British adults 'fear youngsters'

[zaknafien]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6074252.stm

Is this really the case? I mean I don't speak for everyone but in my opinion the reason is fear of being arrested for actually intervening and giving the kids a needed clip round the ear when they go for you?
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[Mister James]

[zaknafien]

[pwntifex]

Never know who's packing a knife, though, so I can understand it.
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[Mister James]

I see (and agree with) your point Zaf, in so much as it applies to some adults who are confident of being able to handle themselves in such situations.

The majority of the population is not in that situation, and thus when the moral authority of being an adult is rendered useless (as it has been by the New Labour society) they do genuinely feel fear, because they realise they have no recourse if threatened.
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[Itchy]

The problem is that the Government and by default the police and authorities have ceased becoming moral leaders
and people who change things to becoming revenue collectors, children chavs etc have no money to fine have no
assets to be seized and therefore the law is impotent against them.

Revenue is god for government these days,

Mister_james ,

Would you stand up and be counted?.

I did about 5 years back and nearly got killed, I tried again 3 months ago (theres a post about it) and had a knife pulled on me (I think)

This begs the question if everybody was a bit more like Siggi and stood up for themselves what would the world be like? , a government over thrown in a bloody fashion every 1-2 years , corpses of chavs littering our streets hmm....

That said Siggi often tells us about things he did when he was younger , and that I think the value has life has gotten even cheaper rock bottom (and started to dig) ,
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[ColdInsomnia]

I thought that anyone would be scared of a group of rabid knife-weilding maniacs who are above the law.
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[NinjaBoy]

This is one of the things I hate about modern day life. As a 16 year old (soon 17) I realise that people seem to be hesistant of me. I don't dress like a chav, rudeboy, or like a menace with a hoodie and baseball cap - I wear a fleece and jeans. It's all the attention that has been brought to troublesome twats that make adults aware of the people out there, and so they suspect everyone.
I was at a fair recently and walked into a small Tesco Express where it was empty except me, my friend (who again does not dress menacingly), and the 3 employees watched us like a hawk as I bought a bottle of Pepsi Max, and walked out the shop.

I don't like being feared, so I try to say 'hi' in the high street to the old dears when they walk past to seem the least bit friendly. I was started on by a chav on friday night - I was at a small music gig (rock music - the chavs lurk outside for when we come out) - and after my friends left I was on my own with a few hundred people waiting to be picked up. As I waited, I saw a chav eye me up and walk towards me, so I looked away - before I knew it he was breathing down my neck and asking "if I had a spare fag." I replied "no" as I don't smoke (and never have done), when he started to make trouble because he said "I sware I saw you chuffin on a fag," which we both knew as bullshit because I simply wasn't. It's pricks like this that people fear, the one's who try to cause trouble because they have fuck all better to do with their lives until dole-day comes.
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[Itchy]

[phatstorage]

if we are to assume that most of these "punk kids" are between 4 and 24 and don't have full time jobs,

wouldn't it be cool if the gov let people over 24 and who pay tax carry and use hand guns?

no more fear, just employment opportunities for funeral homes to keep up with demand

[colin1]

[G]

I think a lot of people are to some degree 'afraid' of youth and do at least change their behavior in minor ways based on this.
From this we find some youth play on these, trying to intimidate people more; presumably as it makes themselves feel better, gives them some 'power'.

Would I stop some youths vanadalising a bus stop? Despite the fact I do disagree with such things; in the end, repairing this sort of thing is just going to be paid for out of my money in my wallet; probably not. How much do I want to risk what weapons they have got or how far they might want to go?

Would I try and stop some youths attacking someone?
Yes, presuming there wasn't an obvious reason not to (ie, I'd just seen the person who was getting beaten 'start it' or similar); after all, that could be one of my friends next time; and I'd hope that someone would come along and help them.

[NinjaBoy]

[zaknafien]

[lilredmachine]

I don't care if older people are scared of me, infact, they probably should be. It's just the media winding people up again.
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[killa]

Who’s got your back these days? Well, no one helps someone who’s being beaten up, it’s all about this knife culture I guess.
Everyone values themselves too much, even I’d think twice before helping some one out of a group of people starting some shit.

I’ve noticed some chav’s hanging out around my flat building, my GF’s car has been broken into and my mates Beamer has foot marks and dents on the bonnet. I’ve noticed them trying to get into the construction site once or twice so call the cops in case they find iron bars and start smashing some shit. Do they come? Do they fuck. And it’s the same when you really need them.
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