'Gang mentality' of middle-age surfers keeps outsiders off Palos Verdes Estates waves

[C Moon]

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lunada-bay-20150716-story.html

'Gang mentality' of middle-age surfers keeps outsiders off Palos Verdes Estates waves

Jose Lopez, a 38-year-old fisherman from Bell, stepped gingerly to the bluff's edge.

He scanned the trail where, for years, beachgoers who don't live in Palos Verdes Estates have complained that they get bombarded with rocks thrown by a local surf tribe that calls themselves the Bay Boys.

He noted that from the beach, 100 feet below, he would not be able to see the parking area, where outsiders' cars have been vandalized.

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Middle-aged adults pelting visitors with rocks, and vandalizing cars.
Many of these high income Palos Verdes residents have the mentality that they own these beaches, and it should be no surprise that their police department looks the other way.

[Darb]

1. Selfish brats.

They should be confronted and put down hard, financially.

[shenmue]

2. That's been a problem for years

[TeeYiYi]

3. Surf gangs have been around since the 60s...

Surf gangs are the natural result of the selfish side of surfing. Waves are rare, good waves are scarce and perfect waves are limited. Verbal and physical threats made by "surf nazis" or "surf punks" start to flourish in Southern California, in the 1960s.

The "Cito Rats" were formed in Montecito, California, around 1978 and 1979. The surf gang "owned" the beaches of The Biltmore Pier, Dorbo Dunes, Chicken Creek, Pigion Ridge, The Underground, Miramar, Hammonds reef, Nuns, "The Rock", The Shooting Range, Rancho Coyote, The Herb Estate and RKL. Their ultra-local activities faded away in the 1990s.

The (Hawaiian) "Wolfpak" is one of the most relevant surf gangs in the world. Their name has an explanation, "because we run in a pack, working together. When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us."

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The "Hui O He'e Nalu", also known as the "Black Shorts" or "Da Hui", were founded by Eddie Rothman, in 1975, in Oahu. Initially, they were hired to water patrol surf contests, but their reputation involved trouble.

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The "Longos" are one the oldest surf gangs. They were born in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and are still quite active in the region.

The Silver Strand Locals, the Oxnard Shores Locals, the Pierpoint Rats, the Palos Verdes Surfers, the Bird Rock Bandits, also groups involved in multiple surf wars to protect their local breaks, in the last decades.

More: http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/9554-the-most-feared-surf-gangs-in-the-world

TYY

[DonCoquixote]

4. let me guess

I have a feeling that non of these "dudes" are Afro-Americans...that would mean the police would actually arrest them.