Outrage as couple caught having sex on Brighton beach (From The Argus)
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Outrage as couple caught having sex on Brighton beach
9:20am Friday 24th August 2012 in News
Police talk to the couple on the beach after the incident – Caters News Agency
Families called police after a couple were seen having sex on the beach in broad daylight.
The half naked couple were arrested after committing the lewd act just yards from children and holidaymakers on Brighton beach at 9am.
However, police let the pair off with a fine.
Graphic photos of the cavorting couple, which are too explicit for The Argus to publish, came to light yesterday (August 23) after city leaders and tourism bosses condemned stag and hen parties for damaging the image of Brighton and Hove.
Geoffrey Bowden, Brighton and Hove City Council ’s cabinet member for tourism, said he was “appalled” by the incident.
Shocked witness Simon Cummins, 30, from Essex, was on holiday in the city with friends Ben Stone and Richard Jones, when he saw what was happening.
He said: “The nearest families were ten metres away, if that. there were kids playing nearby.
“It was disgusting.
“I have young nephews and nieces and if I had seen that kind of thing going on in front of them I would have had a word.
“The woman and the man didn’t look like they were druggies, or dishevelled.
“They looked like normal, everyday people.
“It was a horrible sight to see.
“At one point a little boy pointed over at the couple and his mum had to haul him off in disgust.
“It’s not Ibiza at 3am in the morning.
“This was in broad daylight with families around and they just didn’t seem to care.
“They should have been locked up.”
A spokeswoman for Sussex Police confirmed officers attended the raunchy scene on Sunday.
She said: “Police were called |to Brighton beach, near West Street, on Sunday, August 19, at 9am where it was reported a couple were believed to be having sex.
“Two people were arrested and given fixed penalty notices.”
Comments(85)
southernposh
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9:43am Fri 24 Aug 12
RickH
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9:44am Fri 24 Aug 12
jamus77
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9:46am Fri 24 Aug 12
john5001
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9:48am Fri 24 Aug 12
SpiderMeringue
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9:55am Fri 24 Aug 12
magoo
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9:58am Fri 24 Aug 12
tom servo
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10:10am Fri 24 Aug 12
Crystal Ball
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10:15am Fri 24 Aug 12
hubby
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10:19am Fri 24 Aug 12
Presumably had they been smashing lumps out of each other they would have been treated more leniently?
Corn Hill
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10:25am Fri 24 Aug 12
Old Ladys Gin
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10:28am Fri 24 Aug 12
george smith
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10:32am Fri 24 Aug 12
Crystal Ball wrote:After paying for parking, probably couldn't afford one
Quite clearly they couldn't get a room.
suede27
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10:49am Fri 24 Aug 12
Sarah Booker
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10:50am Fri 24 Aug 12
TwoBob
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10:54am Fri 24 Aug 12
tom servo wrote:Careful, you make yourself sound a sad individual. The paper is definitely far from perfect, but if you feel so strongly about it then why continue reading it? Very strange.
I see the national tabloids picked this up before our dismal local rag.... in fact this story is probably just lifted from the Sun.
inadaptado
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10:56am Fri 24 Aug 12
bumbar
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11:08am Fri 24 Aug 12
Hoarder12345444
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11:20am Fri 24 Aug 12
milkypirate
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11:21am Fri 24 Aug 12
Fed up with this
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11:26am Fri 24 Aug 12
billy goat-gruff
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11:27am Fri 24 Aug 12
tom servo
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11:28am Fri 24 Aug 12
TwoBob wrote:I don't read the paper.... never buy it these days. I just look on the website. If that's ok by you of course.
tom servo wrote: I see the national tabloids picked this up before our dismal local rag.... in fact this story is probably just lifted from the Sun.Careful, you make yourself sound a sad individual. The paper is definitely far from perfect, but if you feel so strongly about it then why continue reading it? Very strange.
MikeyA
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11:32am Fri 24 Aug 12
Corn Hill wrote:Is that somewhere in the USA?
Why does nothing good ever happen in 'Broad Daylight'?
MikeyA
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11:34am Fri 24 Aug 12
billy goat-gruff wrote:Somebody was, obviously!
who is up at 9am?
turtling.
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11:42am Fri 24 Aug 12
Hoarder12345444
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11:44am Fri 24 Aug 12
MikeyA wrote:Yep an early riser in more ways than one!! I wonder if they finished up??
billy goat-gruff wrote: who is up at 9am?Somebody was, obviously!
Skidrow
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12:01pm Fri 24 Aug 12
tooned_in
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12:03pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Flippin Burghers
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12:45pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Corn Hill wrote:Excellent point!
Why does nothing good ever happen in 'Broad Daylight'?
Flippin Burghers
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12:55pm Fri 24 Aug 12
emma barnes
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1:17pm Fri 24 Aug 12
tooned_in
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1:19pm Fri 24 Aug 12
PorkBoat
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1:42pm Fri 24 Aug 12
RickH wrote:Some people (Daily Mail readers in particular) think that anything less than 20 years with hard labour for any crime is "being let off".
"However, police let the pair off with a fine." erm...since when was a fine being levied 'being let off'?
Fairfax Sakes
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2:19pm Fri 24 Aug 12
emma barnes wrote:They questioned the guy after. He said he couldnt help it...she was just such a sexy beach.
As already said, getting a fine is not being "let off"? It is probably more than they would get if they were summonsed to magistrates court and has saved taxpayers court time. Plus they will have a criminal record now. - so no "outrage" from this commentator.
tooned_in
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2:28pm Fri 24 Aug 12
cookie_brighton
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2:42pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Reminds me of the two old ladies sat in deckchairs on Brighton beach......a male streaker ran past them.....one had a stroke.......the other could not reach ha ha.
Randsta
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3:25pm Fri 24 Aug 12
tooned_in
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4:19pm Fri 24 Aug 12
cookie_brighton
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4:29pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Athena
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4:52pm Fri 24 Aug 12
billy goat-gruff wrote:This particular bloke, obviously.
who is up at 9am?
SanFranciscoSeagull
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4:52pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Athena
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4:54pm Fri 24 Aug 12
turtling. wrote:The fuss is about having sex in public, particularly in front of children. Other people's children.
Good for them, what's all the fuss about.... the man concerned has gone right up in my estimation...... as has John Terry
Athena
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4:55pm Fri 24 Aug 12
SanFranciscoSeagull wrote:Stop trying to be so "modern" and "with-it". Would you have sex in front of your children? Would you have sex in front of other people's children? Would your children have sex in front of you?
Shocked and appalled. A couple having sex on a Brighton beach! In Brighton of all places! My God..what about the children? Seriously people. "Disgusting"?.C
ome on, we are in the 21st Century...and there has probably been more sex on Brighton beaches than anywhere else in the country for crying out loud...Get over yourselves!
Flippin Burghers
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5:01pm Fri 24 Aug 12
cookie_brighton
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5:07pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Bad news sells newspapers so I guess ...well,...... as for the eyewitness with the surname ...cummins....... the Argus thought you could have done better there.
tinker000
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6:11pm Fri 24 Aug 12
SiWilki
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7:26pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Idontbelieveit1948
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7:39pm Fri 24 Aug 12
PorkBoat wrote:Shocking generalisation PigShip, still I suppose you like looking at the pictures in the Daily Star, or maybe the Sun today
RickH wrote:Some people (Daily Mail readers in particular) think that anything less than 20 years with hard labour for any crime is "being let off".
"However, police let the pair off with a fine." erm...since when was a fine being levied 'being let off'?
pebble counter
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9:09pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Hovite
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9:53pm Fri 24 Aug 12
turtling.
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11:50pm Fri 24 Aug 12
Athena wrote:Come off it... if i'd seen that as a child i'd have thought they were just cuddling... as an adult though the man has gone right up in my estimation
turtling. wrote:The fuss is about having sex in public, particularly in front of children. Other people's children.
Good for them, what's all the fuss about.... the man concerned has gone right up in my estimation...... as has John Terry
whereisthe...?
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8:04am Sat 25 Aug 12
The world is not your play thing - new word for you all "responsibility".
Old Ladys Gin
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12:57pm Sat 25 Aug 12
whereisthe...? wrote:Perhaps that died the same death as common sense ;)
This story, and all these flippant short-sighted posts, explain why Brighton is the hideous cr*p hole it now is.
The world is not your play thing - new word for you all "responsibility
".
mr punch
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1:41pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Sussex jim
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3:09pm Sat 25 Aug 12
suede27 wrote:Or Lower Cocking in West Sussex.
They should have gone to Upper Dicker
SiWilki
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5:14pm Sat 25 Aug 12
mr punch
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6:42pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Sussex jim wrote:or littlehampton
suede27 wrote:Or Lower Cocking in West Sussex.
They should have gone to Upper Dicker
farang
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11:33pm Sat 25 Aug 12
Athena
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2:00am Sun 26 Aug 12
danielsreef
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10:50am Sun 26 Aug 12
Flippin Burghers
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11:18am Sun 26 Aug 12
mr punch wrote:Anyone for Fulking?
Sussex jim wrote:or littlehampton
suede27 wrote:Or Lower Cocking in West Sussex.
They should have gone to Upper Dicker
Enema of the peephole
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12:03pm Sun 26 Aug 12
fubsy
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7:35pm Sun 26 Aug 12
"Anything for money" should be the green party's motto
sdhgfhfuyt
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12:44am Mon 27 Aug 12
sdhgfhfuyt
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12:46am Mon 27 Aug 12
pebble counter wrote:What a knob.
Pretty awful really. If I'd been there with my family at 9AM and seen it I think I'd have found a way of stopping them.
Devils Advocate 2
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1:24am Mon 27 Aug 12
glumsden
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8:06am Mon 27 Aug 12
cookie_brighton wrote:Er ... Didn't you look at the photo above? There are apparently families and children in it - and the couple are still there with a policeman.
Athena...I have lived in Hove and Brighton for 10 years......I walk along the seafront...EVERY day, in the morning, I walk past the area mentioned EVERY day, and I have never seen children on the beach that early in the morning.
Bad news sells newspapers so I guess ...well,...... as for the eyewitness with the surname ...cummins....... the Argus thought you could have done better there.
Ballroom Blitz
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11:20am Mon 27 Aug 12
I have watched the video, purely in the interests of research, of course!
Okay, they are having sex on the beach. It is 9.00am, and there is hardly anyone about. The nearest people to them are at least 50 metres away. Anyone walking along the path with kids would really not be able to see very much at all. They are not having sex 'in front of children'. The nearest families are not '10 metres away', but don't let the truth get in the way of a good story!
The only people who are near enough to them and can actually see what's going on are all the men who run across the beach to film them on there camera phones! So they can hardly be outraged, can they?
Next weekend is Pride, and if previous years are anything to go by, there will be numerous sex acts performed in public over the weekend, and no one will be fined or reprimanded.
Double standards maybe?
Braindeed
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4:32pm Mon 27 Aug 12
Morpheus wrote:Unfortunately, homosexuals have diplomatic immunity in Brighton......ho hum
They should have gone to Duke's Mound. Anything goes there and they will be expected to leave their sexual detritus behind as proof of the activity.
Athena
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5:06pm Mon 27 Aug 12
jgmd
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5:39pm Mon 27 Aug 12
billy goat-gruff wrote:Er, I guess he was...
who is up at 9am?
sussexguy
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6:35pm Mon 27 Aug 12
Flippin Burghers
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6:47pm Mon 27 Aug 12
sussexguy wrote:The wishes of people who don't want that have to be taken on board too. How about a compromise? A clearly marked part of the beach where it's OK to b0nk in public?
Well, if we can have breastfeeding in public, why not sex as well? And what a boost for the Brighton Tourist Board. They could put it on their poster for the Brighton Festival.
turtling.
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9:17pm Mon 27 Aug 12
om/watch?v=nctYWv20j
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neilchi
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10:15pm Mon 27 Aug 12
I am not agreeing with it but it goes on in Brighton all the time. In bars/club/bushes/pub
lic toilets. Your attitude of 'that's disgusting' is just snobbery. I suggest you wrap yourself in cotton wool and hide yourself away as the world is full of Sin. (and do gooders)
Athena
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11:38pm Mon 27 Aug 12
Telscombe Cliffy
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5:06pm Tue 28 Aug 12
sdhgfhfuyt
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7:57am Wed 29 Aug 12
Athena wrote:If you can walk onto shingle iyou can walk away, and if you can see it you must also have the ability to close your eyes and not see it. Just like if you see some people fighting, you have the option to intervene or you have the option to walk away. I'm in no way condoning these people's actions, but unless you were there, you have NO RIGHT to be offended.
Neilchi, we are not talking about the sex which is available all the time on TV, films and all over the internet. We are talking real life sex, in public, regardless of whether the public actually wants to watch it. The public can't turn off real life, like they can a TV. That you seem to think it's OK to have sex in front of other people and children says more about you and the amorality of modern Brighton than it does about me.
Athena
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9:21am Wed 29 Aug 12
sdhgfhfuyt wrote:Strange comment. You are right, I wasn't there, but the police were, and this was reported in The Argus. What disappoints me is that people today seem to think public obscenity is legitimate behaviour and that because Brighton has a history of "dirty weekends", then anything goes. What is even more disappointing is that people seem unaware of just how low morality has sunk. Somehow, it has become fashionable to be as publically vulgar as possible, even among heirs to the throne. But it's all been done before and what goes round comes round.
Athena wrote:If you can walk onto shingle iyou can walk away, and if you can see it you must also have the ability to close your eyes and not see it. Just like if you see some people fighting, you have the option to intervene or you have the option to walk away. I'm in no way condoning these people's actions, but unless you were there, you have NO RIGHT to be offended.
Neilchi, we are not talking about the sex which is available all the time on TV, films and all over the internet. We are talking real life sex, in public, regardless of whether the public actually wants to watch it. The public can't turn off real life, like they can a TV. That you seem to think it's OK to have sex in front of other people and children says more about you and the amorality of modern Brighton than it does about me.
Mr Know It All
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9:29am Wed 29 Aug 12
Flippin Burghers
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9:55am Wed 29 Aug 12
neilchi wrote:The National Anti-**** Rally, due to take place in Trafalgar Square today, was cancelled when Mary Whitehouse refused to mount the rostrum. ~ The Two Ronnies c.1970s.
I thought Mary Whitehouse was dead. Now, she's alive and well and preaching to everyone her high morals and he name is Athena.
I am not agreeing with it but it goes on in Brighton all the time. In bars/club/bushes/pub
lic toilets. Your attitude of 'that's disgusting' is just snobbery. I suggest you wrap yourself in cotton wool and hide yourself away as the world is full of Sin. (and do gooders)
Roger Francais
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3:23pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Mart2a
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5:53pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Athena
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6:03pm Wed 29 Aug 12
Morpheus says...
9:41am Fri 24 Aug 12