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Wrexham Police try desperate measures
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It's just been announced on the news that the police in my town, Wrexham, are going to be giving out lollies to clubbers to try and stop violence. Apparently giving out things like swizzles lollies will take their mind of violence and fighting.
Can you really see this happening? I'd be ineterested to see peoples opinions on the whole idea.
My personal opinion is that the police will end up being laughed at, and that it probably won't reduce violence.
Can you really see this happening? I'd be ineterested to see peoples opinions on the whole idea.
My personal opinion is that the police will end up being laughed at, and that it probably won't reduce violence.
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Actually that's the weird thing. I did the night shift on security one year at a festival (you can just imagine what that can be like) basically, we just wanted these teenagers to sod off and go to bed.,(was a family thing, just for the record), so for the first few nights we spend hours chasing them round the site until they give in.
Come the fourth night, it's raining, it's cold, all they want is to sit under the marquee by the food court and talk. Which doesn't sound too unreasonable, but all the catering types are trying to sleep nearby. So us nasty security guards break into one of the venues and start handing out coffee, tea and hot choclate for free. Within an hour, and three hours before any previous night, everything was quiet.
Deal is, these teenagers were so freaked that we were just giving things out they didn't really know how to react. They became docile little lambs, then toodled off to bed. Job done.
I can see this having a chance at working, simply because of the shock of being given something for no reason.
How many times have you been more concerned with something you're eating than what's going on around you?
I think it might work, it'll be interesting to see the results. And if it doesn't, it's hardly an expensive experiment.
I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention, I have a lolly. :thumb:
Hello you. Not seen you around here for quite some time, I thought you'd left. Nice to see you returning though.
I mainly stay here in politics tho.
if you give them enough tea and coffee and sugar over a couple of days they will get so hyper they will tire themselves out
That probably explains it. I rarely go into polotics. Mainly cause I know sweet fuck all about it, and you have to really work to back your opinion up in this forum.
I don't understand why everyone is so scared of us in here. We're all harmless really.
Probably won't give lollies to homosexuals, or rockers knowing what they're like around here.
Don't see how the plan will work, they'll only become evebn more of a laughing stock. Maybe they'll put sedatives in the lollypops so they can go back to their doughnuts.
We're only harmless if you have 40 independant sources for your opinon, none of them are allowed to be from opinon pages either, or we let loose our pack of wild rabid dogs.
Oh yeh
The classical music thing is being trialled outside a shop in Bristol which has a lot of kids loitering. The kids however cut the speaker cable.
Classic.