Durdle Door

[tiggerblue10]

Does anyone know this area and is it normal for people to jump off this cliff into the sea?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52864454

If the pictures are from today then social distancing seems to be a thing of the past now.

[weecalf]

Noticed that all the people have been bunched together in a very small area . Not all Dominic’s fault is it ?

[woofgang]

yes cliff jumping there is a thing. No its not a thing of the past. police cleared the beach and closed the area.

[Prudie]

I live very near and no it's not normally known as a place for cliff jumping but it has been all over the news lately because it seems to have become the Dorset place of choice for ridiculous numbers of visitors totally ignoring distancing. It has the locals up in arms.

[ToraToraTora]

yep, not far from me, jumping off is usual.

[ToraToraTora]

....best done at high tide!

[jno]

well, they're a lot closer together once the helicopter lands and takes up half the beach. And again when they leave the beach in a queue. That should increase the infection rate, but I'm not sure that's their fault.

[david small]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Patsy33]

We were there with family 2 years ago. There was a few young men diving from arch cliff.

[Prudie]

I don't think it's any more known for jumping off cliffs than any other beach with cliffs. This is what it looked liked last Monday, they were crowding irrelevant of this incident
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/18485328.police-message-coastal-visitors/

[Gromit]

Never heard of it, but there are loads of videos on YouTube.
They call it tomb-stoning - not without good reason.

[Prudie]

People do it all over the world.

[Patsy33]

It's only a few date devils that do. As they do in other places. By the way, Durdle Door is beautiful!

[Patsy33]

^^^ dare devils!

[237SJ]

@20:59 I`m surprised that you have never heard of tomb stoning. It's rife in Devon and Cornwall

[tomus42]

I assume it's mainly kids, egged on by other kids probably, as was tombstoning off piers a few years ago. It's not that funny when they die.

[Gromit]

237SJ
I am a very long way from Dorset.
In our neck of the woods, tomb-stoning usually referred to illicit sex in a grave yard/cemetery, after a good night on the ale.

[tomus42]

Tombstoning was all over the news about 10 years ago gromit. It was the news media's flavour of the month for a while until something else came along.

[Gromit]

tomus42,

Judging by YouTube, it’s 20-25 year old fatty lardy boys with tattoos, who would normally be surfing, ‘cept the boards keep sinking.

[tomus42]

//Judging by YouTube, it’s 20-25 year old fatty lardy boys with tattoos, who would normally be surfing, ‘cept the boards keep sinking. //

No problem then eh? Just the dispensable chavs that are dying.

[jourdain2]

I visited Durdle Door back in the '90s. Lovely coast, lovely view - shame about the shingle beach, not a patch on the nice, sandy ones we have up here. No-one was jumping off anything. It seems to be a new-ish craze. They are the idiots, theirs is the problem; except that they are taking-up valuable medical resources which should be directed elsewhere. 'The selfish generation' strikes again.