"I was astonished to see one person actually standing on a stepladder right under the approach lights on the road side. Okay, he still wasn't nearly high enough to be at risk but he would obviously be in no position to make a swift exit if an aircraft really did come in way too low. Why would one need to be on a ladder in any case? Bizarre!"
A few years ago, on arrivals day, the Police had to move a nutter who was on a step ladder in the middle of the A15 - lorries passing either side! They asked that the RAF prevent the spotters from leaving the viewing enclosure once they had parked up, to which we pointed out that we were not a prisoner of war camp and physically could not stop them. The next year we did not issue pass outs, but the spotters were always prepared to park their cars in the enclosure for a fiver, walk out of the enclosure to stand under the approach, then pay another pound to pick up their car at the end of the day.