{"id":7011,"date":"2009-03-31T06:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2009-03-31T08:06:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:06:57","slug":"surf-reporter-hits-12-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7011","title":{"rendered":"Surf Reporter Hits 12-year-old Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/surf-collision.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/surf-collision.jpg','popup','width=699,height=349,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\/03\/surf-collision-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surf Collision\" \/><\/a>Surf Reporter <strong>John Charlton<\/strong> admits he is the guy responsible for leaving a &#8220;15-cm long&#8221; gash that nearly &#8220;scalped&#8221; 12-year-old <strong>Matt Nicol<\/strong> after running him over while surfing at Noosa&#8217;s First Point on Sunday but he says he didn&#8217;t do it on purpose, according to a story in Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com.au\/news\/2009\/apr\/01\/it-wasnt-deliberate-surfer\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com.au\/news\/2009\/mar\/31\/surfing-bully-aims-12-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily yesterday<\/a><\/strong>, Peter Nicol, who did not see the incident and was acting on reports from beachogers, alleged the adult surfer who had hit Matt appeared to deliberately change direction and run over the boy. . . Mr Charlton said nothing could be further from the truth.. . \u201cIt was purely an accident,\u201d he said. . . .\u201cI was going in on my last wave and was trying to hold my line to avoid him and he ducked right under me. . . \u201cThere was backwash and it pinned my rail down. If I had tried to bail out, I could have hit 10 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Mr. Nicol witnesses told him that Charlton had been involved in &#8220;several run ins before hitting Matt.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com.au\/news\/2009\/mar\/31\/surfing-bully-aims-12-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf Reporter John Charlton admits he is the guy responsible for leaving a &#8220;15-cm long&#8221; gash that nearly &#8220;scalped&#8221; 12-year-old Matt Nicol after running him over while surfing at Noosa&#8217;s First Point on Sunday but he says he didn&#8217;t do it on purpose, according to a story in Australia&#8217;s The Daily. In the Daily yesterday, [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011"}],"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=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}