Venice Flooded? Let’s Go Surfing!

By Alex in Sports, Travel, Video Clips on Dec 7, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Old: When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade. New: When Venice floods, go wakeboarding.

That’s exactly what Duncan Zuur did at St. Mark’s Square:

Duncan Zuur’s team pulled a compact, 20 horsepower motor winch from its hiding place and placed it under the square’s arches. One team member, clad in rubber boots, pulled the winchs cable about 120 metres across the square and pressed one end firmly into the hand of Duncan Zuur, who had taken the opportunity to get into his wakeboarding gear. Four elegant turns later, the event was over prompting by a standing ovation from an astounding crowd of tourists.

And luckily for Duncan, the police didn’t even notice.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Newslite


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  1. TeaFizz
    Dec 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    I have a strange urge to get a Red Bull…

  2. Johnny Cat
    Dec 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    I just want to say, I loove the new YouTube aspect ratio.

  3. ted
    Dec 7th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    That was illegal? I just thought it was kinda dumb. When you consider how icky the water in Venice is supposed to be…

  4. Ali S.
    Dec 7th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    Love the shifty way they try to make it look like a bunch of guys just decided to go surfing. Not a bad way to promoting your product by doing something no else has ever done. Surf on the square.

  5. DOJ
    Dec 7th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    I too wondered if they had actually broken any laws and if the footage of police was unrelated but inserted for “cool” factor.

    Still looked cool

  6. zav
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 3:24 am

    The cable belongs to the winch. Therefore, the word you need to use is winch’s, not winches. Winches means more than one winch.

  7. Chris
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Red Bull gave him wings… and probably a nice check too.

  8. vero4902
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    The Big Picture from Boston.com has a high-res photo of the “incident”: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/venice_under_water.html#photo 2
    The site also said that the police stepped in at some point.

  9. sloane
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    It said the police “stepped in” did it say that Red Bull “sponsored”?

  10. liphttam1
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    So, I would say it had somthing to do with redbull. They advertise like google. With hidden adds.

  11. Lisa
    Jan 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    I don’t know how he did that, that water is vile


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