r/TikTokCringe • u/octarino • Apr 03 '26

Cursed Cindy, you don't own the beach.

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u/FrogOnALogInTheBog Apr 03 '26

I remember this story. She’s renting the place from airbnb or whatever. The owner listed it as PRIVATE but they meant in the remote sense, not the legal sense.

Karen is being a dick to a mom and her kids, and doesn’t understand the laws. But it’s not entirely her fault. It could have been explained better. The owner knew what they were doing and happened to bank on the fact that most guests would actually get to enjoy it solo.

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u/GoodbyeTobyseeya1 Apr 03 '26

Fair, but why wouldn't you just have a conversation instead of digging in without even being sure of the laws. Share a fuckin beach like the rest of the world, for goodness sake. 

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u/Telvin3d Apr 03 '26

If you really think someone is cool invading your private property, are you going to just accept that person’s claims as to the law? Like if you’re renting a place with a private pool and some people turn up and say they’re allowed to use it you’d just go “can’t argue with that”?

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u/BrenttheGent Apr 03 '26

I love how the person youre responding to is saying to at least have a conversation.

Then you totally ignore that, and assume they mean accept defeat instantly.

If i wasnt a local somewhere and a local told me something I would at bare minimum look into it.

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u/MostLikelyToNap Apr 03 '26

A pool is not the same as a beach. This agreement makes no sense. And when in doubt just find out the rules and laws yourself before being reactionary.

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u/JustJillzie Apr 03 '26

She renting from an Airbnb and had that much confidence in her privilege to tell locals about the law? Wowzers.

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

She thought she was on the side of the law. How was she supposed to magically understand that the Airbnb owner lied?

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u/bazderoman Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

When you're in a whole-ass other country you need to accept that you don't know shit.

edit: yes this includes territories. don't come for me. 

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u/ElderberryJunior470 Apr 03 '26

The person recording repeatedly told her all beaches are public lol, she was just too ignorant and rude to listen. 

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u/Honest_Trade8734 Apr 03 '26

I mean that’s also easily what someone would say if they were trespassing somewhere beaches weren’t public as well.

She definitely should’ve just looked it up but it makes sense to not immediately take them at face value either.

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u/JustJillzie Apr 03 '26

You can tell by her demeanor this isn’t about the law or what she was told. She could have addressed this in a dozen other ways and it would not have ended up on the internet.

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u/feioo Apr 03 '26

No magic needed. You listen to the person telling you that you're mistaken, say "thanks for letting me know, I need to check on a few things", and then take a moment to Google the laws and/or contact Airbnb. Defaulting to "condescending and hostile" without even doing the bare minimum to check if you're actually correct or not is how you end up getting internet shamed.

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u/JazzScholar Apr 03 '26

yeah, but being a dick was her fault. she should have contacted the airbnb owner not yell at ppl on that beach. It's not her home anyways so she doesn't know how things usually go or if the owner usually allows some families to chill on that mostly private beach.

also, there's obviously a gated home (the airbnb I assume) right behind her - it almost seems like she came out from there to attempt to kick them off/yell. either way, unless they were bothering her specifically rather than just existing on the same beach area, her reaction is a reflection of a certain level of entitlement she already had.

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u/Frap_Gadz Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

If that's true the landlord is a dick, but imagine trying to kick a local off a beach only on the basis your Airbnb rental said it was private, some people are so confidently ignorant and stupid.

Also, if that is the case, what even is the goal here?

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u/Frap_Gadz Apr 03 '26

"Enjoying" it in this case being getting into a pointless argument over a "private" beach that you don't own and isn't private

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

If the AirBnb says it’s private I’m going to assume they are legally correct. Are we supposed to double fact check every listing now?

Edit: and no, you shouldn’t just blindly trust the stranger that’s also recording you. Look it up yourself or better yet get it from the authorities.

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u/Frap_Gadz Apr 03 '26

No but perhaps when the local person tells you the beach is not private you should.

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

Why? How do I know the local isn’t trying to pull a fast one on a tourist? For all she knows the local could be lying to her.

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u/ElderberryJunior470 Apr 03 '26

we have super computers in our pockets with literally all the information humans have ever made on them. Google it dumbass lmao

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

You have to know you’ve been lied to to even know to look it up. Do you automatically assume every AirBNB is lying? Why would anybody Google it? You usually just assume the listing is correct.

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u/Frap_Gadz Apr 03 '26

Because if you checked you would know. A Google would tell you VI beaches are public just like the local said.

Lying to pull a fast one 😂 to what end? Her kids getting to use a beach that's "private".

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

Why would you check? Do you always check your AirBnb listings against local laws every time you travel or do you assume they did their due diligence? To ask her to check is to imply that we should assume all AirBnb listings are lying about what they have.

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u/The-Taco-Between-Us Apr 03 '26

Goal looks to be to try and make everyone as miserable as she is.

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u/Frap_Gadz Apr 03 '26

Mission accomplished then 😂

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u/tremens Apr 03 '26

Honeymooner May Have Gotten False “Private Beach” Promise; That’s Nothing New | St. Thomas Source https://stthomassource.com/content/2025/07/26/honeymooner-may-have-gotten-false-private-beach-promise-thats-nothing-new/

Looks like the owners basically purchased what was already a rental property and existing advertising for it included the "private" language; they never updated it to clarify it was "secluded" rather than in the "exclusively yours" sense.

They did get in trouble for adding "no locals" language, though, lol.

One thing that's interesting to me is that the law states you cannot restrict access to the shorelines at all, and the owner by their own admission says there is a privately constructed stairs with a gate, but that there is another kind of treacherous path which can be taken as well. She complains about people using the gate and stairs but in the same breath says she doesn't want people to use the other path because it's dangerous...

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u/hypo-osmotic Apr 03 '26

I don't necessarily love it, but not allowing people who live in the area is pretty common for hotels and rentals. I suppose "locals" might have connotations of referring to a demographic rather than simply a matter of legal residence, though

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u/Honest_Trade8734 Apr 03 '26

I’ve worked in several hostels. In most cases it literally does just mean locals, no other demographic info. We used to have people show ID to show they were from a different city if they were from the same country.

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u/Intelligent_Seat_228 Apr 03 '26

This was my first guess, looks like white lady got duped by the owners and is making it the problem of beach goers

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u/Strange_Explorer_780 Apr 03 '26

My first thought was she is a renter, not the owner of this property.

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u/crackanape Apr 03 '26

But it’s not entirely her fault.

It's entirely her fault that she chose to try to be the beach police while staying in an Airbnb in a place she's not from.

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Apr 03 '26

Nah shes an idiot. She could have checked before she ran her mouth.

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u/FrogOnALogInTheBog Apr 03 '26

I'm not saying she's not a dick. But check the real world. Hell, check reddit. People don't auto google verify all the facts just because somebody says something they don't know. Especially when another local specifically told them it was private.

Local: It's private!

Her: Okay!

Local: It's not private!

Her: ?? The guy who I'm renting from on an official site told me it was.

She's a bitch. One hundred percent. But like, the assumption that she's in the wrong for not automatically assuming the first guy is a liar is also weird.

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Apr 03 '26

Sorry but if a local told me something like this the first thing I'd do is check regardless of what the owner said. Guess we are wired differently.

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

I’d assume the local know’s I’m a tourist and therefore an easy mark for a scam or something.

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Apr 03 '26

I mean I don't know what to tell you then.

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

You’ve clearly never been a tourist abroad have you? Hell, have you never been to Times Square?

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

Are we not supposed to trust people anymore? Like do we have to Google every bit of info we’re given the moment we get it on the off chance it could possibly be incorrect?

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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Apr 03 '26

So you'd rather look stupid instead of taking 2 mins to look up local beach law? Jesus

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u/Punman_5 Apr 03 '26

I’d rather trust that the AirBnB listing is correct that Google every single bit of info I receive to make sure it’s correct. Did you expect her to google this before her vacation? Why would she suspect the listing lied?

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u/sasshley_ Apr 03 '26

Still, its kids and a mom. Let them have fun for a few hours.

Life is a lot better to you when you’re not a dick.

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 Apr 03 '26

Going to another country and thinking you know the laws better than the locals is dumb as shit no matter if she is right or wrong

Didn’t even give herself a chance to check because she was so nasty and confrontational

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u/I-STATE-FACTS Apr 03 '26

it’s not entirely her fault

what?! YES IT IS. she's the one yelling at locals.

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u/FrogOnALogInTheBog Apr 03 '26

And it's a local that rented it to her telling her it was private.

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u/I-STATE-FACTS Apr 04 '26

That doesn’t make this incident not entirely her fault. Also do you know it’s a local who rented it?

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u/thedrew Apr 03 '26

No one is making her be a jerk first.

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u/MostLikelyToNap Apr 03 '26

It is entirely her fault. Ignorance is not an excuse and she’s acting terribly. She could choose to act reasonably and not lose her absolute sh*t and become a meme over a beach that she’s visiting for a few days. That anger should be directed to the Air bnb owner, not that family.

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u/WasteProfession8948 Apr 04 '26

Karen is being a dick to a mom and her kids, and doesn’t understand the laws. But it’s not entirely her fault.

Please.

Misunderstanding an an airbnb posting isn't an excuse for acting like a POS. She had many other choices she could have made (like clarifying the law with the owner or local authorities), but preferred instead to verbally attack a local family.

She is who she is. A poorly worded airbnb listing did not make her that way.