I don’t quite know what to make of the new sonic teenage deterrent. When I heard about it at first I thought it was a wind up. But not so; apparently, it emits a high frequency noise rather like a mosquito which can only be heard by people under twenty or so. Now this really does sound like the Emperor’s New Clothes. But in any case, someone is going to make money out of it. Groups of young people gathering on street corners and outside shops can be rather off-putting and intimidating, but it has been happening for hundreds of years. Seems like standard pack behaviour – though it has become out of control in many places with gang warfare breaking out over territory.
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Some of the little feral darlings that cause havoc around my way, a pump action shotgun would be more useful…(only joking)..I know you can’t go round shooting kids but what amazes me is where are the parents when the kids fall in the door at 1 or 2 in the morning tanked up on booze after a night of drinking in our park.
I would have got slapped stupid at the slightest whiff of drink of my old man..
Yes Graham, I can remember playing tip-it-n-run in the street as a young child, but as a teenager we used to gather in one another’s houses to play Monopoly! Drinking was something that didn’t happen until after eighteen.
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