Things I have witnessed and/or been subjected to in the last two days at Cullercoats beach, in no particular order:
Bottle throwing.
- Vomiting due to excess alcohol.
- Dozens of children, so many estimated to about 13 years of age, drunk to the point of being comatose.
- Even more adults in exactly the same state.
- Extremely foul and abusive language, both directed at me, and overheard in general conversation at substantial range.
- Men, women and children, drunk, openly urinating in view of me and my child, turning the beach into a stinking, open sewer. Toilets are available, though.
- Graffiti on boats and buildings.
- Blatant hard drug usage, quite openly, with no shame whatsoever.
- Rioting, twice in the space of two hours, by completely different groups of people.
- Thieving, by adults and children, from adults and children, and a local shop.
- Enough litter scattered about to fill a skip – lager cans, cheap wine and cider, vodka, beer bottles mainly – Re: wanton littering; isn't fly tipping illegal?
- Insolent language to the armed response police who appeared after civil disturbances near lifeboat station.
- The female toilets (north side) broken into and apparently the ceramic surfaces used for snorting cocaine.
- Vermin of the rodent variety, feeding on the mountain of filth – chip, pizza wrappings from the vermin masquerading as humans.
- Unaccompanied children, some as young as seven, from as far away as Lemington. Where are the negligent parents?
- Metro lines at Cullercoats blocked with logs and debris, and associated anti-social behaviour.
- Every where I looked I could see anti-social behaviour taking place.
With all these delightful events taking place, I fully realise that the borough tourism policy is not dedicated to genuine tourists, but actually to the feral youth of Tyneside, as a senior chief police officer so aptly recently described the scum that infest this area.
The root cause of Cullercoats problems are the easy and cheap access to alcohol; Saturday afternoon saw police pouring into the sand various quantities of alcohol - soon the same underage youths were back with a full carrier bag.
SCOTT JONESAll correspondence should be e-mailed to Your Say
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