To think young girls screaming and holering like they're being attacked are idiots

[ThreeBunniesOfTheApocalypse]

Have heard this before, teen girls screeching and hollering, which i've investigated only to be met with kids pissin about..... fair enough.

Yesterday took the mini eggs for a walk to a local pond where mini egg one likes to look at newts, on our walk back we heard what sounded like really distressed screaming, 'get off me etc, you're hurting me'

DD was getting visibly upset by this and wanted to investigate, tbh having heard it all before I wasn't too concerned and there were plenty of people walking in the same direction, plus a lady on a bike said she'd see what was going on.

Eventually, because dd was so upset we walked back on my poor, blistered feet to be met with a group of teenage girls as I thought pissing about (dd was horrified at the age of the girls and the behaviour )

Is it me or is that a bloody stupid thing to do ? One day someone could hear someone in real distress and ignore it thinking it's just kids messing ??

Why would you want to take your child to the scene of what MAY be something nasty to "investigate" it?

I agree, screeching girls are very annoying, but on the rare offchance it was something more serious, surely you would want to shield your children from it, not take them to rubberneck at it?

I hate the way cats yowling sound exactly the same as a child crying, it's really creepy but much easier to sort out the difference.

If you're messing about though you don't have a clue how it's going to be interpreted.

There are examples of a woman being raped or murdered where the listeners just put it down to messing about, but for it to be that would be a rarity.

If it happens often and bothers you all you can di is check it out each time because what else can you do? Start telling them off for shrieking? I'm not sure how that'd go down.

It's just attention-seeking when teen girls do it. Note that they always look around to see if anyone interesting has noticed them screeching. They don't realise or care how ridiculous they look and sound - and how their behaviour impacts on others, ie. young children.

They remind me of peacocks and the sound is the same although peacocks are the more tuneful by a country mile. :)

No, not rubbernecking but as people had gone past and we could still hear the noise the concern was that someone was in distress... we were on a nature trail btw and dd is 12, not a toddler.

Tbf squeaky, the OPs not said how old her DD is, she could be 27 for all we know

Ah fair enough, I thought you were talking about a toddler... :), apologies then.

Gawd no I wouldn't tell them off for it. Just seems like a daft thing to do. They walked past us a bit further on, two of the girls in the group were so embarassed they were walking 10 steps ahead

x-posts, if I really thought someone was in extreme distress/danger I would consider taking my 10 YO with me if there was no other option.

I haven't heard someone in extreme distress, but I hope I'd be able to tell the difference between someone getting tortured/in fear for their life and a bunch of teenage girls.

Yes it is twattish. A girl was raped in the park across the road from our old house. At night and no-one heard her. A few evenings later there was screaming coming from the corner of the park and some kids in the playground went over to investigate and one of them came to find her mum. Was a teenage girl 'messing about'

I have heard someone in real distress (being drag by a train ) it doesn't sound a bit like teenagers messing about. It is drilling a hole in your guts.

If you heard someone screaming help me in a distressed tone you wouldn't ignore it tho would you ?? It even had me concerned and as I said, i've heard it 1001 times. T'is stupid

how about if it were younger girls screaming and messing about.......say primary age??

Won't your DD have seen/heard similiar coming out of school, at the bus stop, on the school bus, etc.

YABU your precious little DD will be exactly the same herself in a few years!

Of course teenagers are idiots, it is in the job description.

some of these comments are nasty!!

apocolypse i hate when i hear girls screaming not only does it make me think 'oh god whats happened' but when i realise its just girls pissing about it hurts my ears.

We have kids living over the backs of us, think they are about 12-13 and they scream and shout everyday afterschool, holidays, weekends but its not like just shouting ready or not when playing hide and seek. Last night one of the girls was SCREAMING/SHOUTING together the numbers as she counted so

11111111111111111111
22222222222222222222
33333333333333333333

but it was screechy,, as i laid in the bath i wanted to just lean out of a window and shout SHUT UP to them.

It is annoying BUT it could be someone in danger, it could be your daughter so I think its always worth investigating, even if that makes us look like nosey cows .

Or you could be attacked yourself ragwort?

But the alternative is to ring the police and waste their time every time you hear it.

I think if I heard screaming and honestly thought it sounded genuine, I would ring the non-emergency number and hedge my bets.

There is a difference between making a racket and pissing about (which doesn't bother me at all) and screaming 'help me' as though they're being attacked.

And no princess, my precious little dd won't ever be like that. Sadly.