Bournemouth beach - “Major incident”

[BebeGlazer]

The local police and council have now declared that Bournemouth beach is scene of “major incident” because people will not stay away. Overcrowding, littering, desperately dangerous parking.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18541911.bournemouth-beach-bcp-council-declares-major-incident/

Please, please, think kindly before travelling to small seaside towns at the moment. We cannot cope.

I would say let the hundreds of thousand 'enlightened' knuckle dragging Neanderthals crack on. Natural selection will sort it out... except they will use up our NHS resources themselves or pass it on to someone who isn't such an unmitigated fuckwit...

NEWS FLASH !!!!

Boredom and selfishness has NOT been found to cure a viral pandemic.

Who knew ?

The simple answer is the ones with more than a solitary brain cell , who despite wanting to go to the seaside, despite being cooped up for months , actually THOUGHT about things like toilets, lack of food... and oh yes - their fellow humans . And decided not to be selfish cunts.

The problem is that the government has sanctioned this. There will be cautious people who take the time to think 'major beauty spot - 30 degree temperatures - pandemic - not the best idea' and there will be others who just think 'let's go to Bournemouth' without considering that thousands might be flocking there - and if they've driven three hours into gridlocked traffic, are they going to turn back?

Leaving aside those who are deliberately anti-social, the government should have planned for people who mean well but, trying to put it kindly, haven't much foresight or common sense, and kept limits on travel distances.

Before I get shouted at, my nearest beach is more than two hours' drive away and there are no famous beauty spots nearby either.

When its kicking off in Ilkley of all places you know its game over

Let's all sing-a-long

Ilkley Moor's barred, twat.....

To be frank, while littering and people doing the toilet everywhere are clearly unpleasant, I think the locals need to grin and bear it for the good of their economies!

The problem at the moment is that roads are blocked and emergency services can't get through. The problem isn't just a bit of litter. People in Bournemouth are used to tourists and busy beaches.

If you are furloughed and kids not at school what did the government really expect?

Perhaps they expected that people would be able to muster up a modicum of either common sense, intelligence, empathy or decency. Just one would have done. But yes, more fool anyone who expected that.

I feel so sad for the people who have been shielding or vulnerable and truly isolated in this. So many are elderly and must wonder if they will ever see the sea again. We are trying to maintain the decrease in cases so they can more safely start to emerge, but selfish fuckers are literally pissing all over it.

They will probably have to find a way to allow places to close their beaches to public access this summer, sorry for anyone who was hoping to use them responsibly but see selfish fuckers above.

Absolute morons.

I'm sure Boris would agree they did what they thought was right.

@MNnicknameforCVthreads

IMO it all boils down to this country being massive overpopulated. TBH, the whole planet is.

I can’t think of anything worse than heading to a crowded place in temperatures like this, Covid or no Covid.

Not for long. No EU immigrants and the birthrate’s in freefall.

It does not all boil down to overpopulation.

We have shitloads of coastline. Most of the time even in hot weather there are beaches in this country that are quiet. The reason this particular bottleneck happened is because there's much more demand for beaches than usual because so many other places are shut, that people are inevitably going to want to get away more because they've been in lockdown and that it still isn't permitted for most people to stay overnight so the people of the most densely populated areas aren't able to travel further to access less popular beaches.

If it was about overpopulation, we'd have seen the same thing last year when the population was of very similar size.

@BostonCheers lol Bournemouth and sandbanks not well off, you’re talking out your arse. You’re officially banned from the area anyway, we really don’t want your money or custom.

I truly hope the Welsh Government see these pictures and extend the ban on people coming in!! Iesu Grist, mae bobl yn ofnadwy 😡

Perhaps they expected that people would be able to muster up a modicum of either common sense

Common sense is highly subjective. I'm sure that most of the people on the beach think they are using common sense.

We live near to the lakes and not only have tourists been busy absolutely trashing the likes of fell foot they've ventured further afield so our previously ignored coast is now being affected.

Though we should also remember locals are also capable of awful behaviour. There has been a fair amount of vandalism, fly tipping, rubbish left, trees damaged, BBQs abandoned in our wider area and not by tourists. Our area is not unusual or any worse than most.

To be frank, while littering and people doing the toilet everywhere are clearly unpleasant, I think the locals need to grin and bear it for the good of their economies!
Why are our aspirations for conduct so low. Oh they shit in your garden, called your 19 yo a cunt, threw their litter in the sea and then abused the litter collectors, stripped the local stores bare and threw their rubbish all over the streets and got so drunk they got into fights and the police were called? Well that's OK, at least they spent some money.

It horrified me that this behaviour is so widely accepted as fine

Won’t send children to school with risk assessments, hand washing and bubbles but will sit on crowded beaches with a shit ton of strangers and rubbish.

When I read major incident you know that’s not good when the emergency services are thinking this is fucked basically.

There are other places you can go, like parks, for a walk you don’t have to go to the beach. I’d love to go to the beach and have fish and chips, I’d also quite like my 11 night holiday and my wedding but doesn’t mean I’m going to go running off to the beach and every other place that’s open because I can’t have those, we’ve all been in this shit show together

I'm concerned about the bodies that will be pulled out of the sea because people don't understand the risks and lifeguards can't cope.

Exactly there is no way lifeguards can cope.

@BostonCheers

Ah, the customer is always right defence....... we're all customers at some point and we don't all become rude anti-social twats especially in times of crisis.

How do you justify saying we should smile and suck it up while lives are being put at risk by the selfish behaviour on display here at the moment? No-one is more important just because they have money to throw around that we should apparently be grateful for.

@ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal it's not just about locals wanting to go to the beach.
It's about people being able to leave their houses- yesterday the roads were so gridlocked they cancelled a ferry service becuase there wasn't space to unload the cars onto the road. Roads were totally stationery for hours. People couldn't get to their homes for hours when coming home from work.
It's not normal.

Ah, fond memories... I got jumped on a while back for suggesting on MN that people who live here didn't want tourists flocking here.

Good to see you're all getting the message, after Durdle Door & now this.

(Not having a go at anyone in particular, I forget who they were.)

If you are furloughed and kids not at school what did the government really expect?

I didn't realise so many people were that dumb.

@Devlesko

So sorry for the people who live there who feel they can't use the public services they pay for. It's disgusting, send them home. This is why Wales needs to stay closed to tourists from outside.

Stay closed to people from the outside, what, for good??

The rudeness from locals is not acceptable regardless of how a few visitors behave.

I'm a bit confused by this remark. You say you have't been to Bournemouth. If you are basing your comment on things posted on social media, I am sure I can find a Spanish website where people complain about British Tourists.

To be frank, while littering and people doing the toilet everywhere are clearly unpleasant, I think the locals need to grin and bear it for the good of their economies!

That's such a stupid view. The clean up & disruptions will likely cost more then what some have spent on ice cream & booze.

I don’t see how anyone can defend the behaviour of some people here. Fair enough some families might have turned up not realising thousands of others had the same idea but the rubbish and fights and toileting and abusive behaviour towards people working is disgraceful.

@BostonCheers

To be frank, the residents of these seaside towns cannot have it both ways. On the one hand, they are kicking off about people coming to visit but they are also complaining about lost jobs in hospitality.

I had been planning to book a staycation this summer in one of these resorts, but I will certainly not be now after witnessing the vitriol and hatred that so many locals seem to have for tourists!

Me and my family will be taking our custom and money to Spain as soon as practicable.

You absolutely CAN have it both ways if visitors act like decent, rational humans and all the places are open.