Longley ....11.20, Are Your kids out and about in this area ?
If they are ask yourself what they are up to,
Because I have now had enough of the teenage gangs around here.

At 9 tonight there were a gang of 60 outside the co-op at Southey.Drove past, no shopping for me from there

10 minutes ago a gang of about ten, outside my house, smashing the windows of my recovery truck,yet again.
My living is fast going down the drain.

If your child was out and about, ask what they have been up to,never know they may have been outside my house!!!!

Not that they would admit it to you

:rant: over

my teenage son is staying at his girlfriends tonight and she will be staying at ours 2morra night.---theyre a lovely couple--not a bit of trouble never have been--love them soooo much!:clap:
wish they were all like them :(

Mine are in bed!

Originally posted by jan2002
Longley ....11.20, Are Your kids out and about in this area ?
If they are ask yourself what they are up to,
Because I have now had enough of the teenage gangs around here.

At 9 tonight there were a gang of 60 outside the co-op at Southey.Drove past, no shopping for me from there

10 minutes ago a gang of about ten, outside my house, smashing the windows of my recovery truck,yet again.
My living is fast going down the drain.

If your child was out and about, ask what they have been up to,never know they may have been outside my house!!!!

Not that they would admit it to you

:rant: over

Cant the police move them on for you?
Either that or I'd get some CCTV installed and get some video evidence together to make the police get summat done.

Just dont go lamping them though please- I know its hard not to sometimes- they will get their just desserts in the end :)

Sorry to hear about your predicament though.

My son isn't allowed out after 7, he's only 9 and even then he's only allowed to play outside our house, but I can understand your frustation.
I find it intimidating when there's a large gang outside the shops, even more so when it's late at night and more often than not, I too have decided against going into a particular shop when I know in all likelihood that there's going to be a few of them outside. I wait until the morning when I know they shouldn't be there.
Did you involve the police when the windows got smashed on your van?

Wadn't non a MY kids boss! ...No sir, waddnt nona mine! ...er wot kinda car isit neway?

My daughter is 15 and in the house by 9 or she is in the sh@@house... i know it cant be much fun for you jan2002, but try to keep a cool head about these things dont do anything you will regret... even though if it happened to me id like to smack the little bas@@@@s....Cant the police do owt ? what have they said??

good luck mate.

<snip> when there's a large gang outside the shops, even more so when it's late at night and more often than not, I too have decided against going into a particular shop when I know in all likelihood that there's going to be a few of them outside. I wait until the morning when I know they shouldn't be there <snip>

This is what annoys me about 'Yob-ruled Britain' - we shouldn't have to wait until the children go home before we can go to a shop - they really do rule the roost.

Although, I regularly walk around late at night - coming home from places, and going past them at around 2235h/2310h-ish doesn't really bother me - they're usually in bed by then! It's the 1900h brigade by shops and bus stops - I can see the correlation between 'hanging around' bus stops. as at least then, the morons can make a decision at some point of either staying put, or going on a bus somewhere! But why at a shop? - apart from to annoy shoppers and to ask the cigarette-buyer to buy the questionner some too. I notice my local supermarkets aren't places from them - altough, to be fair it is a fairly long walk to our local shops, so I will usually walk into the next district across the road from us, or walk up a faily long hill (about the size of South Road), and there has a huge G.P.O and newsagency, so I can buy my papers and sad computer magazines all at the same time!

Gosh, that post sounds as if it has come from a Mail-reading 'youth-whinger'!

:)

what can the police do when the parents don't give a toss. as long as they've got a few cans in and 20 fags they turn a blind eye to there little cherubs behaviour. i too live at longley and know all too well about the kids round the co op. the little angels often ask me " can you get me a bottle of cider please mister" obviously i refuse only to be called a w **ker as i leave.
sorry to hear about your predicament mate but a percentage of parents would laugh in your face if you knocked on there doors. and the kids know it.

Originally posted by bladebloke
what can the police do when the parents don't give a toss. as long as they've got a few cans in and 20 fags they turn a blind eye to there little cherubs behaviour. i too live at longley and know all too well about the kids round the co op. the little angels often ask me " can you get me a bottle of cider please mister" obviously i refuse only to be called a w **ker as i leave.
sorry to hear about your predicament mate but a percentage of parents would laugh in your face if you knocked on there doors. and the kids know it.

Like the charming lady and her brood of four running amok (all under the age of ten) on the tram yesterday. After the conductor asked her to keep them under control (this didn't seem to be the first time), she got quite outraged that he'd cast aspersions on her little darlings and her parenting skills. After the conductor moved away, the eldest asked,

'Mum, shall I give him the finger?'

Her answer? 'No, he'll only throw us off, the ******', followed by homophobic comments which the kids then kept chanting.

Nice parenting, eh? :|

i am sick to the back teeth of the yobs that are going around on the severnside estate at night ,smashing things down,setting fires to cars that they have nicked and pushed into the woods.harrassing people .the police know who it is but they just pat them on the back and say dont do it again.no wonder people take the law into theie own hands the police are useless

I have a son who is almost 18. He has had more or less the same group of friends throughout his school days (he is now as 6th form college). They have never felt the need to hang aroung the streets, and harrass people. They are a great group of lads, who find plenty to do, have a good laugh. What annoys me is that he doesn't feel safe to walk the couple of streets to his girlfriends house because of intimidation from groups of lads the same ones who've been hanging round the streets intimidating people for the last few years and getting away with it. He was walking there in the day a couple of weeks ago and they were hiding somewhere throwing apples at him! The result is we always end up running him over there and her mum bringing him back.

Same here. Really had enough of them late at night when reasonable have their children in bed.

The little S@*$s keep passing by my house late at night on their way back home to the Manor using the new bridge that was erected a couple of years back. Had one car stolen once and broken into another two times. Had the window broken on the newer one. Chased the scumbags (they had a head start yet somehow I knew where they'd be). Was stopped by a couple of police officers when they gave me the slip again yet all they were bothered about was who I was and not driving several more yards up the road to catch them

Originally posted by jan2002
Longley ....11.20, Are Your kids out and about in this area ?
If they are ask yourself what they are up to,
Because I have now had enough of the teenage gangs around here.



Southey is not Longley and perversely you could be a paedophile looking for easy targets...

:mad:

Heard the police helicopter about half an hour ago - thought he had landed on the roof. Apparantly some kids have broken the fence surrounding Hinde House School and tried to somehow pinch a digger. Little darlings aren't they!:mad:

southey is not longley & perversely you could be a peadophile looking for an easy target

What :confused: on earth do you mean

I know the location of both areas, shopping in one eg co-op, Southey .......living in the other Longley
and the question was Do YOU know where your kids are, meaning do you know where your kids are and what they are up to.

Peadophile ....No definately not :gag:

jan2002

Hey Jan2002, is that your recovery truck parked with smashed up black car on back, always wondered whos that was :hihi:

Am used to seeing the kids outside Co-Op on a nite dont even go near it no more at that time, i'v had a few fights with them in past for no reason when THEY have been drunk, they need a good kicking i think.

And as for the parents, love to know where they live myself and a few people i know require costs paying back to us for broken windows and and other things.

13 year old watching 'East Meets West' on TV

15 year old at his mate's house for 16th birthday party (one of parents dropping him off afterwards)

17 year old flitting between fridge, telly, computer, fridge ad infinitum!!

Yep, all accounted for as usual. :thumbsup:

Both mine are at university, so no doubt they will be at some raving party tanked up on cheap wine or cider, like good little children, Bless there little cotton sock :partyhat: :headbang:

welcome to hell people-heres an example of what our street puts up with.my partner and i were coming back from the shop inn the van,we live on a culdesac in woodthorpe,when we pulled onto the road a car was blocking our path and a couple of youths were walking down the road,one of them ran back up the road and asked if we wanted the car moving,so he got in the car and reversed it down the road(freewheeled) little did we know that they had just stolen the car from across the road.were the police called? no,why? havent got the foggiest.

funny thing is no one ever sees anything but as soon as the police do turn up they are all twitching their curtains-amazing neighbourhood watch scheme we got going on our road.
we had our dog stolen yesterday(got him back)called the police,never turned up so who do we turn to? obviously the police dont have the power to stop these gangs(not blaming police)the law needs to be tougher.vigilante groups may be the answer if nothing is sorted in the near future(not suggesting setting one up)but people may turn to that sort of thing in a bid to deal with these gangs.if you ask me the law protects the criminals.