Dorset Police remove family from landslide beach after they abused coastguards

DANGEROUS: Recent falls on the beach DANGEROUS: Recent falls on the beach

COASTGUARDS called in the police when a family refused to leave a west Dorset beach after a new landslide.

At least five people were lucky to escape with their lives after landslips fell on either side of them on Charmouth Beach on Wednesday evening.

A rescue operation was mounted by coastguard rescue teams from Lyme Regis and West Bay, and the coastguard helicopter after Lyme Regis firefighter Virgil Turner called in the incident from his fishing boat.

Despite the death of 22-year-old Charlotte Blackman on Burton Bradstock beach a few weeks ago, a family of four refused to leave the area when asked by coastguards and police had to be called.

The incident came just a week after a fossil hunter in Burton had to be escorted off the beach by emergency services.

Lyme coastguard sector manager Peter Pritchard said: “The disappointing thing is, given the incident at Burton Bradstock, which demonstrates that the threat is very real, the general public just seem to be behaving recklessly.

“They are putting us at risk. It is disappointing, particularly with their attitude to my officers.”

Lyme coastguard station manager Graham Turner said initially they accounted for five people on the beach and also advised a northern family of four to leave – but were met with so much resistance and abuse they called the police.

He said: “The man was adamant he was going to walk past whoever told him not to. He was quite rude. It is not very often we get that sort of reaction.

“This was a man walking with his wife and three kids. We had to call the police and even then he was quite rude to them.

“The police said he was putting his kids in danger and they could remove them because he was placing them in danger. Then he understood the message and went away.

“You get people who are so utterly ignorant it is incredible.”

Bridport Insp Mike Darby said the police could not force people to move but could take children away as they were being endangered.

He added: “The Friday after the Burton incident we found two people sunbathing directly beneath the same spot.

“They get the message but they just don’t care, they think it is not going to happen to them. It is just stupidity.”

Comments(21)

Top Gear says...
12:12pm Fri 10 Aug 12

Should have just left them there. Numpties.

Crabber says...
12:21pm Fri 10 Aug 12

I would have given them a bucket n spade each and like Top-Gear above sez left them to it. MORON'S

islandman says...
12:34pm Fri 10 Aug 12

name and shame might put a different smile on his face

clansman59 says...
12:56pm Fri 10 Aug 12

What is the matter with people not would they have put their and their children's lives in danger they could have put the lives of the rescuers as well. As top gear says Numpties!

echo-reader says...
1:24pm Fri 10 Aug 12

islandman wrote:
name and shame might put a different smile on his face
these people should be shown on TV and made to explain why they are so thick and stupid

Genghis says...
5:06pm Fri 10 Aug 12

Complete and utter idiots. I don't care what they do with their own lives but risking the lives of their own children and the lives of the Coastguards and Police is way out of order.

Wykeite says...
6:46pm Fri 10 Aug 12

Should've let them stay there, it's natural selection in action.

Dorset Boy says...
11:04am Sat 11 Aug 12

Give them an IQ test & reading exam before they are let into the county. The warning and safety signs are large and brightly coloured enough for visitors NOT to miss or ignore them.

Dorset Boy says...
11:04am Sat 11 Aug 12

Give them an IQ test & reading exam before they are let into the county. The warning and safety signs are large and brightly coloured enough for visitors NOT to miss or ignore them.

Dorset Boy says...
11:04am Sat 11 Aug 12

Give them an IQ test & reading exam before they are let into the county. The warning and safety signs are large and brightly coloured enough for visitors NOT to miss or ignore them.

thetiger says...
4:17pm Sat 11 Aug 12

Utter mongs....

Jacs says...
5:46pm Sat 11 Aug 12

The sort of idiots who would be on the Jeremy Kyle show by the sounds of it.

Richarding says...
8:25pm Sat 11 Aug 12

They are so stupid and ignorant, should be able to just leave them there.

EtaoinShrdlu says...
6:06am Mon 13 Aug 12

Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?

dun hoping says...
1:47pm Mon 13 Aug 12

EtaoinShrdlu wrote:
Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .

Top Gear says...
6:41pm Mon 13 Aug 12

dun hoping wrote:
EtaoinShrdlu wrote:
Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
I think it was meant as a JOKE.

Merlin of Britain says...
9:53pm Mon 13 Aug 12

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity - and I'm not entirely sure about the universe."

~ Albert Einstein

scubadude says...
4:03pm Tue 14 Aug 12

Clearly total morons.... but is the beach private property, do the coastguard have the right to "tell" them to move? IMO Stupid people are entitled to do stupid things, if that kills them then it is at least cleansing the gene pool.

dun hoping says...
9:13am Wed 15 Aug 12

Top Gear wrote:
dun hoping wrote:
EtaoinShrdlu wrote:
Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
I think it was meant as a JOKE.
I think the people of Littlemoor being at the butt end of the JOKE found it really funny .Perhaps you believe Irish jokes , Asian jokes are hysterical too you sado go back to your Bernard Manning records .

outsidelookinin says...
12:20pm Wed 15 Aug 12

you cant educate pork

Top Gear says...
3:57pm Wed 15 Aug 12

dun hoping wrote:
Top Gear wrote:
dun hoping wrote:
EtaoinShrdlu wrote: Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
I think it was meant as a JOKE.
I think the people of Littlemoor being at the butt end of the JOKE found it really funny .Perhaps you believe Irish jokes , Asian jokes are hysterical too you sado go back to your Bernard Manning records .
Bernard Manning was a legend. Im not sure what Bernard Manning has got to do with this story though. Yes Littlemoor is the butt of many jokes but thats life. See news article about the Littlemoor funday. Quality.

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