I have just returned home after observing 2 boys and a girl (I would say between 15 - 16 years old) trash my normally immaculate, new playground.
They were sitting on the ground throwing cigarette butts at each other.
They left after seeing 2 adult men who look after the park walk in.
I spent a good 5 minutes clearing the playground of cig. butts, pieces of paper, pens and squashed sweets, so that the small childrem could play in a clean playground.
Why do they sit on the ground of a playground, the playground only has things for small children - up to say 6 years old. Everything is too small to be suitable for a teenager. There was loads of space in the surrounding park with empty benches, yet they chose the playground. Why were they not in school any way ?
I used to go to another playground in a park in a very nice part of North London. On two occassions another woman and I spent 10 minutes picking up pieces of bottles that had been deliberatley broken all over the ground. Ds nearly walked into some very nasty looking glass. They had also burned the little house at the top of the toddler slide. Newspaper had been thrown in and set alight. The other women said it was local teenagers.
Any ideas why this kind of behaviour is so prevalent ?
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Why do teenagers trash my local playground during school hours ?
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yellowrose · 07/03/2007 14:26
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