NEIGHBOURS living by a picturesque beach are at their wits end thanks to reckless tourists driving onto the sand and getting stuck.
The latest offender in St Ives, Cornwall, moved their £40,000 Land Rover Discovery onto Porthmeor Beach on Saturday.
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But they came a cropper when the 4×4’s tyres buried themselves in sand – with its owner abandoning the 2.5 tonne machine overnight.
Posting an early morning picture of the stranded motor on Sunday, an eyewitness said: “Here we are look, it’s that silly season again.”
Another eyewitness said the car got into trouble after trying to tow equipment from a cancelled outdoor cinema screening, CornwallLive reported.
It comes just days after daft tourists got their £55,000 Mercedes EQB stuck in the sand thinking a beach was a car park.
One livid local blasted the scene at nearby Towan Beach, in Newquay, fuming: “More money than sense.
“You buy a Chelsea tractor with 4WD and think that means it really will go anywhere. Only it won’t.”
One funny local even put a ‘road narrows on left ahead’ sign next to the sunken SUV.
Beaches in tourist hot-spot Cornwall face a surge of tourist-induced anti-social behaviour each summer.
But it’s posh youngsters that have wreaked the most havoc on Polzeath Beach.
Breaking up from private school two weeks before the states, underage toffs have been known to bonk in the sand, start fires, take drugs and smash champagne bottles against the cliffs.
One resident said last August: “I’ve seen these kids get dropped off at mummy and daddy’s second home with a credit card and a bag of booze. Happy days.
“But expensive education doesn’t seem to translate in good behaviour – at least for a minority of them. It’s like they go feral.
“I think it’s the attitude of the parents that’s to blame.”
Other recent incidents have seen vital lifeguard equipment stolen or damaged.
Their antics got so out of control that infrared cameras were installed this summer to monitor raucous beach parties and make arrests.
The action has proven successful, with beach rangers saying the number of anti-social behaviour incidents have fallen.
Andy Stewart of Polzeath Beach Ranger Service told BBC News: “They are a new way of preventing or detecting anti-social behaviour.”