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Message in a Bottle on Beach Tells Tourists to P**s Off
Offensive ,Message in a Bottle Washes up on Beach Telling Tourists to P**s Off'
The offensive letter was reportedly found in a bottle and insulted locals and tourists alike, with readers suspecting it was likely written by a child or a young teenager
Daily Mirror 30 JUL 2022
Locals were left fuming when they found a letter washed up on a beach in a bottle insulting English tourists and Welsh people.
The offensive message was discovered on Pwllheli beach in North Wales.
In scrawled handwriting, believed to have been by a child, it insults English tourists and uses a derogatory term against Welsh people.
The letter was later posted online, attracting plenty of attention, NorthWalesLive reports.
One unimpressed onlooker said: “I'm English and lived for a number of years in North Wales and never ever experienced hostility .
“The people were lovely.”
Another added: “It's over tourism and holiday lets amongst local housing causing the aggression, visitors filling bins and not recycling.
People suspected the note may have been written by a child
“Blocking streets with large cars and generally ruining the town's. And don't say we need their money, 90% of the locals pay massive council tax to support tourism and get nothing back.”
One more said :”As an Englishman who has lived in beautiful North Wales for the last few years, I find this rather funny if a tad puerile.”
Last year a man was stunned when a bottle he threw out to sea as a six-year-old returned to him more than two decades later.
Both English and Welsh people criticised the letter
Alex Melling said he was scrolling through a local community Facebook group when a mention of his old childhood address caught his eye.
Alex, who is now 30, said he scrolled back up and then saw his name mentioned in a post that he "just could not quite believe."
According to the Manchester Evening News , the post was written by a man called Rex Winter, who claimed he was trying to track down an Alex at that address after his son and daughter had discovered a message in a bottle in a remote bay in Scotland.
The post read - 'Help with a Message in a Bottle:
"This summer my kids found a message in a bottle on a remote beach in the west of Scotland. It seemed to be old, and the message inside appeared to have been written by a child.
"The message inside was from somebody called Alex, (no surname given) who gave an address of 27 Gilbert Street, Hindley.”
Alex said: “I will be keeping the bottle forever now with some other keepsakes. I can't quite believe it."
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