Oughtibridge yobs

andypops · 11-05-2012, 12:19

Iv lived in oughtibridge all my life and it has always been a lovely place to live, nowadays there are youths smoking and dealing cannabis and whatever other drugs they are taking! There abusive and intimidating. Only yesterday i saw a group of youths outside the park watching as 2 lads kicked each other in. I phoned the police but no-one turned up. I also photograph the yobs when dealing drugs and pass on the photos to police but nothing seems to get done. They have no regards for anyone else and just dont care who sees! My grandchildren (Aged 9 and 12) always ask to go to the park but i have to make excuses as i am scared to go down there.

Moosey · 11-05-2012, 12:31

Whilst it is happening more and more, to be absolutely honest, when I used to work in Oughtibridge at one of the pubs, that sort of thing was always going on at the park and on the green area (is it called the millenium green now?). That was 1995-1998ish.

V.Rossi · 11-05-2012, 12:34

That's just the way the human race is going I'm afraid to say, we came so far and know we're all going back to the caveman era, teens being into the latest fashion have obviously picked up on it sooner than we all have.

Wait until your grandkids have their own children and they start eating their friends in public, don't say I didn't warn ya.

floyd77 · 11-05-2012, 12:47

In what way are they abusive and intimidating? Hard to imagine someone smoking cannabis as being intimidating. Though if you are scared what has been the response of the police - i cant believe it was zero if you have photographic evidence? You need to keep pestering them.

Or, do you just have pictures of a bunch of kids hanging about? I have no doubt that the park will have kids smoking spliffs and drinking cider of an evening, just like every park in the country but if it's a problem your concerns should at least be taken seriously.

I've lived here for years, am regularly in the park with my young kids and have never seem anything like this, but then i dont often take them there at night. I have seen groups of kids hanging about at the shops or the green, but they look like they wouldn't say boo to a goose and practically cack themselves if they get in my way and i ask them to move (but maybe that's because i'm a large man with a Glaswegian accent!)

V.Rossi · 11-05-2012, 12:55

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(but maybe that's because i'm a large man with a Glaswegian accent!)

That may have something to do with it, if you're glaswegian then you are probably blind to things like this around you, the mere sight of kids getting smashed on buckfast and chinning anyone that dare go within 20ft of them is just run of the mill stuff, it would probably take something pretty damn serious to shock you.

GrayFace · 11-05-2012, 12:56

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Originally Posted by floyd77

In what way are they abusive and intimidating? Hard to imagine someone smoking cannabis as being intimidating. Though if you are scared what has been the response of the police - i cant believe it was zero if you have photographic evidence? You need to keep pestering them.

in this day and age NO one should have to pester the police to do their job, its a disgrace!

floyd77 · 11-05-2012, 12:58

Glasgow was the European city of culture once you know! It's a lovely place now - though these misconceptions are not completely useless in confrontational situations :-)

floyd77 · 11-05-2012, 13:01

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in this day and age NO one should have to pester the police to do their job, its a disgrace!

Ok - don't pester and just put up with being miserable. What you SHOULD have to do and what you ACTUALLY have to do to achieve your goals are rarely the same thing (I too CAN randomly capitalize words)

I thought I'd offer advice to get the OP a resolution to their problem rather than merely point out the failings of the police.

V.Rossi · 11-05-2012, 13:03

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Glasgow was the European city of culture once you know! It's a lovely place now - though these misconceptions are not completely useless in confrontational situations :-)

Ah, the European city of culture is what they give a place to attract people that don't know any better. Hence Liverpool also being given the same title.

It's just a ploy. I've seen trainspotting....it's shocking

V.Rossi · 11-05-2012, 13:05

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Originally Posted by GrayFace

in this day and age NO one should have to pester the police to do their job, its a disgrace!

In this day and age children shouldn't still be living in poverty but unfortunately what shouldn't be happening and what is happening are two very different things.

floyd77 · 11-05-2012, 13:14

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I've seen trainspotting....it's shocking

Thats Edinburgh! Now if you want a rough as arse junkie ridden city that where you go!

GrayFace · 11-05-2012, 13:25

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Originally Posted by floyd77

Ok - don't pester and just put up with being miserable. What you SHOULD have to do and what you ACTUALLY have to do to achieve your goals are rarely the same thing (I too CAN randomly capitalize words)

I thought I'd offer advice to get the OP a resolution to their problem rather than merely point out the failings of the police.

pipe down flower, wasnt having a go at what you said it was a pop at the police and how they go about(or not go about) doing their job, ive had experience of the police doing Sweet FA , its a forum and i can express what i feel about the police doing nothing, it seems commonplace nowadays, what do they do all day apart from turn up take notes and say yeah well we cant do much about that, see ya

alisonmanic · 11-05-2012, 13:27

I live in Oughtibridge as well, I tend not to go down the green/part area past 5pm if I can help it. Especially when it's dark and sure as hell not on my own. Though we have only been up here just over a year now and most people are quite nice and friendly. Hope it stays that way.

V.Rossi · 11-05-2012, 13:28

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pipe down flower, wasnt having a go at what you said it was a pop at the police and how they go about(or not go about) doing their job, ive had experience of the police doing Sweet FA , its a forum and i can express what i feel about the police doing nothing, it seems commonplace nowadays, what do they do all day apart from turn up take notes and say yeah well we cant do much about that, see ya

You're one of the lucky ones. You should feel priviliged if you managed to get that far.

GrayFace · 11-05-2012, 13:31

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You're one of the lucky ones. You should feel priviliged if you managed to get that far.

then that confirms my point the police dont do anything, and believe me, the circumstances i was in i wouldnt have considered myself lucky, or for anyone for that matter who calls the police and wants help isnt lucky

Jason Bourne · 11-05-2012, 13:51

Yobs in Oughtibridge?

Yeah, right, like the 'yobs' they had in Meersbook?

Some lass phones Radio Sheffield complaining about sitting in the park...

...yes, that's all they were doing, sitting in the park and talking to their friends.

And some lass phoned the local radio station and hysterically made it sound like they were out stealing cars all night

Some people need to get a grip.

floyd77 · 11-05-2012, 14:04

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...yes, that's all they were doing, sitting in the park and talking to their friends.

I suspect there may be an element of this in play - some people automatically jump to the worst conclusions when kids group together.

floyd77 · 11-05-2012, 14:04

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your bold=your problem, and you know nothing of my situation,I may add,why have you flamed me for agreeing about how the police do nothing?

ive expressed an opinion, i told someone to pipe down as they took my post wrong (not my fault love)and your telling ME to keep it in my pram? for telling my experience of the police not being bothered,

please tell me why you disagree on having to call the police isnt a lucky experience?...in most cases an unfortunate incident warrents a call to them

Why don't you start your own thread, and go get hot and bothered over there?

billy_bob · 11-05-2012, 14:21

You can kind of understand the inner city ghettos (the hood) where the youths may want to run amock.

But when it happens in middle class areas, then that is strange. What are these kids rebelling against? their detached house in a leafy suburb, perhaps the fact mum and dad only take them on holiday 3 times a year, or the fact they wanted a red car, but instead mum bough him a blue car.

The liberals won't like this sort of thing going off in their back yard, so I can imagine something happening to sort this out sharpish

Event Horizo · 11-05-2012, 16:41

I always go to that park with my young lad. Some of the youth hang out in the bus shelters but they've always been well mannered with me.
Even if they do get up to abit of weed smoking mischief i think we all forget being young once. I can remember getting a bottle of 20/20 or chunderbird when i was a lad and young down the park having a crafty cig and getting plastered.
Maybe as you get older you start to turn in a Harry enfield 'old git'.