Bad behaviour

[tartanwiz]

You are standing in a bus shelter and two small boys smash the glass. Or you are walking along a street when a child smashes a bottle in the middle of the road. What do you say to them, if anything? What can you do?

[thewillow]

Shoot them all.

[Bob...]

You need to treat them like you would a dog !

rub their nose's in it.

[tartanwiz]

Yes, yes, I feel like that too, but I'm serious. I've been in this situation and said or did nothing. I feel, looking back on it, a person should say or do something. But WHAT (realistically, without getting into trouble)?

[apricot]

I always make sure that they know you have seen them and that their behaviour is unacceptable. Tell them that you know who they are and where they live and frighten the living daylights out of them (as long as they are smaller than you).

[flirty41]

Hi TW. I don't think there's anything you can do, really. All you'll get is a load of abuse from the darling kiddies because they know they can't be touched. It's the way of the world now. Kids (not all, I grant you), even youngsters of 6, 7 or 8 are so arrogant and rude. They know they can get away with stuff because if you have a go at them they can run to Mummy or Daddy and say that the nasty man threatened them or shouted at them and then *you'll* end up in trouble. I've had personal experience of this from kids who thought it hilarious to run amock over my front garden with their football, deliberately kicking it so that it ended up there, or kick it so that it 'accidentally' hit the car and then when you told them where to go, all they would do is laugh in your face and do it all the more. There's no respect anymore, that's the thing.

[honkytonkman]

Recently I saw 2/3 young teens (aged 13 or so) trying to smash down a village noticeboard. I basically saw the red mist, lost-the plot totally and screamed at them like a complete and utter lunatic ' the throatiest roar I've ever made, using all swear words and insults I could think of. They all panicked, split-up and sprinted like mad things into the night., and mysteriously a nearby group of them scattered too. A job well done methinks! I'm probably now seen as the local nutter but at least they won't try it on. I'm sure that had I approached and just told them off they would have laughed in my face, but instead they were totally freaked out by 'an irrational pyscho' and didn't fancy tangling with me. The element of surprise works wonders! :) Also when I got home I called the police and asked them to take a car around that area, if they were passing, just to spook the buggers again!

[thewillow]

Tartanwiz - What's a soupheid? Something derogatory and Scottish, I presume?

[nedflanders]

Rip off their tongue's and use it to paint your boat ! Then they can't squeel to daddy.

[Gef]

You should try facing them everyday in a classroom.

[darth vader]

additional to apricot. you tell them you know who they are and where they live, and that since you got out of prison you always have a gun in the house. Should make them kak their pants

[markythreef]

express your anger by killing them. last week a boy threw a glass bottle in the road and my nan crossed the same road and slipped, she slit her wrist on the glass and bleed to death an several minutes - what a bummer