In terms of cops and lawyers... If you're the kind of familiar face in the lineup that pisses people off on a regular, and you do something stupid, you can expect someone to come knocking on your door. But if you're a familiar face that people respect, and you offer up a "correction" in the lineup, nobody sees nothin'. And I'm guessing that's not just here, in our fine and gritty state of New Jersey, but a lot of other places, too. Amazing how that works...
a crowded beach... like Masonboro Island (the uninhabited island involved here) for instance? the place is a zoo. It's dangerous enough with leashes on. What gives anybody the right to endanger others with there recklessness?
The amount of ignorance on this board (not just this thread) is amazing. I could give a rats ass if someone is wearing a leash or not. Seems to me like this forum is turning into the old wblive forum. We've all been hit by boards that were attached and unattached to leashes, but really how many times have you been hit by someone else's board as compared to your own? Ii see more people wearing them than not. I watched a dude in wilmington go up to hit a lip and his foot slipped off the board, the board flipped over exposing the fins. He then slid down the board and cut his jewel sack open on the fin. He was wearing a leash. Hell, I've been sent to the hospital from a bad fall and my fin smoking the top of my head. I was wearing a leash. Honestly I keep a closer eye on SUPs Lee I'm with ya on the condom analogy.
When you don't wear your seatbelt you certainly increase the danger to everyone else in the car exponentially. In the event of an accident the unsecured passenger/driver becomes a deadly projectile! Furthermore not wearing your seatbelt could result in you being ejected form the car into somebody outside of it or you could also lose control of the car because you were thrown away from the wheel or knocked uinconsious by the first collision or evasive manuever and not be able to prevent another.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in china? If anythign you are making the point clearer: surfboards are hard, sharp and travel at high speeds. Your own board poses a signifigant danger we are all willing to accept but someone elses needlessly unsecured board careening through the shorebreak? Why do they have a right to put everyone else at neddlessly increased risk? To look cooler?
are you a retarded kangaroo? the point I was making was MOST surfboard related injuries come from their own freakin boards regardless of them wearing a leash or not. They have the right to put everyone else needlessly at risk just like you have the right to be a retarded kangaroo. I wear my leash 100% of the time because I don't want to swim after my board all the time. Look at the beaches in NC. The only one that requires you to wear a leash is wrightsville. But yet they have "surf zones" designated for surfing. It doesn't say "surf and swim zone". If you are SWIMMING in a SURF zone in wb and you get hit by a board without a leash then tough titties. It's called assumption of risk. I don't know what it has to do with the price of tea in china, probably nothing. But just because I can tell you're curious about the price of tea in china it's anywhere from 13-45 bucks (us dollars) for a good black tea.
I see ditching your board as reckless endangerment as well but you are comparing a 6 foot radius of danger to a 60 foot one. "Don't try to justify bad behavior with more bad behavior" Bill O'Reilly
You couldn't be more wrong since as you mentioned wearing a leash is required by law at all times everywhere on Wrightseville beach. It will be "tough titties" when they blackball surfing altogether on WB because someone gets hit by a loose board and the town gets sued and it proves that all the hard work on easing restrictions just wasn't enough to keep the public safe. That's a beuatiful hole you dug for yourself though.
are you saying that just because someone made it a law to wear a leash that NO ONE will not wear one? He's also big into being a douche. Not unlike yourself
"reckless endangerment" is way too much of a legal term. the point is that its all etiquette. ditching is dangerous as surfing without a leash IN CROWDED conditions. Its up the lineup to regulate both.
huh ? so do yo have to wear a leash in the surf zone ? If you get hit with a board without a leash , well isn't the guy without a leash at fault because he is supposed to be wearing one ? What if a guy is swimming after his board in the surf zone because he isn't wearing a leash and gets hit by another board not leashed ????? Doesn't matter...this is is another pointless thread .. how about freedom governed by responsibility?
No I'm saying it was made a law so that surfing itself could still be allowed without the town being succeptable to lawsuits and everyone should wear one out of respect for the law and the safety of all those who want to enjoy the public resource.
Then the guy that got hit will probably start wearing one. if he get's pissed then he's a dumbarse. On the legal side of it yeah, the guy not wearing one is at fault. But on the common sense side of it a swimmer shouldn't be swimming in a surf zone. Here's a scenario for you. You're in a surf zone surfing some shorebreak wearing a leash and out of nowhere some kid wearing spongebob goggles pops up and you almost run into to him. You then get cussed out by his pissed off mom/dad. Is everything cool cause you were wearing a leash? Or are those parents dumbasses for letting their kid swim near surfers.
If I said anything I would say: " This probably isn't the best place to be swimming" ... and paddle back out . The current would take care of the rest .
Well of course if it's clearly marked as a surf zone ... (which we don't have )... Then again ,even if it was a free for all I would still do everything possible to avoid little Spongebob...I hope the "you're in MY way so if you get ran over it's your own damned fault" attitude posted by some members is just internet tough talk.
