Richard Branson Kiting @ Cott

Just one question for GF:

If Mick Fanning caught a wave in at Cott (during summer when surfing is banned) where pre-arranged with the authorities, to turn up to a fundraising function, would this provoke the same outcry from you ?

I look forward to your response.

If surfing were despised by sections of the public and copping the threat of bans around town, if Mick needed a 25m safety radius and if Mick needed the public to be moved on from a public beach so that he could apease his ego - then the answer would be yes. Obviously you are comparing tarts n virgins there tho.

I don't give a fek if the individual is a world champ or a local chump. If you expect the public and others to bend to your will because of your fame/persona/ego - that is ordinary I reckon. Obviously most folks prefer to bend over n think of England tho.

I hope your forward looking was not in vain.

Yawn... too much work so must go. Sorry to disapoint.

[I will try and respond by attacking your views and not you personally.]

Yes, but your comments to date also appear to be heavily influenced by your dislike of Branson, a dislike you stated you have held for some time.

I might be wrong, but I suspect the negative responses to your posts, and the red thumbs you are receiving might be because others do not see you are making objective comments, and that perhaps your views have become somewhat poisoned by your subjective dislike of someone in the public eye.

You see the problem is, almost every other post has seen the positive in bringing kiting into the public eye. You don't appear to accept that that could actually be the case.

You also percieve that the punter down the beach would be pissed off in having to move.

Whilst you may not approve of the flaunting of fame and fortune, you would have to agree fame sells - how may New Weeklies, etc, are sold every week. Therefore, I suspect that anyone else but you who was down at Cott that day would have been excited by Branson arriving at the beach on a kite, and would have spread that positive vibe (with the associated verbal picture of arriving on kite) to their family and friends.

I think this is pretty much the view of the other posters on this thread, and sometimes there is a very good reason why "sheep" follow other "sheep".

Yawn

and Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer , ..but Chuck Norris does not cry

I find myself agreeing with Rowdy again- Branson is a deadset legend, unlike Paris Hilton who inherited fame and fortune for being an airhead Branson worked hard and smart and exploited creative advertising.

If the stunt was done in accordance with council guidelines then who cares.