{"id":8309,"date":"2009-05-26T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2009-05-26T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:02:25","slug":"kook-insurance-not-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Kook Insurance? Not A Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kooksuit2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kooksuit2.jpg','popup','width=261,height=415,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\/05\/kooksuit2-tm.jpg\" height=\"318\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kooksuit2\" \/><\/a>When Australian surfer <strong>Bob Aitkin<\/strong> ended up with two slashed arteries after a new surfer fired his rental board right back into Bob he ended up with huge medical bills and a few idea about people learning to surf and rental boards in general.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think all hire boards should carry large identification stickers so it\u2019s easy to see where they were hired from should there be an incident. . . And maybe people hiring boards should pay a couple of dollars extra for some sort of insurance &#8211; just like you do when you hire a car.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great ideas, but wouldn&#8217;t it be simpler to just require that all new surfers wear one of these?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25533272-12377,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Australian surfer Bob Aitkin ended up with two slashed arteries after a new surfer fired his rental board right back into Bob he ended up with huge medical bills and a few idea about people learning to surf and rental boards in general. &#8220;I think all hire boards should carry large identification stickers so [&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\/8309"}],"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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}