LONDON -- We don't own a pub, but we can only image that people having sex in your car park after hours -- and leaving behind their XXXL size underwear -- probably isn't all that great for business.
Louise Fenlon, who runs The Three Arrows Inn in Rochdale, UK, knows this only too well. After finding a large pair of boxers on the grounds of her pub, she decided to share her frustration on Facebook in a spectacularly no-nonsense open letter.
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Here's Fenlon's message in full.
DOGGERS!!! Please be awere my CCTV reaches all off my carpark!! It's bad enough I have to endure the footage. But please do not leave your dirty underpants size XXXL on my grounds!! It no fun picking them up in the morning. But will be very funny posting the footage on Facebook xxx love Louise the landlady xx
(A note for American readers: "doggers" is a British term for people who enjoy having sex in public places, in case you were wondering.)
Fenlon told Mashable she's found a variety of "paraphernalia" in the car park of her pub -- including baby wipes, knickers, and condom wrappers. The Three Arrows Inn is fairly secluded, she explained, and although it isn't a regular occurrence she said it does happen "every now and then".
Fenlon told the Manchester Evening News that the people doing it need to stop and have some respect.
"One time I was going to pick my children up from school, it was 3.20pm, broad daylight, and there was a couple there," she said.
"I knocked on the window and they just looked at me. Later that night they even came in for a meal!"