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johnny come lately

johnny come lately

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Noticed a story in both the Express and Star and Staffs Post (a favourite of forumites I know) relating to 'Yobs' at Victoria Park.
Great headlines - short on substance.

Anyway, I'm going to try and paraphrase it. Some children (gang, yobs, teenagers, youths whatever grabs you) were climbing on the equipment. It sounds like the spider thingy. A 22 month child is playing underneath. One jumps off knocks in to the child.
The mum reports it to the police!?
She seems more angry because he didn't say 'sorry' or ask if the child was ok. The child was unhurt. Now I would be peed off if I had a kid hurt but is this really a police matter?
The police say they had a complaint but no crime was committed
A local councillor describes it as an 'assault' - now an assault is a crime but from descriptions in either paper it doesn't sound like an assault.

Then there is a random bit about this is why the park shouldn't open 24/7.
I don't know enough to comment on the 24/7 thing but how does this day time non-crime / assault / gang attack / violent disorder (delete whichever you wish to believe) lead to that conclusion.
I'm lost
Is it a waste of police time?
Does it support non 24/7 opening?
Were they going to open 24/7 (other councillor says 11pm)
Does anyone else care? or do i have too much time to think about newspaper stories because I was not at work today?
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
johnny come lately said:
Noticed a story in both the Express and Star and Staffs Post (a favourite of forumites I know) relating to 'Yobs' at Victoria Park.
Great headlines - short on substance.

Anyway, I'm going to try and paraphrase it. Some children (gang, yobs, teenagers, youths whatever grabs you) were climbing on the equipment. It sounds like the spider thingy. A 22 month child is playing underneath. One jumps off knocks in to the child.
The mum reports it to the police!?
She seems more angry because he didn't say 'sorry' or ask if the child was ok. The child was unhurt. Now I would be peed off if I had a kid hurt but is this really a police matter?
The police say they had a complaint but no crime was committed
A local councillor describes it as an 'assault' - now an assault is a crime but from descriptions in either paper it doesn't sound like an assault.

Then there is a random bit about this is why the park shouldn't open 24/7.
I don't know enough to comment on the 24/7 thing but how does this day time non-crime / assault / gang attack / violent disorder (delete whichever you wish to believe) lead to that conclusion.
I'm lost
Is it a waste of police time?
Does it support non 24/7 opening?
Were they going to open 24/7 (other councillor says 11pm)
Does anyone else care? or do i have too much time to think about newspaper stories because I was not at work today?
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Mr Peter wasteofspace Atkins has a few idiotic words in he E&S on this subject, in olden times he used to pen an editorial in the Newsletter entitled 'How I See It' a forunner to Richard Littlejohn perhaps..... although i only know one of them personally ....the bearded twat!.....
 
Gadget

Gadget

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Theres a lot of it about these days you upset someone they go to the police regardless of whether it is any kind of a crime or not.
The papers are desparately trying t get stories so they will link anything with something remotely similar to try to get paper sales.
I think it's another face palm story, ie, why are they making such a fuss.
G x
 
johnny come lately

johnny come lately

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basil said:
johnny come lately said:
Noticed a story in both the Express and Star and Staffs Post (a favourite of forumites I know) relating to 'Yobs' at Victoria Park.
Great headlines - short on substance.

Anyway, I'm going to try and paraphrase it. Some children (gang, yobs, teenagers, youths whatever grabs you) were climbing on the equipment. It sounds like the spider thingy. A 22 month child is playing underneath. One jumps off knocks in to the child.
The mum reports it to the police!?
She seems more angry because he didn't say 'sorry' or ask if the child was ok. The child was unhurt. Now I would be peed off if I had a kid hurt but is this really a police matter?
The police say they had a complaint but no crime was committed
A local councillor describes it as an 'assault' - now an assault is a crime but from descriptions in either paper it doesn't sound like an assault.

Then there is a random bit about this is why the park shouldn't open 24/7.
I don't know enough to comment on the 24/7 thing but how does this day time non-crime / assault / gang attack / violent disorder (delete whichever you wish to believe) lead to that conclusion.
I'm lost
Is it a waste of police time?
Does it support non 24/7 opening?
Were they going to open 24/7 (other councillor says 11pm)
Does anyone else care? or do i have too much time to think about newspaper stories because I was not at work today?
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Mr Peter wasteofspace Atkins has a few idiotic words in he E&S on this subject, in olden times he used to pen an editorial in the Newsletter entitled 'How I See It' a forunner to Richard Littlejohn perhaps..... although i only know one of them personally ....the bearded twat!.....
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Just read that column. There seems to be a lot of scaremongering without much facts. This mass of anti-social, idiotic, drug dealing, drunken, yobbery seems to be from one drug arrest and one, on the face of it, accident.
 
Glam

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Why was the daft cow letting her 22month old play underneath the red spidery thing,knowing full well there were kids climbing all over it?
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Glam said:
Why was the daft cow letting her 22month old play underneath the red spidery thing,knowing full well there were kids climbing all over it?
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Probably out of her skull on booze/drugs........
 
United57

United57

Well-Known Forumite
Glam said:
Why was the daft cow letting her 22month old play underneath the red spidery thing,knowing full well there were kids climbing all over it?
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Like the daft cow who I saw letting her toddler run around the skatepark bit. Cried her eyes out as she could not get out and the daft cow sitting in the sandpit smoking as her child ran around.
 
mickyboy

mickyboy

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Glam said:
Why was the daft cow letting her 22month old play underneath the red spidery thing,knowing full well there were kids climbing all over it?
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cause she was probably the same age as the kids playin on the red spidery thing!
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
basil said:
Glam said:
Why was the daft cow letting her 22month old play underneath the red spidery thing,knowing full well there were kids climbing all over it?
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Probably out of her skull on booze/drugs........
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Not that i know her personally......
 
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