General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Last night a neighbour called police on the kids who are congregating in gangs here, the teens had ripped off her doorbell, she approached them, got a lot of abuse, they later returned and threw eggs at her windows.Tonight the community bobby popped to see me , asked me what I had experienced.So I told them the lot, they hadn't realised just how bad the problem had got. When she arrived she commented on how peaceful it was at that time, 8pm. I said wait 30 minutes, as she left there were around 20 youths hanging about outside!Perfect timing, and that number grows as the evening drags on.She told me of the grants and improvents to the area, play area (for teens?) a new mosaic?(???) just something else to vandalise.
I spotted one of these kids sniffing gas, he was about 14 years old.If that was my son I'd lynch him,the parents are clueless as to whats going on.This community bobby was a nice lady, has been working hard at tackling the problem,but people don't report the abuse , harassment , and attacks on their property and cars. Unless its reported nothing will get done.
True to their word the police have been patrolling, it hasn't split these large groups of kids up, but at least the police can see there is a problem here.
My partner walked out only last week to our car, and there was a girl of 13 or so with trousers down urinating at the side of it.I'm sure her mother would be furious knowing she did that in full view of a grown man.We have CCTV camera pointing at the cars.......it doesn't work at making them behave.
All we seem to do is move the problem from one end of the street to the other and back again.
When we had the same roblem in Germany with forces kids, they made it regulatory that no more than 4 teens could hang out in the street together.They also enforced it with a fine to the parents.If I was fined for my kids behaviour, believe me I'd make sure they behaved!