Antisocial Behaviour

[Eve]

Something's burning...

Smells like the local youths are bored again as there is a strong smell of burning wheelie bin about, seems the fireworks novelty has worn off for now. Always makes me nervous, initially smelling smoke.

Much as they shouldn't be doing it in the first place, makes me wonder how they don't see how dangerous it could be as they have no idea what people have put in their bins!

Do you have local antisocial behaviour issues?

[missprim]

I should imagine lots of people do Jenna. Last night I heard a very strange bang and wondered if someone had put a firework in a wheelie bin.
They don't see the danger in anything because they are usually unthinking individuals who don't understand these two words, danger and consequence.

[boxtops]

Agree, missprim - thoughtless, no idea of responsibility, and don't care anyway - everything's a giggle.

[Eve]

True, you're round my way too aren't you (Manchester?).

They don't seem to understand some of the potential danger of their actions - back a month or so ago I was going through Moss Side on the bus and a load of kids ran out of a shop and threw a firework under someone's car (mind you, by the estate I lived in in Leeds they used to stand on a blind bend and fire fireworks across the bonnets of cars and even at some poor cyclist).

[missprim]

Yes I do live in Manchester Jenna and unfortunately it's the price you have to pay for living in one of the inner cities, but I actually like where I live believe it or not as I now it's not as bad as some places.

[emmie]

too many, the dopeheads who drop needles on the ground outside, those who drop their litter in the front garden, neighbours doing diy so early in the morning or so late in the night that you wonder at their inconsiderateness. shop assistants who fling your change at you in the supermarket, and people who barge into you when texting walking down the street.

[lozzer50]

kids round here delight in breaking car wing mirrors windscreen wipers and think nothing of climbing on cars jumping on the roofs!

[gness]

Setting fire to wheelie bins is still a problem despite the death, in Wellingborough, of a three year old boy when the fire spread to his home. Such a tragedy but it still happens.

[emmie]

a neighbours car has had a pounding, youths seem to delight on sitting on it, marking it in some way, they also broke a little gate where the cars are, just as it had been installed.

[gness]

I know this won't work for most people but it did for me.
A nice family moved in across the road...with one nuisance of a son. The parents did try but he was a tearaway. When the parents were at work he would have friends in noisy cars visit....rev the engines and race up and down the road.
My mother sometimes stayed for weekends so I dressed in her nightie, big,old quilted dressing gown and furry slippers. I shuffled across the road when a group of them were hanging around the car and making a racket. I leaned on the bonnet and asked if there was a problem with the car..I said I was good with cars...did they want to open the engine while I had a look. I could take it for a drive to listen to the engine if they liked.
There was some uncomfortable laughter so I sat on their wall, swinging my feet and smiling at them.
Don't know what they really thought but it was the last time I had to listen to the noisy cars. :-)

[Eve]

Oh Gness, that's fantastic, I'd love to have seen that :)

We get a lot of people riding what sounds like those daft little motorbike things around - mainly in the park by me, usually followed by sirens then often the chopper coppers up and about.

I was watching Crimewatch some months back and suddenly realised that the sounds of a police chase was going on right outside my house (useful "esape route")...who needs TV!

[lady-janine]

lol gness

[lady-janine]

and lots of sympathy to those of you who have to suffer mindless behaviour and vandalism.

[TWR]

I mentioned something a while back, if the police can not / will not do any thing about it, will vigilantes start? or will that intrude on their C.L.

[Mick-Talbot]

Not really, there was a totally annoying Snag who thought he could have a party every Saturday night....... the council removed his hi-fi when he ignored the warnings.

[pastafreak]

I have feral neighbours in my block of maisonettes. Ever since I (along with a few others) complained about the noise of their kids riding scooters and motorised mini cars back and forth on the public walkway,they've seen fit to bang on my windows,re-arrange my plants and throw some of my plant pots over the balcony. These are adults.

[missprim]

Do you ever get youths who park up in their cars and play their music really loud? I would love to go and park along side them with my windows down playing classical music full blast.
Do you think they might drive off or do you think they might ...............not!

[Eve]

Not up my street, thank goodness. We get a lot of footfall to and from the park of groups of kids mainly who sometimes linger and make a nuisance of themselves.

I wouldn't be brave enough to go out, especially living alone and I wouldn't look very hard, all 5'3 of me with either my stick or limping over.

I have got to know some of the locals round the street though which is handy to have a door to knock on if I need to though, we had some really nasty breakin incidents a few years ago then a few sex attackers, one of which I narrowly missed, right on my route from the bus stop, so good to know nice people about.

[parkie]

We are pretty good in the close we live in. Yesterday afternoon, I wasn't feeling great and dropped off to sleep in the arm chair. Apparently one of the flats in a neighbouring block caught fire and three fire engines attended with blues and two's going and I slept through the lot.
(The fire was soon put out and no-one was hurt).