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.

@Jumblebumblemess

To be clear, I don't think it's 'okay' for people to defecate and urinate in gardens or drop litter. It is certainly not behaviour that should be condoned or encouraged.

However; what I have said is that these small isolated acts cannot be used to criticise tourism, which is a lifelike for these resorts.

We also need to accept that people who have been cooped up for months are not going to behave like saints in a situation where toilets are closed or have extremely long queues- so I can understand why the littering and defection has happened.

@EnlightenedOwl

I'm just glad people are voting with their feet and not putting up with this crap any more

thinking with your feet too apparently.

I don't think it was isolated incidents......sadly.

[quote BostonCheers]@Jumblebumblemess

To be clear, I don't think it's 'okay' for people to defecate and urinate in gardens or drop litter. It is certainly not behaviour that should be condoned or encouraged.

However; what I have said is that these small isolated acts cannot be used to criticise tourism, which is a lifelike for these resorts.

We also need to accept that people who have been cooped up for months are not going to behave like saints in a situation where toilets are closed or have extremely long queues- so I can understand why the littering and defection has happened.[/quote]
Once again...tourism is not a lifeline for the local area. It's one part of the local economy.

I am going to explore the less touristy places which according to my research so far are full of hidden treasures.

Except for the beach Bournemouth isn't particularly touristy.

Tourism hasn't been the centre of the economy for decades.

"We also need to accept that people who have been cooped up for months are not going to behave like saints in a situation where toilets are closed or have extremely long queues- so I can understand why the littering and defection has happened"

Er....no. Just no! There is literally NO EXCUSE for littering and defecating on beaches, streets and people's gardens!!! What the fuck is wrong with people coming on here and justifying any of this! Wow, I really do despair of the British public if they are this stupid and selfish.

I live in the Lakes - it's been absolutely heaving around our two nearest lakes in the last couple of days and every sunny day recently. Apparently a lot of the people coming (and leaving their litter behind, blocking roads and camping illegally) are not regular visitors to the area and for many it's the first time they've been here. I can only assume that once other things are opened (cinemas, shopping centres, cafes, foreign travel etc) then people will go back to doing those things and it might all calm down.

Tourists who can't spend any money locally (due to stuff being shut) are not much use as they bring lots of problems and none of the benefits.

@wildone84 Boston can’t grasp that not everyone works in hospitality or has anything to do with it. Many have tried and failed to get that point to sink in

Here, again, are these people 'crammed' onto the beach.

Evidently, some among them behaved appallingly. Some got drunk on cheaper supermarket booze, possibly because the pubs are closed. Some urinated or defecated inappropriately because either the loos were closed or there were too few of them. And they were, in the Great British Tradition, drunk.

I'd bet the vast majority did the SD you can see in my photo, didn't leave their trash, and didn't shit on the beach.

I reckon it took one understandably disgusted beach cleaner to find one turd in one burger box in order for the 'good people' of Bournemouth, as represented on here, to assume the beach became an open, running sewer.

@Joelle345

"We also need to accept that people who have been cooped up for months are not going to behave like saints in a situation where toilets are closed or have extremely long queues- so I can understand why the littering and defection has happened"

Er....no. Just no! There is literally NO EXCUSE for littering and defecating on beaches, streets and people's gardens!!! What the fuck is wrong with people coming on here and justifying any of this! Wow, I really do despair of the British public if they are this stupid and selfish.

If BostonCheers can understand why people were littering and defecating all over the place, I dread to think how she behaves when she goes abroad and comes across a full bin or a long queue for a toilet.

The news is on now...

If BostonCheers can understand why people were littering and defecating all over the place, I dread to think how she behaves when she goes abroad and comes across a full bin or a long queue for a toilet.

Grim. Just grim.

Hopefully all these idiots will have given each other Covid and won't feel well enough to go to the beach tomorrow.

@BostonCheers why have these people been cooped up for months ? they have been allowed outside, many will have been working, they have been allowed to drive anywhere in England for weeks as long as they make it back in time for bed. Hardly 'cooped up', more a case of slightly less free frange than they are used to.

Bournemouth had its tourist heyday from the 1880s to the 1930s. Things have moved on since then.

I would put a lot of money on the fact there will be no spike as a result of Bournemouth today. We're still awaiting the spikes we were promised after various demonstrations going back prior to14 days, aren't we?

I reckon it took one understandably disgusted beach cleaner to find one turd in one burger box in order for the 'good people' of Bournemouth, as represented on here, to assume the beach became an open, running sewer.

The police declared a major incident, not the 'good people' of Bournemouth.

So did the hospital. No one turned up.

I think there’s more than one poster on this thread who has at some point had a sneaky shit in a bin.

@Miljea

Do you have a source for that? No-one at all?

@Miljea are you a local? Whereabouts on the beach was that photo taken? Are you ok with the mess and cost of clearing it up for your council?

It's a 6/7 mile beach so I imagine some sectors get busier than others. We always hide away on a quieter stretch (in-laws live there so know the drill and I just follow them!)

40+ tonnes of rubbish doesn't come from nowhere.

And, merrymouse, I stated that I'd bet one cleaner finding one turd in one burger box, disgusting tho that obviously is-has caused assumptions made in here that the beach became a veritable public sewer.

This isn't what caused the police to call a 'major incident'. That doesn't mean there was cause to do so; my guess, and it is a guess, is that it is better to call an incident that fizzles out, than to fail to call an incident that spirals out of control?

Decisions to make calls like these are politically highly charged. They are not made in isolation.

OldQueen my friends who work there. Is that good enough?

This was always bound to happen. I'm not defending the govt here but 'human behaviour' was always something that they tried to factor in when deciding when to lockdown (for those that criticised it not coming early enough). Does no one remember the talk of 'lockdown fatigue'? If it had happened too early and people started getting fed up and flouting the rules just when they needed to flatten the curve most crucially, it would have been worse.

As it is, the fundamental problem was that whilst locking us down, they allowed unchecked travellers to continue pouring into the country. What was the point?

We are seeing now a classic example of lockdown fatigue and there is nothing that Public Health Guidance can do to stop this.

Oh your friend.. no it's not good enough on an anonymous forum

Haven't RTFT but they said on BBC that 1/2 million were there today. If UK population is around 67.5 million that means 1 in every 135 were there today. That's madness.