Items on the beach overnight

[scooterbug44]

And you people with the tents, quit gettin' up so dang early to drop your frames on the ground and running back to bed. It's pretty comical actually.

I can't believe they actually do that! Are they still in their pjs and fuzzy slippers ?

 

[Smiling JOe]

Good points, TNJed. I will add that if the Sheriff's Office tags a section of the beach only once per week, there is no way in heck that they will be able to tell if someone ripped off the tag. The tag is simply acts as an identifier for the TDC trash collectors. Unless the Sheriff's Office is willing to patrol each section of beach, at a minimum of twice each week, they will never nip this in the bud.

TNJed, I believe the Code Enforcement also has the authority as granted by the County, to issue the tagged warnings.

 

[Beach Runner]

Hey, TNJed -- instead of tags on the items, they need to put on those stickers that our campus police slaps on our windshields if we park illegally. I'm telling ya, it's a major chore to get those suckers off.

 

[Jdarg]

I can't believe they actually do that! Are they still in their pjs and fuzzy slippers ?

We were out at Grayton by 8:30 on Sunday morning. There were only 2 early rising tent erectors, and both flew out onto the beach in out-of-state trucks WITHOUT beach permits, dumped their load, and roared back off. It was hilarious- it's like they waited for the perfect opportunity (when there wasn't anybody around to catch them) and snuck around like twerps.

 

[BeachSiO2]

I heard that one of the deputies was taking over the Beach Activities Position with the County (not TDC), so maybe that will help. He would be working with Code Enforcement.

Also, I agree that frequency will have to increase and that 2 times a week would help. Well, today is the end of week 1 removals so I am interested in the final # of truckloads removed, especially since the week before was 0.

 

[TNJed]

TNJed, I believe the Code Enforcement also has the authority as granted by the County, to issue the tagged warnings.

That would make sense.

I heard that one of the deputies was taking over the Beach Activities Position with the County (not TDC), so maybe that will help. He would be working with Code Enforcement.

Sergeant Ryan Brown is who I heard. He certainly has put the time in on the beach. I think he'll have a really good understanding of how to bridge the gap between how we/they/you/me want the beaches and their reality.


No bunnie slippers that I've seen yet but some of the tent commandos appear to be a quart low on coffee.

 

[Lady D]

We quit taking our chairs out there and leaving them for the night after that one time. We would like to take them out there and set them up along with our umbrella and leave it all out there for the day as we probably would go back out later in the day and sit. We go out in the morning around 9:00 and then go back out later in the afternoon and then bring them up and put them on the deck. Is that now not permitted to leave them out there for the day every day and then bring them in? And our beach chairs are not rusted and our umbrella is a new one. We have never put a torn up worn out umbrella out on the beach.

 

[Beach Runner]

We would like to take them out there and set them up along with our umbrella and leave it all out there for the day as we probably would go back out later in the day and sit. We go out in the morning around 9:00 and then go back out later in the afternoon and then bring them up and put them on the deck. Is that now not permitted to leave them out there for the day every day and then bring them in?

According to http://beachesofsouthwalton.com/FAQRemoveItOrLoseIt.pdf, as long as you don't leave them overnight, it's okay. Also, if it's a private walkover without a TDC trash can, you may leave items adjacent to or under the walkover overnight.

But if it's OUR walkover and you leave the stuff there for a week and you don't own property in our neighborhood, I'm confiscating it!

 

[Smiling JOe]

I just remembered an incident from last year. It was during the peak of the season, and I was growing tired of all the crap left on the beach. A group of people left there crap out on the beach for three days straight. One evening, I cleaned up so much of their trash, that I also decided to clean up their chairs and umbrella. The next morning, I went back to that same spot on the beach and set up, using my new chairs and umbrella. A few hours later, the former owners came out, and didn't see their crap. Or, did they? (but someone was using their crap.) One guy came over and asked if those were his chairs and umbrellas. I told him that I didn't know. I found them abandoned on the beach with a whole lot of trash around them. He said that he thought they were his. I asked him if he wanted all of his trash that I picked up too. :funn:I told him that I would give back his stuff, only if he promised to remove them at the end of each day, and on the condition that he not leave his trash on the beach. (yes, literally, trash). He agreed, and we parted ways. I checked back that evening and he did remove them.

 

[Beach Runner]

I asked him if he wanted all of his trash that I picked up too. :funn:

Good one!