Overzealous Beach Cleanup

Happily reporting from the beach right here at Seagrove Villas :wub:! Hubby and I arrived Saturday afternoon just in time to catch the tail-end of the Seaside Community Yard Sale...what fun! Snagged a great pair of flip flops for $10 and had a relaxing, delicious lunch at Rendezvous Caf?.
We were down for a week in August with our kids and grand children...which is wonderful, but this week in October is OUR week! Yesterday we were up at 6:30 AM and down at the beach for our first morning walk. We walked a while, then came back to the beach at the Villas, drug our chairs and umbrella down and sat together just enjoying our favorite place in the world! After a bit, we left our coffee cups at the chairs and took another walk the opposite direction...east. We passed a gentleman walking a black dog, throwing a tennis ball...and noticed that he and another woman were removing chairs & umbrella's that were set up...even going as far as to throw the umbrella's into the trash dumpsters. I thought it a bit odd since it didn't appear to me that the chairs had actually been left up through the night. We had been down on the beach late to see the gorgeous moon rise Saturday night, and by the the time we left there were very few people and items left on the beach. When we turned around to walk back to our chairs, we could see that the man we had past earlier was dragging our chairs and umbrella up the beach to the dumpster! :angry: Please sir...I don't live here and get up early to see sunrises and stay at the beach to see the sunsets...don't deprive me of beach space because you're lumping all visitors into one category! The fact that our coffee mugs were sitting right there, one full of shells we had collected on the first half of our walk, was a clear sign that our chairs hadn't been left overnight! This morning it's windy and rainy...so our walk will have to wait, but tomorrow I suppose I'll have to put a sign on my chairs or something...:idontno:

Oh my!! What a story! That reminds me of the lady I once knew who was so compulsive about cleaning that her husband finally divorced her when she would try and make the bed with him still in it! :roll:

Yes, I would make a sign and suggest that maybe he get a chair and watch the beautiful sunrise himself. So did he actually drag your chair off?? Did you get a chance to tell him to chill?

Keep us posted and love your avatar btw.

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I applaud the man for doing his job. We cant expect our beach service folks to chase down people. Believe me, just because there was warm coffee doesnt mean in the least that it was brought to the beach that morning. Im on grayton beach every morning and you wouldnt believe whats left out that would look like people were just there. Ive seen grills with food still cooking and the list goes on. This county had to set up rules and this fella is just doing his job. Just because someone had to walk and get their chairs godforbid doesnt mean we need to smear him, call him overzealous and make a big deal of it. it is what it is and as a local, im glad the law passed is being practiced as written.

You are making the assumption that he is beach service getting paid for a job he is suppose to be doing. I strongly suspect he is just a local taking things into his own hands. If so I applaud his gumption, but question the implementation...

It would be nice if he and his wife decided to pick up cigarette butts instead! I still can't get over how many people view the sand as an ashtray. Should be no smoking on the beach.

Believe me, just because there was warm coffee doesnt mean in the least that it was brought to the beach that morning.

It would be nice if he and his wife decided to pick up cigarette butts instead! I still can't get over how many people view the sand as an ashtray. Should be no smoking on the beach.

I applaud the man for doing his job. We cant expect our beach service folks to chase down people. Believe me, just because there was warm coffee doesnt mean in the least that it was brought to the beach that morning. Im on grayton beach every morning and you wouldnt believe whats left out that would look like people were just there. Ive seen grills with food still cooking and the list goes on. This county had to set up rules and this fella is just doing his job. Just because someone had to walk and get their chairs godforbid doesnt mean we need to smear him, call him overzealous and make a big deal of it. it is what it is and as a local, im glad the law passed is being practiced as written.

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I could NOT agree more. I plan on combing the sand for butts when we are living at BMB on a reg. basis. It irks me to no end that people think they aren't litter! I don't mind someone smoking but we need a sign that says DON'T LEAVE YOUR BUTTS BEHIND! (or something like that..... I haven't given it enough thought :roll🙂

CigaretteLitter.Org - The Facts About Cigarette Butts and Litter - Cigarette Litter

Thanks for the suggestion Mike.

And btw, kkddbb - you wrote:
:idontno::idontno: How could it be warm and have been left overnight? :roll: I personally think that common sense in this case did not prevail. And it happened to Topsail Transplant too. Shame one has to bring a sign to the beach that says
"Hi, I just put these chairs here this morning. I am either walking or swimming. Please leave them be."

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The creator of this thread said that it was a man & woman walking their black dog & throwing a ball for it ... so the man wasn't "doing his job" and wasn't one of the "beach service folks."

The beach services are not tasked with rearranging or discarding people's stuff or otherwise enforcing the county rule. That is the job of code enforcement. Most beach services pick up trash when they have time, but only obvious trash, like empty cans, etc.