FURIOUS locals have claimed “idiot” tourists have ruined their popular beach after getting stuck on the sand.
Homeowners living in Newquay, Cornwall, have been left with a wreckage for a seaside after holidaymakers drove their cars as close to the water as possible.
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Connor Duffy, 33, recently spotted three motors stranded on the Cornish beach before declaring “idiot summer” had begun.
The chef was left baffled when the vehicles started driving across the sand on Towan Beach.
He said thousands of tourists visit every year and don’t read the signs – leaving residents fuming by how they treat the area.
Despite there being plenty of parking spots and car parks around Newquay, the group of visitors drove to the seafront before getting stuck and needing help.
Connor said: “They all drove down together [it] didn’t look like they knew each other as they were all separate cars.
“They then had to get two RNLI trucks to leave their posts of lifeguarding to come and sort them out.
“They had to be pulled out by locals as no tractors could be called in.
“Then they had to clear the ramp as they each took turns at speeding up the beach and onto the ramp without getting stuck again.
“Lifeguards tried to sort it as quickly as possible, and did so.”
Connor said a crowd soon gathered and cheered when the cars were finally removed from the deep sand and taken up the ramp.
He added: “Just shows common sense isn’t really that common.
“Happens at least once a week now due to tourists not reading the signs and thinking that they are fine to do so.”
Connor said a lot of tourists also burn coals in bins on the sand which he claims sets fire to the beach.
He added: “Fire engines are down all the time over the summer because people don’t know how to go to the beach, safely.
“Shame really. But this was funnier to watch than anything too serious.
“Some say entitled people, but it was just a bunch of silly people who don’t think very hard.”
It comes just days after another daft tourists got their £55,000 Mercedes EQB stuck on the same beach.
Drivers were slammed for having more money than sense with one resident blasting the scenes.
They fumed: “More money than sense.
“You buy a Chelsea tractor with 4WD and think that means it really will go anywhere. Only it won’t.”
And one even took their £40,000 Land Rover onto the sand in St Ives.
The 4×4’s tyres buried themselves in sand – with its owner abandoning the 2.5 tonne machine overnight.
