There may be a national lockdown at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped some people from attempting some pretty reckless daytrips. Earlier this week, Essex Police revealed some of the reasons officers had dished out Covid fines to people flouting the rules – and stay at home advice. This included people traveling long distances for a takeaway, and even coming to Essex for a car cruise. But sadly, there have been plenty more instances of people doing crazy things during lockdown. Here are just a few examples of people not understand the ‘essential’ journey advice:
Visit to sea fort Three men made headlines earlier this week by traveling 150 miles to Southend to visit a sea fort.
Staffordshire men fined after getting stuck on Whitstable s historic Red Sands Sea Fort
|
Updated: 14:26, 27 January 2021
Three men from Staffordshire have been fined by police after they travelled by boat to a sea fort - and got stuck.
The trio had made the 180-mile journey from the West Midlands to Southend in Essex by car, before setting out by boat for the historical Red Sands Sea Fort, which sits four miles off the Whitstable coast.
Police body worn footage shows the three men being fined
The group, aged between 31 and 41, were taken by the Sheerness RNLI lifeboat to Sheerness Docks, where they told police officers they had intended to spend the night at the sea fort.
Three men were slapped with fines after breaking lockdown rules by trying to reach a Second World War fort out at sea. The trio had driven more than 150 miles from Staffordshire to Southend on Sunday before getting onto a boat, despite the restrictions on movement during lockdown. On reaching the Essex town, the men got into a rib and set off in an attempt to reach the Red Sands Sea Fort in Whitstable. A series of estuary sea forts were built during the war in an effort to defend London and other Thames settlements from invasion. The men failed in their bid to reach the fort, getting into difficulty and having to be rescued by emergency services.