Drunk swimming is becoming an “increasing challenge” in the Lake District this summer, a national park spokesman has said, as visitors try to replicate boozy foreign holidays at home.
*shrugs* But hasn't this always happened?
Yes. But it seems this is happening more often:
Tony Watson, head of visitor services and communications at the Lake District national park, said TikTok and Instagram were leading visitors to party in isolated locations where there have never previously been issues.
He explained: “What we are seeing is a massive desire to be near the water, and what used to be lake shores are now beaches, and there’s a lot of booze consumed. That booze really reduces people’s common sense and fear factor. We might be having Mediterranean air temperatures but we’ve still got traditionally cold northern English waters.”
It probably doesn't reduce their common sense all that much. I doubr they have a lot to begin with. So, we're blaming booze and covid, right? And German supermarkets.
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Wait, what?
As well as an increasing appetite for wild swimming, there has also been a rise in popularity in other water activities, with visitors turning up with cheap paddleboards without the right safety equipment, said Watson.
“The middle aisle of Lidl is often on our lakes. We see Lidl selling paddleboards but we don’t see them selling buoyancy aids.”
*boggles*
We are supposed to be a free country and with freedom comes responsibility. If Lidl was selling common sense no doubt the idiots would be snapping it up by the kilo.
ReplyDeleteI often pop into Lidl for milk and bread and come out with buoyancy aids instead
ReplyDeleteJaded
"We are supposed to be a free country and with freedom comes responsibility."
ReplyDeleteNo, no, we abolished that, remember? It's 'unfair' to people who don't possess any.
"I often pop into Lidl for milk and bread and come out with buoyancy aids instead"
Guilty as charged! 🤣