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.

But Westminster government has said people can go to the beach why wouldn't car parks be open ?

2020 is going to be bumper year for Nominees for the Darwin Awards.

People would just abandon cars here there and everywhere causing more chaos !

But Westminster government has said people can go to the beach why wouldn't car parks be open ?

It's also not against the law to jump off the top of durdle door, so tacitly approved by government. Let's encourage more people to do it.

Darwinism in action

Sorry I agree with you that cat parks should be open. I don't agree with everyone piling on to the beach. Particularly those who are driving a long way to do it.

Far worse than DC in my view!

*car

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Itonya you seem to think I am in agreement with idiots jumping off cliffs was my post confusing because I don't think I said anything that showed that.

No sorry, I agreed with you about car parks just used your quote to illustrate what goes through peoples heads - they are allowed to go to the beach so they will and sod everyone else.

Mind you from what I can see social distancing is over and done with now so I guess we are all just hoping there's no second spike

I couldn't believe it when I saw that on tv this morning. They were lucky not to end up with a Darwin award imo.

The number of emergency services personnel involved was tremendous, too (2 or 3 lots of coastguard, RNLI, 2 air ambulances, presumably police, and at least one ordinary ambulance crew who took someone to hospital after they'd been airlifted off the beach).

That must really have stretched resources. Thank god there wasn't another big incident in the area while all this was going on.

But people seem to go a bit mad when we have a heat wave and I guess that plus the effect of being out of lockdown has made it worse.

Testosterone innit.

I've often thought that the paramedics/RNLI should be able to say "you jump off that, we ain't coming for you. Get yourself out of the water and the hospital's that way." I know they can't, but I do feel they deserve to be allowed to say it, just the once.

Tomb stoning happens all the time, it's just that this has been magnified by coronavirus.
The water is really shallow around the door as all of the locals know. It's a terrible idea and was never going to end well.
The people lying on the beach cheering them on and encouraging them to jump should be ashamed of themselves.

Anything for the ‘Gram I suppose

Bit like all the people who’ve died taking selfies

Well they are obviously stupid. I also think they are selfish in that they don't care that if something happens the emergency services will have to come out to them.

How much does the air ambulance cost each time it goes out? These idiots should have to pay for it.

I also think all the people packed on beaches are as thick as shit but the jumpers are even thicker

PS @ITonyah

My cat park has been open all through lockdown. The duvet has remained a free access area and will continue to do so.

Sorry, but "cat" for "car" is one of my fave typos - so many funny images spring to mind.

TheSecondMrsAshwell, I agree big notice emergency service will not come out, they will leave you to drown.

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

^^ this. Why are we wasting taxpayers’ money rescuing and treating theses people? And putting other people’s lives at risk due to their stupidity? Should’ve just left them to die in the sea.

@MadameMeursault

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

^^ this. Why are we wasting taxpayers’ money rescuing and treating theses people? And putting other people’s lives at risk due to their stupidity? Should’ve just left them to die in the sea.

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

People do it all the time.

I lived somewhere every year people would die going swimming in a quarry. It's heavily advertised online for "outdoor swimming", on those sites and trip advisor. All ways in and out are blocked, signs, barbed wire, the lot. Yet this weekend there were emergencies there where people needed to be rescued.

Locally we had a beautiful lake where people would go walking naturally formed only entrance via a cave. Last year it was blocked up - by rusting farm equipment. You can literally get nowhere near it. The outcry on social media was huge. The owner had gone up and found camping equipment and masses of rubbish in the lake and around it after bank holiday and, the person who attempted to jump from the cliffs around it (it's literally in a cliff, surrounded in four sides with a path around, the only entrance is via a cave) and broke their neck. It taking hours to get them out because of the location. It was a beautiful spot to walk to, have a picnic and walk back but no more.

Both are still advertised on those sites.

Just a quick poll: We all know why it's called tombstoning? Because that's what you get when you do it? I'm right, aren't I?

Wikipedia entry is beyond mad: criticism of tombstoning has been based purely on a health perspective which "fails to take into account the enjoyment that various health effecting habits brings and the contribution that this makes to a good life."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstoning

Thank god there wasn't another big incident in the area while all this was going on.

This was a big incident

I was reading about durdle door on BBC on Saturday night and went on YouTube and on my recommended watch was a video of durdle door. Unbeknown to me it was of the people jumping into the water, it was sickening and I hope has been pulled (probably hasn't) but you could hear the crowds screaming and egging them on and laughing as they hit the water.

Yes well wiki isn't exactly a brilliant place to go for an information about anything given it can be edited by anyone.

I had a dr prescribe me medication based on a Wikipedia article once. His argument for doing it? It's a dynamic well researched resource It didn't end well.

I really don't get how access was allowed on another day.

This is a matter for the local police.

It's surely not private land and if it was, the farmer/owner could call the police for trespass- doesn't make sense,

If they want the site closed, they ought to be there.
The car parks could be closed and again controlled by the police.

Also most people were walking down the steps not simply pushing over fences to get to the beach.