to think that this is going too far?

[PrettyInDecadence]

Yesterday I was on a high street when it started to piss it down with rain. I'd stopped to sort out the rain cover on DS's buggy when a woman next to me stopped a couple lads and asked them to put their hoods down as she found it 'threatening and offensive'. It was absolutely chucking it down!

AIBU to think that this was completely uncalled and to find it quite sad that it has got to a stage that some people assume teens with hoods are knife wielding thugs?

Good grief! They refused I hope?!?

she's weird.
did they do it, or just laugh in her face?

I find the plastic hoods old ladies wear to be threatening and offensive. Even though they are normally see through, they do obscure the face somewhat and are often used in robberies. If I see a little old lady wearing a plastic hood in the rain, I demand she removes it. Totally acceptable.

Oh for God's sake! How dare she? Personally I find those plastic cap things which my granny once made me wear offensive but I wouldn't insist on removal.

What did the boys do?

She couldn't have felt that threatened or offended if she spoke to them about it.
Did it really happen?

knowitall were you also made to wear one? Horrifying experience which left me scarred

Ridiculous!

Yep, too far. Someone seems to have forgotten teenagers are people too!

Pile of crap Lol

How could she feel threatened by them and ask them to take their hoods down?

Worra has a good point!

Wouldn't she just cross the road?

Er...not sure I believe you.

Huh?

I honestly don't know why she felt the urge to comment on it, maybe she just felt like sticking her foot in? Sadly she wasn't of a plastic hood wearing age, otherwise she would not have had any right to comment!

The scenario you describe sounds really odd.

Are you quite sure that is exactly what happened and that you neither misheard or misunderstood.

I am finding it hard to understand unless the woman had mental health issues. It simply defies logic that someone would assertively approach people who were moving past on the grounds that they were intimidated. It makes no sense.

What?

yeah she can't have found them that threatening!?

We recently went to a Haven site, my 14 year old son was told by "security" on the "door" of the entertainment venue (which you had to walk through reception and an arcade to get to) to put his hood down. He was with me, his eight year old sister and my retired mum. It was pissing down outside.

He was a big threat, I assume. In his jacket, that had a hood, to keep rain off.

I suppose Haven have to have a policy though rolex

They can't have a policy when it's pissing it down with rain though?

Yeah maybe, because I bet they get shitloads of 14 year olds renting caravans and carrying out muggings on the site...in between go karting and archery

a policy on a 14 year old wearing a hood when it is raining, i bet Haven wouldn't tell a women to remove a head scarf

Don't even get me started on Haven...

dogsrolex, I assume he was asked to take his hood down INSIDE, not outside.

yes, that's correct. We had walked through reception, and the arcade (which you have to buy passes to enter). This took all of two minutes. My mother 65 ish, me 34ish and 8 year old dd were stood beside him. But rules are rules

I can understand that rule as there is often anti social behaviour in arcades rolex

However, the whole OP is just weird.