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.

We live at the coast in the north-east - Tynemouth/North Shields/ Cullercoats/Whitley Bay. It is shocking today. Crammed with people on beaches, in the sea, walking the proms, riding bikes in groups on pavements, queuing for food and alcohol, drinking alcohol, dropping litter. There are large groups of people.

I had to get on the metro which has been very quiet. I stepped into the carriage and it was heaving with a group of 37 university students going to the beach in Tynemouth. They were sitting on each other's knees, most not wearing masks, standing in the aisle and doorways, shouting, laughing, swearing. It was horrible. I got off at the next stop and waited for the next train.
The pubs and restaurants are doing takeaway service. There were huge queues and the numbers of men, mainly youngish men, buying alcohol and drinking it in the streets was shocking. There were lots of 'lads' who had clearly had far to much to drink. Broken bottles along the prom, lots of evidence of consumed alcohol, lots of takeaway litter. Noticeable drinkers -male and female- on benches, with trays of cans and vodka.
The traffic was awful - backed up for about 500 yds each way at Cullercoats, young men with car windows down music blaring, young men on motorbikes screeching between traffic at speed.
Horrible. My plan was to walk home along the prom after getting a prescription for FIL. I gave up and took the backstreets.
I have never seen it like this, ever.
There were police vans with police sitting in them doing nothing

Jesus - the perils of living within striking distance of big cities , thank God for long journey to get further down the SW

People are really missing the point.

The police don't declare a major incident in Bournemouth every time the sun comes out at the weekend.

The beach is dangerous because it is overcrowded and cars are blocking access for emergency services.

@WhoWants2Know

How many of these people are going to be stuck there for hours more than they expected, sit in gridlock and end up with heat stroke?

Karma

Who do people want to be where everyone else is, COVID or not?

We've been swimming most days for over a month now - I've never seen so many people on the local beaches as I have the last couple of days.

Lots of littery fuckers too.

@Scruffyoak

That whole area has beach all along. Many on the new forest Dorset border will be empty. People are so unimaginative it hurts.

This.

@unenlightenedowl is probably a meek shy person in real life venting their anger online to gain some quick self esteem.

You could always try and star fish instead? Stand up, back straight, legs apart and arms up in the air.

the anger in the posts reminds me of an angry child being told to get off minecraft

Population depends on whether you go by town or BCP council numbers..... actual town has two different numbers depending on how you search. 2020 is estimated at 500,000 give or take, another figure is the 187,000. Either way, a 500,000 increase is substantial for the infrastructure currently available.

D4rwin I visit many places, pretty, prettier and not - and don't litter. It doesn't get me any award and nor do I expect one. Littering and leaving rubbish anywhere, will earn you (general, not aimed at you) the contempt and disgust of all those who don't leave a mess wherever they go.

Why would anybody flock onto a crowded place at the moment, taking genuinely higher risks in the name of 'freedom'.

A bit of consideration works wonders and I've never found any place that is unwilling to welcome visitors - just obviously not now, in that huge number. Not rocket science to understand either.

That whole area has beach all along. Many on the new forest Dorset border will be empty. People are so unimaginative it hurts.

Usually yes, but I have heard that today everywhere is busy.

Pandemic?
What pandemic?
It’s over now.

The contrast on this thread is unreal. Spain and Italy are practically begging tourists to come, with some places even offering to fund flights. They understand that many resorts are entirely reliant on tourists for most of their jobs.

Here meanwhile we have arrogant and rude locals telling visitors to fuck off home!

I'm certainly not regretting my decision to head to Spain this summer instead of a U.K. resort!

annabel85, not karma at all. Many of those heatstroke/sunburn victims will be kids.

It's a pretty horrible thing to say actually.

This is what happens when humans are kept in 'lockdown' for so long - the first sign of sun and they rush to the nearest beach...

I never go to the beach (I'm miserable and hate them), but the photos don't look any different to beaches in the height of summer at any time.

They should be harder off the beach and filtered through a barrier. Each one should be stamped on their forehead with ink that takes two weeks to fade saying 'I'm one of those idiots who went to an overcrowded beach' or, more shortly 'idiot', then the sensible people know who to keep away from. Selfish bloody idiots. I live near one of the beaches in the news and it's absolute chaos.

@CallmeAngelina

Just came back to the thread to see if EnlightenedOwl has apologised yet. I won't hold my breath. She's vile on every thread I've seen her on. Hopefully she's giving teachers a break today, if she's tied up spreading her unique style of venom on here instead.

Apologise for what??

There were police vans with police sitting in them doing nothing

Britain seems to have descended into lawlessness.

I live locally and it is a complete shitshow.

Roads and car parks should have been closed after yesterday.

It has sounded like living in a war zone with the amount of helicopters and sirens going off all day. I also know of no locals that have gone to the beach the past couple of days. Some must of, but I think a big majority are from out of town.

The rubbish is just something else. The selfish cunts that come down and pollute the beaches, hedgerows and sea is disgusting. We have had young children injured here from walking on the beach. One stood on a wooden skewer that someone had buried and had their foot impaled on it. The other stood on a hot bbq that someone had tried to bury and left.

Locals pay a hell of a lot in council tax to clear all this shit up.

I am ashamed to live in Britain at the moment. We have turned into a selfish nation, that doesn't care about anything but ourselves. There is no community anymore.

@LuluJakey1 Thanks for the description. We live very near, but have not been to Tynemouth this year. I wondered what it was like today.

Well, soon you can come to Cornwall if you fancy but please try and look at other beaches instead of just Gwithian and Perranporth. There are sooooo many big beaches to choose from!

There’s enough beaches for everyone. But most people tend to go to Perranporth

BostonCheers we're not telling people to fuck off, we're asking they stop being selfish idiots, blocking roads, causing massive traffic jams, leaving shit tons of litter and shitting on the beach/behind a shop/in someone's garden. It's the behaviour of the worst sort of animal and deeply self centred and selfish.

Day trippers do NOT help local economies......
most places they spend their money are owned by people who live somewhere else

ANd why shouldn't we want to enjoy our local area but we can't....we pay more in Water Bills than the rest of the country do......a lot more.
to pay for keeping the beaches clean the beaches visitors destroy and the beaches it is not safe for local vulnerable peole to use.

We are stuck indoors thanks to visitors.
It would be ok if we were treated with respect and it is LOCAL volunteers that clean the beaches up again in the evenings.

There's some ridiculous pearl clutching going on here. Yes it's terrible it's overcrowded. Yes it's shit that people can behave so badly. But no one went thinking "ah fab, I'll go to the most crowded place I can find today", they just went to the beach. After 3 months inside. It's 31 bloody degrees in London, of course people want to get away!

BostonCheers, Is that in any way a correlation? The Bournemouth situation and resorts in Spain that are hankering for tourism to return? I don't see it's the same thing at all.

It's the utter piggery and vile behaviour of some that is causing the issue. If your solution is to go to Spain then, great. Have a lovely time.