Security on 30-A Beaches

[Smiling JOe]

If I am ever asked to leave a beach, I will consider it an invite to stay... They will need to arrest me! I feel that would be some real positive publicity for the issue. ;-)

If asked to leave, I will be asking for a copy of their deed and current survey, showing the corner posts of their property.

 

[BlueMtnBeachVagrant]

A homeless person once said...
Access to anyone's bathroom shouldn't be limited to just the owner.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I hadn't mentioned in my original post but I did respectfully refuse to leave the beach when the security guard requested that. He did call the Sherriff and when he arrived he asked me for ID (I tried to give him my business card but he scoffed at that and asked for my driver's license).

I never take my Driver's License to the beach.

 

[greenroomsurfer]

Guns or knives? YouTube - Butch Cassidy Fight

 

[BlueMtnBeachVagrant]

If asked to leave, I will be asking for a copy of their deed and current survey, showing the corner posts of their property.

Sad to see that you'd resort to such tactics even though you profess to generally understand (and sometimes inform us of) the rules and regulations of our great county. Would you do the same thing for a property owner on the bay? on Black Creek? a golf course home? ... anywhere you think you'd like to spread a blanket and join 100 of your friends because you like the view?

So if there are no fences or gates or survey markers on a piece of property, you apparently take it as an open invitation to make yourself at home. SJ, tell me I'm wrong.

 

[scooterbug44]

I never take my Driver's License to the beach.

I was impressed she had a business card AND a driver's license!

My beach kit is more than complete if I've got a towel, sunglasses, a book, and some water.

Exactly where am I supposed to carry ID as I stroll the beach in a bikini?

 

[Smiling JOe]

Since only recently, Gulf-front land owners have began hiring the security and or posting signs of "private beach." If they have not defended this property up until now, and the public has been using it in the past, do you have any idea on how a Judge or jury would rule on it being public vs private?

 

[greenroomsurfer]

Happy International Surf Day and summer solstice

 

[scooterbug44]

Sad to see that you'd resort to such tactics even though you profess to generally understand (and sometimes inform us of) the rules and regulations of our great county. Would you do the same thing for a property owner on the bay? on Black Creek? a golf course home? ... anywhere you think you'd like to spread a blanket and join 100 of your friends because you like the view?

So if there are no fences or gates or survey markers on a piece of property, you apparently take it as an open invitation to make yourself at home. SJ, tell me I'm wrong.

His point was that the sand they are escorting him off of might not even be theirs.

 

[Smiling JOe]

His point was that the sand they are escorting him off of might not even be theirs.

A good example of this would be the 6 homeowners on Montgomery Street who have erected "no tresspassing" signs between their homes on 20ft wide strips of public property deeded for beach access.