Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
PARK & SNIDE..
Caravan site boss in rant over ‘unwashed riff-raff’
OUTBURST Mr Scantlebury
A HOLIDAY park boss has been dubbed Basil Fawlty after he blasted visitors as “unwashed riff-raff”.
Aaron Scantlebury, 56, launched a rant about caravans on the site being sublet to “Addams families”.
He said: “We are seeing increasing numbers of sublet guests who have never seen hills, beaches, a job, or a bath for that matter, in some time.
“You will have no doubt seen them pushing their buggies with a 2-stone child of 10 sat in it, being pushed by nana in her paper-thin leggings with at least three of the 10 children walking in the road while the adults are concentrating on not spilling a drop of Fosters.”
Mr Scantlebury, boss of Sunnyvale Caravan Park, Kinmel Bay, North Wales, said he made the “tongue
They have never seen hills, a job, or bath for some time AARON SCANTLEBURY ON SUBLET PARK GUESTS
in-cheek” comments on a private page for van owners.
But one person said: “Not everyone has the same advantages in their lives.
“It doesn’t make them any less deserving of respect.” Another said: “He’s a modern day Basil Fawlty.” But
Mr Scantlebury said yesterday: “We are a quiet park with no nightclubs or arcades and residents want to keep it that way.
“It’s very rare that we get that type of visitor here. But when they do come they cause minor anti-social behaviour and require intervention by our security.”