Hundreds Of Yobs Storm Shopping Centre

[cressida 1,586]

Is there a 'sheep' mentality about kids rioting etc.  meet them on their own and they are calmer and reasonable,  boredom and lack of interests could contribute.

[PRESLEY 1,233]

2 hours ago, pattricia said:

Computers and mobile phones are to blame. I was in a cafe this week and at the next table were a man and woman with their two children  opposite them. Everyone one was on their mobile ! So conversation gone ! We had something called “ Fresh Air” when we were kids.!

People are to blame not computers or mobile phones, like there is no such thing as a bad dog its bad owners. 

[cressida 1,586]

Their must be a lot of bad 'owner parents' then all parenting those who happen to attend the same school - what were those kids after and hope to achieve,  attention?

They got that from the police.

[Delbow 708]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

Some complete rubbish being posted on this thread.   All these pensioners banging on about tech being the root cause of the problems when it's nothing more than a tool.

 

All this delusion about the 'good old days' of  respect and youths knowing their place.

 

It's rose tinted nonsense.  Every generation had their version of the yob, the rebellious, the antagonists.

 

In the '50s and 60s there was the gang culture and the mods v rockers smashing up the seaside results in the summer. In the 70s and 80s there was the punk and skinhead brigades, the glue sniffers and taggers, the gangs of football hooligans causing a riot in town centres every match day. In the 90s there was the drug fuelled rave culture and the boozed up sexed crazed matcho pint swigging lads and laddettes causing mayhem outside the pubs at closing time and now we have the bruvs on the street with their fresh mouths and their smart tech and their flashmobs init though..

 

In may look and sound different but it's all the same.

 

Like I said earlier, the technology is just a tool.  For those many who aren't using it to cause riots in shopping centres that tech has enhanced their lives that the previous generation could only dream of. They are far more educated, sophisticated and world wise by the time they reach teenage than the previous generations  failed to get at all during their adult life.  The world is more globalised, communities are better connected, opportunities have expanded giving far more ambition for those who want to take it.

 

Those longing for back to the dark ages are deluded to the reality what it was.

Also, people should bear in mind that an accurate thread title would be "children run around in a shopping centre". It's hardly the Thunderdome. 

[Zach Clay 64]

33 minutes ago, Delbow said:

Also, people should bear in mind that an accurate thread title would be "children run around in a shopping centre". It's hardly the Thunderdome. 

So you think the behaviour in that video was acceptable......just high jinx?

[The_DADDY 3,481]

15 minutes ago, Zach Clay said:

So you think the behaviour in that video was acceptable......just high jinx?

My bold

No reasonable person would in my opinion. 

Some of the videos doing the rounds show it wasn't just 'children running around in shopping centre'. Assaulting security guards,  harassing shop staff, forcing shops to close.

Yeah, nothing to see at all 🙄

[ECCOnoob 1,053]

1 hour ago, cressida said:

Their must be a lot of bad 'owner parents' then all parenting those who happen to attend the same school - what were those kids after and hope to achieve,  attention?

They got that from the police.

I don't think they were trying to 'achieve' anything in particular. They were just doing what certain types of kids have done for generations before. Cause a bit of anarchy, get some attention, think they're being cool, following the herd and falling into peer pressure to please their fellow crowd.

 

Nobody is saying it was acceptable just as the same sorts of behaviour being done 10, 20, 50 years ago. This is not a new story.

 

Best thing to do is move on.  Sensible parents of these ilk will live them a metaphorical kicking,  the school will give them some sanctions and the shopping centre will ban them. 

 

Clickbaters and over reactors treating this as some breakdown in all society and a generational yoof shift that's going to put the world you decline is falling for exactly what they want.