This is Going to Get Out of Control Very Soon

All beaches in the United States are public, at least from the line of high tide.  The greed-heads are now experimenting with blocking access to them.

Half Moon Bay hotel gets $1.6M fine for blocking beach access

And, on the East Coast:

If there is one philosophy uniting the long string of communities along the Outer Banks, it is that their beaches should be open and free. And accessible.

 But the town of Duck is one of the few communities along the entire coast of North Carolina that provide no public access to the ocean shoreline. The adjacent town of Southern Shores also lacks public beach accesses, effectively cutting off a total of about 12 miles of ocean coastline on the northern Outer Banks to all but private property owners, renters and their guests. 

That might be why the recent arrest of Duck resident Bob Hovey for using what a property owner contends is a private beach access in his neighborhood has ignited a firestorm on social media about private property rights versus public rights to access the beach.

We should note that Hovey is a surfer and a surf photographer of some minor notoriety.  He also lives and owns a business in that town renting watersports equipment.  His [profane and alcohol-impaired] neighbors won't let him have access to the beach that is across the road from his house.

Personally, I would invest in a boat that was easy to beach and bring in a literal boatload of surfers, volleyball players, and, if necessary, screaming children and import wave after wave of them, legally, in order to make my point.  Of course, I almost went all "old marine" on Taylor Swift's security team in Rhode Island when they informed us that the waves were owned by Ms. Swift.  I even invited them to arrest me, assuring them that the next Sunday's sermon, in nearby Providence, would feature their Pharisaic behavior, as well as that of their employer.

Unfortunately, I was not arrested.  Also, I wasn't preaching the next Sunday.