Tomb stoning Dorset, why??

[poozel]

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.

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

This is it. Young men, particularly inebriated young men, have been taking risks for fun or to look cool since time immemorial. At 21 they feel confident and immortal; most grow out of that stage without serious injury, some aren't so lucky.

Has nobody on here ever taken a risk as a young person that they later look back on and shudder?

For the same reason people/children climb 50ft up a tree, jump out if planes, swim with sharks or visit the in-laws.

...And just noticed there's no edit option, blast my autocorrect/useless fingers.

Interesting to read your comments. Especially from locals.

Yes as I say I get the jumping stupid bit, I guess it was the added shock of those doing it yesterday after all the warnings, requests, advice and issues which arose from Saturday.

It's like double stupid. I'm going to do it, and I'm going to ignore all that and do it anyway. I just don't care. Strange mentality.

Young men, particularly inebriated young men, have been taking risks for fun or to look cool since time immemorial.

However, I think there will be more young men on beaches taking risks this year because they have nothing else to do.

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

Those are all legal. None of the jumpers should have been on the private land for a start.
All Cristal land belongs to sone one whether it be the The Crown, a local authority, organisation like the RSPB or an individual. .

What had ownership got to do with it? That doesn't stop anyone going over the land, nor should it,otherwise we will be back to the situation where land owners locked up the land and refused us common people access. That was what the Kinder Scout trespass wall about.

I grew up near Bolton Strid in Yorkshire. It's an incredibly dangerous stretch of water. It used to be a rite of passage for local lads to jump the Strid from one bank to the other. If you fall in there is zero chance of surviving. Zero. But people still do it, I've seen them. The Strid has claimed dozens of lives over the years. There's even ancient folklore about the Strid being haunted by demons - tales invented by prehistoric folk to keep their kids away from it.

Why do people do it? Bravado. A dare. Booze. And because they think they're often young enough to think they're immortal.

@MeglaFlop

For the same reason people/children climb 50ft up a tree, jump out if planes, swim with sharks or visit the in-laws.

I would let them do it with the understanding that no emergency services would attend to pick up the pieces. - Hopefully before they breed thereby improving the gene pool. The more contenders there are for the Darwin awards the better for society as a whole.

The local river here is like that. At least a dozen have died swimming. It has deep steps and currents. One family have lost two children to it, albeit in different circumstances. It is so dangerous, yet people still swim in it.

With the cliffs though, I dunno, I thought maybe a break for a few days at least after Saturday. Clearly not.

Does anyone know how those injured are ?

Medal for this hero who risked his life to the save one of the idiots!..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52874380

What had ownership got to do with it?
Because the owner can take them to court.

Because the owner can take them to court

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.

@bigchris

Does anyone know how those injured are ?

I believe, from social media, that one has RIP but I haven't seen a confirmed report.

Stupid and drinking all day in the sun.

Yup.

Where I grew up there was a POND, and bloody POND, which idiots dived into. So many young men with brain damage, paraplegias, you name it. Diving into a pond. It still happens, but nothing like so often thank goodness.

If people can be stupid enough to dive into a pond, they will definitely be stupid enough to dive into the sea, no matter how shallow the water.

Oh no

Because some people lack any sort of intelligence.

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.

Yes this is exactly the problem. Everyone wants the rights but none iof the responsibilities.
Isn’t their laws to stop people jumping of buildings, or that just America?

They do it because they are drunk, not very clever and don't have any sense of empathy or self awareness.

We have similar with The Blue Lagoon (a lime quarry pit) here in Derbyshire. No injuries yet but my God it's chaos.

Young lads are daft. They really do think they are invincible.

One of the injured is a woman.

I live nearby. I adore durdle door but only on a cool day

Also the reason they opened the car parks is when they initially didn't the residents of the villages found every one came anyway and blocked just about every drive way, pavement, the roads. It was carnage.