”.

I kid you not, the cop looked me straight in the eye, held the 2 way to his mouth and said, “okay you just keep him there and we’ll be down there to have a word with him”. The cops then just said to me “thanks mate, enjoy your holiday” and drove off.

I called them a bit later because I was still filled with remorse and they told me that the witness on the headland have come in to report the incident while the perps were still there so they had a case and as far as they were concerned, I was not of any interest to them.

I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad example of justice, the only thing I know for sure is that I really wish it had never happened in the first place.

Thieving brings out the worst in everything.

Just to end it on a positive note, we were on our way to Byron for a family holiday and it turned out to be a really good vacation, it was almost 20 years ago and it was then that I started to think about getting back into to surfing because I went for a surf out at Watago (sic) with a friend.

I was really bad but it was enough to get me interested.

Pity I wasted 10 years after that playing around with VW buggies when I could have been surfing.

BTW I getting rid of the buggy to concentrate on surfing, I want to make sure I ride as many waves as I can before my time is done.

When you think about it, surfers are good targets for tea leafs, lets face it, if they know you're in the water then there's a good chance they won't get sprung.

OMG doggie just posted in the Longboarding Forum . You ok mate???

KEARNSY said...

OMG doggie just posted in the Longboarding Forum . You ok mate???

One sick puppy