Lord above some people are just... unbelievable!

Takes the cake

The cheek of some people is astounding. We once had the women's cycling tour of GB come through our village. My front garden had no fence, the lawn just joined up to the path, and there were several people erected camping chairs on my front garden to sit and watch it. As others have experienced, they were so rude when asked to move.

This really doesn't surprise me. We live in a tourist area with a single track lane running by our house. Lots of tourists walk up it. The view for the lane is lovely - out over the valley and on a clear day for miles either way. Our house is elevated from the road. People have absolutely no issue to come up the steps to our property, through our very clearly private gate and stand on our front patio to take photos of the view!

Their cheek astounds me. If I see them I go out and tell them to sod off. One once had the nerve to complain that our dog (who was in our fenced off and gated patio area) had almost knocked her over whilst she was trying to get her photo of the view. My next dog is going to be trained to bite rather than lick people to death!

Peter Mayle, who wrote 'A year in Provence', described coming home from the market or something to find four Brits in his sitting room, there to see what his house was like. He said they got very stroppy when asked to leave.

Absolutely nothing OP! Love a cup of cocoa....😊
Well done to your husband for being assertive enough to see the CF's off ~ like previous posters have said, I was afraid this story was going to end with your DH & DS missing the fly past.

I lived somewhere with private gardens for residents use only. In the summer every Tom,Dick and Harry would turn up! Used to drive us crazy especially when it was a bunch of teens messing about!

FourLeggedBuckers Totally agree the dogs aren't the problem !

We get similar situations all the time. We have a pond on our land that used to be used for a waterwheel attached to a derelict mill. It’s dangerous to swim there as water flows into it and out of it and there’s a lip under the bank where the water flows out of it. We have so many signs up people couldn’t miss them. Every year we find families set up with picnics, often people swimming in it having climbed fences to get into it. We put up a 6 foot chain link fence a few years ago and someone cut a hole in the fence. Unfortunately it can be seen from the road and we often see families trudging through the fields to get to it.

Don’t get me started about off-lead dogs! Although, DH strolling across a field with a gun normally makes them think twice.

Tourist season is upon us, let the games commence and let the hilarity begin when they think the stags are friendly. There’s nothing funnier than watching them trying to feed the deer, one idiot grabbed a stags antlers a month or so ago and it didn’t end well.

As for the motorhome wild camping tourists, you’d be disgusted where they empty their toilets and the rubbish they leave behind.

There was one in my village Facebook group the other day complaining that they'd been asked to leave a privately owned field by the farmer. Seemed to think it was the farmer's responsibility to put signs up to explain everywhere where they're not allowed, in addition to the clearly signed public rights of way and associated footpaths. I may put a sign on my driveway yet to stop them using my property as a dog training area too.

"No problem Sir, there is an entrance fee of €50 each, a further €100 seating charge for the deck chairs each and €500 to tie up the dog. I'll know of a tenner if you want to stand or sit on the ground.

Would you like to pay by cash or instant credit transfer?"

Cheeky feckers.

I know of somewhere which was a good photography spot for trainspotters, tolerated by the landowner - who wasn't so happy when he found a bunch of trainspotters had come equipped with saws and felled a group of young trees so they could get a better view.

Same! "Just as DS sunk his teeth into a piece of his steak and kidney pie, they heard the roar of the Apache above. They quickly rushed outside, however all they could see was it getting smaller and smaller as it flew off into the distance" 😂

On a serious note OP - the cheeky sods! There are an awful lot of CFs around these days!

They sell it in every supermarket!

Wouldn’t trust myself to keep the shotgun pointed at the dog - it’s the people I have beef with, not the mutt!

Imagine the AIBU when I’ve chased someone off with the shotgun levelled at their PFB. And that’s before we consider any other consequences!

Don't be silly.

Cocoa is much better than tea or coffee if you're sitting outside on a chilly days. Or are you thinking they should be drinking vastly overpriced hot chocolate instead?

Thank goodness for a happy ending .... thought for a minute you were going to say they missed the flypass

I always find a shotgun pointed at their dog makes them move. Friends of ours have a farm with fields that are beside the beach, they have cattle including a bloody huge bad tempered bull and every year they have a couple of dozen bullocks. They put signs on the gates telling people their are bulls in the field. More than once he has come across idiots unloading tents to put up in his cliff top field. They even stand there and argue that they are entitled to pitch a tent where they want. I personally would tell them to crack on and stand back and watch the fun

I frequently have to chase entitled idiots out of private property where they have no right to be, because they think they have a god given right to interfere with livestock.

And they have the audacity to argue back, even when you point out they’re endangering the animals with their loose dog / putting themselves and their kid / dog at risk, as well as just being damn rude.

I totally sympathise, OP.

Most fields are private property unless it is public access land is a public right of way, (clearly indicated on OS maps), they need the land owners permission to be on it. CFs of a high order.

Did the woman have brown eyes? Maybe they'd been overcome with thinking about making love in the green grass?!

Not 'making love with Claude Greengrass', as some Heartbeat fans mistakenly hear.

I went out one Sunday to put my bag in the car as i was going out for the day. There was a woman sitting on a camping chair with a cooler beside her sitting in my gateway on our drive. She heard me but made no attempt to speak to me. I put my kids in the car so it was obvious I would be driving out. No move from her. I went over to ask her to move and she had such an attitude you would think I was the one being unreasonable.
She was there to watch a cycling race that was going down the road. No one had told us about the race, it's a public road and it wasn't closed.

Not quite the same thing, but I've always thought that about people who live in houses with blue plaques on them. Whilst it would be amazing to be living in such an acknowledged part of history, it must be awful having people constantly walking up your pathway to look at the plaque and probably also have a further nosey at the property.

It wouldn't even just be people who were particular fans of the person commemorated, as I'm sure that many people would automatically go and look more closely upon noticing any blue plaque.

Somebody on our street had one of those 'vanity' blue plaques that somebody presumably bought her from a catalogue - about half or a third the normal diameter and much thinner - and says something like "Shirley Peterson, born 1954 - Former Teacher, Housewife and Mother and much-loved Nanna". Apart from a potential security risk for ID theft, they look to me more like a memorial to somebody who has died rather than a present to give to somebody still very much alive.