{"id":28898,"date":"2012-03-06T13:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28898"},"modified":"2012-03-07T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T13:49:38","slug":"hoax-sign-scares-supers-from-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28898","title":{"rendered":"Hoax Sign Scares SUPers From The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/263388310.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/263388310.jpg','popup','width=300,height=225,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\/2012\/03\/263388310-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"263388310\" \/><\/a>A sign that went up two weeks ago at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elands_Bay\" target=\"_blank\">Elands Bay<\/a><\/strong> on South Africa&#8217;s west coast states that Kite Surfing, Wind Surfing, and Stand-Up boarding is not allowed and that those who break the law could face a R1000 fine, appears to be a hoax, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/hoax-sign-at-elands-bay-makes-waves-1.1250305\" target=\"_blank\">iOL News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mystery sign, however, appears to be a hoax and has not been sanctioned by the municipality. . . But despite this, surfers have reported that police have even taken the sign seriously, and some have called on particular types of surfers to clear the water. . . \u201cPeople don\u2019t know whether the sign is legit or not. Nobody knows who put it up,\u201d said Alan van Gysen, a photographer for ZigZag magazine and who photographed the sign. . . \u201cThere has been no official statement from the council,\u201d he said yesterday. . . He said many wind and kite surfers feared risking a fine if they entered the water with their boards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the sign is working. Wonder where we can get one?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/hoax-sign-at-elands-bay-makes-waves-1.1250305\" target=\"_blank\">IOL.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sign that went up two weeks ago at Elands Bay on South Africa&#8217;s west coast states that Kite Surfing, Wind Surfing, and Stand-Up boarding is not allowed and that those who break the law could face a R1000 fine, appears to be a hoax, according to a story on iOL News. The mystery sign, [&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":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28898"}],"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=28898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28902,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28898\/revisions\/28902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}