For the Scumbags

Thanks for the bag of charcoal you left on the beach last night, but I really didn't enjoy clearing up your disposable barbeque, beer cans, plastic bags etc.

Next time you want to have a beach party in an area of outstanding natural beauty, go down the local tip, you'd feel more at home there.

 

Always amazes me peoples total lack of care when out in open areas no consideration at all.

Portable barbeques are a pain we too get them left on our beaches and many still burning.

 

Danger and litter:DOH: You can't see when a barbeque is hot.

 

In my grumpier moments, I sometimes think we should ban barbeques altogether. So un-British. We should leave that sort of thing to the Antipodeans. What's wrong with a miserable picnic consisting of curling sandwiches, Mr Kipling cakes and lukewarm tea in a flask? I always know when there's a barbeque nearby because of that unmistakeable smell of summer - paraffin. It can't be good for you. Come to think of it, the charcoal probably isn't either.

 

Not for the unfortunate couple a few weeks back it wasn't. Don't take your lit barbeque into a tent or any other enclosed space unless you want to die of death.

BBC News - Woman 'killed by barbecue fumes' in tent in Norfolk
I feel sorry for the people who have moved into the new development at West Bay, those houses are not cheap.

Probably looked great when they bought them, then comes the summer & hundreds of people move into the campsite opposite.

The stench of lighting fluid, charcoal & burning moo moo is unbelievable, its like living above a kebab shop.

 

On the one show last night they did an experiment in Hyde Park and sectioned off an area where they didn't pick up any litter for 2 days just to see how much would be left behind by the general public or whether they would see the problem and start clearing it away. Surprise surprise they filled about 19 bin bags of rubbish I believe. Shows a complete lack of consideration for everyone else, and that the majority these days follow the pack. When are we going to take responsibility for ourselves instead of expecting things to be done for us? Oooh I'm starting to rant lol...

 

It's a bit gross, isn't it? Especially if you've got lots of people doing the same thing. In my street we've all got such small gardens that it's impossible to avoid the fumes. One particularly troublesome family used to combine outdoor cooking with nightclub-level music. I used to pray they'd get sick from smoke inhalation or get a very nasty dose of food poisoning from their semi-cooked barbeque food. Sadly, like Keith Richards, they had already pickled their bodies with so many poisons that they were completely immune to everyday hazards.

 

my elderly neighbour often phones the environmental police when I have a BBQ (which is often as I'm ex-South African and even BBQ in the winter .... I even BBQ'd a duck on christmas day)

not much they can do, as we don't live in a smoke free village ....

strange thing is that no-one complains when everyone has thick choking smoke belching from their chimneys in winter?

as for the paraffin smell, if you light the fire correctly, the paraffin smell only lasts as long as the firelighters burn, which is only a few minutes

nothing beats the smell of a few barbequed marinated racks of spare ribs .... sloooowly cooking and crisping on a bed of hot smouldering coals (whilst drinking an ice cold beer)

 

I agree, most people think that someone else will clear it up for them.

The government is going on about how skint the treasury is, ok, then raise the fine for littering to £10,000 per item. It wouldn't be poplier with those who get caught but the easiest way to avoid the fine would be to not litter.

 

Oh dear, *dim*, I must sound like such a killjoy. I should add that I might mutter to myself quietly but I never complain - I keep my powder dry for when thingsreally go wrong. The problem with Britain is that we get so few perfect, warm summer days and it always seems a shame to pollute them with firelighters, charcoal and all the other things which stop you enjoying the great outdoors. It's true that we sometimes - although not that often, in these days of central heating - get a whiff of acrid smoke from chimneys during the winter, but by that time we're all indoors.

 

another strange law in the UK ....

you get a £1000 fine if your dog poo's in public and you don't pick it up, even if the dog is a chiwawa

yet, on a daily basis, in my village, there is a crowd of people who ride horses, and they choose to do so in my street ...

they often drop piles of poo outside my driveway that 1/2 fills a green dustbin .... the riders don't bother to dismount and clean up ...

and the law states that is OK?

 

Think thats because horse poo doesn't contain germs that will make you go blind.

I used to shovel it up & put it on my veg patch, didn't do the veg much good though as the dog used to eat it all:DOH: