Show up with a posse of kooks to surf hurricane swell.
Rhode Island surfers wait all year for hurricane swell, and when a good one finally shows up, so do lots of out-of-staters. What really pisses us off is when non-locals roll up in big groups and act like they own the waves, or worse, are such kooks they put the rest of the line-up in danger.
Tear down a cute beach cottage and rebuild it as a mansion.
Building a three-story monstrosity as your vacation home adversely changes the entire feel of our quaint beach towns. You are never there, so why do you need it to be so big?
