not the only person to see the culprit??
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/Western-Australia/dumb-and-dumber-today-at-cottesloe/
Same kiter?
Definetly KILL THE BABY KILLER, silly maybe but not as dangerous as the guys doing 200km an hour on their bikes past my house. Someone should go pump their kite at the local cafe and take pics for seabreeze.
I'm a Cott local and this blew my mind...
You do not fly your damn kite across a busy street.
Pull the safety and self rescue.
Its surprisingly not that hard to catch your own kite, - kite at 12, grab the two center lines and pull them down fast, fast fast fast (3 to 5 arm lengths) hold on to the lines with one hand and catch your kite with the other....
Its the best way to land a kite in 5 squair meters of open space. Dont ever let go of the lines untill you have your kite safely put away....
That being said, landing the kite in the water would have been smarter choice of the two.
Holy fkn hell!!
This is without doubt the most stoopid and selfish thing I have seen in ages!!! (and there is plenty of competition)
There is no excuses for this by any stretch of imagination.
Priorities all @ss up:
Don't want to rish wetting/damaging kite..
so I will walk up the beach, accross the always busy road..
attempte weave through and avoid streetlights/cars/trees/punters/dogs..
just so my precious kite doesn't get a rinse!!
TOTALLY KN WRONG!![}:)] No kite new/old/exxy/cheap is worth that risk - especially not to others!
There is not a face or a palm big enough to do this clown's action justice.
For the record I would have helped him land - but made the stoopid/selfish prik walk home!!
Time to think may have helped the connection between his brain and his surroundings.
EDIT:
Argument for registration - identification sure to follow this nice fellows actions..[}:)]
What did the CHICKEN say to the KITER before he crossed the road?
Don't do it cause you'll never hear the last of it!!!
LOl
gramma police are out in force.
BTW Jono, good onya for stopping and sussing the situation out.
I'd still love to here this nice clown's (flawed) rational behind his actions.
sheesh .A while ago I flew my kite down hunter St the main street of Newcastle and no one noticed or cared less (cause no one was there)
Yep, I know the guy. Local kiter. Got in a bad situation, made a bad call but it ended safely. Demonstrated good kite control and thanks to MattFlyingHigh has some wicked pictures for his wall.
Good on you Matt for not providing assistance - very safe of you muppet.
I guarantee he kites better, harder and higher than most of the whinging kite dorks on this forum including those "holyest of holy" WAKSA members (ALL BOW DOWN TO THEM PLEASE). You guys love to hide behind your little club and its rules as being the best kiters in WA (it is worse than a bunch of grannies at a knitting club).
Realistically though, looking from an outside perspective with litle to no inside information about the incident or the decision making process that lead to it....
You can't blame people for getting up in arms about someone walking a kite down a busy street (even if they had great kite control) as these sorts of bad decisions are made so often by people who werent in bad situations and who then get our sport in the headlines for the wrong reasons.
I would apologise to the bloke for us jumping to conclusions if he was in a bad situation and an experienced kiter however he could admit to making a bad judgement call (if that was the case) because we all do make mistakes.
I don't apologise however for my "weiner" crack... dude... youre a male model!!! expect to get some crap about that! ..... Subtext: (lucky bastard)
Sooooooooooooooooo many goodie two shoe morons on this forum.....I can see why it has been so long since I last contributed...
Losers