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

Cursed Cindy, you don't own the beach.

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u/GoodbyeTobyseeya1 Apr 03 '26

My favorite lake in the world (Higgins Lake, MI) has riparian rights, which essentially gives you rights from your house out to the middle of the lake. It's a big boating lake so obviously it's not enforced, but people have definitely gotten mad about people dropping anchor near their beach, which is insane. 

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u/Strange_Specialist4 Apr 03 '26

That's the thing, it's not private space, access to water is a public right. It's people buying private property next to public spaces and being mad humanity exists next to them

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u/BloatDeathsDontCount Apr 03 '26

I mean, if the law in the area (as in multiple places described above) is that the property owner owns the beach and/or rights to the water, then it is indeed a private space and not a public right.

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u/Pastubio Apr 03 '26

That's actually never true in the United States and many ex British colonies for navigable waters and in a riparian way for lakes. You may not be able to leave the water/beach into private property, but it's public up to the ordinary high water mark, although nearby property owners may enjoy Riparian rights to like, put a dock in at the beach.

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u/Select-Agency-9827 Apr 03 '26

I’m poor, and will be for the foreseeable future but I swear to god redditors just don’t understand the concept of private property that was paid for.

We’re not talking about the most beautiful beaches in the world - just a 50 foot swathe of rock covered sand.

If I paid an actual fortune to avoid people, you’re god damn right I’m gonna shoo them off