A local man was left laughing after spotting three cars stranded on a Cornish beach, saying “idiot summer” has begun.

Connor Duffy, 33, a chef from Newquay, Cornwall, was baffled after spotting the vehicles drive onto Towan Beach.

Thousands of tourists visit the area every year, but locals aren’t always best pleased with how they treat their town.

Despite there being plenty of parking spots and car parks around Newquay, the trio decided to drive their cars right onto the beach – and soon needed assistance.

“They all drove down together... didn’t look like they knew each other as they were all separate cars,” Connor, from Newquay, told Jam Press.

“They then had to get two RNLI trucks to leave their posts of lifeguarding to come and sort them out.

“They had to be pulled out by locals as no tractors could be called in.

“Then they had to clear the ramp as they each took turns at speeding up the beach and onto the ramp without getting stuck again.

“Lifeguards tried to sort it as quickly as possible, and did so.”

Connor said a crowd soon gathered and cheered when the cars were finally removed from the deep sand and taken up the ramp.

He added: “Just shows common sense isn’t really that common.

“Happens at least once a week now due to tourists not reading the signs and thinking that they are fine to do so.

“It’s the same with the bins on the beaches, tourists put still-burning coals in the bin and set it on fire.

“Fire engines are down all the time over the summer because people don’t know how to go to the beach, safely.

“Shame really.

“But this was funnier to watch than anything too serious.

“Some say entitled people, but it was just a bunch of silly people who don’t think very hard.”

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