‘I received a barrage of insults’ – hotel manager
THE morning after L’Eree Bay Hotel manager Quinn Hamon told off a group of noisy teenagers, he found a vandalised sign outside the front door.
Mr Hamon said the teens had been shouting and arguing in the road at about 2am. Since the hotel was full, he was concerned that this would disturb the guests, so he went and asked them to be quiet.
‘I received a barrage of insults,’ he said. ‘It was a group of 15- and 16-year-olds who I assumed had had too much to drink.’
The group moved on, so he did not pursue the matter, but when he opened the front door of the hotel later he found the sign on the ground outside.
Mr Hamon said that the group might have been stragglers from a private party that had been taking place that had ended up on the beach, and it seemed as if the party may also have been behind rubbish, including broken glass, being left behind on the beach wall.
Gloria Dudley-Owen walks in the area every morning and yesterday she was shocked to come across the debris, which as well as broken glass included beer bottles and empty cans of cider.
Mrs Dudley-Owen contacted the douzaine office right away, which in turn called States Works, and was told that a coastal clean-up crew had already been sent to clear the debris.
She said that what was particularly annoying was that the cans and glass had been dropped only some 50ft from the recycling bins.
She had been concerned that youngsters could have been in the area, as well as others who enjoy walking there.
‘A lot of people sit on the concrete wall and a lot of people walk their dogs,’ she said.
She was pleased at the swift action to get it cleaned up. ‘But it is unacceptable that the public ends up paying for young louts’ inconsiderate behaviour.’
