I would like to congratulate the tossers who burnt down the play park next to the Abbey ruins! My kids loved it there and now the football pen will be closed as well!!!! Why can't kids be kids instead of trying to be wannabe gangsters drinking and smoking!
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Certain young people seem to be getting more and more disaffected and detached from what most of us would call a normal society/community. The causes are multi-fold and range from lazy and poor parenting to social issues born from a raft of uncontrollable (as far as the youngsters are concerned) measures implemented by councils and other local authorities.
There needs to be more engagement with them otherwise we'll see part of a generation lost.
Kids of today just should never be bored, they have so much to do if they put their mind to it, it is unreal!
* I really should be in politics you know.
It's nothing to do with boredom or inclusion, infact there are links to people who do arson to very serious crimes in the future , like people who actually harm and kill animals ,or who start out as flashers and end up as rapists
The person or persons who done this are filth scum
Like I say, I'm not defending or condoning their actions at all, but there are reasons why they behave like they do.
On the 'should never be bored' line, I agree wholeheartedly. On the putting their mind to it bit, I don't think it's as simplistic as that.
Could it have been an unfortunate accident? A stray cigarette, from a parent having a sneaky bit of stress relief, landing on a tissue left there unintentionally?
An accident is highly unlikely and if it was adults responsible god help any children they spawn.
It's a deliberate act of vandalism caused by a scum bag
When I was young we'd play kerbsy, use a lamppost as a cricket wicket, British bulldog etc. our local park had a playground but that was about it.
Now some parks have free facilities such as floodlit ball game cages, tennis courts, outdoor gym equipment, table tennis, basketball courts, skate park equipment etc.
The big difference is cuts to council budget has meant that we now have about a twentieth of the park keeping staff as we did back then.
We were by no means angels, but if we were up to no good and a parkie saw us, we legged it. Now, kids actually seek parkies out for confrontation.
I heard the swing was giving it large and the slide was well out of order. : - )
On a more serious note, pretty sure buildings, play areas and similar got burnt down or vandalised when I was growing up in the 60s/70s. And we only had 2 or 3 TV channels and no computers.
SOME young people (and we don't even know if it was young people) were shits then and SOME are now.
Still disgusting what whoever it was did.
If they didn't accept my apology then we invariably ended up in a spat of fisticuffs ;-)
As discussed here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21041160) the evidence that kids are less bored is far from conclusive, but this kind of incident does seem less common now. Not a great consolation I guess when it happens in your area, but we need to keep a sense of proportion...