Just had a nasty encounter with some little brats hanging around at the car park entrance of Tescos on Infirmary road. A group of about 14 of them were sitting or standing around the Tescos sign. They were all betwwen 13 and 16. I was riding out of the car park on my bike and one of them ran up to the back of my bike and tried to push me off it.

I have no idea if they intended to steal the bike, or kick the crap out of me - thankfully I got away before anything else happened.

I haven't contacted the police because I can't provide any descriptions and I don't want to sit for an hour at West Bar police station to wait to make a statement, but I have written a letter to Tescos asking them to please keep these scumbags off their premises.

Be careful if you're walking or cycling on your own around that area.

ptigga, you really should report this to the police! You could have been hurt, and the next person might not be so lucky.

Kristian is right (as usual)... even if it gets the patrol car to do a few drive pasts, then it could discourage the little scroats from congregating. Also, Tesco may have cameras in the car parks - you never know when you're on CCTV nowadays!

I would at least call the Manager of Tesco's so he/she is aware and can request that the security staff move them on....it is very intimidating to customers anyway so in their best interests to act!!!

Sorry to hear about it.....thank goodness you managed to pedal away fast...!!

:thumbsup:

every super market gets a gang of chavs outside them and i doubt they can get rid of them (its not good for business)... atleast try the police it could stop them from succeeding next time.

and a quick call out to all ma bruvaz!
"big up 'da Morrison Massive" ughhhh lol

watch sky 1 now! u'll see they type of scum being intervied now

Originally posted by Kristian
ptigga, you really should report this to the police! You could have been hurt, and the next person might not be so lucky.

Got put on hold for 5 minutes when I phoned the police just now. I'm not convinced that they could do anything about it anyway.

ABSO's all round! :clap: *cough cough*

Originally posted by Craigy
ABSO's all round! :clap: *cough cough*

Sure - great idea - but you have to identify the little bleeders first.

Police Officer: OK, Hands up - which one of you lot tried to push that guy off his bike?

Kids: [blank vacant stare]

Maybe you could do a drive-by tomorrow and note some descriptions. I know it's not necessarily the same kids, but eh, they shouldn't be hanging round supermarket car parks!

hehe ABSO them all :thumbsup: cant go wrong...

no seriously.. there would have been some cctv im sure, if the police turned up im sure the manager wouldnt make them wait 5 min before helping them out.
I work at wynsors accross the road so i kno all about the yob problem.

Maybe Tesco like to keep them at the edge of the car park so they aren't in the shop, pinching apples and things.

:( seems a bit of a daft idea as they will loose customers, which will cost them alot more than a few apples......

Same time same place tomorrow, then?
Go back with a baseball bat.
The Police will come then, but only because these poor, misunderstood, socio-economically deprived,
failed-by-the-comprehensive-system, children of inbred, paternally ignorant amoeba will have called 999 on their latest mobile phones.
:D

living near the aformentioned place and being of the age that they love to have a go at, I probably know them

They wouldn't do serious damage to you, I've had scuffs with similar (or probably the same ) people and theyre mostly skinny underfed alcoholics

It does annoy me, because it makes my area look like a ****hole.

they usually keep themselves to themselves down by the offy that serves them all (fecking silly owners tbh)

Originally posted by ptigga
Got put on hold for 5 minutes when I phoned the police just now. I'm not convinced that they could do anything about it anyway.

Ah, but the police could be building up a dossier of information on anti-social behaviour in this area, and this may give them some intelligence on where to focus their attention. Then again, maybe not.

It does seem to be getting worse for this type of behaviour around upperthorpe, crookes.
I used to feel safe walking round to get my shopping, but now I am allways very wary of my bag and purse infact the path up behind the shop that leads to the road above is getting very scary these days. There allways seems to be a few teenagers with thier socks pulled over the tracksuit bottoms and big gold rings hanging around

I use TESCO Infirmary Road, as I used Safeway before. I was approached by one of these youths that had a sponser form and was approaching shoppers asking for sponser money. He approached me and handed me the form. I think it was probably his third or fourth form, a list of 25 approx spaces of which I was in the middle. most people had given a pound although there was a couple of fivers. He asked for the sponser money there and then.

It was obviously a home made computer generated form. I refused to 'sponser' him. He went over to another arriving shopper.

I am not sure but I would imagine that he had made £100 when he approached me.

So I say, beware if this happens to you, in TESCOs carpark or elsewhere.

Originally posted by Feargal
Maybe you could do a drive-by tomorrow and note some descriptions. I know it's not necessarily the same kids, but eh, they shouldn't be hanging round supermarket car parks!


What an absolutely rediculous comment to make. If the police followed this idea non of us would be safe from being locked up, law abiding or not.

Ptigga, I hope you have got over your fright and you have managed to report the incident.

Contrary to what many people think, groups of young people hanging around shops is not an offence. Lets try and get this into perspective.

Sorry for your confusion Sanman, but I was actually joking!

the police in the area know all about these kids and the offending off licence. Please report the incident - as far as I know they are already patrolling the area.

I have mixed opinions on the off license. It's very useful having one so close (I really don't like buying alcohol from big supermarkets, when you can fund the local economy) - and the owners are very friendly - they also own two other shops adjacent, and are bringing in some much needed revenue to the area, but I wish they weren't so leniant with their selling of booze.

think i know what kids you are talking about - mixed boys and girls group? about 14/15?

if it is them the police probably already know about it. they basically just think they are hard they will move on soon they have temporary spots because they get moved on alot.

my friend who is a youth worker had a chat to them they said they basically want somewhere to go.
i heard from her one of them had been talked to by the police this evening for some vandalism

amiee

Wonder if its the same bunch who tricked thier way into an old ladys home at the bottom of burgoyne road and stole her money. one tall youth distracted her at the door whilst another one jumped over the back and took her purse.

Some of these 'so called' youths just punched me and videoed it on their phone - have they not got something better to do with their time than to capture low quality images of their friends hitting somebody and running away before I have a chance to kick his butt?

Probably just as well he ran off or they'd probably have gone straight to the Police with their (carefully edited) video...

Originally posted by Weapon_X
Some of these 'so called' youths just punched me and videoed it on their phone - have they not got something better to do with their time than to capture low quality images of their friends hitting somebody and running away before I have a chance to kick his butt?
I just read of the latest Richard-Head craze called "Happy Slapping" in Yesterdays paper.

Childrens campaigner KIDSCAPE has bitterly attacked a new teenage craze of 'happy slapping'
The evil pastime involve youths punching innocent victims while they film it on 3G mobile phones. Which is then distributed among the attackers.

It is infact illegal and is spreading from the streets into schools as schools' policies are allowing mobile phones.

"Our advice to victims is to report it immediately."
One video clip entitled 'bitch-slap' shows a youth approaching a woman at a bus stop & punching her in the face.
In 'Knockout Punch', a group of boys in school uniform floor another lad with a single blow Edited down

I despair. I really do.

I agree Don.

When one reads of the forthcoming apocalypse in the book of Revelation, I imagine a world going to war with nation turning against nation, neighbour against neighbour.

Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that the words were attributed to the youth of today slapping innocent people in the face (and capturing the stunt on video), ransacking peoples' homes, spraying grafitti on any surface available and attacking and subsequently killing a chinese shop-owner in a group of 14 or so with metal poles and huge branches (in Wigan IIRC).

Despair Don? One wonders if we've bred a generation that has been vomited direct from the gates of Hell.