Its April and its all raining down; everything. Work is pilling up for all of my classes. We are beginning our season at work where we start getting busy. And I just got done surfing just north of Jonnie Mercer’s Pier and some A Hole new Cop decided to pick me out of a crowd of about 15 to give a ticket. Oh yeah it’s raining pretty hard. I got a ticket for surfing to close to the pier and the cop is a rookie and new to the beach becuase I have lived here for almost 22 years and I’ve never seen him before. He rolled up in his 2008 tahoe with lights flashing and he was yelling through his loudspeaker at us to move north. So I did. As this happened the waves started to get crappy so I headed in. As I was about to walk north to my truck, I looked over at the cop to see if he was trying to write me a ticket. He was getting back into his truck and was not even looking at me so I knew I was in the clear. Well I felt that I should be honest so I put my board in the sand and ran over to him to say ” the loudspeaker was very distorted and unclear, I couldn’t understand what you were saying; just wanted to let you know.” Then he asked me my name and I said “Eliot Garner”. He wrote it down. Then I asked if I was getting a ticket; he said yup. I was distraught and it was very hard to hold in my anger. (I just wanted to punch him in the face) This is rediculous. A 220$ ticket for being in the water with a surfboard near the pier. Where if I did not have a surfboard, I would have been totally legal. While I waited twenty minutes for him to write the ticket, call it in and my name; a backup officer came out. Oh man I am dangerous we need backup. Hopefully with all the people I know I can get this guy fired and out of my beautiful town.
I know this doesn’t pertain to class at all but I just wanted to let everyone, or whoever reads these blogs, to understand how much of an “A hole” the cops at Wrightsville Beach are. So lookout don’t do anything stupid, like go surfing.
