Dorset Police remove family from landslide beach after they abused coastguards (From Thisisdorset)
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Dorset Police remove family from landslide beach after they abused coastguards
12:00pm Friday 10th August 2012 in News By Rene Gerryts
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)
Crabber
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12:21pm Fri 10 Aug 12
islandman
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12:34pm Fri 10 Aug 12
clansman59
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12:56pm Fri 10 Aug 12
echo-reader
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1:24pm Fri 10 Aug 12
islandman wrote:these people should be shown on TV and made to explain why they are so thick and stupid
name and shame might put a different smile on his face
Genghis
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5:06pm Fri 10 Aug 12
Wykeite
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Dorset Boy
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Dorset Boy
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Dorset Boy
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EtaoinShrdlu
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6:06am Mon 13 Aug 12
dun hoping
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1:47pm Mon 13 Aug 12
EtaoinShrdlu wrote:No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
Top Gear
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6:41pm Mon 13 Aug 12
dun hoping wrote:I think it was meant as a JOKE.
EtaoinShrdlu wrote:No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
Merlin of Britain
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9:53pm Mon 13 Aug 12
~ Albert Einstein
scubadude
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4:03pm Tue 14 Aug 12
dun hoping
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9:13am Wed 15 Aug 12
Top Gear wrote: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 .
dun hoping wrote:I think it was meant as a JOKE.
EtaoinShrdlu wrote:No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?
outsidelookinin
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12:20pm Wed 15 Aug 12
Top Gear
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3:57pm Wed 15 Aug 12
dun hoping wrote: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.
Top Gear wrote: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 .dun hoping wrote:I think it was meant as a JOKE.EtaoinShrdlu wrote: Were they on a day trip from Littlemoor?No . Must be your relations thick and discriminating like you .
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12:12pm Fri 10 Aug 12