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.
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.
Police bodycam footage shows mass card game broken up at Chatham shop and woman with Covid-19 stopped on way back from petrol station
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Updated: 17:14, 28 January 2021
These are some of the most blatant breaches of lockdown rules seen in Kent so far this year.
The bodycam footage is released as police issued 202 fines last weekend, bringing the total since the start of the year to almost 800.
Police break up a card game at a Chatham shop
Officers uncovered eight people using a disused shop in Chatham as a makeshift social club on Saturday January 16.
Inside the venue police found a group of men, without face coverings, in the middle of a late night card game.