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Wave Rage
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Around here, we have a problem with surfers beating up other surfers. Usually, it's guys in their 50s who think that a particular break is their own, and thus give them the right to get violent against people who want to surf there, too (and the violent guys are usually not even local residents, just territorial). But when that kind of thing happens in a surf contest, things get weird. In Ventura, they were holding a surf contest and a teenager caught a wave, and so did an older guy who wasn't in the contest. And the guy jumped on the teen's back and pulled him into the water. Organizers had warned the guy to get away from the contest, but he wouldn't go. He had that "it's MY ocean and you can't tell me where to go" attitude. Old surfers are weird. (KABC-TV/Los Angeles)
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