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 also really disagree with the idea that you should be cool with human shit in your garden just because those people visiting pay your bills. (According to those saying that tourists are the only reason Bournemouth exists. It has a university for one so it’s not all garden shitting humans that keep it afloat)

When it’s open though. When it’s not open it’s just mess.

Did the council warn people to stay away?

"Regrettable and unfortunate"......

Suggests it "couldn't be helped" but people made choices to behave the way they did.

1,8 billion in normal times..... not during the current pandemic situation and not likely to be achieved given that this year.

The insistence on gratitude in this particular situation is bizarre.

@LuluJakey1

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

Following on from my post yesterday.

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/eight-arrested-cullercoats-tynemouth-fight-18493116

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tynemouth-longsands-rubbish-heatwave-lockdown-18491090

It was disgusting behaviour.

Bostoncheers is deliberately being goady throughout this thread.

Bournemouth residents have no problem with visitors most of the time. But no one should be grateful for what went down yesterday. The pubs and cafes weren't even open so who exactly was getting the 'tourists' money yesterday

Bostoncheers, glad you're fucking off to Spain this year, please don't come to Bournemouth. We don't need more entitled people who think that flashing the cash means they can treat other people and property like shit.

Thanks for buying an ice cream and a bucket and spade. Your purchase entitles you to 1 shit in my garden. If you’d also like to piss up my wall you have to spend over £5

No.

There are basic levels of human decency and all those sheeple at Bournemouth yesterday failed at basic hygiene.

@Mymycherrypie

I haven’t said that people should be fine with the defecation and urination in gardens. Clearly it’s not ideal behaviour and it’s certainly not something that should be encouraged .

However, we have to cut people who have been trapped in flats for 3 months some slack- they are not going to behave angelically at the moment. These few incidents are also incredibly minor compared to the economic benefits of tourism.

I'm also beginning to think a certain poster is being willfully obtuse to gain a reaction. My bad for encouraging it to be fair.

I'm going to cut them some slack because of their suffering during lockdown.

3 months in your own house and company doesn’t mean you forget how to behave in public. I think it shows how very thin the line is for some people. The slightest easing of rules and they are off.

I’m certainly not going to be excusing shitting in the street just because someone doesn’t have their own garden and doesn’t have the ability to go somewhere else on a hot day.

There is a wealth of woodland, beaches, mountain ranges in the U.K. There was absolutely no need to go to one beach yesterday and leave the contents of your arse all over one town.

We’ve all been in lockdown, we haven’t all forgotten how to use a toilet.

Are you suggesting then that the people of Bournemouth are bought by tourists so should put up with a bit of human excrement here and there? Ouch.

Tourism doesn’t equal shit up the walls.
Filthy bastards equal shit up the walls.

If you’re the sort of person to shit in a garden then you’ll be doing that whether you’ve been in lockdown or not.

It wasn’t t just Bournemouth affected. There are comments on local pages today saying that people were trying to find shortcuts through Ringwood, Burley and the forest to avoid the jams on the A31. People have called Melanie’s about day trippers jumping out their cars and pissing on their driveways! A pony was struck by a car in Burley and you were taking your life in your hands trying to cross the street in Ringwood as the cars were trying to skip some of the que on the A31.

There have been some ridiculous comments on here! no local has said they own the beaches or area, suggesting locals move if the don’t like tourists, suggesting furloughed hotel workers clean up after the daytrippers?? To be honest it’s not the locals behaving like entitled idiots!! They just want their home respected! Not too much to ask really is it?

Contrary to popular belief not everyone in the area relies on tourism to make a living and going about your daily business when half a million descend on the area is enough to try anyone’s patience! The A31 was still busy/jammed at 11pm last night.

@Casino218 I wonder just how many of the selfish idiots on the beaches were from flats with no garden?

Even if they were, they have been in lock down for three MONTHS not years. It's pathetic

Why could people not go closer to home to a park maybe? In fact we have been allowed to go outside since the first day of lock down so people moaning about being in lock down are just ridiculous.

I am not sure what level of idiocy is needed to decide that going to a beach on the hottest day of the year is a good idea especially when cafes, ice cream places etc are closed. I bet loads of them got sun burn or even sunstroke. No sympathy from me if they did but I do feel sorry for their children (a) for quite likely getting burnt or sunstroke and (b) for having such selfish, morons for parents. I really hope no one took their dog

Also if such a high percentage of the population needs a toilet so often maybe they should not be going far from home.

I know. It’s not like 3 months in a flat with Netflix, Internet, tv, radio etc has turned people back in to cavemen. Humans aren’t bears we aren’t all walking about dragging our knuckles now that lockdown is lifted. These people were probably animals before.

So nah, I don’t buy the argument what we should allow a poo here or there because that’s what comes with tourist money.

As I said, she's being deliberately goady to gain a reaction. Must be bored.

Yes Lynsey particularly if n.o.2, is unavoidable, stay closer to home

Bored or quite partial to a sneaky poo in a bush.

@Mymycherrypie

Bored or quite partial to a sneaky poo in a bush.

maybe both?!

@Tomhollandswife

It just amazing people think we rely on them so much.Basically if your a filthy turd who can't behave we don't want you and we will survive without your £5 on a mr whippy Unless your happy for when I come to your city and do some shopping which you rely on obviously then I can take a big poo on your doorstep.

Bournemouth is not "reliant" on tourism. People who say so have probably never even been to the town. I don't know anyone who works in the tourism industry in that area and most of my family and friends live there. Most people I know work for the NHS, the University, or in other services that the local or national population needs.

I think I am done with Poole/Bournemouth

I don't litter, and I use toilets. I have spent a huge amount in Bournemouth over the past decade on restaurants and hotels and more visiting my mother at least 3 times a month, organising her care. I kept her out of a nursing home so save the council lots of money.

Now people I know down have a Fb petition calling for the beach to be restricted to Dorset people.

Smug prats.

If Bournemouth businesses no longer want my (off season) money, somewhere else will.

Oh great @BostonCheers is back with their "not ideal" "unfortunate" "regrettable" "minor" minimisation of the issues.

Oh how unfortunate that there was a London gang fight and multiple stabbings. I know it's not ideal but hey ho they might have bought a Mr Whippy so take it up the arse you ungrateful Bournemouth cunts.

Fuck off!

Tourism contributes £1.8 billion to the Dorset economy every year, so Bournemouth would frankly be fucked if some of the ungrateful residents got their way and tourists decided to take their money elsewhere

After 4th July when everything is open so that the tourists can be more evenly spread across the area instead of concentrated onto the beach and the tourism infrastructure is up and running avain so that antisocial behaviour and mess can be properly contained/channelled and dealt with.

Life I'm doing in Spain this summer

Are you going to Spain? Really? Because you hadn't fucking mentioned. Do you want a pat on the back and your "went to an abroad place" badge?

@Needmoresleep

I think I am done with Poole/Bournemouth

I don't litter, and I use toilets. I have spent a huge amount in Bournemouth over the past decade on restaurants and hotels and more visiting my mother at least 3 times a month, organising her care. I kept her out of a nursing home so save the council lots of money.

Now people I know down have a Fb petition calling for the beach to be restricted to Dorset people.

Smug prats.

If Bournemouth businesses no longer want my (off season) money, somewhere else will.

You're not part of the problem and I'm sure anyone would agree. I think this petition might be more to do with the pandemic and the hoards descending when there isn't the services in place for them at this time.

Basically if it costs more to sort out the anti social behaviour than the income that tourist brings in then I don’t think that particular tourist will be missed.