Stephen King gets a touch of the Peter Benchley's

[Gob]

Left with a couple of bloody scratches and a huge chunk missing from his surfboard, NSW surfer Stephen King says he is the "luckiest guy on two legs" after a close call with a shark.




Mr King, 50, was knocked off his surfboard while he was surfing off Back Beach at Angourie, near Yamba, on the NSW mid north coast about 6am yesterday.

"Just as I was taking off, just jumping up, there was just a bang from the side," Mr King told Channel Nine.

"I went cartwheeling through the air and then there was just thrashing beside me."

"I was just lucky. There's just a couple of grazes on my leg. Yeah, unbelievable."

Police said Mr King and his 33-year-old friend came to shore after the close encounter and it was only then they saw a large chunk bitten off his yellow surfboard.

Mr King treated himself at home for scratches on his thigh, police said.

"I was just lucky there were a couple of grazes on my leg.

"I'm blessed, hey? Yeah, can't believe it."

Mr King's wife, Julia said: "Very relieved, very relieved. We're all lucky that Steve's with us."

National Parks and Wildlife, the Department of Primary Industry and lifesavers were told about the shark and warning signs have been put up at the beach.

Vic Peddermors, from the Department of Primary Industry, said swimmers and surfers had to be "realistic".

"This is their territory and we are just the visitors."



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[Scooter]

You just know that his muse just shit on his head again (in his parlance) and he will find some way to turn out a book based on this.

[Gob]

pssstt Scoot, ...it's not THE Stephen King....

[Scooter]

LOL - I didn't even look carefully at the picture, and I should have clued in that the other Mr. King's wife's name is not Julia.

[loCAtek]

THE Stephen King is kinda freakin old AND doesn't live in Australia ...even I knew that.

[Scooter]

I guess in your universe people don't ever visit a place other than where they live.

[loCAtek]

Not to do a sport, they've never engaged in, nor expressed a wish to engage in before; on a continent, they've never visited; no.

Maine is not known for its Surfer-dudes.

[Scooter]

The top 30 surfing spots on the coast of Maine.

And since you're obviously an intimate friend of the Kings, you would know that they also have a home in Florida. I guess no one surfs there, either.

ETA - Oh, look, he has been to Australia, contrary to your fallacious claim. I guess you haven't been on Steve and Tabitha's Christmas list lately.

[loCAtek]

Which does not prove Stephen King, the elder author of Carrie, et al, is surfing in Australia, to be menaced by sharks.

[Scooter]

So your answer is no, you have no basis for your claim that Stephen King has never gone surfing and has never been to Australia.

[loCAtek]

THE Stephen King is kinda freakin old AND doesn't live in Australia ...even I knew that.

[loCAtek]

Oh sorry, I didn't see your change in post Loca reply... not my bad, but I do have to re-direct fire.

[Scooter]

Not to do a sport, they've never engaged in, nor expressed a wish to engage in before; on a continent, they've never visited

So you admit you have no evidence to support this claim. Thanks.

[loCAtek]

So, he went to Oz, not to surf ...and your belated point, after you edited it, is what again?

[Scooter]

Not to do a sport, they've never engaged in, nor expressed a wish to engage in before; on a continent, they've never visited

So you admit you have no evidence to support this claim. Thanks.

So, he went to Oz, not to surf

And your evidence that he did not surf is what, exactly? Were you there?

[Sean]

Well he did write 'Night Surf'...

[Scooter]

Apparently she is privy to some new geographical discovery that Maine no longer sits on the ocean, but in the middle of a desert, making it impossible for anyone to surf there, and no transportation links to the outside, making it impossible for anyone to go anywhere else to surf.

[Sean]

Hmmm... sounds plausible.

Maybe Maine has been trapped under some kind of invisible dome or something.

[loCAtek]

Not to do a sport, they've never engaged in, nor expressed a wish to engage in before; on a continent, they've never visited

So you admit you have no evidence to support this claim. Thanks.

No, neither were you. We have to go by his personal accounts, which didn't include surfing ...ever. Since 'Night Surf' was a fictional post-apocalyptic story, he had no real part in.

[Scooter]

Not to do a sport, they've never engaged in, nor expressed a wish to engage in before; on a continent, they've never visited

So you admit you have no evidence to support this claim. Thanks.