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.

Or they can take the owner to court -especially if the owner has 'invited' them onto his land by providing car parks - for being negligent in warning/protecting them from dangers on his land.

Do people actually need to be told that it’s dangerous to jump off a cliff?

Oh OP, you're obviously a woman. The lunkheads will have been drunken young men. Its Darwin.

do people actually need to be told it dangerous to jump off a cliff

Apparently.

Even more concerning when I looked at articles/comments on articles on FB were comments from those "advising" how to do it safely.

Obviously safely should also have been in "" in that post!

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

You can in a way. You can let natural selection take charge. Of course even the stupid realise what that means and don't like it when you suggest it. They expect a rescue after being a moron.

There really needs to be a charge on people for using these services after being a moron. Like going up a mountain in sandals and no water on a hot day, how can you expect that to go well? Or when they think its warm enough, but there's still, snow at the top. That can happen in June in scotland. If we started charging them for acts of stupidity, you'd see a decline, or at least more of an income for services like rnli, mountain rescue etc.

The land owner had said before that he's out up warning signs, people just tear them down.

If we’re going to start judging who is entitled to benefit from the emergency services, they’ll have very little to do - no need to attend car accidents, sporting injuries, garden or house accidents

They are all entitled to it, but we can determine if it was accidental and you planned to be safe, or if you did something stupid with no care for your safety. Jumping off a cliff to deep water below where you have no idea what is below it or if you will survive the dive? Stupid. Going up a mountain with no equipment, water, food on a bad day? Stupid (that has happened). Going swimming in the sea when you aren't a strong swimmer and even then it's dodgy? Stupid.

If you actually plan ahead, think about what could happen and take precautions, then you're fine. Otherwise you pay a fine.

Nope. Everyone is entitled to emergency services. Everyone is entitled to medical help. That the 99% of society who are sensible and responsible cover for the 1% who aren't is a central tenant of a decent society.

Tbf a greater proportion of those who have done it are ok than not ok.

Ugh, I see that the toxic 'Darwin award' posters are back