Koby Abberton returning from Hawaii Prison

Koby Abberton walked into Honolulu International Airport at 6.30am last Tuesday in handcuffs, flanked by a plain-clothed policeman and his attorney.

He was dressed in a red Analog flanno unbuttoned over a white prison-issue tee, Analog cargo shorts and well-worn, black Globe thongs. His entire luggage consisted of a yellow envelope, his passport and a three-page letter he'd written (entirely in capitals) to his girl in pencil. The cop took him all the way to the boarding gate to ensure he was really leaving.

A week earlier, having just been released from his three-day stint for assaulting a police officer, he was kicking back after a surf at the Analog house with Nathan Fletcher when he got a call from an Immigration officer who wanted to pop over and get Koby to sign something. Sure, Kobes said. Next thing he knew, the house was crawling with federal agents, and he was cuffed and taken away for another week in the hole. While he was gone, the North Shore lit up with speculation about what had happened. Some said he'd missed parole, others said he'd been deported for overstaying his visa. Meanwhile, Kobes discovered how boring it was to share a cell with a psycho, and how fucked it was to go hungry for two days.

Love him or hate him, Kobes knows how to work a crowd. As he boarded flight JQ4 for Sydney, he got chatting with a Channel Nine exec and advised him the network should pitch for Entourage; some other dude with a rock-climbing business in LA gave him his card and told him to call. By the end of the flight he'd talked to half of the cabin, posed for photos and received silver-service treatment from the star-struck crew.

Stab's Sam McIntosh snaffled the seat next to Koby and found the kid had had a couple of epiphanies while starving and languishing behind bars: jail sucks, and he's never getting in another punch-up in his life. Don't believe us? Listen to the interview yourself.

Remember the camp ol days, when hand cuffs were the staple diet to Koby's flamboyant weekend away with the boys? Refresh your grey matter and see how things got a little pink before they got so damn blue.

Oh boy what a life this Koby Abberton kid leads. Here's peculiar interview that took place aboard Sydney's Centre point restaurant with Bruce Irons shortly after some nasty business about being charged as an accessory to murder. Story here...

Rod
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Abberton
Reply #8 on : Wed April 29, 2009, 15:11:52

In these days of global warming and environmental crisis,Koby and the rest of the Abbertons / Bra boys are a waste of fresh oxygen we may all need later...now could they all please just F**K oFF!

chris
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.....
Reply #7 on : Fri December 19, 2008, 14:29:18

...prison food n fashion? Gimme a fuckin break (shotgun or tissue) I wanna know...
SAM: What was the decor like?
KOBY: MInimalist utilitarian post-modernism; the form-meets-function aesthetic.
S: Tell us about the lighting? Any Louis Poulsen? (excited)
K: Not the most environmentally friendly, and dare I say, it was a tad too harsh for my liking. I don't do fluorescent.
S: And the linen? I simply must know the thread-count? (squeal)
K: (to the stewardess) Can I have an upgrade?

Anonymous
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Re: Koby Abberton returning from Hawaii Prison
Reply #6 on : Thu December 18, 2008, 13:27:17

koby farts condoms

Rhys
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Re: Koby Abberton returning from Hawaii Prison
Reply #5 on : Thu December 18, 2008, 10:50:29

Look forward to reading in detail about the US visa waiver scheme in Stab boys.

In fairness your questions got better further into the interview, but for fer fuck sakes Sam, you got an exclusive with Koby after he gets out of jail and that's the best you can do? Lucky the competition from other surf journos isn't too strong.

celebrity BS
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fashion???????
Reply #4 on : Thu December 18, 2008, 06:22:27

WTF - "He was dressed in a red Analog flanno unbuttoned over a white prison-issue tee, Analog cargo shorts and well-worn, black Globe thongs"

Is this freakin Woman's Day, or Private Sydney or some other buuuuullllshhhhiiiitt? get the point of the story, but the whole thing that sucks about surfing is the apropriation by clothing companies

Jason Caine
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Re: Koby Abberton returning from Hawaii Prison
Reply #3 on : Mon December 15, 2008, 13:51:30

love the line "Unless it's for... um what's it called again? Umm self defence"

Anonymous
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strange
Reply #2 on : Mon December 15, 2008, 13:24:33

um, koby actually sounds like a good dude . and genuine. Weird.

Playa hater
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Intriguing
Reply #1 on : Sun December 14, 2008, 20:56:58

I like the honesty ...from a bra boy. Refreshing.