{"id":12184,"date":"2009-12-08T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2009-12-08T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T17:15:03","slug":"dolphin-terrorizes-new-zealand-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12184","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin Terrorizes New Zealand Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/r407242_1920664.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/r407242_1920664.jpg','popup','width=285,height=216,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/r407242_1920664-tm.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"R407242 1920664\" \/><\/a>Surfers have a little more to worry about in Grisborne, New Zealand. Moko the friendly dolphin has apparently become too aggressive, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/12\/08\/2765057.htm?section=world\" target=\"_blank\">abc.net.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Grant Fussell<\/strong>, the president of the local surf club, has had to rescue six people terrorised by Moko in the past two weeks. . . &#8220;The problem is we do have a lot of people going out and getting into trouble and they&#8217;re not aware of his weight and his strength,&#8221; he said. . . . &#8220;Some [cases are] not so serious &#8211; people wanting to get their surfboards back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One woman nearly drowned after the dolphin wouldn&#8217;t let her go back to shore because he wasn&#8217;t &#8220;finished playing with her yet.&#8221; Some even fear that Moko may try to &#8220;mate&#8221; with a human in the near future. Seriously. Brings a whole new meaning to the term &#8220;getting dropped in on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/12\/08\/2765057.htm?section=world\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/moko-trapping-young-women-dropping-in-on-surfers\/story-fn3dxity-1225808132587\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers have a little more to worry about in Grisborne, New Zealand. Moko the friendly dolphin has apparently become too aggressive, according to a story on abc.net.au. Grant Fussell, the president of the local surf club, has had to rescue six people terrorised by Moko in the past two weeks. . . &#8220;The problem is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12186,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}