Entitled tourists.

There is a public pool in one of the nicest areas of my home town, Wolverhampton. It is a lovely community resource which everyone can enjoy. However, it's inevitably spoilt by lazy, ignorant people who can't be bothered to take their rubbish home. I have heard from relatives that there is an article in the local paper this week showing a video of the "carnage" which council workers have had to tidy up over the past few days.

I used to work at a public building where there was a large car park. Families visiting would eat a McDonalds in their car, drop all the packaging out of the windows and drive away, leaving a car shaped pile of litter.

I just can't understand why people don't put all their rubbish in a bag and take it home. It isn't difficult to do. I try not to say "when I was a girl, it was different" but it was. If we went for a picnic with my parents, we would take our litter home and it would go in the bin. It wouldn't have crossed our minds to drop it on the ground and walk away.

Would traffic wardens be able to help with this?

Not the litter, but the selfish parking.

Absolutely MollyNew, we had to pick up every scrap before we went home. My mum also kept a bag in the car for everyday use to keep the car clean and tidy.

Maremia

Would traffic wardens be able to help with this?

It’s private land not a public highway.

Drive throughs and takeaway food places should be responsible for the litter they create. Their business model of selling food to be eaten somewhere else just pushes the costs of waste disposal onto the council tax payers. They should pay a tax on whatever they sell which goes to the council to pay for the cleaning up and bin provision and emptying.

Where are all these coastal towns inundated with such awful people?
If it’s Southend on Sea I can believe it mind you as I visited friends who live in Westcliff on Sea last year and they took us into the centre and the beachfront….I was glad to go home.
I think the farmer did overreact with the slurry on the cars but if it was an ongoing problem he likely just lost his rag.

All along that part, Oreo.
Canvey too, is very, very popular with the london crowd.

he he he we had this from tourists on my drive first it is mine second i am wheelchair bound
a friend of mine walk acroos the street with a bucket of manure and left some next to each door
they came back in the dark
never came back, nobody did locals pass info as soon as it lands . got rid fishing on ponds too trout on privatesfarm
we had them put in jail and big fines felony

MissAdventure

All along that part, Oreo.
Canvey too, is very, very popular with the london crowd.

It’s rotten for the locals isn’t it?🤬

We would never have been allowed to leave our litter as children on country picnics or on the beach. It just wouldnt have occurred to us to do so even without our parents there.

When I pass our street cleaner out with his bin on wheels most days, I always thank him for what he does. It must be like painting the Forth Bridge. Never ending. We need another person and they should be funded paetially by all the local shops and cafes. Even if the extra person is just during the summer period.

We have an ancient cathedral in our small city on our tiny island. Cruise ships come from all over the world to pop off passengers and crew for a day. When there are 2 or 3 vessels plus one of those multi story versions, the numbers can seem to rival the total resident population . Apart from the way I have to hop out of the way constantly - with stick and unstable hip, as they surge through our narrow lanes in great phalanxes their main barbarity is filming the cathedral as mourners arrive or depart with the funeral cortege which seems to be a regular 'must capture' on the bagging list. This has been going on for years but only reached the local paper as an issue recently, but was roundly denied as such by a 'spokesperson'......

The under 50s are all I'll mannered entitled louts, women included, cant string a sentence together without swearing

My first school, 1970, had a punishment for minor things called Litter Fatigue, 20 minutes after school and no-one complained. Now, sadly the breeders of the slobs would be doing a 1/10 sad face in the papers today.
25 years ago I asked a girl to pick up the crisp bag she'd dropped and she refused, apparently that's why we employed cleaners, in fact she was creating jobs for them. Her breeder totally agreed with her when her Year Head phoned too! Oddly, her name was never drawn when there were treats available, odd that was!

Oreo

Where are all these coastal towns inundated with such awful people?
If it’s Southend on Sea I can believe it mind you as I visited friends who live in Westcliff on Sea last year and they took us into the centre and the beachfront….I was glad to go home.
I think the farmer did overreact with the slurry on the cars but if it was an ongoing problem he likely just lost his rag.

We never go to the central beach with all the amusements and crowds.

There is a much nicer and quieter beach at the very end. It even has sand…

I disagree…

That was in reply to Jakuss

Yep we live near a village football pitch and the village road that gas bus access etc is often compromised and if we ask to stop parking on payments or grass verges we are told if you don’t line it go and live somewhere else. My property not council tax and it’s my entitlement to live there not their entitlement to snarl up the village and make it vulnerable for pedestrians etc. not to tell us to go and live elsewhere!!!

Sorry pretext and on a journey away from village im not driving though

Campervans emptying their waste both litter and fluid down grass bankings. Anything other than to pay a fee for a site they park anywhere they want with not a thought for the environment and the locals.

Our friend was a fishmonger at Billingsgate. He left home at 3 in the morning. Once too often a neighbour parked across his drive. My friend had knocked on his many times.
Not this time, he took a baseball bat to the car.
Obviously he went to court and fined. But the neighbour never parked there again.

Good on the Farmer. Do hope he is not prosecuted.
I think all.of these posts point out good examples of Broken Britain today

I think we should have really severe financial penalties for this reckless mindless behaviour.

The worse example was people parking on the life boat space.
Words fail me.

The people who leave litter are totally beyond my comprehension. Why would you want to go to a place of beauty and then just ruin it, it certainly wouldn’t t be so appealing if everyone did it. I heard on the news this morning that Britain is the most littered country in Europe, just disgusting. Does no one have any civil pride or respect to the places they’re visiting? I wonder who these people are, I certainly don’t know anyone who wouldn’t pick up after themselves. I like the slogan DONT BE A TOSSER.

Good for the farmer! Years ago I got sick of dog poo not being picked up outside my house by one specific dog owner. One day I happened to witness the person letting their dog do the dirty deed and walking off. I went after her and said she'd left something behind but she just blanked me. The red mist came down so I followed her at a distance to see where she lived and later I returned her dog's deposit to her doorstep.

I have lived in Westcliff-on-Sea for many years - it’s a very large area with bad (small) and good (large?)areas - it would appear that the commentator did not visit much of Westcliff and only saw a minor part of this lovely town as her comments are insulting, unnecessary and upsetting to the locals. I wonder where she lives…please think Gransnetters before you make this sort of sweeping comment. Thank you