https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8207283/Livid-local-confronts-stupid-couple-travelled-180-miles-stay-Snowdonia-lockdown.html'How dare you come to this village!': Moment livid local confronts 'stupid' couple who travelled 180 miles to stay in Snowdonia AirBnB during the lockdown
The property's owner says that the couple were kicked out of their Oxford home
A man confronted the pair as they arrived and ranted at them amid the pandemic
Government has ordered people to stay in their primary residence during crisis
By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline
Published: 10:06, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 10:48, 10 April 2020
This is the moment an angry local confronted a couple who drove 180 miles to rent an Airbnb. The man in Snowdonia, Wales, slammed the pair and accused them of breaking coronavirus lockdown rules but the venue's landlady claimed the couple were made homeless by the pandemic. The Government has ordered people to stay in their primary residence as the crisis continues. Footage that surfaced on Facebook shows a man demanding to know why they were staying in the village of Penmachno. The couple try to tell the man that they were renting the property but the local fires back: 'No you're not, you've come up in the lockdown. Coronavirus you know what's going on don't you?'
He adds: 'How dare you come to this village and dare spread this, there's a lot of old people here and sick people. How stupid are you? Do you not watch the news and see people dying out there from this thing?'
Welsh current affairs show Byd ar Bedwar interviewed the Airbnb homeowner, Adelaide Martin, on Wednesday. She said the couple were kicked out of their home in Oxford and approached her for somewhere to stay. She said the man's 'aggressive' outburst had 'shocked' her. She told the show: 'There's a young couple staying there, they come from Oxford, they asked me Friday. They were in a sticky situation, they'd lost their accommodation due to the coronavirus, they'd been chucked out of their accommodation and they went through Airbnb and asked me if they could stay for a month because they literally had nowhere to go.'
The video has garnered more than 17,000 views on Facebook since it surfaced on Monday. One resident even said that the police had been contacted over the incident. Meanwhile, Airbnb today blocked all UK properties from taking new bookings with the only exception being those made by key workers. The blockage remains in place until April 18. Workers in the NHS will be able to stay in Airbnbs for free with other essential workers having their stays subsidised.
