Grumpy old men: Two seniors brawl over beach umbrella during cruise holiday
Footage has surfaced of two elderly tourists brawling on the beach after a spat over an umbrella and spilled beer, while their cruise ship docked at the Caribbean.
The seniors, believed to be from the US, traded blows at the island of Saint Kitts in October, while other beachgoers watched on.
One of the men, wearing a black backpack, became angry when he wasn’t allocated a beach chair and umbrella, which were reportedly advertised as included in the ship’s land excursion, the video uploader said.
“When the group came to the beach there was not enough chairs and umbrellas to go around… The guy with the backpack was upset when he never got what he paid for,” they wrote with the video shared to YouTube last month.
A female beach patrol officer can be heard in the video telling the furious tourist: “I’m so sorry. It has nothing to do with us.”
The man wearing the backpack then confronts another man sitting underneath an umbrella and begins yelling at him.
The other tourists tells the first man to “shut the f*** up. You're f***ing everybody's s**t up. Just shut up and sit down.”
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The pair exchange heated words before the backpack man tips beer on the other tourist, so he retaliates by leaping over the bench and laying into the first man.
“Let me tell you something right now motherf***er,” the man yells, as a woman shouts out: “Tony, no! Stop it!”
The man, now identified as Tony, then grabs the backpack wearer by the head and the two men grapple on the sand.
Patrol officers eventually separate the men.
