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British adults 'fear youngsters'
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I guess they're not that far off the truth. With the amount of these little fuckers brandishing all manner of weapons and whatnot, I'm not surprised people feel intimidated by them.
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I guess they're not that far off the truth. With the amount of these little fuckers brandishing all manner of weapons and whatnot, I'm not surprised people feel intimidated by them.
Thoughts?
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"The demonisation of children and young people in some sections of the media and when politicians refer to youngsters as yobs - that breeds the actual fear."
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I think you're exagerrating a little bit.
One case makes you fear kids?
If more people stood up for themselves, less people would be intimidated, or people would be less intimidated.
Perhaps, in as much as I've never had any problems from anyone in the streets. However, I do read the papers and watch the news, and, whilst they only report the negative stuff (obviously), it does seem like this is more than an isolated incident or two.
British adults fear youngsters? Good. They're ignorant enough to judge people and make assumptions about people based on their age, they deserve to live in fear.
Word.
The problem is probably overblown though. In Essex here though, it is a fucking problem and a half. You are forever reading of occurances in the paper. You go other places though and it isn't half as bad!
Vigilante groups will start if something isn't done. And we all know where than can lead...
Largely no, of course not, but there does seem to be a fairly active minority around where I work which does have a history of violent muggings, fights, carrying knives and the like. They just dont seem to care about anything or anyone.
There has been more than an isolated incident of young people fighting back with guns, knives and bats after people have stood up to them, and that is why people are afraid. 9 kids out of 10 won't beat you up, but there are enough victims in the news to make you realise that there is a risk, and its easier to just walk to the next bus stop than get the kids to stop smashing up the stop by your house.
It isn't even just violence- how many times have you seen it that the old lady who complains about the kids kicking a football against her gates gets her windows egged and floured every weekend? How many times have you seen it that the man who reports the kids smashing up the bus shelter gets obscene graffiti written about him all across the village?
People don't want to get involved because kids can, do and will retaliate, and its very rarely worth the effort.
I wish I lived in the place you live...
It happens a lot, not every time, but its not an uncommon reaction. I've seen it loads, it happened to my parents after they complained about the shits on our street who put our car window through with a football.
Especially as we're coming up to Halloween, it gets worse. And in my job before now I've dealt with cases of people having their houses attacked and having things thrown at them every time they leave the house simply because their child was disabled.
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We used to hang aound on a memorial on our village green. Of course we made a bit of noise but nothing to deserve the abuse we got by older villagers.
My parents used to phone calls complaining that I shoudn't be 'loitering' around with others beause we're seen as a nuisance, and we disrupt the traquillity of the village ...or some crap similar. We never vandalised anything, though we did drink, smoke and make a bit of noise.
In the end we just told the silly old cunts to go fuck themselves.
They all group up (atleast 50 per group) smash shop windows, smash & set light to buses, run cars of the road then steal them, rape and beat up women, randomly attack people which they might also stab or shoot them if they felt like it. The police raided one of the gang members house and found a small arsenal of guns and knifes.
The list goes on, and they are still in school! People are feeling threatened by kids, because its only kids that are doing all this damage! The police cant do much and they just advice people to stay away from certain parts because of the gangs.
I wished I lived near you im with stupid.
I don't mind kids hanging around, and I don't think people should be scared of that, but when kids start vandalising things I can see why people don't want to get involved and don't want to be near it.
I don't think kids have got worse, and I do think the violence is an exception, but it's an exception that seems to be getting more common in certain parts of the country (usually areas full of poor immigrants, it has to be said).
If young people rang up or wrote to their local papers/national papers, it could help them. Sadly it's mainly older people who do so. It's hard for papers to give youngsters a fair voice when you can't contact them.
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Exactly. Without any where to go or anything to do, what do people expect? Kids want to socialise outside school too so local areas such as parks, outside shops are obvious spots when there's nothign else ...for us it was the village green.
I lost count of the amount of times I was told by silly old fuckers that I should be doing my homework or doing something more constructive. Fuck em.
I can understand why people are afraid of people who are committing vandalism or otherwise being anti-social, though, I wouldn't want to stand up to them either. It happens all too often where the people who wouldn't think twice about kicking in a bus shelter wouldn't think twice about kicking in your car and your windows either, and then there are the news stories of people being beaten and stabbed too.
I avoid saying things when I see people doing that because the risk isn't worth it, and that's why only 30% of people would stand up to some kids destroying the area. It isn't worth getting involved and getting the aggro, getting spat at, getting your windows egged. And that does happen, far more often than it should and more often than it used to.
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Though it seems many people consider kids hanging around together and making a bit of noise anti scoial.
We also used to get abuse because we hung around in the kiddies playground at the local rec. OK that would be a problem if kiddies wanted to use the playground at 7 or 8 in the evening but they didn't, it was almost alwayts empty.
Eventually he nicked off, tired of waiting for me to leave so he could snap the lock open i imagine, and i relaxed. Incidentally, when I came home a few hours later, the bike was gone and the lock was shattered.
I'm not really all that alarmist, but when you know one 14yr old is carrying a screwdriver up his sleeve, you wonder if they all are...
ETA: Saying that we had exactly the same "type" of kid at the tournament I played this weekend just gone, they all turned out to be lovely kids, really great fun.