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Entitled tourists.

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ROMILO Thu 28-May-26 14:00:57

Recently a farmer in Cumbria sprayed about 20 cars with slurry after they illegally accessed one of his fields to use as a car park.
I think he was well within his rights to do that, some think it was an excessive reaction.
Once they leave home for a day out or a holiday why do some people become selfish and entitled ? The attitude seems to be I'm spending money I can do what I want.
Anyone living in an area that attracts visitors will be familiar with the pavement parkers,the drive blockers and the narrow lanes made almost impassable for locals and emergency vehicles by nose to tail parking.
Where does the commonsense and consideration go to when people are ' enjoying themselves'?

Kikibee Fri 29-May-26 19:12:34

Good on the Farmers! I read that they had ignored no parking signs. This thing that most gets me fuming is parents who feel they are entitled to park on the zig zag lines outside schools to pick up or drop off children when the lines are there to protect children! I nearly got mowed down with my grandson by a car overtaking a car such as this! angryangry

Rocketstop2 Fri 29-May-26 19:13:41

I saw online some irresponsible parking between Sandsend and Whitby, cars legally parked on one side of the road with parking pay machines.The other side of the road, a grass verge for people to WALK on and strictly NO parking, car after car after car had parked there, and every one of them had been ticketed. That will be a bank holiday some won't forget !

JPB123 Fri 29-May-26 21:08:36

We live in the Peak District, we don’t go out over bank holidays or Sundays when it’s sunny….where do all these people come from? It has become far worse since COVID.

Skodadoda Fri 29-May-26 21:27:52

M0nica

And then there is this car parking and abusive tourists obstructing the work of lifeboat crews.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmpp0nvyxmo

This also happened at Wells Next the Sea when people parked in the spaces reserved for lifeboat volunteers and there was a rescue.

grannybuy Fri 29-May-26 21:55:31

Unfortunately, nowadays , so many people can’t walk around without a drink in their hand, hence so many discarded cans, bottles and paper cups. I’m glad those just weren’t available in my youth - and we survived without them.

Oreo Fri 29-May-26 22:17:35

grannybuy

Unfortunately, nowadays , so many people can’t walk around without a drink in their hand, hence so many discarded cans, bottles and paper cups. I’m glad those just weren’t available in my youth - and we survived without them.

Eating on the hoof is endemic now, seems people can’t go five minutes without guzzling something or other.

Fallingstar Sat 30-May-26 07:38:26

This is very true Oreo, and also happens in cinemas and theatres where people cannot get through a couple of hours without munching on something and slurping drinks. Then when the film or performance is over the floor between the seats is covered with litter.

Sueinkent Sat 30-May-26 12:02:53

M0nica

And then there is this car parking and abusive tourists obstructing the work of lifeboat crews.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmpp0nvyxmo

Anyone who stops an emergency vehicle in this way should lose their licence and have their car crushed. Firm but fair.

Sueinkent Sat 30-May-26 12:10:51

DS54

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.

Yes! Great idea.

nanna8 Sat 30-May-26 12:36:27

I think it is worse because you don't seem to have any public education there about littering. It is a real problem in the UK, quite noticeable when visiting.We have a problem with graffiti here , same sort of issues and no state government backing to wipe it out. I visit other states which are graffiti free, so much better. When we go to Singapore we return to what we think is filth and squalor by contrast but when we go to the Uk we think we are not so bad after all! Lobby your Councils to be stricter with fining litterbugs.

yogitree Sat 30-May-26 12:50:34

Well done that farmer!
Pity we can't do that to those who leave human excrement in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, even to the extent that it can cause pollution to streams as suggested by recent press reports on the West Highland Way, causing illness to humans and animals alike. Makes my blood boil.

Maremia Sat 30-May-26 18:11:58

Yes Sago but some of the posts are about seaside towns with parking meters.
Maybe a warden blitz might start to make a difference?

Maremia Sat 30-May-26 18:15:10

ClicketyClick, did it ever happen again? 🐕

M0nica Mon 01-Jun-26 21:56:03

jakuss

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

No one in that age group that I know talks like that, although I do sometimes hear people in shops and in the street talking like that, but not the majoirty by a long chalk.

Gwyllt Tue 02-Jun-26 08:28:40

When the kids were young we had a small holding on a village edge in Cheshire People would just walk down our track to “Look at the animals “. One Palm Sunday we returned home to find the Sunday school kids had come to see our donkey. If they had asked I would have been delighted to show the kids round. On one occasion I watched a group of mums and kids through their ice cream left overs over the fence. I approached them and asked them where they lived so I could bring my kids to look round their garden for a picnic. They shuffled off muttering I had a lovely walking stick left behind one no one came back to claim it

hollysteers Tue 02-Jun-26 09:26:40

I don’t understand why people have to litter the floor of public lavatories with paper? What are they doing? Isn’t one sheet enough?

BoggledMind Tue 02-Jun-26 10:32:04

hollysteers

I don’t understand why people have to litter the floor of public lavatories with paper? What are they doing? Isn’t one sheet enough?

The way public toilets are treated by some members of the public is quite disgusting. I'd hate to see their bathrooms.

I feel sorry for the workers who have to go in and sort the mess out.

Basgetti Tue 02-Jun-26 11:50:21

Good for him.

Chocolatelovinggran Tue 02-Jun-26 12:03:17

I live in a seaside town with several lovely beaches. One beautiful bay is accessed only by a long residential road with large houses.
Residents of this road talk of cars parking across drives, litter tipped into their gardens, and some verbal abuse from the car drivers when they are asked to move.
Then there is the little matter of the impossibility of any rescue vehicles being able to access the beach...

Chocolatelovinggran Tue 02-Jun-26 12:10:38

jakuss, all four of my children, and each of their spouses, are under fifty and none of them swear.
All of them are capable of " stringing a sentence " together despite only one of the degrees they hold being English.