Last orders for snob yobs as Cornwall cracks down on upper-class parties

[T_i_B]

It's the Cornish v Upper-class twits! Make of this what you will.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298078.ece

As the sun set at Daymer Bay on the beautiful north Cornish coast last night, police vans circled the beaches, waiting for the invasion. After years of suffering at the hands of posh, drunken teenagers causing havoc, the fight-back has begun. Hundreds of what locals have dubbed "snob yobs" staggered from the two pubs in the village of Rock on Friday night and followed the winding road that leads to the beach. But, as they swarmed on to the sand, the police were waiting for them.

Every summer, Rock - dubbed "Kensington-on-Sea" thanks to the high number of upper-class Chelsea residents who make the Cornwall village their home for July and August - is invaded by hundreds of public school students who spend their nights boozing on the beach, starting fires, and urinating and vomiting in doorways.

But now battle lines have been drawn and local residents are striking back. Security guards have been hired by the residents' association to patrol the privately-owned Daymer Bay, the scene of much of the drunken revelry, preventing anyone from getting on to the beach at night. Instead, the "snob yobs" will be diverted to nearby Polzeath beach where a dispersal zone will also be in place with at least four uniformed police officers on duty every night. They will remove any group of youngsters who threaten to get out of control, ban them from returning for 24 hours, and could even fine them as much as £2,500.

The hordes who storm the beaches include the sons and daughters of judges, politicians and minor royalty. The young princes, William and Harry, have also spent summer nights there in the past. Hundreds poured onto the beach on Friday night. After hearing a loud bang from one of the groups crowding the beach, Sergeant Robin Hogg, who is responsible for the dispersal zone, disappeared into the crowd, re-emerging moments later with two teenagers and marching them into one of the police vans.

[WCGreen]

1. Sounds like a scene from Quadrophenia

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Why do I have the feeling, though, that these drunken teenagers

still manage to maintain a better sense of decorum and classiness than the typical american teenager could ever dream of.

[T_i_B]

4. Because they're upper class wallies perhaps?

...as opposed to working class "chavs".

[trebizond]

7. Honestly, having had to put up with too many of these people--

--two words I would never associate with them are classiness and decorum. Spoilt and arrogant would be closer to the mark.

[biscodawg]

3. damn chavs! n/t

[trebizond]

8. nooo! they're only chavs when they're working class...

Anti-social behaviour is the exclusive preserve of the great unwashed, remember.:sarcasm:

[biscodawg]

11. LOL

my bad. how could i forget? gosh!

[T_i_B]

12. Anyone for ASBO's?

[cap]

5. I am waiting for US to bring war on drugs to our own snob yobs

Universities and Wall Street are major users of drugs. When these folks get tossed in the slammer and not in drug treatment clinics, we will be truly serious on the war on drugs.

[ikojo]

9. Drug and alcohol abuse is a disease when engaged by the

upper crust but a crime when engaged by the poor and working class. Just look at the Bush crime family from George W to his niece Noelle.

If a working class kid wrote fake xanax scripts, that same kid would be sitting in a PRISON for a long time. There would be no treatment center option. It's just like during Vietnam, working class and poor kids were drafted into the regular army while the rich kids joined the national guard.

[WCGreen]

10. No shit....

I remember I got out of stuff when I was drinking because I knew people....

I also saw friends who weren't as connected as I was go to jail...

[trebizond]

6. about time too!