I am looking for people to interview about anti social behaviour from young people in Sheffield.
I am in the final year of my degree and need to produce a short television piece about the problems residents have in Sheffield with things like graffiti, theft and groups of young kids hanging around.
If you have had any experience with these kind of problems and would like to talk on camera about them for ten minutes or so please e-mail me at joa01smg@shef.ac.uk.
Plus if anyone knows the Totley woman who had a letter published in last Fridays Star about recruiting problem youths into the army I would really like to talk to her

Cheers
stuart

lol u shud ask around here 4 porblem youths am i rite

u old wrinkly cofin dodgers should get off the 'net its for the youth man....

u lot are better off going 'dogging'

Originally posted by Internetowl
u old wrinkly cofin dodgers should get off the 'net its for the youth man....

u lot are better off going 'dogging'

You read a lot of Oscar Wilde, do you?

Originally posted by rogue rose
I am looking for people to interview about anti social behaviour from young people in Sheffield.
I am in the final year of my degree and need to produce a short television piece about the problems residents have in Sheffield with things like graffiti, theft and groups of young kids hanging around.
If you have had any experience with these kind of problems and would like to talk on camera about them for ten minutes or so please e-mail me at joa01smg@shef.ac.uk.
Plus if anyone knows the Totley woman who had a letter published in last Fridays Star about recruiting problem youths into the army I would really like to talk to her

Cheers
stuart

I've emailed you.

if you're a sheffield university student, you should pay a visit to the department of town and regional planning (the geography building, winter street, near the library and arts tower) and talk to John Hughes. Last year he carried out research about anti-social behaviour with his second year students and i'm sure he can help you :)

Come to Stannington one night. Try my block of flats have a walk around the lnadings, your sure to find kids graffitting, peeing on the carpets, smoking heroin and if they are particularly bored that night you can find them in the rubbish area setting fires.

How about interviewing some of the young people you're talking about?

Cosy:P

What about us poor beggars who are/ have been affected by the behaviour of these little *****s...

Why would you not want to hear about the sh*te that we have endured from them, with fires set, cars stolen/ broken into..
Our car was broken into and my manual wheelchair was stolen out of the "estate"(back of car) part.

It took the NHS 3 months to replace it, as it was, out of necessity, a custom-built chair. (it has to be built up at the back for support for me, and extra high push-handlebars fitted because my OH is very, very tall.) I was out of commission for some time, until the service could get my new chair made.

We caught some little scroate on the playing field across the way, smashing it up, tearing the seat and back material off, and mangling the wheels by jumping on them. It was a write off!. when my OH challenged the little baskit, he said (adopts "little baskit gormy voice")
"warn't nowt ter do wi' me mester! I bought it off'n a kid fer free (three) cigs!"

AAah, bless...........

or what about my friend, who's a brownie-guide leader:- the other friday night, she had her pack of 20 'tots' (6/7/8 yr olds) at the brownies meet, and some little S**T used an air rifle to shoot through the church-hall windows at them as they were playing games.....

Or there's my dad, whom you could speak to... he has had his car broken into three times in the last 2 yrs... the local junkie baskits who did this, stole his radio, each time, to be sold to shoot their crap up their arms.

Or, even my former next door neighbours, who had a couple of children's toys sitting on their BACK garden(note, back, not the front..). and some scroate simply went down the entry, in daylight and carried of their toddler's trike and slide....

Or my son and D-in -law, who were arsoned, at their block of flats, at 12.30 at night, trapping DIL and my three grand-babies, who are under 3 &1/2 in a top floor flat, with no way of getting out.....

All five of us, examples of, well, just ordinary everyday folk, wanting to go peaceably about our ordinary, everyday lives without hassle, trouble or crime..... wanting nothing more than to do our activities and hold our brownie meets without interference, or to keep, in our possession, the car radio that we have worked to earn the money to buy. just wishing to enjoy a bit of music as we drive along... wanting to live in our homes without threats and intimidation, without thefts, hassassment, burglaries, arson, or whatever....

I'd be happy to discuss the effects of what these little scroates have done....

Heck, I'd even travel with you to the airport myself and wave the poor disadvantaged and misunderstood little ****s off on their kenyan safari holidays..........

I await your call.

PT

I believe that's exactly what rogue rose was asking for, PT.

Cosy:P

I beg your puddin'

I misread the post, I thought it was asking for information about/ FROM young people and finding out why the little baskits do the vandalism that they do....

I do apologise, sorry, sorry, sorry... :D

(sometimes, the only time I open my mouth is to change feet..........)

PT

Lol, PT, I was being just a little controversial and suggesting that rogue rose should interview some of the young people who are perceived to be causing the problems. Sorry if my suggestion caused your misunderstanding.
Rogue, if your doc is about young people nuisance, why not speak to some of the youth workers as well? Get them to do it anonymously, to find out what's really going on with youth provision in Sheffield - it has a direct result on some of the behaviour you're talking about.

Cosy:P

I would hope to see a follow up piece depicting the vast majority of youths who don't cause trouble.

Originally posted by max
I would hope to see a follow up piece depicting the vast majority of youths who don't cause trouble.

Absolutely. Or come onto it from another angle. A load of kids (about 20) hang around our local shops. Some are little gits, but in a group that big you would expect the same (or worse) from adults. Most people around here are really intimidated by them, and perceive them to be causing trouble. But all they are doing for the most part is hanging out and chatting. I have never had any problem from them, and they even split off into search parties to help find my dog when she ran away. The problem there is with the perception of them - a big, noisy, therefore intimidating group.

Of course, on the converse side, I have had to work with some pretty horrible young people, who have absolutely no sense of right and wrong at all.

It's about character as much as age. And both change.

How about speaking to some grown up, ex-young terrors? See what they have to say about what they did in the past?

Cosy:P