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Paddleboarder attacks surfer in Morro Bay, charged with attempted murder

August 26, 2025

Morro Bay 

By KAREN VELIE

During an altercation over a wave, a male paddleboarder allegedly attacked a female surfer in the waters off Morro Bay on Saturday, according to State Parks. While the surfer is recovering from the assault, the man is charged with attempted murder.

While surfing is a male dominated sport, on Saturday morning four women decided to go surfing in Morro Bay. However, the swell wasn’t up with only small two-foot waves.

According to surfer etiquette, you don’t cut someone off. In this case, the female surfer was far in front of 59-year-old Andy Gustafson when he ran her over, screamed at her, beat her with his paddle, jumped on her board, grabbed her by the hair, and shoved her under water, another surfer said.

Officers booked Gustafson in the San Luis Obispo County Jail on felony charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and misdemeanor charges of assault and battery. He remains in jail with his bail set at $500,000.

 


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Another “janitor” goes berserk when he catches a twelve inch wave 100 feet outside of the lineup and expects a freeway wide swath to be cleared for him to paddle through on….


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This guy is an embarrassment, should be well documented and registered as such.


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Giving the harbor seals the wrong impression of who we are.


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I go running exactly here almost every day, barred from carry by idiot 9th Circus panel decision partially lifting injunction against SB2.


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You’re a crazy teenager. The government should cancel your Guns and Ammo magazine account. Slingshots for you.


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85% of all crimes are committed by men.


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85% of crimes committed by females go unpunished.


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Assault does tend to take precedent over stealing diapers.


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Women, minorities, and the LGBT community are being attacked like it’s the 1950’s again. “Make America Great Again” they scream.. When exactly was supposed to be great? When you could abuse and take advantage of people with no consequences? Hm, yeah, not supporting that bs crowd. But I know I am sadly in the minority this site. Guess I better watch out :/


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Having a Ground hog day?


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The paddle boarder’s vehicle had a “Harris” sticker on it fyi


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An Andrew Gustafson has donated thousands of dollars to Act Blue and Democrat Stephen Bennett according to state campaign records


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In summary: “The election of Trump in 2024 has caused a paddle boarder to attack a female surfer for being female”


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Perp24, your TDS is far too radical in this post. Its going to be a long 3½ yrs. for you. I hear Ireland is nice.


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100%


Libocrats have ZERO self-awareness! It is their mental illness (as confirmed by multiple mental health studies).


Make no mistake about it, their stage 4 TDS is a real mental illness.


They need to seek mental help.


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And you support a convicted felon who is a pedophile. Release the Epstein files. Seek mental help. Please. Do it quickly.


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Andy Gustafon, whatta sup-kook! Andy needs a proper spanking when his haole arse visits Hawaii. CCN- please show Andy’s face.


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Women, minorities, and the LGBT community are being attacked like it’s the 1950’s again. “Make America Great Again” they scream… When exactly was it supposed to be great? When you could abuse and take advantage of people with no consequences? Hm, yeah, not supporting that bs crowd. But I know I am sadly in the minority on this site. Guedd I better watch out :/


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In the 1950’s the least of Gustafson’s problem would have been law enforcement, he would have been carried off the beach.


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Cool Story. Heard from a reliable source he was a rep for and/ or worked for “North Face”….. so puffy jacket pseudo masculine blue teamer off his meds sounds like a more likely scenario. If the waves weren’t totally flat that day there would have certainly been more level headed guys/ gals from both sides of the aisle to take him out.


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This ‘sweeper’ should have just posted up in his Sprinter van that day and stayed out of the water.


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One of your multi-letter victim community went out shooting yesterday. Kinda like this paddle board asshole.


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Must be serious business, I wouldn’t know.


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