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.

My local supermarket needs customers' money.

If people barged mob-handed into the shop, spat at the cashiers and took a shit in the freezer section would you

(a) condemn the behaviour?
(b) condemn the supermarket workers for complaining about it, and refuse to shop there any more?

Apparently some posters on this thread would go for option B.

CurlyhairedAssassin

I’d say it spends on if you plan on shitting on beaches and in people’s gardens? If not I’m sure the locals will welcome you

I've seen the pictures of the crowds and I feel sick just looking at them.

Gosh
Perhaps you need to see a Doctor .
How sensitive .

It’s still 2m.

Darwinian theory in action ?

Nobody is suggesting everyone stays at home indefinitely. There are other options for getting out than flocking to the most popular beaches on one of the hottest days of the year. Most people live in normal size houses and yet have managed not to pile on to overcrowded beaches and leave shit everywhere. If it’s pearl clutching to object to this kind of behaviour than I’m very happy to be labelled a pearl clutcher.

@sistervanhelsing

I'd choose option C- condemn the few individuals responsible for the damage rather than tar all customers with the same brush and try to stop them coming when they are necessary for the survival of the local economy!

I don't think it would be an issue if it wasn't for the roads being blocked, waste left behind etc.

my family went to the beach, but not bournemouth, i had to work

it is all very dystopian. a pressure cooker,
i blame boris, and the tabloids headlines on tuesday tell us we were out of hibernation.

@BostonCheers

Which is exactly what we've been saying, ad nauseam - but the huge overall numbers means larger numbers of idiots spoiling things for the rest who may well be doing their best to be normal human beings...... no-one is saying they hate all visitors they are saying it's too many all in one go while there are still restrictions and the actions of a few are causing chaos.

Please don't put words in the mouths of people worried about friends working in the area having to deal with all this please.

And have another . I think you may be hangry. It is dinner time after all.

We are staying inland in a little village near A35 which looks like it has very little there (suits us!) so we can get to everywhere along the coast fairly quickly. And then I see this!

Bournemouth is an urban centre of population. It might be in the same county (just - it used to be in Hampshire), but its not directly comparable to a small village in west Dorset.

I don't think you will have a problem.

I’d say it spends on if you plan on shitting on beaches and in people’s gardens? If not I’m sure the locals will welcome you

It's not on our to-do list, no.

For those who wondered we're staying Puddletown, which DH finds very amusing, especially as some of the surrounding villages all sound like they have a bladder problem too. He keeps calling it "the CBeebies village"

Boston you say you haven't been on holiday in the UK for decades. You love going to Spain. If you want to go to Spain, go to Spain. However, you should be aware that there are local restrictions on beach numbers.

@CurlyhairedAssassin does your DH know one of the local rivers is called the Piddle?

@SomewhereEast

We have nine million people on furlough and millions of children & young people not in education. Its not exactly surprising that the beaches are rammed, or that young people are congregating & partying illegally. Most people don't want to sit in their houses or flats indefinitely, especially given their homes might be a bit less spacious than a fair few MNers'. Its exactly why we do actually need to reopen more widely soon

And how many of these people will refuse to go back to work or send kids to school on safety grounds?

But I haven't seen any general moaning about tourists, Boston. It's been very specifically aimed at people behaving recklessly and anti-socially during a global pandemic.

I live in a tourist town and we're desperate for 'back to normal', believe me.

Huge groups of teens and twenty somethings CurlyHairedAssasin on our local beaches, along with families and small kids. Parents don't want their kids in school but are happy to go to the beach. Teens and twenties look like college and university age, plenty of whom, I assume, would be working summer jobs at the moment. Instead they are roaming around in groups, looking for things to do.

I wonder how many of them will be back on public transport soon moaning at disabled/ill people who are exempt from wearing masks.

Because whats behind a lot of the faux concern is people who want to go to the beach or pub.

does your DH know one of the local rivers is called the Piddle?

Yes. I'm now worrying they might have a problem with flooding! We are used to funny names of little villages in S England. We are in the North West, not many funny names here. Although DH and the kids still take the piss out of a village near where I grew up here - Crank. Doesn't sound odd to me...

They’ll need to start limiting numbers on the beach

@Joelle345 You know what...we've actually done remarkably well at being unselfish for the past four months. Millions upon millions of under-fifties have accepted massive unprecedented restrictions on their lives, all to curb a virus which poses very little risk to the vast majority of them. We've shut down society, shuttered the economy (at the cost of eye-watering unemployment levels once the furlough scheme winds down I suspect) and spent billions upon billions to do it all. We've literally moved heaven & earth as a society to respond to all this. So by all means disagree with people going to a busy beach, but give the "OMG everyone is SO selfish" thing a rest. If we were all horribly selfish we would have sat back & let the virus rip. I just don't have it in my heart right now to get all judgy about people who are running out of steam, becaus frankly I am running out of steam.

@SisterVanHelsing do you mind me asking you where you live? I have seen a lot of talk on MN these past few months from people in tourist towns saying that outsiders aren't welcome. (Responsible) People do want to support the economy of tourist towns and villages, but don't want to be a burden. It's bad enough going to somewhere like St Ives in August, knowing you're adding to the crowds and it must be annoying for the locals, without factoring in coronavirus restrictions. Most people do want to do the right thing by the locals. But we need telling what to do!

People are thick and selfish.

Bournemouth is always packed in nice weather. Anyone with any common sense wouldn't have gone or would have turned around at the slightest hint of it being busy.

Sad its got to this. Days out for exercise should have been limited to a short distance from home, so the police could turn people back easily.

Rain tomorrow may help.

@laurely

I’m a nurse and I have been working on a covid ward all through this pandemic . I tested covid positive on April 24th . Now recovered and back at work . I’ve experienced some awful things over the last few months . I’m not going to talk about them on here but these pictures today have really upset me . It’s like a massive kick in the teeth . And tomorrow I’m going to do another shift in full PPE because this isn’t over yet despite what those selfish arseholes on the beaches think .

I'm so sorry. You must wonder why you bother.