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Surfboard Road Kill

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:36 am
by ceweal
Here's why you should double or triple check your knots when tying your boards to your cars.

This all happened at 4 in the morning while we were driving down the expressway. We were all abruptly woken up so seeing my board get run over repeatedly by trailer trucks felt like a dream. :cry:

Goodbye DHD board, I don't think I can ever replace you! I kept that little piece of the tail that broke off.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:58 am
by northswell
Noooooo!

My worst nightmare, thankfully my boards are now normally, lovingly placed in the back of my van.

You need to get some ratchet tie downs.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:49 am
by Luke
:shock: :shock: :cry: Oh dude...you have my deepest sympathy. When's the funeral? :nopity:

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:38 pm
by tomcat360
Ooohh......I was afraid to open this post for that exact reason....

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:44 pm
by Milo
O my god, that is so 5uckrd up. Can you claim on your house insurance :?: Sorry bud :cry:

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:41 pm
by libby
*SHUDDERS*

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:05 pm
by Laguna
Ouch thats nasty. I always fear this. Atleast you didnt cause a huge car pile up.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:45 pm
by mostyn
Im sorry for your lose, thats gotta hurt fella. Can we have amoments silence for the dearly departed.


Burial, or ritual burning ?

PostPosted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:15 pm
by nsidla
wow, thats the stuff nightmares are made of. my deepest sympathies. :cry: [/i]

PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:00 am
by sal
Poor you! :(

PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:44 am
by thaya
:cry: what a nightmare

PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:06 am
by Jimi
you've got my sympathy..

it doesn't get much worse than that.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:27 am
by ceweal
Thanks for the sympathies... the locals at the surf spot we went to asked for it. Said they could use the broken parts to fix dings and whatnots. Surf materials are hard to come by where we're from so we make do with whatever we have.

Yeah we were pretty thankful that our boards didn't hit any other cars or cause a huge pileup on the expressway. What a bad rep that would make for surfers! Imagine the headline: "Major Pileup on Highway Due to Surfers' Loose Boards". :shock:

We had to do some crazy car-dodging moves to retrieve our boards. I knew practicing all those sharp turns and cutbacks were good for some reason. :lol:

PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:27 am
by Ellie
:shock: :shock: Sorry to hear that....nightmare stuff