Lol. No skidding in the skoda
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Got up this morning and for no reason bellowed âFrrrrrrrooooooooooost!!!â In a Wesley snipes accent from my balcony in Broadbeach into Surfers Paradise.
Im pretty sure heâs there.
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Was at Wet n Wild today, spotted someone with a Bombers tattoo on their upper back.
Skeeta with the word âBombersâ from what I rememberâŚnot sure if a Blitzer?!
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It wasnât me 
Thereâs lots of Bomber fans around here though.
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Coffee and food here is always great.
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This is the cafe Dimma Hardwick met the Suns President the morning of his coaching announcement!
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Hardwick is a regular at the Mermaid Beach surf club. Bloke has serious tickets on himself from what I saw.
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I assume he probably lives in Mermaid Beach, I think he lives in the same build as Des Hasler
Not a bad surf club mermaid. Had a few quiet schooners there myself.
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Surfers Paradise doesnât just smell like a toilet, it is a toilet - a social toilet of hookers, drugs & schoolies.
But it is nice (maybe even nexta level glorious?) walking along the beach in the late evening 
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Cavil Avenue and Orchid Avenue are pretty average, although Iâve never smelt âfishâ in the mall. Outside these two thoroughfares itâs clean and I havenât experienced any roughness / smells etc. Like everything, a few historically dodgy incidents create a narrative that sticks. Like Jaguars are still unreliable and break down. I think the joint is heaven on earth.
A stat. On an average Friday / Saturday night approx 90-100 arrests are made by police in Surfers. During Schoolies it averages about 10-15. This is because the adult dâŚheads stay away for two weeks (1) and the kids are well looked after, shadowed by volunteers and walked home by volunteers if they get unruly. To be honest, the last two years thereâs hardly been an incident. Given thereâs 20,000+ kids on the coast, thereâs no trouble in actual fact.
Just like the Melbourne CBD, thereâs a few that sleep rough and thereâs party drugs around. But no graffiti!
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those stats are really interesting. I agree with you the first priority is to look after the kids and keep them safe. well done if thatâs improving.
but a binge drinking event with so many drunk kids wandering around and leaving this kind of shitt on the streets, I think reflects a selfish sense of entitlement which is widespread in Australia.
also agree, a much bigger problem are adults in surfers at night. beat a student of mine within a mm of his death a few years ago. racist farkin arssehole thugs. he was so traumatised he had to move to another campus.
True. Look, before I moved to Surfers I had the same view about what Schoolies must be like here because I kept seeing the photos (like below) and reading / watching news reports.
However, having been here for two years running and seeing it with my own eyes changed my perceptions.
The event is very different to 10-20 years ago when it was like a rave party everywhere with â â â â going on everywhere. These days, the Gold Coast canât afford for those types of events now because it tarnishes their reputation as an international / domestic tourist destination. So, the council a few years ago pulled all the stakeholders together and created a designated Schoolies program that includes gated / sectioned off event hubs on the beach and in Cavil Ave (only), on site paramedics, police, Red Frogs (volunteers) etc to ensure there was no unrest and the kids were taken care of and watched closely.
The Red Frogs, about 300 volunteers in Surfers basically walk around the precinct keeping eyes on them. If kids get too drunk, they shepherd them directly home to their apartments. All hotels / apartments have security officers at hotel entrances to check room keys to ensure no gate crashing etc. you can imagine the Apartment property Managers and committees take significant steps to ensure their building isnât impacted by the shenanigans because these apartments often made up of 50-80% residents living in them.
Aldo, thereâs come everywhere imploring kids to look after each other and spell out the dangers / risks of misbehaving.
This is why arrests have plummeted and itâs now largely incident free.
Yes, Cavil Avenue is full of rubbish by 4am as the kids take it over after midnight. But you can be guaranteed by 5:30am, the council have cleaned up every scenic and youâd never know what happened last night. The council have over 200 officers who literally spend all day / night cleaning rubbish and emptying bins. By and large, if you were to walk along the beaches, down the esplanade from end to end, you hardly see any rubbish anywhere because the city canât afford to be unclean for tourist.
Anyhow, just a bit of an overview of the reality Vs the odd photo or video grab the news will find to create a story during the eventâŚ
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Tl:dr
Sorry, what does that mean. Iâm not up with all the shorthandâŚ
Oh that is obvious
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What does it stand for?
Ah got it, read Google. Sorry, a good education for those who have 2 minutes.
Howâs the glorious Gold Coast @dmaplestone ? Have you spotted Fox up there or even @Loflyer âŚâŚhe loves it up there
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