Have you heard about this?

[PenelopeFlintstone]

www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/afog5z/psa_the_irish_scammer_family_that_violated_the/

Now being reported as 'Brit family'.

Or is it that the British public have heard the likes of this too many times before? Old news?

One of the things they did was leave a huge mess on the beach and refused to pick it up. Other guests rallied round and picked it up for them.

Living in Germany I know how negatively this would be seen here and commented upon however after many trips to Uk (I am English) I notice that this does not appear to be a problem fo the Brits. The streets and pathways are littered with rubbish which would just not happen here.

I’ve seen this several times on UK social media. There’s a video of one of the little kids shouting at a local. Horrible bloody family by the sound of it. The accent is definitely Irish traveller (I’ve worked with loads, there’s a large community near me).

One of the girls has nicked $55 worth of stuff from a garage shop, they’ve littered the beach and refused to pay due to ‘insects in the food’ for pretty much every meal they’ve been out for so far. The local mayor said he accepts you might sometimes find something in your meal but not every bloody one! I am, sadly, unsurprised. It’s also on European media.

You've got love the straight talking kiwis:
'In an explosive interview with bFM's Mikey Havoc, the mayor labelled the controversial tourists who have been running amok across the country "a...holes" and "trash".'
Can you imagine that happening here - it'd have to be cloaked in PC niceties.

Shocking how much disruption one family cause.

I saw that story yesterday but just in print and no videos of them. It said they were from Liverpool but my first reaction upon reading the article was that it sounds more like they are Travellers. That's not to say Travellers are all like those people, but they sounded like the majority of the ones that I have encountered (I've met more travellers like these guys than decent upstanding ones like my good friends from a local, settled site)
It's a shame that they are being called a lout British family rather than what they actually are. According to travellers themselves they are a different race and ethnicity.

It was on bbc news

@PenelopeFlintstone, what I meant - given I was totally unaware of this news - was that badly behaved British holidaymakers abroad (and I realise, now, that these people have been far worse than that), don't usually make the headlines here. Oddly enough, I can't find it on the BBC News website.

I think it has only got so much coverage here is because it is the height of the holiday season and a quiet news time. There have been reports that they are from Leicestershire, but that report was apparently quoted by The Herald and from The Sun.