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.

Well done to the paddle boarder for rescuing the diver, but why was he there? He’s from Southampton so not local.

Happiness is chocolate .We are in Dorset too .Worrying about the R rate I always felt we are South here though, not South West .We love Lulworth and Durdle Door ,but as ever a few idiots spoil it for everyone .I wonder how they are feeling now they are waking up in Southampton General in a lot of pain ? No legislation for bloody stupid Dickheads though!

twitter.com/FellowMarkW/status/1266791063550930946?s=09 this was Saturday. The vast majority won't be Dorset residents.

Lynsey91 cost per mission of Air Ambulance around £1700!

Jingling jells bells /I tonyah It is a part private ,part publicly funded estate .Very beautiful Castle in Lulworth which leads on to DD .They run a small farm as well which provides most of M and S milk.The surrounding land is used by the Army .And it is a most surreal experience sitting in a little teashop garden ,listening to birdsong and admiring the views intercepted by practice rounds in the distance!

It's all to do with brain biology. The prefrontal cortex, which considers consequences, matures faster in women than in men. In some men it never matures at all!

I would be surprised if theybwere locals as it doesn't happen to this extent usually.

The RNLI and the air/sea rescue helicopter could say that as they are charities not public funded, but fortunately the people who run them aren't arseholes and they volunteer so that they can rescue people and save lives

Exactly @happinessischocolate - they can't because they're better people all round.

Search and Rescue is actually a private contractor who took over from the RN/RAF (Bristow Group) and run it on behalf of the coastguard, so not charitable.

Those who jumped off the cliff are displaying Darwinism at its finest.

Well done to the paddle boarder for rescuing the diver, but why was he there? He’s from Southampton so not local.

Because it's totally legal. I wouldn't go to a busy beach right now, but it's perfectly legal to do so, regardless of how far away you live.

Those talking about Darwinism - these are somebody's children you are talking about, one of whom has died from the sound of it. And you think the people jumping lack empathy? Ffs.

Darwinism at its finest.

News says that two of the three airlifted yesterday have broken backs.

I work with a guy who is paralysed from the chest down because he did this in his 20s. If these guys could spend an hour with him they’d really get a wake-up call.

‘coasteering’ is regularly featured on programmes like Coast and Red Bull sponsor cliff jumping competitions, so if people lack knowledge about local conditions and the dangers of Tombstoning this might not seem so stupid - you don’t know what you don’t know.

I think there are clear signs at Durdle Door that tell people not to do this, but I also thought the Highway Code made it clear that you shouldn’t drive if you are concerned about your eyesight...

I would be surprised if theybwere locals as it doesn't happen to this extent usually.

Agree.

I did this as a child, I was the only girl in the group that did but we all stopped doing it at about 14. We were daft but kids, I’m always surprised adults do it.

I'm local and was appalled that Durdle Door was even open. It's a single track part way down and room to squeeze by, but not at a distance.

I think the police should have set up road blocks on the Sunday as the roads that lead to lulworth can be blocked. But the land it's on is private.

I couldn't believe the amount of people on Saturdays. Especially seeing the search and rescue footage showing three groups of tightly packed people on the beach. There must have been many many 1,000's gathered.

Not much better on the Sunday, despite it being shut. People who had travelled apparently removed the no entry/ closed signs and drove in.

Hopefully not so many locals and our main hospital (singular) will be spared.

I wish the government has been a little more sensible In it's reopening of the beaches. It's really not the time for mass gatherings, even outdoors.

Sadly I read the chap flown to Southampton hospital had died yesterday from his injuries.

@happinessischocolate

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 ??

Hang on, you think it's partially the landowner's fault? No, sorry, it isn't! Would you be to blame if someone if someone climbed came into your garden and did something stupid, resulting in them becoming injured or even dying because you'd allowed them to park on your drive? I doubt you'd feel it was your fault?

Why should everyone be banned from beautiful coastal areas etc because of the actions of a few brain dead tossers? I don't think now is the time to be going to tourist places anyway but, in the future, we will all lose out if landowners have to put up high fences and employ security staff to stop us accessing them in case idiots behave irresponsibly. I refuse to let the minority spoil things for the rest of us.

@redwoodmazza

Darwinism at its finest.

Agreed! If people want to remove themselves from the gene pool it's probably difficult to stop them but my thoughts are with the brave men and women who have to try and rescue these absolute idiots!!!!!!

I suppose it’s difficult to set up road blocks if the government has told everyone that they are free to travel.

I think in France and Spain the beaches are only just reopening, but I’m not sure how you close a beach where there is a public right of access and where there are no facilities that can be closed.

The landowners are partly to blame for opening the car parks, same with bournemouth beach

I don't know what Bournemouth were thinking, but I live in another tourist destination where car parks have been reopened because people were just parking outside the car parks, sometimes dangerously.

The police did set up road blocks. People moved the signs

This is absolutely not the landowners fault at all. What a stupid thing to say. Open the car parks because otherwise mass misery in the local area is inevitable because the crowds will come - car park or no car park. What they do after they get out of their cars is nobody's fault but their own.

people were just parking outside the car parks, sometimes dangerously.
Were parking tickets being given out? Gotta hope so.

Those talking about Darwinism - these are somebody's children you are talking about, one of whom has died from the sound of it. And you think the people jumping lack empathy? Ffs.

Oh come on, they knowingly did risky shit for shiggles. They wasted two air ambulances and quite frankly should be held liable for the cost of the call-out. Let's just hope no one else needed either of those for true accidents or medical emergencies.

Pulling stunts like this is Darwinism at its finest.

I have sympathy for the parents for having to come to terms with the fact that they have utter twats for children.