GOOD AS GOLDSTEIN
Bakery bigwig breaks back in jet ski drama but now he’s ...
GOLDSTEINS Bakery figurehead Frank Goldstein has revealed he cheated death in a horror jet ski accident which left him with a broken back. The 75-year-old told the Bulletin he was on the mend from the shocking mishap at Runaway Bay after trying to launch a jet ski outside his brother’s home. “I don’t remember a thing,’’ he said.
A GOLD Coast business titan has cheated death after breaking his back and being knocked out in a horror jet ski accident.
Goldsteins Bakery figurehead Frank Goldstein, 75, yesterday revealed he was the victim of a shocking jet ski mishap at Runaway Bay on April 21 but now he’s on the mend.
Mr Goldstein was spending the long Easter weekend with his brother John Goldstein, 81, when he diced with death as they tried to launch a jet ski outside John’s home.
Frank told the Bulletin yesterday: “(The jet ski) started in gear. It works like a motorbike handle on each side.
“Somehow the handle had been drawn in and was on full power. When the jet ski started it took off like a rocket.
“I saw the jet ski move from underneath me. As far as I know I ended up on the jetty. I’m lucky I didn’t end up in the water.”
His brother was unharmed but Frank was rushed to hospital after the 11.30am accident.
Frank said he “doesn’t remember a thing”.
“I woke up in hospital. I knew nothing about what happened,” he said.
“It was like turning a computer on and off.
“Somehow (doctors) must have switched me back on again and everything was still there.
“That’s the amazing part. How did they do it?
“You lose consciousness and everything and all of a sudden it’s back again.
“I’m very grateful.”
Frank spent a month in hospital recovering but three months on says he’s on the mend though still shocked about what happened.
Jumping on to a jet ski isn’t unusual for the veteran, whose family started the city’s famed pie shop and bakery empire.
The Goldstein brothers had planned to jet ski to a Stradbroke Island property for Easter Sunday.
Now Frank is vowing never to get on a jet ski again.
Asked what his brother said after the incident, Frank said he only responded by saying he was sorry.
“We had only just made up from a silly 20-year argument about certain things that don’t count when you get older,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Frank has dodged death – when he was 44 he had bypass surgery due to a genetic condition.
His parents Julius and Paula started the iconic pie shop in 1944.
Frank continues to run the family-owned business alongside his two sons, Joshua and Martin, and the Goldsteins name is attached to 12 bakery locations stretched across the city.