General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

This problem with youths and perverts isnt isnt just an affliction that's attcking the north west. when I was posted to a unit in the south east i lived on side of my camp that was surrounded by the barracks perimeter fence. the kids ran around freely. however on the other side of the camp that wasn't fenced there were 8 attempts to snatch children. One took place in a school playground. Seven cars were broken into and lord knows how many houses. I'm now in north yorkshire and there have been at least two attempted snatches.

As for hooligans, I've seen all sorts, albanian teenagers in kent brandishing knifes at turkish kids over who can sell the most cocaine for the russian drug baron, to kids whizzing on speed battering the shite out of each other in quiet idyllic yorkshire villages.

I think that as a society as a whole we are rotten to our core. We can set up youth clubs or centres where teenagers can gather and have a place to go, but then like all teenagers they want more or sulk when then don't get what they want. they see gansters on tv and copy them in an effort to be 'cool'.

My ten year old suffered from bullying. He's a nice lad and got on well with everyone, he suffers from ADHD and can be a pain in the arse with it but that's just him. He had a mate who also had ADHD, well he did until this kid turned on him beat him up a few times. I don't just mean a slap, he and his mates blocked all the exits in the park my lad was in and then they played football with him. another occassion they got another friend of my lads to call for him. They waited around the corner, when he came round the corner they battered him. So after the police had threatened him with charges etec etc.

The simple fact is that kids have no respect for authority anymore because the authority can't do anything to them anymore. parents used to give kids slapped legs when they were naughty , some put the fear of god up them, but you'd find that those kids toe the party line because of fear. i'm not saying slapping is a good thing at all. There are other ways of disciplining the kids but if they have the slightest idea that you will give them a good hiding if they disrepsect teachers, police etc they won't do it. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire and some of these teenagers will only learn when they do get a good hiding or a sore ear from the back of a hand.