Threatening behaviour in Calheta

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News
On June 16 (corpus christi day), at 20:32, my wife and I were confronted by two heavily intoxicated individuals while loading groceries into our car. This was on a small car park over the road from Marina of Calheta.
We’ve been picked on for no apparent reason, apart from those two liking or disliking our car.
So I just wanted to ask anyone who knows these two persons to send them a clear message: their behaviour made us feel violated and threatened that evening.
These 2 may or may not be local to Calheta, and might have just been visiting as it was a Bank Holiday, but their behaviour was unacceptable, the couple caught these images.

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22 Responses

  2. Omg hope this is a one off! So sad for the couple to feel threatened on this beautiful island. This is bad press for MADEIRA! This is not typical behaviour in our experience, locals always been friendly and helpful. We moved here to escape anti social behaviour.

  3. In 2015, everyone was friendly and kind. Since then, negative experiences have multiplied year by year. There are more and more locals who experience their dissatisfaction with their fate in this way.
    The joy of life is dying in the locals. They simply deteriorated for the rest of the world.
    Sad thing.

    1. I miss the times when young locals would dive to get 1 penny from the sea bottom to the joy of tourists sitting by the sea enjoying poverty. Also the times when young boys and girls in Camara de Lobos were invited by some tourists to visit their hotel rooms… Gosh, locals are really loosing their joy.

      1. You’re stupid.
        I appreciate the Portuguese people even without pennies. I go there because it’s good to be among them.
        The article above is about hospitality. If someone is unfair to their guest, they will do serious harm to their own people.

  4. Why did you not go to the police station just down the road from where you where you have photos and can save someone else from the same experience
    Unfortunately like anywhere else in the world on a major public holiday you get drunks
    This is not paradise we are not living in 1920 it is a real functioning place with real people some good some bad

  5. As you have photographs I would still report it to the police and it is possible they may be known.

  6. Here’s a starting point: a proliferation of discount airlines eventually bring big ticket problems.

    1. Those are likely locals. But that’s something exceptional, they don’t represent the rest of the community.

    2. Matt, I see two drunken yobs. You see two people who who have flown in by Easy Jet, Ryan Air, Whiz or Jet2. From what the author writes,

      “These 2 may or may not be local to Calheta, and might have just been visiting as it was a Bank Holiday, ”

      You don’t think they may be locals?

  7. Is that THEIR car they are standing by? You should have got the registration and description of the vehicle and called the police. They, at least could have been pulled for in charge of a vehicle while intoxicated.

  8. Is there a cronological order in the photo sequence? In the first photo they seem to be having a chat by their car. Why were they being filmed or being taken photos of? Or was that afterwards?

  9. A sad state of affairs. We’ve been visiting Madeira for nearly 20 tears and have never experienced anything approaching this unpleasant behaviour.

  10. This car, glossy driver’s door, sun-burned others, was parked this afternoon at Arco da Calheta, at the small bar next to Pneus Do Arco at the end of Caminho Velho. So they are likely some local drunkards.

  12. … We were confronted ? In what way ?? (no details) one sided story !! The “Victims” may have escalated the situation (especially by pointing the camera/phone at drunk men) it may have been possible to Diffuse the situation, did they try ?? ,, If they were bieng threatened? which we don’t know? Why not walk away and return later or with help ?? …

    1. Brave talk, Russel. It seems to me that two, young, well built, half drunk, yobs, carrying beer bottles mouthing off at the author and his wife might have caused them to feel violated or threatened. It would me. Why not walk away, they have a car. Why should they ? You want them to leave the the car to be vandalised ? I think he was brave to get close up pictures and hope he handed them over to the Police. As to the one sided story, I really would like to hear the other side.
      “Well we’d been on the beer all day and thought it would be fun to take the urine out of this old geezer and his missus. Shake em up a bit.,” quite probably in Portuguese.

  13. … OK !! ,, It was So Serious, So shook up, So affected by it, rather than report it to the Police they posted about it on Facebook (2 Days Later) ?? …

    1. Are there two or four baddies in this story? Perhaps, even probably, they were an elderly couple who just wanted a quiet life, with no hassle, didn’t want to go to the police for fear of recrimination. Commenting on the blog as a way of warning others. Suddenly they are harangued for not doing their public duty.

  14. Hah couple of clowns. They would’ve got what they deserve if I was the victim.

  15. Sodden clods are not just native to the UK and the US. Public holidays where open carry is allowed brings out the best of festive moods in some and the worst behavior in others. These two half baked cakes appear to be disheveled, drunk slobs with no girlfriends in tow. Probably mad at the world…typical bullies.

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