to think chavy, tacky hen parties should SOD off [Edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

[CannoninD]

I’m fed up.
I’ve lived in my beautiful, respectful and historic city my entire life .... but over the last year it’s been invaded by GOD AWFUL hen parties!

20+ strong groups of horrifically common (referring to behaviour not social class) women who inflict their horrific behaviour on everybody within reach.

They’re EVERYWHERE and I know it’s not just me as there are sunbstantial concerns being raised by residents all over the city.

I counted 23 large groups this weekend (I only walked into the (small ish) city centre on Saturday morning and witnessed the following behaviour-

• Loud swearing (F and C word) right in front of/across young families and children just trying to enjoy a day out.
• Shop doors slammed in elderly shoppers faces (too busy pratting around to pay any attention).
• Stock being damaged by pratting about (and then hidden) to avoid paying.
• Horrifically vulgar and inappropriate content being loudly discussed in family areas (a garden/park area) to the point that families got up and left.
• Completely inappropriate Lingerie being worn in the street (before 2pm).
• Vomiting in the street! Whilst being jeered by the rest of the group.

Personally I would rather bleach out my own eyes than go on a hen do like this- but honestly at what point do we just call the police on these ridiculous idiots inflicting such unreasonable behaviour on families and regular people? What’s worse is, I bet back home they’re perfectly normal women. They just all get together and come away from home and behave like total arseholes!

Being in a large group and celebrating an event- does not give you a hall pass to behave like scum. 😡

We were considering a short break in York but I'll think twice now. I don't think we'll do Norwich instead, we live too near it! Definitely worth a visit though, we go on day trips regularly. Any advice about Edinburgh? That's another place we've thought of going to, but not if it has the same problems.

I don't mind hen parties if they act like adults but they seem to turn into giggling schoolgirls. Whats wrong with a nice spa day!

Horrible to see, but what can be done about it? apart from vent here

Hotels refusing to take bookings from large single-sex groups; said groups not being allowed into pubs, restaurants, etc. Council stopping drinking on the streets (in some cities this is illegal).

I think that pubs grouped together and had a joint policy that they would stop serving people with inflatables, but it hasn't stopped it completely as this photo taken on a Saturday afternoon in March shows.

I think that pubs grouped together and had a joint policy that they would stop serving people with inflatables

Do they really tote around male blow up sex dolls? This is a thing?

Yes, she’s using the word as a snob.

I didn’t have a hen do, have not been to one, or either this newer thing - baby showers 🙄all tacky (not common).

Enjoy your lives but please don’t walk over other lives to get your kicks.

Although I'd hate what you describe @CannoninD I have to just say, we've recently been to a Spanish resort well known for partying and noisy stag/hen dos, even if the streets are covered in vom and lbs of litter at 2am, by 7am the Spanish street cleaners have done their thing and it's all sparkling clean again, that being said, I can't think of anything worse than being that inebriated during the day that I'd puke in the street. Nope. Wearing my underwear before 2pm has been known though...

I'm with you OP, disgusting and disrespectful! Those on here that think this is acceptable are part of the problem!

A few months ago DS2 went to an open day at York University. All was good - then we went for a wander round town, it was a Saturday and a bit of an eye-opener for everyone as we hadn't been there for about fifteen years. He's got long blond hair and every second gang of pissed half wits wanted to stroke him ( among other things ) He liked the university but said couldn't face living there!

missconduct
I give you

Yanbu, OP!

Thanks @dreichuplands, fortunately the hen party I saw didn't manage to get one on the plane. That does take the cake, doesn't it?

I’m from Newquay, pretty standard here, totally agree, both hen and stag.

Missconduct, you got off lightly.

My DC and I were once subjected to this type being passed along a train carriage for floppy blow jobs and sex acts.

I hope one of them had coldsores and passed them on 😳

There was something in the radio a few weeks ago discussing the problem of people in general from Newcastle/Sunderland areas going down to York on the train for the day getting extremely drunk in the centre then getting last train back. So it’s not limited to just stage and hens!

It’s definitely not just stags and hens. Just large groups of people off their faces.

That's crazy though - Newcastle has a reputation as a great night out and I shouldn't think York pubs would be any cheaper. Why bother?

Because it’s a small town with a high concentration of bars?

Because it’s ‘fun’ to go somewhere else?

Because it’s seen as a ‘classy’ place (hollow laugh)?

Because if you go an hour down the train line there’s less chance of your boss clocking you lapdancing a homeless person?

Who knows? I wish I did know what attracted the fuckers, so we could change it and they’d piss off somewhere else.

@SkintAsASkintThing You're quite right, you're experience on the train was much worse.

I do recall the bride to be calling the stewardess a c* when she stopped alcohol service to the group then getting quite salty with the flight officer until she was told that any further disruptive behavior would get her arrested when the flight landed in Los Angeles. It was as if they believed that as a hen party they weren't subject to normal rules of conduct.

YANBU. They’re grown ups. It’s all got out of hand. What’s wrong with a night at a club, a kebab and the bride to be safely delivered home to sleep off her “excessive” few drinks? They’re getting married not going on death row!

MissConduct the sad thing is if we clamped down massively on this sort of behaviour it wouldn't take long to nip it in the bud. Let's face it, you get the odd knobhead who thinks the rules don't apply to them in Saudi but in the main people tow the line........ obviously I wouldn't want to go to that extreme but it shows that people are perfectly capable of enjoying themselves without getting in a state to do it.

Yanbu.
Can’t bear large groups (male or female )boozing and cursing (during the day if kids around watching on ). I’ve no prob with costumes etc.

Newcastle has a reputation as a great night out and I shouldn't think York pubs would be any cheaper. Why bother?

Because they have been banned from their own local pubs?

@Laura May. What so those of us who have lived here all our lives, ru businesses here, work here, have family and children in schools should uproot all that because some selfish people want to get so pissed they are puking in the street at 3pm on a Saturday?!

My DH visits York for work occasionally. Last year, leaving York by train on a Friday afternoon, he was ‘given’ a drunk man to look after by a member of station staff and instructed to make sure that he got off at Manchester. The bloke had a carrier bag of bottles of spirits and a bashed face from falling over. Christ! Husband has dined out on the full story ever since.

His view on York’s unfortunate rowdiness problem is as follows:

York is too easily accessible by train, especially from the NE. Harrogate, Ripon etc have escaped the scourge because (amongst other things, eg stricter local authorities) you have to change trains to get there and the last trains leave before the pubs shut.

York has gained a reputation as a great place to go boozing because the races have been promoted as a great, and boozy, day out. People who have been for the races would likely choose it for a hen or stag do.

York is a squaddie town, and has pubs that cater for squaddies’ (and hens’) tastes. You don’t get much of that sort of thing in Ripon or Harrogate!