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OFF THE leash

When I heard this was to be The Crime Issue, I thought of all the surfers I couldn’t write about for fear of being hunted down and… I was going to say slaughtered but it’s more likely that they’d simply demand a cut of my fee. Bludgeoning is hot and heavy work at this time of year and the kind of criminals I know are dog lazy. Bursting with energy in the water, but complete sloths on land.

I ordered another beer and stared at the tenth straight day of

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