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Pulled into the Cotton Tree carkpark today around midday and it was pretty busy.
As I pulled in a car was pulling out of a spot, a middle aged woman in front of me went to pull into the spot. As she does a car park warrior comes screaming down in reverse tooting his horn at the old lady. The lady continues into the spot. The man puts his Delica into park, jumps out and slams his door to give the lady an earful.
Wow I thought, this guy is raging... 
Anyway, he hops back into his van and moves back to the centre of the carpark.
I do a couple of slow laps of the carpark trying to nab one, when on about my 4th lap a car pulls out right in front of me down the end of the carpark.
Yewwwww, I think. "That was lucky timing..."
As I'm pulling in the van comes screaming up the carpark and cuts me off. Only metres from hitting my car.
I 'explain' to him how appalling his behaviour is and how he can't just do that. His only response is "I'm a local..."
**** mate, I've lived my whole life here too and I don't just go putting other drivers at risk through carpark-stealing antics...
I am posting this so others know that if your kiting Cotton Tree look out for this van. This man is angry and doesn't have any decency... He flys an RPM and BWS Noise kite.
Pic of offending Delica:
with that sort of behaviour, there'd be nothing worse (for him) than to come back & find four flat tires.....really glad despite the huge increase in ppl coming to Perth beaches things haven't got that bad yet....
Gotta love the net. Good work. Maybe his kite choice is making him angry!
if his personality is like his kites be careful he may be bi polar.
Happened to me too in Freo about 20 years ago and I just let him have it and politely went up to him and said he had good looking panels on his car and left it at that.
He frantically took down my number plate but I wasn't going to touch it but he would have been sweating on it the whole time he was on his date in Freo hahahaaa
Yes it was a P_O trying to find a park - the caravan park charges for 2nd vehicles or does not let them in so it over flows at this time of year. I had done a 1/2 on verge effort - but lucked out when the car infront moved on - the driver told me the inspectors are anal about booking for minor infringements...so I missed a $100 fine by a whisker.
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I have the odd chat with the Delica driver thru' the year and he is not my idea of a F- wit in fact mild mannered and good 4 a yarn so he must have lost it for a few minutes. He will likely apologise if U see him again.
But local or otherwise - not good to rage off especially at oldies so good on U 4 pointing it out.
Hope U had a good session.
In general with that number of kites in the river mouth area everyone deserves a pat on the back - saw some obvious sillies but keep with the chill pills - Sunday should be good but considerably windier.
Rick
I'm out again tomorrow for sure.
Good thing I was chill this arvo, otherwise I woulda wrecked a good sesh...
Reo'ing tomoz chaps....
hello surfingboye queue jumper.
It would be a pity to let the facts ruin a good story. I did not go screaming my car down the car park to abuse a lady. I had been waiting in the car park for a good 15 minutes before you or she had turned up. I explained this to her and she said that she and her husband were swapping cars as they were in the caravan park.
Yes, I claimed the next available spot when it presented itself as I'd been waiting the longest. I think you forgot to mention that you pulled in front of me and waited for a few minutes before that parking spot presented itself. I did not put anyone or anything at risk of injury.
Yes, it can be very frustrating at this time of year getting a parking spot, but if everyone waits their turn it should all be good.
I'm sure that if you had tried you queue jumping antics at the Myer sales you would have been bitch slapped pretty good.
Instead of putting a photo of my van you should put a photo of your foul mouthed little head for all the world to see - now that would be a public service announcement.
I think we should call this time of year Stressmass,just think of the future of the Sunny Coast when the the local population blows out to this amount of people in town all year round,it would be a interesting place,on say that had a great little sesh at Castaways on my own, pretty well stress free!
No RPM, I was just taking the piss.
Why bother with Cotton Tree when all the buses are free??? (until 6th Jan)
School holidays is down-winder time.
surfing at Noosa is car parking at its best....do the laps and randoms just keep getting the parks and they just happen to pull up at the right time !
Karpark Karma you could say
me,I just say Iwill get a park and bingo I usually do.
Doctor, have you read the kids book about a butterfly that flaps it's wings extra hard, which sets off a whole chain of events that results in a cyclone doing a lot of damage? It's a great story.
Everything you do has consequences.
So why, make a crap situation into a really crap situation. When you do not have to.
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Well, I think I'd better offer my 2c on this guy .. (if it is the same person)
I was at Cotton Tree for the last 2 days and saw him prance around in between everyone on his BWS kite. He was instructing someone else kiting.
The problem is that he really acted like he owned the place. He landed his kite almost on top of my girl's umbrella and would have damaged our camera gear onto the sand. My girl and her friend were not impressed with his antics and both girls mentioned to me that he was a bit of a 'ponce'.
Then later in the afternoon he kept bashing his kite on top of a girl that was learning, and when her boyfriend said something he simply gave them the finger.
Several people were chatting about his behaviour and we were not sure if he was an intructor or not. He was flying a BWS and teaching.. so everyone was wondering what BWS and JEEP were doing with such association.
But in saying this... there was a Jeep at the carpark with the Instruction school writing on the side. So we could be talking about 2 different people.
Regardless, the guy with the BWS kite prancing around - I don't care if you're a local, Mate !! And worse if you are.. you need your attitude adjusted because you are giving the sport a bad name.
Chill when you're in the water.. if your tricks are not coming off and you're smashing your kite at least try not to do it on someone else's backs. There were other kiters there and all were trying loops and smashing kites, so what? that's the sport. But I didn't see anyone get upset at them and we all had a good laugh.
We're all here for each other so don't go giving the finger to girls learning and follow the proper etiquette to launch and land out of beachgoers way. The beach belongs to all.
Now go get an ice cube from the freezer and read my post again. If you are offended by it please take time to consider why someone like me would write it. It is for your benefit so you 're-adjust' and re-enter society as a good nature kitesurfer - not designed to get your back up.
As I said, my 2c as a kiter and an observer..
