Will People Never Learn!!!!

[pat2604]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-60428222

Bridgend !!

[barry1010]

Selfish and stupid

[McMouse]

Idiots are entitled to be stupid.

[youngmafbog]

Well culls the world of the stupid. Just hope they haven't bred yet.

[Togo]

I know it looks dramatic, but if you know Porthcawl you would know that where they are is pretty well safe. The waves shown high in the air are about 60 yards away and look close because of the forshortening effect of the camera angle. The lifeboat station is about 20ft away to the left of the people on the pier but out of shot. I would not surprise me if it was not the lifeboat men themselves. The beep and "news" makers of course would not spoil a gas lighting exercise by pointing that out. Misinform by word or deed is their motto.

[Togo]

Got it. The pier shown in the "news" item is indeed of the RNLI pier in Porthcawl. Which has been closed off to the public since being damaged by storm Barra earlier in the year. You can see that there is scaffolding erected to do the repairs and the men on the pier are part of the very experienced repair team doing the work. They were likely trying to secure valuable equipment and ensure the scaffolding diid not break loose. Hmm. I don't blame anyone for calling them out. They were not given the facts.

[tomus42]

As long as they're not forcing anyone else to go out there against their will, who cares.

[jno]

pat, I commented on that on another thread and said I suspected zoom lenses and low vantage points made things seem a lot closer than they really are, like those photos of people lying packed together on beaches who turn out to be yards apart when you see them from higher up.

The ones we can actually see in the photo don't seem to be getting terribly wet.

[tomus42]

The pictures are obviously taken with a telescope on the end of a camera, so the people are miles away from the big wave. However, just to be on the seawall like that is questionable from a health and safety point of view.

Their choice though.

[jno]

tomus, I don't want to detract from anything Togo's said, if you look at this photo

https://www.wales247.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AdobeStock_282611348-1600x1066.jpeg

the RNLI station is virtually inland; the lighthouse, which you can see in the second photo in the OP link, looks a good quarter-mile away or more. I'd back the locals to know how much danger they were in .

[Mamyalynne]

Unpleasant PP..

[tonyav]

Oh dear.

[jno]

he was quoting an earlier post, mamya

[naomi24]

The second line wasn’t a quote from someone else, Jno. That was all his own work.

[Mamyalynne]

The second line was one in a long line of insults to all AB Members and there's no excuse for it.

If I typed everything I thought, I'd have been gone years ago.

[tonyav]

oiei

[naomi24]

I couldn’t agree more, mamyalynne.

[Stickybottle]

Mamyalynne
The second line was one in a long line of insults to all AB Members and there's no excuse for it.
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I report on it on an almost daily basis
Generally around smutty insults on my username

Nothing is EVER done about it

Make of that what you will

[tonyav]

Make of that what you will

Desperate for footfall ( any footfall ).

[Mamyalynne]

Disappointing is what I call it.