Tomb stoning Dorset, why??

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Just catching up on news from weekend.

Read with horror the story from Dorset doors on Saturday. Three people injured tomb stoning, helicopters landing on beach, people squashed up like sardines.

So ok, it's done, awful but done.

Then I click on next link, yesterday, people still doing it, despite the events the day before. The police have asked them not to, the emergency services have out out a statement asking them not to, the roads have been closed, yet people are still jumping.

The landowner says he has given up fencing it as people just break the fences, climb over.

I just do not get it. Even without corona I couldn't go against all that advice and do something which emergency services had warned against.

Add in corona and the social distancing it is absolutely mind boggling.

Am I missing something? Does it just take a certain type of person to defy everyone and carry on as they please. Even if it had been one casualty but three, plus someone with a broken ankle. Crazy.

Some people are stupid. You can't cure stupid.

Ha, well that's true yes.

We have holidayed at the campsite at Durdle door it can be accessed easily so the poor estate managers will have faught a losing battle as a pp said you can't cure stupid !

Stupid and drinking all day in the sun.

people don't listen. round here they stand on the edge of cliffs. doesn't matter how many times they are told not, how many signs are put up, they still do it.
some people are just stupid.

Wish corona affected selfish people rather than elderly or vulnerable. It would do the world of good to be rid of these cunts.

Because people don't care that it's someone else's land, and are completely ignorant of the importance of keeping themselves safe and well. They know that if they hurt themselves an ambulance will turn up, and that some lovely people in a hospital will put them back together. They take it for granted. It's such selfish and entitled behaviour.

It's called natural selection, leave them too it 🙄

It's quite mind boggling isn't it

Crazy.

Yes @Larkspurandhollyhocks absolutely.

Yeah I get natural selection but in the face of the risk and inconvenience to all the other people and services? That's the bit I can't follow. Sure jump off a cliff if you want, but when being asked not to for all the additional reasons?

Yeah I would imagine drink was involved,

Yup, natural selection at its finest! Stupidity and fear kill people more readily than Covid-19. Leave them to it!

It really does come down to stupidity.

They see some people do it safely - in real life and on social media.

Think that looks cool, I want to look cool.

But simply don't understand that if they get it wrong they could die or be paralysed for life. Or maybe they do understand.

They are young men. Young men do stupid things to look cool, even if it means that they might die. That's been true forever, and won't change I don't think.

The water at Durdle Door is shallow. It's utter madness to think you can jump into water that shallow. It's also not safe to swim around the Door as there are rocks and undercurrents. The locals never swim there.

I know the area well and they are idiots on many levels. That bit of the cost is amazing for walks and fossil hunting but has some dangerous currents and is very rocky. It wouldn’t be my first choice for a day at the beach let alone jumping off a bloody great rock.

We went for a walk along the river yesterday and saw the fire brigade boat getting ready to launch - presumably someone in trouble although thankfully nothing in the news so hopefully it was a minor incident or precautionary.

Every summer at least one or two very young teenage boys drown at this spot. Every. Year. Every time it's all over the local news and the papers, everyone knows about it.

Presumably local parents tell their children - "this is the very dangerous place in the river where many, many people have died so never swim here", but every year they do it.

Testosterone? Alcohol? Bravado? I don't know what makes them do what they do (probably all three) but it seems to be a universal compulsion to take stupid, pointless risks.

There is signs and warnings about not swimming uneven paths etc etc that imo has been a snapchat organised thing nobody usually jumps off it.

They should rename it Lemming Leap with an added sign ( enjoy - this may be the last time you can use your legs !)

Stupidity, drinking and showing off to their friends.

The landowners are partly to blame for opening the car parks, same with bournemouth beach, BCP council were missing their parking money so they opened all the car parks and the M27 and A31 were blocked with traffic all weekend

Dorset had the second lowest rate of infections and deaths we've now got the highest R rate 🙁

Watching the video of the boys jumping off Durdle Door, the beach was so packed there was barely room to lie down let alone stay 2 metres from each other, where is the appeal in that ??

Some young men think they are invincible.

They do it because it is dangerous, risky, and people have told them not to. Covid, closed roads, signs and fences just ASD to the challenge and the allure.

ASD? *add

@happinessischocolate the police and the council asked the landowner to open the car parks because visitors were parking dangerously blocking the roads for emergency vehicles. The residents have been supporting the landowner in marshalling the parking and trying to enforce a one way system down to the beach, but the volume of people has just overwhelmed them. It’s a scary situation.