HurricaneOphelia:alarmasrecklessselfie-takersputlivesatrisk

Laura Crossey: Stop and think of your actions. While you decided to do something as idiotic as going near the coast in a hurricane, please think of those volunteers of the RNLI who put their lives at risk to rescue you. They have families, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and children. Because of your choice, they too might not get home.

Linda Watson: My thoughts exactly when I was watching the news. Mel McCaughey: Let natural selection run its course. We would live in a better society without these morons.

Laura Crossey: I agree. It’s the selfless people who would go to rescue them I feel for. Total respect to the RNLI.

Kyle Montgomery: To think that people lost their lives in the hurricane and morons are putting their lives in danger just for the fun of it. Gavin Nixon: They should have been ordered down and arrested for putting emergency services’ lives at risk. A BBC reporter admitted live on-air she and her crew were ordered to stop filming on a headland in west Wales for the same reason. No excuse for such idiocy. Rather worse than carrying a puerile placard at a Gay Pride march, for example (wrong though that was).

Sarah Ralph: Selfish behaviour from a pair of idiots. There should be consequences when people bring others into unnecessary harm.

Jennifer McClatchey: Would serve them right to have fallen in. Why should the Coastguard risk their lives for stupidity?

Margo Martin: You can’t fix stupid people. People like this, who may need to be rescued, should be billed with the cost of the rescue. Not only are they putting other lives at risk, they are also using up much-needed financial resources that keep the RNLI afloat.

Fra Quinn: I’m all for ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’, but this is a whole new level of stupidity.

Joey Lyttle: Who in their right mind would do something so stupid and not only put themselves at risk, but the emergency services? I actually can’t believe middle-aged adults are doing it too.