To tell the teenagers sitting on my wall to clear off

[sandrabedminster]

This has never happened before, but a group of 10 are sat on my wall in my front garden. Im supposed to be out but I opened the front door saw them, gave them a frown and went back inside.

Wwyd really?

Assumed the OP was joking when she said chavs. It's hard to judge the tone on the Internet

Kitty

You could be right

Usual get a sense of humour ffs

Say the wall is unsafe and you need to ask them not to sit on it. Then get a rail put on top asap.

It's your wall and I'm sure you don't want random groups of people treating it like their seat!

Yeah solebizz, casual racism hahahahahahaaaa.

No wonder people use lighthearted when other people are so ready to take offence.

Are you in Bedminster OP? Do they still call the people of Bedminster Begmies?

I'm actually in Clifton east these days, I might pop back to Asda and ask someone there

Rain stopped play! Refine your rain dance and next time they appear practice it in your front garden, you could even ask them to join in.

How about one of these!

Firstly Schwabischeweihnachtskanne if you read my post you would see I politely asked them to move on and I was told to fuck off and given several nasty hand gestures, for me it was a case of finding it uncomfortable to leave my own home as the next day after asking them to leave all sorts of things were yelled at me on my way out of MY HOME I did call their school as they were being very antisocial and it was a bit scary for me.

So my comment about getting a hosepipe in response to someone else suggesting it was lighthearted, when my situation certainly wasn't.

So for me a gang of teenagers telling me to fuck off and die when I left my own home was bloody awful.

Sitting on someone's wall when they're a teenager is not about disrespecting someone's property I disagree completely. At what stage do we teach children about respect towards other people's property? About how people work hard to maintain their homes and gardens? Or how the elderly and other vulnerable members of society may actually feel threatened by groups of teenagers congregating outside their homes and sitting on their property. If we haven't done that by the time they're teenagers then we've failed dismally, imo. Oh by the way son, now you're 25 and leaving home, one thing we forgot to mention, show some respect for your neighbour's property. The fact the they've got a wall at the front of their house doesn't mean that they've issued an open invitation to you, your family and and anyone else you'd care drag along to treat it as a park bench.

And I doubt very much a group of "old" people would feel the need to shout and yell at woman leaving her own home.... But if they did yes I might just want hosepipe them too

Punkrocker

You think that your teens do everything you've taught them when they are out of your sight? I hope mine do. I expect them to. But if they forgot I wouldn't expect some adult to come out all guns blazing.

Kitten

Your situation is not what the OP is describing

We asked some teens to be careful out the front once as they were kicking footballs very close to the cars. Their response was to move away before phoning the fire service, a pizza delivery company and a taxi service and directing them all to our address. It was ridiculous and very frightening for a member of our family with ASD. We reported them for wasting the emergency services' time but some kids can be spiteful.

Maybe not was responding to what Schwabischeweihnachtskanne said to me/asked me and can imagine things can turn this nasty towards someone very quickly.

I saw a group of teenage boys dropping bits of ripped up paper all over the place and I asked them to pick it up. They did
I've asked groups of teens not to swear in front of little children. They apologised
I've had groups of teens move out of the way and apologise when they realised they were swarming all over the pavement and blocking everyone's path

Kittens

I am sorry for your experience. It must have been really horrible - out of your control.

But a lot of the time, it's possible to talk to teens and get them to do what you want without escalating the situation.

Do you have unlocked WiFi by any chance OP? That could explain hordes of teenagers outside?

Lavri

Good thought!

Chavs ??? How astute

At what age do we teach children to respect others..... Well clearly when adults are calling others chavs, never.