Is Occy a Dick? | ‘That time when Occy farted on me.’

Is Occy a dick? That’s a bit of a loaded question. All pro surfers seem like they have a bit of entitled dick in them and I’m sure that Occy at his height of fame and debauchery probably treated some people pretty bad without even remembering. But didn’t his comeback into a media icon put him back on a better path? Maybe not according to this behind the scenes tell all from Wade Davis who had to be on camera with him during the Pipeline contest a few years back…

“I suggested that we could just chat, shoot the breeze, that he could chat to some of his crew, maybe take the reigns a bit, you know?

‘Nah, you just ask me questions and I’ll answer them.'”

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“Occy’s utter disdain for me was made apparent when I asked what seemed to me like another innocuous question. Instead of answering, and I don’t know if it was specifically aimed at me, Occy cocked his leg slightly and directed a large loud fart in my general direction. To me the intention was clear, my very existence on planet earth was barely worth one of Occy’s cheese squeezes, and while he and his friends on the deck found it hilarious, I was internally furious. Here I was, just a young fella in the big scary world trying to have a go of it, and an Aussie icon – a hero of mine – had deemed me to be of such an inferior quality that he knew he could just drop his guts on me and it’d be a lark.”

 

Head over to Surfing Life to read Wade Davis’ full recount of That Time Occy Farted On Me for all his other outrageous behavior.