Dean Morrison was hit over the head with a bottle by a man he did not know in Coolangatta on Sunday night (July 4, 2010) while having a night out with friends at a Griffith Street Hotel, according to a story on Goldcoast.com.au. The Courier Mail reported it as The Sands Hotel.
Morrison could not be contacted yesterday but the Coolangatta surfer’s longtime mentor Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew confirmed the incident. . . Bartholomew last night said the recently married 29-year-old was shaken by the incident and lucky not to have been killed. . . “He had gone out in his home town to have a few beers with his mates, which you should be able to do,” said Bartholomew. . . “He was just sitting down and some guy came along and nailed him in the skull with a bottle. . . “It knocked him out and he hit the ground on his head. I think what saved him was the fact that he was sitting down.
Morrison was taken to the hospital with “a broken cheekbone and numerous facial gashes.” A 20-year-old man from Nunderi has been charged and will appear in court on July 26. We hope the Dingo recovers quickly and that the man is prosecuted to the full extent.
This is one of the few times we actually feel sorry for the security guard. After this video going out to the world he was suspended from his job and hasn’t had steady work since, but we can’t help but laugh as he blasts his golf cart straight into a wall.
For more on the story from Community College of Allegheny County and a few words from the guard click the link.
On June 12, 2010 a 17-year-old Nova Scotia skateboarder allegedly grabbed on to the side of Toyota RAV 4 towing along while another 17-year-old was behind the wheel. Now, nearly a month later one teen is dead (the skateboarder died on June 23, 2010 from serious head injuries) and another is charged with criminal negligence, according to a story on CBC.ca.
“We know that the person that was on the skateboard was somehow clinging on to the vehicle and at some point in time an incident took place and the person on the skateboard must have fallen,” MacDonald said Friday.
After all this it is amazing to us that skateboarding videos still show skaters getting towed into things.
The old Corona Del Mar Becker Surf Shop is on it’s way to becoming a Hobie retail store, but a mural that was recently completed on the side of the building has been met with some criticism, according to a story on Corona Del Mar Today.
Vandals covered a brand-new mural with four-letter words, five-letter words and pejoratives . . . The mural, which was completed less than two weeks ago, is part of a makeover of the old Becker Surf Shop. Painters spent days on the project, which turned out so well that families had begun using it as a backdrop to snap photos of their kids.The graffiti was on all areas of the wall and also on the front of the store. By 9 a.m., however, a worker was using rags and cleaning solvents to remove the paint.
Apparently, someone thought new colors and geometric designs were very “gay.”
Jurors who were deciding the fate of Skylar Peak, 26, and Philip Hildebrand, 31, two Malibu surfers who allegedly got into a paparazzi punch out at Malibu two years ago while the photographers were shooting actor Matthew McConaughey, have decided that they can’t decide in the misdemeanor battery case against the men, according to a story in the LA Times.
The hung verdict comes after about half a dozen delays in the trial of Skylar Peak, 26, and Philip Hildebrand, 31, who were each facing one count of misdemeanor battery.
This is the second mistrial for the case. Some take this latest twist as a perfect example of Malibu jurors protecting their own from the outside.
Korey Ward, 24, the reported “ring-leader” of a Yakima, Washington “skateboard group” called the Mayday Mob was convicted of six counts of second degree arson on Monday, June 7, 2010 for a slew of fires set at homes and businesses during the summer of 2007, according to a story in the Yakima Herald.
Authorities believe Ward was the ringleader of the Mayday Mob. They also believe members of the Mayday Mob were involved in as many as 10 fires set between April 2006 and October 2007, including a blaze that destroyed 10,000 bins at a CPC International fruit warehouse on Occidental Road on Nov. 12, 2006. . . . Other properties included the campus of Robertson Elementary School in Yakima, other local fruit warehouses, and a power pole and two dozen juniper trees at the corner of 80th Avenue and Zier Road.
Another member of the crew Eric Protsman, 19, who testified against Ward in this trial, says that in the beginning the Mob was about skateboarding and nothing else, according to statements made to the Yakima Herald in April.
“There were eight of us, we were all skateboarders and that’s all we did,” Protsman said from behind a glass window at the jail’s visitor area. “It was a skateboarding group that turned into a gang.
Ward could spend up to seven years in prison for his crimes. Do they have skateparks in prison?
A 33-year-old father of two 13-year-old boys and an 11-year-old girl took his kids to the Denver Skatepark on Wednesday night (April 14, 2010) and ended up getting beaten by a crowd of skateboarders, according to a story on CBS4Denver.
Police say more than two dozen skateboarders joined in the melee, striking the father with skateboards. The victim received a head injury, a fractured back vertebrae and a broken elbow.
The Denver Post has more of the story of a man known only as Dave:
After about 30 minutes Dave watched as a group chased an individual across the park. As a pursuer ran by, Dave asked: “What’s going on?” . . The man turned to Dave, cursed at him, and told him to leave. . . The words had just passed from the man’s mouth when Dave was slammed with a skateboard from behind, he said. . . “I guess just me asking was enough for them to clock me,” Dave said. . . Immediately, others joined in and started beating Dave with skateboards. A friend of Dave’s who was there tried to help him, and he also was attacked. . . The friend’s injuries were not as serious.
Dave, who told The Post he’s been “going to the skatepark for years” drove his kids home and then drove himself to Lutheran Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries.
British pro skater Tony da Silva (pictured on the right) is 29 years old yet when he recently got a warning for skating where he shouldn’t the Manchester City Council sent a letter to his parents, according to a story in the Telegraph.
The letter addressed to them, detailed their son’s behaviour and warned he could be fined £500. . . It read: “The parent is usually best placed to decide the most appropriate course of action. . . “An early, positive response ensures that most young people spoken to about their behaviour do not come to further attention.”
In da Silva’s case were guessing the letter came a little too late.
Chase Rail, 18, a skateboarder in Tulsa, Oklahoma had a gun pulled on him for failing to have identification while skating on the campus of Tulsa Community College, according to a story on KTUL.com. The officer told them to leave:
“As soon as he said that we should leave, we started walking towards the car,” Phipps says. “We complied.” . . But Matt says the officers wanted identification. And, when Chase didn’t have any, an argument ensued and a gun was drawn.. . “He pulls it out, points it at Chase and says get on the ground you son of a bitch.”
Luckily for everyone most of it was on tape. “He challenged me, asshoe.”
Uyehara says he just wants residents, tourists and the homeless to get along. . . “We need to have a better balance if we’re going to keep this an attractive tourist attraction, a destination that’s also located in a residential neighborhood.”
Dean Morrison was hit over the head with a bottle by a man he did not know in Coolangatta on Sunday night (July 4, 2010) while having a night out with friends at a Griffith Street Hotel, according to a story on Goldcoast.com.au. The Courier Mail reported it as The Sands Hotel.
