‘They need to get some manners!’ Irate pensioners are terrorising locals in a popular tourist town after spending hours on the road
- Broome locals reveal they’re being infiltrated with ‘grumpy’ elderly travellers
- They say long trips on the road are leading them to become ‘snappy’ and irate
- Pensioners travel to town in winter months but it struggles to fit them in
Residents of a popular tourist town say they are becoming fed up with ‘grumpy’ older travellers who scream and shout at them after spending hours on the road.
Broome, in WA, is struggling to cope with the number of older road trippers who come to the town while temperatures down south are cooler.
Gina Lincoln, who lives in Broome, said she was screamed at by an elderly female tourist at a carwash last month.
‘This particular woman just started yelling at me over the noise of the carwash,’ Ms Lincoln told ABC News.
Residents of a popular tourist town say they are becoming fed up with ‘grumpy’ older travellers who scream and shout at them after spending hours on the road (stock image)
The resident, who was with her young daughter at the time, was upset that the tourist had accosted her in front of her child.
Alice Best, who also lives in Broome, was confronted over a loaf of bread at one the town’s supermarkets.
‘I could see that there was one left so I was aiming for it and just before I got there this woman pushed my hand away and snatched the loaf from underneath me,’ she said.
While Ms Best said she had let the incident slide, she acknowledged that the elderly travellers were becoming increasingly entitled and agitated.
WA Local Government Association President Lynne Craigie said that while Broome wanted to welcome all travellers, sometimes it wasn’t feasible.
‘People can be a little short, sometimes [the long drives] can lead them to be a bit snappy,’ he said.
The term ‘grey nomad’ is used to describe Australian travellers over the age of 55 who travel full time.
They can cover more than 300 kilometres in a day and in 2016 injected more than $1 billion into the state economy.
On the website dedicated to ‘grey nomad’ travellers, there are six rules that are the campers are advised to follow.
They include keeping the level of noise they make down and alcohol consumption to a considerate amount, waving to passing travelers and using ‘privacy screens’ when drying out underwear.
It also states that keeping a good sense of humour and be ready to lend a hand in the town they are staying.
Broome, in WA, is struggling to cope with the number of older road trippers who come to the town while temperatures down south are cooler (stock image)