Edhat Staff
(Photo: Santa Barbara Police Department)
By edhat staff
Santa Barbara Police was dispatched to a reckless driver on East Beach Wednesday morning where they found an SUV stuck in the sand.
Officers discovered the vehicle but the driver had fled the scene before their arrival. Santa Barbara Police state the driver was later contacted as he attempted to report this as a stolen vehicle.
“Santa Barbara City Municipal Code 10.40.090 states ‘Vehicles and horses are forbidden on public beaches’ … P.S. ‘Filing a false police report’ is also a crime,” the Santa Barbara Police Department wrote on their Instagram page.
Their post also included some noteworthy hashtags such as #tellthetruth and #youcanrunbutyoucanthide.
Loved the hashtags!
What’s the difference between a Land Rover and a porcupine? With a porcupine, the pricks are on the outside.
If vehicles are forbidden on public beaches then why oh WHY does the City allow lifeguard vehicles (not being used during an emergencies) to drive on the sand? Are the dogcatchers still driving on the sand? ******* I hope the Animal Control officers stopped that obnoxious and dangerous practice of cruising along in their vehicles on East and West Beaches while looking for dogs, leashed or otherwise. ******* Don’t the kayak rental people drive their vehicles on the sand at West Beach? Isn’t that horrible gargantuan “beach grooming” machine considered a “vehicle?” Let’s play fair: Keep ALL vehicles off our beaches, unless the vehicles are needed in an emergency situation.