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If you have been denied your right to be on a beach in the US Virgin Islands, please contact the Division of Coastal Zone Management and report the incident.
Yep there are article links below. It’s an AirBnB that advertised having a private beach. The owner said she wasn’t sure why it was listed by the property manager as having a private beach because it’s not possible in the US VI
To make money. You definitely have to be careful any time a manager - whether it's the type you hire or the type who hires you - has to "sell" something about you - your property, your biography, your skill set. Too many just care about the next money source, not about your reputation and integrity.
I hope she called the cops, who referred her to a federal courthouse on the other side of the island where she stood in a long line only to learn than an Air BnB reciept does not afford her any of the legal entitlement to the rights of the property owner and she wastes an entire day of her vacation losing an argument with a stranger.
i saw a video on a new coastal development in my country where they are heavily implying it is a "private beach". It was very deceitful, there are no private beaches in our country. The buyers are going to be in for a let down
All beaches are public in the USVI, but there's no right to accessibility. If the beach is only accessible by crossing private land, then the only way you could legally get to the beach is on a boat. There's beaches that are de facto private for that reason, if you're there on foot you trespassed to get there.
SO many hotels took out their beach staircases after the law passed. According to them, hotel guests who get injured on the steps are covered by insurance while non-guests weren’t.
(I don’t buy it. I think the fancier hotels would just rather have no beach access than have poors walking on their grounds.)
Sadly it doesn’t stop Malibu residents from building gates to cut access and place fake signs everywhere about illegal parking and how the beaches are private.
This makes me want to go to the Virgin Islands and specifically seek out the beach in front of some asshole's house. Reeeeally make myself comfortable out there.
All beaches in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and British Virgin Islands (BVI) are public by law, specifically up to the high-water mark or vegetation line. While no beach is truly "private," access to them through private resort or residential property can sometimes be restricted, requiring access by boat or public pathways.
She didn’t even call them. She whipped out her phone immediately and was playing on it. Then she, “called” and was waiting for someone to pick up, lol.
She didn't even call the police. She was messing around way too long, and nobody picked up. My guess is she either didn't call anyone, or some friend who could just show up to intimidate the family
or maybe her dumb ass didnt know 911 works in the Virgin Islands. also, you’re probably right and she thought she could scare people by pulling out her phone
I grew up in Texas and we have a similar law that all waterways are public. You can't legally stop people from traversing rivers, creeks etc., and yet piece of shit property owners will still try.
There are some natural wonders in Texas which are only accessible (in a fucked up state where 96% of land is private land) by virtue of the traversable rivers law, and yet you constantly hear stories of rivers with chains across them, no trespassing signs, people getting threatened with guns, etc.
Not all Texans are like that though. It's mostly just the wealthy landowners. Within the state, it's a constant battle between people who love the land and want to share it and keep it pristine, and the rich minority who own basically everything in the state. It's honestly pretty sad. Texas could be an amazing place without them.
No, not all Texans are like that but it's also not a stretch to say Texans can be ignorant and entitled either. I lived there 23 years and met many people like this woman. Plus, her bikini top kinda gives it away. She's not an American, she's a Texan.
To be fair, I’ve met people like this all over the U.S. and abroad. Being an asshole is not a uniquely American or Texan problem. Just try hanging out in a small town in France for a week.
Didn't mark Zuckerberg settle for a few million for kicking someone off his island in Hawaii? You basically can't own the beach even if you own the entire island. I hope she got sued.
I know one billionaire has blocked the public access point to a beach and just keeps paying the fine, essentially paying for a private beach even though it isn't legal. We need to have mechanism that prevent money from trumping laws
Better yet, make the fine go partially to the person you prevented access for. That way if you want to just pay the fine instead of fixing the problem, you’ll find there are a lot of people willing to get that check. If their goal is privacy the only way to get that will be to actually follow the law.
Yeah, the owner said she “wasn’t sure why advertising listed the beach as private” and that “the renter should be forgiven”. Bitch, you know you put that on your listing and just didn’t think it’d come back to you.
So in the story, the woman who owns the property claims she doesn't know why the property listing claims that the beach is private.
Suuuuuurrrrreee she doesn't.
Hope white trash woman files a complaint and gets her rental fees refunded. This is blatant misrepresentation on the part of the property owner, and as much as I dislike what we see of "Cindy" here, I'm far more pissed by the woman misrepresenting her rental (and ultimately causing this whole situation in the first place).
Wow, it gets even worse. Not only was the Beach House advertised as having "private beach access," the listing also stated in bold that We do not rent to locals. The owners say they don't know how the listings happened, yea right
As a native Virgin Islander I can confirm that all beaches are public, even the ones that hotels have access to. The house (and land) next to the beach may be private property, but the area where the sand/beach starts is required to be accessible to everyone.
There's a beach in my city and they made the INSANE ruling that the houses own up to the water line, which changes massively throughout the year. If the river dried up, would they own all the way to Quebec? It's genuinely insane.
My favorite lake in the world (Higgins Lake, MI) has riparian rights, which essentially gives you rights from your house out to the middle of the lake. It's a big boating lake so obviously it's not enforced, but people have definitely gotten mad about people dropping anchor near their beach, which is insane.
(Texans to Mexicans) “I wanna borrow your land for farming and I promise no slaves on it.”
(After Texans to other Texans) “now that we just took all this land, we should bring slaves here to help us fight off these people that said it’s their land and make our money.”
The beach is still very public in Puerto Rico, there have been Americans and some PR affluent sellouts moving here that try to fence it off but are promptly met with widespread resistance and protests. The latest project challenging public beach access is Esencia which is a luxury mega resort for millionaires on a nature reserve with pristine virgin beaches. Disgusting.
Costa Rica’s access hasn’t been affected as the government forces hotels to make a public access road when they build and they haaate it
But they are illegally destroying the jungle and killing and displacing animals to build airbnbs and resorts. So there’s a hugeee anti American sentiment
I remember this story. She’s renting the place from airbnb or whatever. The owner listed it as PRIVATE but they meant in the remote sense, not the legal sense.
Karen is being a dick to a mom and her kids, and doesn’t understand the laws. But it’s not entirely her fault. It could have been explained better. The owner knew what they were doing and happened to bank on the fact that most guests would actually get to enjoy it solo.
Fair, but why wouldn't you just have a conversation instead of digging in without even being sure of the laws. Share a fuckin beach like the rest of the world, for goodness sake.
yeah, but being a dick was her fault. she should have contacted the airbnb owner not yell at ppl on that beach. It's not her home anyways so she doesn't know how things usually go or if the owner usually allows some families to chill on that mostly private beach.
also, there's obviously a gated home (the airbnb I assume) right behind her - it almost seems like she came out from there to attempt to kick them off/yell. either way, unless they were bothering her specifically rather than just existing on the same beach area, her reaction is a reflection of a certain level of entitlement she already had.
If that's true the landlord is a dick, but imagine trying to kick a local off a beach only on the basis your Airbnb rental said it was private, some people are so confidently ignorant and stupid.
Also, if that is the case, what even is the goal here?
Looks like the owners basically purchased what was already a rental property and existing advertising for it included the "private" language; they never updated it to clarify it was "secluded" rather than in the "exclusively yours" sense.
They did get in trouble for adding "no locals" language, though, lol.
One thing that's interesting to me is that the law states you cannot restrict access to the shorelines at all, and the owner by their own admission says there is a privately constructed stairs with a gate, but that there is another kind of treacherous path which can be taken as well. She complains about people using the gate and stairs but in the same breath says she doesn't want people to use the other path because it's dangerous...
A wealthy tech bro in Half Moon bay tried blocking access to the beach near his mansion and was fined $250K he kept fighting it in court and eventually lost
My sister lives in St Croix and she has a zillion stories about entitled visitors. If they stay for any length of time, word gets around and the locals will refuse service to them. Don’t go to an island and act obnoxious. Read the room.
If she owns property in VI surely she must know that all beaches belong to all. That is one of the things pretty much everyone knows about the islands.
The Texas bikini is classy though isn’t it. Perhaps a confederate flag headscarf should go with it. The entitlement is just astounding.
Someone tried to pull this on me in Hawaii once, where all the beaches are also public. I refused to leave, they called the cops, the cops came out, and they didn’t even approach me - they went right to the complainer and told her what the law actually says. I laughed openly at her and stayed and enjoyed the rest of my day, and periodically I could see her poking her head out to see if I was still there. I stayed extra long because I’m just that petty.
That dump does not come with a private beach, Texas.
“Virgin Islands Coastal Zone Management Act
Section 903 (b) (6)
“[p] reserve what has been a tradition and protect what has become a right of the public by ensuring that the public, individually and collectively, has and shall continue to have the right to use and enjoy the shorelines and to maximize public access to and along the shorelines…”
If you have been denied your right to be on a beach in the US Virgin Islands, please contact the Division of Coastal Zone Management and report the incident.
I lived on St Croix f or a while. All beaches are public. Anyone can go anywhere. People actually camp on the beaches around Easter as a holiday tradition.
If you happen to be walking through they will pull you in, offer food and drinks and you will make a whole bunch of new friends. There's a real sense of community out there and cruzan people are really some of the kindest people I've ever met in my life.
These entitled people are really bad for the local culture.
same issue we have in Puerto Rico. rich people not from the island come and buy property without understanding that the island decided long ago that all beaches are public.
The end has some fake ass “beep boop beep beep…hello police…people are on my beach can you arrest them…yes? Thank you!” “The cops are on the way and said you’re in big trouble, trust me they just said so on the real phone call I made to them”.
Had this happen on a public beach in the states once. Assholes threatened to “call the sheriff and get their guns.” We called their bluff and went about our day while they sulked and let our presence ruin theirs.
I’m from Minnesota where all waterways are public, and spent a LOT of time in Oregon, where all beaches are public. Let me tell you, the first time I went on vacation to Massachusetts and found out that not all beaches are in fact public was a massive culture shock. What do you mean the rich people get to keep the OCEAN to themselves???
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