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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Taxi_Driver on 16 November 2007, 20:50:24
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Ive only just got in tonight....to try to gain back wasted time this morning.
Had my drivers door window smashed last night......thats the 2nd time in about a year >:(
Glass was crazy paved with a hole the size of a tennis ball in the middle.
So obviously just smashed for fun >:(
Must give praise to RAC windscreens......they didnt have a window in stock (no one else seems to either)
but did vacuum out broken glass and taped in a piece of perpex :y Something other companies wont do....as they claim its not safe as theres no vertical channel on an Omega front window.
New window should be in stock and be able to be fitted next tues/wed :)
Insurance company must be loving me.......2 door windows and a new windscreen all in about a year!
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Sorry to here that TD.
At the moment i'm keeping an eye on the kids out side playing football in the middle of the road.
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Ive only just got in tonight....to try to gain back wasted time this morning.
Had my drivers door window smashed last night......thats the 2nd time in about a year >:(
Glass was crazy paved with a hole the size of a tennis ball in the middle.
So obviously just smashed for fun >:(
Must give praise to RAC windscreens......they didnt have a window in stock (no one else seems to either)
but did vacuum out broken glass and taped in a piece of perpex :y Something other companies wont do....as they claim its not safe as theres no vertical channel on an Omega front window.
New window should be in stock and be able to be fitted next tues/wed :)
Insurance company must be loving me.......2 door windows and a new windscreen all in about a year!
Bad luck mate, but.......I saw a volvo S60 today and someone had done a proper job on it. Two windows broke and both sides keyed front to rear. Sick making :(
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Sickener :(
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Jealousy is a terrible thing.
I just hope what goes around, comes around.
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Bad luck Dave. Feel for you, they just don't care. Little sh1ts. >:(
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Sorry to be reading this thread TD, gutting that people can do this to someones property.
If only you could catch the bar stewards..... >:(
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Maybe slight overkill, but you can easily video your car with a cheap camcorder, plugged into a laptop via firewire. After I got my door mirror destroyed, next day I set this up overlooking the car. Most modern machines have enough hard drive to take 12hrs recording, and its in fairly good quality. Some camcorders like panasonic NV-DS30 have got a night time 0Lux mode and can literally see in the dark.
Ken
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Jealousy is a terrible thing.
I just hope what goes around, comes around.
Indeed! Some f*** wit keyed my brother's new-ish 7 series last week! >:( Both sides bonnet & boot! >:( >:( >:( >:(
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>:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( Little barstewards
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see the cat thread re. lead poisoning..... ;)
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Maybe slight overkill, but you can easily video your car with a cheap camcorder, plugged into a laptop via firewire. After I got my door mirror destroyed, next day I set this up overlooking the car. Most modern machines have enough hard drive to take 12hrs recording, and its in fairly good quality. Some camcorders like panasonic NV-DS30 have got a night time 0Lux mode and can literally see in the dark.
Ken
Unless you get their name and address it's not gonna lead to much. Bad luck Dave :(
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Pussy's >:(
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Bad luck Dave. Feel for you, they just don't care. Little sh1ts. >:(
From what i was told from a neighbour......he heard a group of kids laughing then running away at about 1am.....my car was parked right outside his house....he said he was still up and looked outa the window.....but saw nothing...as it was dark.....apparantly my alarm went off about 10 mins later :o he only put 2 and 2 together when he heard about the window today.
So probably pissed kids on the way home >:(
Im not suprised they get served drink.....this happened on my home....
Stopped at local co-op for ciggies and a bottle of wine (well it is a fri night ;) )
Kiddie in front of me has a 12 pack of Stella.....girlie on till asks for ID.....he produces something dodgy looking.....girlie accepts it.....then he asks for 20 ciggies.....so as hes got away with the ID......she has to serve him ciggies :o
I get served......and girlie.....shouts over to supervisor....'alcohol'.......so shes sussed im over 18!! ;D
But she carnt be if she just asked supervisors permission to sell it.......
So why didnt she ask supervisors permission for the previous customer >:(
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
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Deliberate damage of someone else's P&J should be punishable by death. As should driving off after a parking ding without leaving details...
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
Should not take the law into our own hands (Listen to me, fine one to talk) but they have no human rights when they mess with my family, me, or my property.
>:( >:( >:(
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Its a shame that LEXAN stuff (polycarbonate plastic) isn't scratch resistant. I had a front door window broken, and replaced it with that stuff. Expensive yes, but it doesn't break. If you hit it with a hammer it just bounces off.
Interestingly enough, when the window was broken, the council contacted me. Helpful ?. No, they were worried in case one of the little sh1ts cut himself reaching thro the wndow trying to break in.
Ken
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Its a shame that LEXAN stuff (polycarbonate plastic) isn't scratch resistant. I had a front door window broken, and replaced it with that stuff. Expensive yes, but it doesn't break. If you hit it with a hammer it just bounces off.
Interestingly enough, when the window was broken, the council contacted me. Helpful ?. No, they were worried in case one of the little sh1ts cut himself reaching thro the wndow trying to break in.
Ken
What the little Pr"ck that broke in
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
Should not take the law into our own hands (Listen to me, fine one to talk) but they have no human rights when they mess with my family, me, or my property.
>:( >:( >:(
Oh if i knew who they were......i would no hesitation to run em down......
It would be....'Sorry Officer....but a dog run out in front of me.....i swerved and mounted the pavement.....unfortuantely i think i hit someone'
Shouldnt really say that but thats how i feel >:(
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see the cat thread re. lead poisoning..... ;)
Will check that out in a bit H21.....gotta take Holly for a walk now :y
And take the drainpipe and spare rockets......to missile launch at any kids i see :y ;D
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Sorry to hear this TD, and yes I can confirm it takes ages to get rid of all the glass bits... :(
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
Anyone see the tonight programme earlier? it seems a sad sign of the times regarding police response time to calls. I think the the police do the best they can and seem stretched to the limit. someone I know had his car door kicked and dented by one little scrote, he called the police about it and it was three hours before they showed. the same thing happened a couple of days later, he again phoned the police and told them that he had a machetti and intended to go outside and slice the little f*ckwits hands off as you can imagine the police response time to the incident was much improved.
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
Anyone see the tonight programme earlier? it seems a sad sign of the times regarding police response time to calls. I think the the police do the best they can and seem stretched to the limit. someone I know had his car door kicked and dented by one little scrote, he called the police about it and it was three hours before they showed. the same thing happened a couple of days later, he again phoned the police and told them that he had a machetti and intended to go outside and slice the little f*ckwits hands off as you can imagine the police response time to the incident was much improved.
Calls are graded according to threat to life - even the control room staff have no power to direct response units to a typical criminal damage call if there's an assault or domestic in progress... whereas a direct threat of violence will pull units from traffic stops, shoplifters, and "potential" domestics. It's not right, but the only solution is more police, and less paperwork for them...
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
Anyone see the tonight programme earlier? it seems a sad sign of the times regarding police response time to calls. I think the the police do the best they can and seem stretched to the limit. someone I know had his car door kicked and dented by one little scrote, he called the police about it and it was three hours before they showed. the same thing happened a couple of days later, he again phoned the police and told them that he had a machetti and intended to go outside and slice the little f*ckwits hands off as you can imagine the police response time to the incident was much improved.
Calls are graded according to threat to life - even the control room staff have no power to direct response units to a typical criminal damage call if there's an assault or domestic in progress... whereas a direct threat of violence will pull units from traffic stops, shoplifters, and "potential" domestics. It's not right, but the only solution is more police, and less paperwork for them...
sad but true....
and not what the cops who actually are out there want....
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A couple of months ago, had what should have been "abortions " go through our street at 2.45 in the morning and smashed and ripped of the wing mirrors of 17 cars. Called police, and at that time of the morning, said " We will send an officer down straight away " Stayed up till 7.00 no police, went to bed. Neighbour called later to find out where they were, they apologised and said they will give a crime number. My neighbour said they will have to give 17 crime numbers, copper replied, somebody will be with you within an hour. 3hrs later a WPC turned up took details and stated it was unlikely we'll catch them. Neighbour said to her, next time we'll sort it out ourselves. You can't do that, you'll be arrested she replied.
That night within a few minutes, there was a couple of grands worth of damage done. So what do we do?. Keep paying our council taxes for the police to protect us and uphold the law. I say birch the scum and to hell with their human rights.
Anyone see the tonight programme earlier? it seems a sad sign of the times regarding police response time to calls. I think the the police do the best they can and seem stretched to the limit. someone I know had his car door kicked and dented by one little scrote, he called the police about it and it was three hours before they showed. the same thing happened a couple of days later, he again phoned the police and told them that he had a machetti and intended to go outside and slice the little f*ckwits hands off as you can imagine the police response time to the incident was much improved.
Calls are graded according to threat to life - even the control room staff have no power to direct response units to a typical criminal damage call if there's an assault or domestic in progress... whereas a direct threat of violence will pull units from traffic stops, shoplifters, and "potential" domestics. It's not right, but the only solution is more police, and less paperwork for them...
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Fully agree with you mate :y
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Interestingly i did report the smashed window to the police......who gave me a log number....and also asked 'to me' very personal questions....like race/nationalality/dob/place of birth??? wtf ??? does that matter??? they also said we'll log it and another call to you will give a crime number.....do you think i had a call with crime number..........NO >:(
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Interestingly i did report the smashed window to the police......who gave me a log number....and also asked 'to me' very personal questions....like race/nationalality/dob/place of birth??? wtf ??? does that matter??? they also said we'll log it and another call to you will give a crime number.....do you think i had a call with crime number..........NO >:(
Welcome to these Politically Correct Times whereby the tail wags the dog.....
...and still the job is basically undone, because other things are now of greater importance...
Some forget the following...
I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen in the office of Constable, without favour or favour, malice affection or illwill.. etc .....
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Interestingly i did report the smashed window to the police......who gave me a log number....and also asked 'to me' very personal questions....like race/nationalality/dob/place of birth??? wtf ??? does that matter??? they also said we'll log it and another call to you will give a crime number.....do you think i had a call with crime number..........NO >:(
Welcome to these Politically Correct Times whereby the tail wags the dog.....
...and still the job is basically undone, because other things are now of greater importance...
Some forget the following...
I do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen in the office of Constable, without favour or favour, malice affection or illwill.. etc .....
H21, you'll remember this as well no doubt:
A Constable is a citizen, locally appointed, having authority under the Crown, for the protection of life
and property, the maintenance of order, the prevention and detection of crime and the prosecution of
offenders against the peace.
I don't remember anything about filling quotas or racial equality forms. >:(
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
see both sides.
Initial comment is unfounded but a personal assesment of affairs.
Latter comment is equally unfounded, based on personal circumstances.... (apologies James, I know you turned out fine... :y )
personally, I tend towards the former (but this is neither the time or place...)
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
see both sides.
Initial comment is unfounded but a personal assesment of affairs.
Latter comment is equally unfounded, based on personal circumstances.... (apologies James, I know you turned out fine... :y )
personally, I tend towards the former (but this is neither the time or place...)
As long as there is the understanding that there can be an execption to the rule, I don't disagree :)
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I feel for you Dave I really do, and it does seem to be the times we are living in unfortunately >:(
You say they were kids out at around 1 o'clock? well I hold the parents to blame... kids shouldn't be out that late at night for a start... I think that in itself reflects on what the parents are like....
Granted when your children go out parents don't know what they are up too. As children we all do devilish things, we did knocking on doors and running off, hedge jumping and stuff like that, not breaking in cars or houses never even dream of it, my dad would have leathered me if I got in any trouble "Don't you ever bring the Police here" he said to me.
Lack of Respect is a huge thing. You only have to look back at last Sunday, Rememberance Day, how many people don't do 2 mins silence? loads! That to me is disgusting.
As for the Police they must be as pissed off as everyone else if not more as there hands are tied, they catch criminals and they are let off....
We could go on forever. >:(
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
Hi James,
Sorry, I was not wanting to swear on the forum, so I used the expression to refer to "Ba5tards". No inference to people who lost their fathers for any reason. Its just this frustration, you do what you can to try and earn a living, you get a cracking car, OK cosmetically challanged, but still great all the same, you park it a street, and some little (See above) decides to cause about £200 damage to it. I can't afford to loose my NCB, so I got to bit the bullet and pay for the bits myself and fit them. And as I am driving away, I see all the other cars on the street, none of which are damaged.
Life's a bitch sometimes.
Ken
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PS, not quite as bad as you, but my dad left my mum when we were very young, she was basically chucked out with 2 young kids to bring up(7 and 5 years). She did very well.
Ken
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I don't think the number of parents / guardians is the issue. It's whether someone is there to take an interest in bringing them up properly and devoting a bit of time out of their busy lives to be with them. Too many kids get left to their own devices or parmed off onto anyone who'll look after them IMHO.
Kevin
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i had mine scratched on drivers side on a friday night,polished it of on the saturday lucky,then on the saturday night they returned and did the passenger side this time down to the primer bastwerds,got camera watching car on the nights i am of work,with a big sticker in front room window to say that the property is monitored by cctv and a light on wall,nothing has happened to it since,one of the neighbours does not like the camera he said it's illegal,asked police and they said it was fine because of the sticker in the window stating its use :y :y :y
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
Hi James,
Sorry, I was not wanting to swear on the forum, so I used the expression to refer to "Ba5tards". No inference to people who lost their fathers for any reason. Its just this frustration, you do what you can to try and earn a living, you get a cracking car, OK cosmetically challanged, but still great all the same, you park it a street, and some little (See above) decides to cause about £200 damage to it. I can't afford to loose my NCB, so I got to bit the bullet and pay for the bits myself and fit them. And as I am driving away, I see all the other cars on the street, none of which are damaged.
Life's a bitch sometimes.
Ken
I agree with that :)
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I am sorry to hear about all the Damage, and Vandalism that is going on all over the place, by the sounds of it it seems to be a national problem.
As for the reasons Children, or teenagers do this, well many have been stated, just a thought along the way....................
I have a 22 year old step daughter who has had all the love and attention you could imagine, a Fantastic Mother that tried her upmost to keep her on a descent path, me (Dont start lol) and i have really tried my best to be a Friend rather than an Authority. Now the line that she has gone down is so disgusting that i will not reveal on here, but suffice to say, i don´t think its either the fact that children grow up with or without parents that are the reason for criminal damage and Anti-Social behavior, its more like a Lemmings point of view, one starts and all will follow, perhaps just for the kick.
Never the less they should all be openly thrashed ntill they drop and branded with the words anti-social, or respectless on their forheads.
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
You are not typical - was your home broken as such or just no dad?
You know right from wrong :y a lot do not
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i had mine scratched on drivers side on a friday night,polished it of on the saturday lucky,then on the saturday night they returned and did the passenger side this time down to the primer bastwerds,got camera watching car on the nights i am of work,with a big sticker in front room window to say that the property is monitored by cctv and a light on wall,nothing has happened to it since,one of the neighbours does not like the camera he said it's illegal,asked police and they said it was fine because of the sticker in the window stating its use :y :y :y
Tell that neighbour they can pay for repairs as the only reason for them to complain is that they did it >:(
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
You are not typical - was your home broken as such or just no dad?
You know right from wrong :y a lot do not
How am I not typical? I was pretty normal last time I checked ::)
Dad was a drinking, theiving, jobless, violent woman beating waster. Hence no involvement from me. :y
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I have three children and I am worried about the world they will grow up into.
Keeping them on the straight and narrow is not easy, I do come down on them hard if they have been particularly stupid, but all in all I think they will be OK
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Sorry to hear this, there seems to be a lot of "kids with no fathers" about these days.
Ken
Waaaaaaay to stereotypical, I must disagree.
I had no father, from the age of about 9 months. I've never intentionally "broken" anything for fun, or stolen, and such, including in my early and late teens.
Anyone who knows me will agree that I've not turned out too bad as a result. Your statement is too generic, it doesn't apply to everyone. :'(
You are not typical - was your home broken as such or just no dad?
You know right from wrong :y a lot do not
How am I not typical? I was pretty normal last time I checked ::)
Dad was a drinking, theiving, jobless, violent woman beating waster. Hence no involvement from me. :y
No wonder you came up well away from someone like that.
We have noticed that the younger members on here tend to have a lot more respect than a number of young people. Look at your self, you are hard working, thoughtful, and do not cause problems.
I think a lot of younger people who make a lot of use of the internet though tend to be fine.
When I was young I suppose about 1 in 20 youths were trouble makers
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Some kids need a good kickin' to remind them what's right and what's wrong.
Give 'em a dig from me >:(
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Look on the bright side TD......at least you will have ONE clean window on the car... ::)
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There obviously will be exceptions, but poor parenting is probably the reason for the unsocialable behaviour we have now. Coupled with the do-gooder's 'thou must not smack thou child' when they misbehave.
If my dad have told me to stand on a naughty step after I had knowingly and willingly misbehaved, I would have laughed. The fear of a good slap from dad was enough to keep me in check, as I knew he would go through with it. And it would hurt, both physically and ego wise.
How I laughed when school said they were stopping any form of corporal punishment (the PE teachers didn't obey this though!), I could do what I like, and the worse punishment was staying behind for an hour. Except PE, where I was well behaved.
Now I was in Tescos the other day, and some grumpy kid was pushing stuff off the shelves, and the (presumably) mother was giving it all the 'look at me, you'll go to the naughty corner'. In my book, that is bad enough behaviour to warrant physical disipline.
I work in an area of Milton Keynes that suffers from social breakdown, the 15yr old parents have no idea, nor do the 30yr old grandparents. The young kids just run riot, and the teenage ones are anti social and uncontrollable. Some nutter, probably around 15 or so, cam eup to me the other day showing me his stab wounds that he was proud of.
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Sorry to here that TD :(
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Look on the bright side TD......at least you will have ONE clean window on the car... ::)
Funny you should say that Mr DTM ::)
The perspex one fitted...(clean at the mo) shows how bad the rear one is ;D
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There obviously will be exceptions, but poor parenting is probably the reason for the unsocialable behaviour we have now. Coupled with the do-gooder's 'thou must not smack thou child' when they misbehave.
If my dad have told me to stand on a naughty step after I had knowingly and willingly misbehaved, I would have laughed. The fear of a good slap from dad was enough to keep me in check, as I knew he would go through with it. And it would hurt, both physically and ego wise.
How I laughed when school said they were stopping any form of corporal punishment (the PE teachers didn't obey this though!), I could do what I like, and the worse punishment was staying behind for an hour. Except PE, where I was well behaved.
Now I was in Tescos the other day, and some grumpy kid was pushing stuff off the shelves, and the (presumably) mother was giving it all the 'look at me, you'll go to the naughty corner'. In my book, that is bad enough behaviour to warrant physical disipline.
I work in an area of Milton Keynes that suffers from social breakdown, the 15yr old parents have no idea, nor do the 30yr old grandparents. The young kids just run riot, and the teenage ones are anti social and uncontrollable. Some nutter, probably around 15 or so, cam eup to me the other day showing me his stab wounds that he was proud of.
As a parent of four, I fully agree. :y
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As a parent of four, I fully agree. :y
I'm the youngest of five, and I have no compalints with the way I was brought up (I may have thought some things were unfair at the time), and all 5 of us are 'good' considerate people, never intentionally cause any harm to others.
I was, sadly, a bit rebelious at school, as I knew I could get away with anything.
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makes my blood boil, stuff like this >:(
touch wood nothing along the lines of vandalism has happened to my car, and vandalism will happen to any person that attempts to even look at my car the wrong way
a girl sat on my car bonnet one night to try to set the alarm off (which it doesnt have) and was instantly on the receiving end of a lot of verbal from me, and a jug of water followed by the phrase "next time it'll be petrol"
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what a complete pain, however we had ours done not so long ago in our old hyundai pony (fairly rare these days) so can believe that yobs would do such a thing.
had windscreen cracked badly by a bird, i think we were lucky not to have it smash right through.
as we didnt have windscreen cover at the time it was rather pricey. £314 for that to be fitted. off we went and got it done, went home. parked up that night a little bit further down teh road than we normally do. about 1230 hear a smash and our alarm going off. some bugger went and tried to nick the car. alarm luckily scared them off, didnt stop them taking a couple of bits that were at hand, ie my ipod. :(.
phoned up autoglass and they came and put some perspex in for us.
got them to quote for a new window £314!!!!!! you can understand how mega annoyed we were.
on top of that they didnt have the window in stock and we had to wait 3 weeks with perspex in the car.
regards
nathan
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a girl sat on my car bonnet one night to try to set the alarm off (which it doesnt have) and was instantly on the receiving end of a lot of verbal from me, and a jug of water followed by the phrase "next time it'll be petrol"
Was she hot? Could have been a nice payback, makeshift wet t-shirt contest with only one contestant! ;D
I have only been victim to vandalism once a good few years back now, when I was in a nightclub and left the car on the main road outside (probably detox month, I need the car to keep me from temptation). Came out to see it keyed right across both doors on the pavement side >:(. To say I was livid doesn't describe it. As much as I deplore people stealing things, at least I see why they do it. Vandalism is just so pointless and moronic.
Incidentally it's for that reason I won't leave my BMW parked in the city centre overnight. One of my mates had a mirror kicked off his car, luckily it's a Focus so almost every scrappy in the country will sell you one in the colour of your choice. If it happened to my car it would be £600 + painting cost for a replacement due to them being M-tech parts -- must be that unobtanium injected plastic or something ::)
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Sorry to hear that TD. I am working in Wiltshire for the next few months so I think I will bring the wifes Rover :(
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a girl sat on my car bonnet one night to try to set the alarm off (which it doesnt have) and was instantly on the receiving end of a lot of verbal from me, and a jug of water followed by the phrase "next time it'll be petrol"
Was she hot? Could have been a nice payback, makeshift wet t-shirt contest with only one contestant! ;D
I have only been victim to vandalism once a good few years back now, when I was in a nightclub and left the car on the main road outside (probably detox month, I need the car to keep me from temptation). Came out to see it keyed right across both doors on the pavement side >:(. To say I was livid doesn't describe it. As much as I deplore people stealing things, at least I see why they do it. Vandalism is just so pointless and moronic.
Incidentally it's for that reason I won't leave my BMW parked in the city centre overnight. One of my mates had a mirror kicked off his car, luckily it's a Focus so almost every scrappy in the country will sell you one in the colour of your choice. If it happened to my car it would be £600 + painting cost for a replacement due to them being M-tech parts -- must be that unobtanium injected plastic or something ::)
She was a student type person, about 16-17 ish, her boyfriend and his mates kept their mouths shut which was slightly surprising
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Sorry to hear that TD. I am working in Wiltshire for the next few months so I think I will bring the wifes Rover :(
I am actually thinking of moving.....im suppose to be living in a 'good' area....10 years ago it was....not so sure now :-/
Ive been looking for a house and driveway/garage......and garden (for Holly.....not bothered myself)....
but its silly money in Swindon.
My ideal would be flat with secure parking....but seems impossible with Holly.....i need a garden too :-/