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.

If I turned up at a beach and it looked like that, I would turn round, virus or no virus. And why do they have to leave their rubbish?

One of the news reports says that people have travelled from Birmingham to Bournemouth for the day. Beggars belief.

Why couldn’t the traffic have been controlled this morning and people turned away after the scenes yesterday? It’s a bit late when people are sitting on the beach or paddling in the sea.

During the hours spent driving there you’d have thought someone would check the traffic report and see it was packed before they got there. No one needs to just turn up anywhere to see what the traffic is like these days.

Bloody disgusting behaviour. I bet they are in no hurry to go back to school or work though as it's not safe.

iampicklerick

In terms of crowds it's no worse. People have been cooped up and now on a nice day, they've went to a beach. Are crowds only allowed only for political reasons?
If you are against the crowds then you should be against all crowds not just the 'right' crowds

Why do so many leave their rubbish?

But @AvonCallingBarksdale this is what happens when you force a country into lockdown. This is the reason there is now no jobs, furloughed staff with likely no job to go back to. No kids in school, no childcare. Can't go on holiday .......

This was predictable & to a large extent, preventable. The government should have been leading by example, i.e. not going for drives to "test their eyesight" etc. Now all the idiots think if it's ok for Cummings et al to break the rules, so can they. Now the lockdown restrictions have been somewhat relaxed, hot weather is upon us, many people are still furloughed or have been made redundant because their employer has gone under, & schools are still not fully back... of course they want to go to the beach.

Looks like my idea of hell, personally, but then I've never sunbathed in my life.

I don't understand why people always flock to Bournemouth or Brighton, they're really boring beaches, always packed, no shade or shelter and surrounded by thousands of sweaty bodies. It's like a vision of Hell. We're an island nation, we have thousands and thousands of beaches. Why subject yourself to that? I bet there's a nearly empty beach within a few miles.

There is a whole load of far-right nutters on Infowars, Breitbart etc who firmly believe that coronavirus is a leftwing conspiracy designed to curb people's freedom and instigate state control. They use words like "coronaphobes".

What's happening in Bournemouth is the worst excesses of selfishness and stupidity. It's a sad, pathetic sight. Bin collectors and shop keepers being threatened and beaten up by drunken louts.

It doesn't matter how much education and information is made available - the selfish will do what the selfish want to do.

IamPickle spot on

I know quite a few people furloughed who have young dc as do I. It wouldn't never cross my mind or theirs to drive to a beach today.

I bet there's a nearly empty beach within a few miles.

Usually I would agree, but I wouldn't be sure today.

Have other countries had similar problems on their beaches or is just the English mentality? And again I ask why does anything like furlough, no childcare, school justify people leaving their rubbish behind?

We need road blocks. If there aren't enough police, then bring the army in to do it.

Anyone sitting in several hours of traffic jam to actually get to where they were going today should have used what little common sense they possessed, turned round and gone home.

"Presumably they didn't know it would be like that until they got there and by then it was too late."

Certainly too late for them to engage a brain cell and use some common sense.

Hot sunny day
Kids out of school
People cooped up for weeks
Restrictions being relaxed

What could possibly go wrong?

I wouldn't go, but I have some sympathy towards people who've been stuck in a flat without a garden, just wanting to get away for a bit. I don't suppose they expected the beach to be quite like that.

What I find more disturbing is the general 'get orff my land' attitude to people who don't live in a beauty spot or by the beach. Maybe, just maybe, other people want a tiny slice of what you have every day. It's very them and us.

I live near a fast food drive through restaurant. We constantly have people throwing out their take-away bags of rubbish, drinks cups and cans onto our drive and hedge at the front. I just don't understand how you can do that to other people.

@runbummyrun

But @AvonCallingBarksdale this is what happens when you force a country into lockdown. This is the reason there is now no jobs, furloughed staff with likely no job to go back to. No kids in school, no childcare. Can't go on holiday .......

I still don’t get it though - we’ve all been in that situation. My first thought when there are still people dying etc would not be to head to the beach on the hottest day of the year. We were forced into lockdown for a reason - not just to piss people off

The government should have been leading by example, i.e. not going for drives to "test their eyesight" etc. Now all the idiots think if it's ok for Cummings et al to break the rules, so can they.

I think you are right - not just OK to break the rules on social distancing, but to break any rule. Why would you worry about parking if the government have endorsed car eye sight tests?

And again I I wouldn't go, but I have some sympathy towards people who've been stuck in a flat without a garden, just wanting to get away for a bit. I don't suppose they expected the beach to be quite like that.

I get that but surely traffic reports & jams would give you a clue?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717

It's one of the BBC lead stories

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717

As the police and the other emergencies services have declared it a major incident, it's pretty clear that they cannot keep 'a grip' on the safety of the public at the moment.

But very few people have been stuck in a flat without being able to go somewhere in the last few months. Apart from the shielded (and I can't imagine they would be rushing to a crowded beach) we have always been allowed to go outside

@ineedaholidaynow

Have other countries had similar problems on their beaches or is just the English mentality? And again I ask why does anything like furlough, no childcare, school justify people leaving their rubbish behind?

It's as if there was always some kind of societal code that meant most people adhered to rules that only needed to be policed for the few, and now that code has gone and these people are acting naturally with no fear of real reprisal.

If there's another explanation I'd be really interested to hear it. But it does look like like a barrier to poor behaviour is no longer there for many people.

Well I always knew that there were quite a lot of moronic idiots in the UK but it seems there are far more than I thought.

Shame there is no way to identify them because if they think it is ok to cram together on a beach then they should damn well go back to work and their children go back to school.

I honestly would not have the slightest bit of sympathy for them if they caught the virus.

Humans, on the whole, disgust me. Having so little respect for others by leaving so much rubbish behind, shitting on the beach, in the sea, in the street etc. We really need the virus to wipe us all out or at least a good number