Locals were left fuming when they found a letter washed up on a beach in a bottle insulting English tourists and Welsh people.
The offensive message was discovered on Pwllheli beach in North Wales.
In scrawled handwriting, believed to have been by a child, it insults English tourists and uses a derogatory term against Welsh people.
The letter was later posted online, attracting plenty of attention, NorthWalesLive reports.
One unimpressed onlooker said: “I'm English and lived for a number of years in North Wales and never ever experienced hostility .
“The people were lovely.”
Another added: “It's over tourism and holiday lets amongst local housing causing the aggression, visitors filling bins and not recycling.
“Blocking streets with large cars and generally ruining the town's. And don't say we need their money, 90% of the locals pay massive council tax to support tourism and get nothing back.”
One more said :”As an Englishman who has lived in beautiful North Wales for the last few years, I find this rather funny if a tad puerile.”
Last year a man was stunned when a bottle he threw out to sea as a six-year-old returned to him more than two decades later.
Alex Melling said he was scrolling through a local community Facebook group when a mention of his old childhood address caught his eye.
Alex, who is now 30, said he scrolled back up and then saw his name mentioned in a post that he "just could not quite believe."
According to the Manchester Evening News , the post was written by a man called Rex Winter, who claimed he was trying to track down an Alex at that address after his son and daughter had discovered a message in a bottle in a remote bay in Scotland.
The post read - 'Help with a Message in a Bottle:
"This summer my kids found a message in a bottle on a remote beach in the west of Scotland. It seemed to be old, and the message inside appeared to have been written by a child.
"The message inside was from somebody called Alex, (no surname given) who gave an address of 27 Gilbert Street, Hindley.”
Alex said: “I will be keeping the bottle forever now with some other keepsakes. I can't quite believe it."
