Lord above some people are just... unbelievable!

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There's an Apache MK1 final flypast today [yawn] which DP and DS (autistic, this comes under one of his special interests) have been banging on about for days. They made flasks of cocoa and set up deckchairs in one of our fields (we live on a farm) to sit and watch it. Anyway it was delayed by 45 mins so they came in to eat lunch and then went back out...to find two men sitting on the deckchairs eating sandwiches waiting for the flypast . There was a third man with a dog with them, who actually asked DP to put our dog on a lead because his dog is nervous of other dogs!!

Now, this was in our field which is private land. The field is visible from a footpath but the footpath just goes past the gate and doesn't enter the field. They just saw our deckchairs and though it looked like a nice place to go and sit.

DP said sorry but no, they'd have to take the dog out of the field if it wasn't ok with other dogs, and that he and DS wanted their deckchairs back. A bit of harrumphing and the men left but... WTF?!?

😆 the brass neck of them!!!

Your husband needed to be more explicit that it was private land and they shouldn't be there in the first place!

How rude!!!!

They seem to think they are in a tourist attraction not on private land.

Exactly this. People just assume the whole world is there for their personal entertainment and convenience. Bizarre.

I saw them fly over NW London just before 10am. Didn't realise it was their last flight.

Next time set up a bunch of deck chairs and start charging for them. Haha. Unless the two who were seated were mobility impaired it seems bizarre. There must be a wall or something on public land they could sit on, or just sit on the grass! I get they may not have known the field was private when they sat, but they must have suspected the chairs were there for a reason!

Yanbu. We get this kind of thing happening every so often.

Sadly very plausible behaviour these days. We put signs on fencing to clearly warn walkers along the footpath that it’s private land - but have people moaning about there being signs. Can’t win with the entitled bunch!

As a child, my DH lived in a small village. It was in a park, that used to be a private estate (the village was originally where the estate workers lived)
Every fine day in summer, they had people walking up their garden path and peering into the house windows; as if the whole place was built as a tourist attraction.

We live in an old, interesting building converted into apartments. There’s a sort of secret garden inside the building, and the building itself can’t be accessed unless you live in it or are buzzed in.
I found a woman in the garden one day who had pretended to have a legitimate reason to come in, and who, when challenged about why she was there just sitting in this very private space, said “does it really matter? It should be open to the public”. 🤷‍♀️ Er, no…

It doesn't surprise me sadly.people are so entitled now.surely they know it's private property,they always think it doesn't apply to them! Couple of CFs for sure!

Cocoa? Are you living in an Enid Blyton novel!

We used to live next to a stream (about 2 metres wide but shallow)
We once had a family come over the stream and set up a picnic on our lawn outside our lounge window 🤣

Oh this gives me a chance to share one of my favourite stories. I grew up on a farm, lived with my grandparents. One balmy summer evening my gran went for a walk through the silage fields, see how the grass was getting on and spotted a motorbike next to the gate. Thinking it rather strange went to get a closer look and on her way stumbled upon, quite literally, the occupants of the bike getting amorous in the long grass.

What's wrong with cocoa???

Someone I know owns a large woodland with a small lake in it. There are good paths, and friend doesn’t mind people taking a walk there.
One day friend went to forest and there was a couple skinny dipping in the lake. On seeing my friend, the man gets out awkwardly, covers himself then starts aggressively shouting at my friend, “Don’t you know this is private property? There is a sign!”
“Um yes,” says friend, “it’s MY private property!”

He reckons shouty man was probably just trying to impress lady friend!

Not quite the same thing, but I've always thought that about people who live in houses with blue plaques on them. Whilst it would be amazing to be living in such an acknowledged part of history, it must be awful having people constantly walking up your pathway to look at the plaque and probably also have a further nosey at the property.

It wouldn't even just be people who were particular fans of the person commemorated, as I'm sure that many people would automatically go and look more closely upon noticing any blue plaque.

Somebody on our street had one of those 'vanity' blue plaques that somebody presumably bought her from a catalogue - about half or a third the normal diameter and much thinner - and says something like "Shirley Peterson, born 1954 - Former Teacher, Housewife and Mother and much-loved Nanna". Apart from a potential security risk for ID theft, they look to me more like a memorial to somebody who has died rather than a present to give to somebody still very much alive.

I went out one Sunday to put my bag in the car as i was going out for the day. There was a woman sitting on a camping chair with a cooler beside her sitting in my gateway on our drive. She heard me but made no attempt to speak to me. I put my kids in the car so it was obvious I would be driving out. No move from her. I went over to ask her to move and she had such an attitude you would think I was the one being unreasonable.
She was there to watch a cycling race that was going down the road. No one had told us about the race, it's a public road and it wasn't closed.

Did the woman have brown eyes? Maybe they'd been overcome with thinking about making love in the green grass?!

Not 'making love with Claude Greengrass', as some Heartbeat fans mistakenly hear.

Most fields are private property unless it is public access land is a public right of way, (clearly indicated on OS maps), they need the land owners permission to be on it. CFs of a high order.

I frequently have to chase entitled idiots out of private property where they have no right to be, because they think they have a god given right to interfere with livestock.

And they have the audacity to argue back, even when you point out they’re endangering the animals with their loose dog / putting themselves and their kid / dog at risk, as well as just being damn rude.

I totally sympathise, OP.

I always find a shotgun pointed at their dog makes them move. Friends of ours have a farm with fields that are beside the beach, they have cattle including a bloody huge bad tempered bull and every year they have a couple of dozen bullocks. They put signs on the gates telling people their are bulls in the field. More than once he has come across idiots unloading tents to put up in his cliff top field. They even stand there and argue that they are entitled to pitch a tent where they want. I personally would tell them to crack on and stand back and watch the fun

Thank goodness for a happy ending .... thought for a minute you were going to say they missed the flypass

Don't be silly.

Cocoa is much better than tea or coffee if you're sitting outside on a chilly days. Or are you thinking they should be drinking vastly overpriced hot chocolate instead?