Today there was a guy sitting in the middle of the main pack doing something I had never seen before. After complaining loudly about the kooks all around him ("Look at this giant pack of kooks"), he started splashing the water around his surfboard, in each direction, every 30 seconds. It was as if he was trying to make the invisible surfers around him wet. My best guess is that he was trying to create a "circumference", a kind of warning to stay back. Was anyone else out today at Porto who saw this Zinc-covered psychopath? Maybe you know him. I paddled as far away as I could, which probably made him happy.
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Mysterious behavior from A hole in Porto
- Thread starter kieranthered
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Nobody wants to mess with crazy. This strategy works. Ask Bassy about fake fights, LOL.
Seems like the the OP could be from a bot. Getting better, but something is off. Also, who hasn't seen that.
Eh, kind of a ripper. Better than me.
This was El by the way.
I would love to hear about a fake fight. This was on that level of commitment to the cause.
Being that he typed "Porto" I'm assuming he's referring to the South Bay.
Mental illness is fairly common, even in mild forms. My brother had to diffuse a situation at a coffee shop in the bay area not long ago where a lady walked in and started laying into another woman saying she followed her in there and what was she doing coming after her like this!? My brother say it for what it was and calmed the lady down, but you just never know when someone is going off their nut and cant control their logic & reasoning anymore. Kinda sad actually.
This type of action(s) can be explained easily through Psychology and a sub-sector of it - Primate Behavior territorialism.
He is displaying a vocalization method that has been documented since the 1970’s in many primate groups. When resources become scarce, or crowding becomes a factor, anxiety is created and become elevated. To relieve that anxiety, primates use several techniques. They are :_______ , ________, ________, __________.
Seriously, I took Primate Behavior in College as one of my Psych courses. I thought immediately of localism/surfing during that chapter.
Whenever I get stinkeyes, a National Geographic TV voice pops in my head documenting the behavior.
He is displaying a vocalization method that has been documented since the 1970’s in many primate groups. When resources become scarce, or crowding becomes a factor, anxiety is created and become elevated. To relieve that anxiety, primates use several techniques. They are :_______ , ________, ________, __________.
Seriously, I took Primate Behavior in College as one of my Psych courses. I thought immediately of localism/surfing during that chapter.
Whenever I get stinkeyes, a National Geographic TV voice pops in my head documenting the behavior.
sounds like every day at porto. youd have to be mentally challenged to sit on the "main peak" anyhow. Im guessing he means the bathroom peak. either way, when hasnt porto been known for kooks and crazies?
Great thoughts here. We have so much undiagnosed, untreated mental illness and you just never know what's going on in someone's head. Where they are coming from, what shitty environment or life stresses they will have to come home too. From that perspective, I feel for the guy. Even if he drove home in a Tesla.
What was that now old Nirvana song, Territorial Pissings? Territorial Splashings. We'll all a bunch of monkeys and better learn to play together.
They used to. Haven't seen them for a while now.
And while I sympathize with the dude's POV and find his unorthodox tactics amusing, what the f@ck does he expect surfing El Poopo? That place has turned into a sh!tshow the past couple of years. I used to be able to dawn patrol (relatively) uncrowded waves and now the parking lot is packed and the lineup is full from the pier to the plant jetty before sunrise most mornings.
Anyone doing their part to make covid kooks feel less comfortable paddling out is doing the lord's work. I don't have it in me to go fully mentally deranged, but I'm glad some do.
been a couple summers since they were widespread. im sure there always lurking but there was a couple summers where you were pretty much guaranteed to see one cruising the lineup.