This weekend may have seen idiots jumping off beach cliffs in England - but it was Galway that took the crown for stupidity by the sea.
Salthill - the place where some locals usually take a tropical storm warning as an invitation to go for a swim - saw gangs of teens cause serious headaches for the Gardai.
And when multiple units had to respond to the bank holiday idiocy - you had morons jumping around screaming “police brutality” and putting up videos on social media.
Now, nobody is expecting a gang of 40 teens, possibly in the same vicinity as multiple bags of cans, to show good judgement and restraint. It’s not exactly what teenagers are renowned for.
But on the weekend when American cities are burning, where rioters are fighting with paramilitary police forces and people are getting killed, jumping around outside the Centra in Salthill shouting “police brutality” because your mates can’t handle a few cans is not only offensively dumb, it’s insulting.
It’s insulting to the Guards who have to deal with this idiocy and it’s insulting to everybody else who wanted to get to the beach this bank holiday weekend but didn’t want to break the rules.
But you can bet they would have been straight home to mam and dad to get some sympathy.
One of the stranger things about this long, long public health crisis and the lockdown and restrictions around it is how it makes the problems on our streets more visible.
At the very start of it, when regular traffic and crowds basically disappeared off our city streets, the homeless and the addicted suddenly became hugely visible.
My own city centre in Cork - which always has large groups of people drinking in public right through the day (it’s totally legal, apparently) - became an empty, intidimidating place to walk through.
Now that the hot weather has arrived, we’re seeing serious anti-social behaviour around the country and we will see a lot more.
Forget 5kms or two-metres, we have what we get every summer in the same places, intimidating city centres, drunk kids fighting at seaside DART stations in Dublin, our public parks and spaces left in rag order by people with zero respect for their communities.
If only we could tackle anti-social behavior the way we have tackled the coronavirus - if only we took it seriously, in the way the police and authorities in most other European countries do.
This weekend saw apparently sane and educated Irish people make comparisons on social media between the police who have been brutalising entire communities in the US for decades and the Gardai who patrol our streets here.
No-one could seriously suggest we kit our police out with the kind of Space Marine riot-gear - plus rubber bullets, tear-gas and tasers - that you see in the US.
That country, especially under that absolute spanner in the White House, has some serious problems.
But our collection “ah sure what are you gonna do?” attitude towards serious anti-social behaviour here has got to end.
We don’t need rubber bullets or tear-gas, we just need the proper laws, tough sanctions and the kind of determination we have shown with keeping the entire country indoors for ten weeks.
This Week I’m Loving - The sun - long may it continue!
This Week I’m Dreading - Another week of keeping our little girl isolated. It’s so tough on her.
