To think this response was absolutely batshit to someone showing concern?!

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So we have a community page where people mostly post about lost cats, why the police helicopter is out, homeless people begging outside the local shop etc. Last night this woman (who appears to be a neighbour but I don't know her personally) posted something and the response was just absolutely mental and I can't believe some of the comments. She deleted the post in the end I assume because there was just too much stupid on one post.

Basically the long and short of it is, there are some garages down the bottom of one of the cul-de-sacs, there's about 10 and I'd say 8 out of 10 have asbestos roofs. I own one of them but cannot see them from my house (mine is not asbestos). She commented that there were a group of kids running around on the roofs, then jumping off them into a large skip that is full of rubbish and old broken bits of wood and fence panels (belongs to a local fencing guy who rents one of the garages). She was clearly wanting to make the parents aware incase one of them broke an arm/leg/their neck, and the tone of the post was not really a complaint/moan iyswim. Though she later replied to someone else that they were staring into her house and told her to fuck off when she told them to get down.

Well...I can't remember all that was said but in came the posts such "kids can't do nothing these days" "it's just kids being kids leave them to it" "they're not your kids so why you bothered" "leave them alone at least they're not out stabbing and robbing people" "back in the day we used to do stupid shit like that all the time, broke my leg but I'm still alive to tell the tale". There were obviously more sensible people like myself that saw the actual concern and commented in support but the above comments definitely outweighed them.

AIBU to think some people are lacking in the common sense department?! In what world is kids running around on asbestos roofs that they could fall through and jumping into a skip full of old wood that might have old rusty nails poking out, just "kids being kids". I'm absolutely baffled.

I remember doing all sorts of feral things as a child when we all had the free run of our estate. People would be horrified now. I think a lot of people forget what their own childhood was like, because in the 80s that wouldnt have even raised eyebrows. When I was a kid in the 50s the big threat from your mother was if you came back during the day you would be kept it which made sure we stayed out all day. I can remember at 7 going out with my little brother in his pushchair (we didn't have buggies then) and playing by the river with a gang of kids. God knows how we survived and I can't for the life of me think we what had to eat when we were out from breafast till dinner time. I must have had something for a 2 year old.

Same on our local group. There was a group of kids running about our neighbourhood, all about 8 or 9 years old. Running in to people's gardens, trampling on plants, opening doors and shouting at people, throwing stones at cars and vandalising the play parks. When it was mentioned on the local FB group loads of people just said it was boys being boys and didn't we all do that when we were kids. One parent was very vocal about it not being a problem. They weren't at all happy when I showed my daughter the footage someone had sent, she told me who they were and it turned out one of the boys was theirs.

The kids had also gone into the school playground and damaged stuff there so we let the school know who it was and I assume the parents were left under no illusions that "boys being boys" wouldn't be accepted as an excuse.

I think a lot of people forget what their own childhood was like, because in the 80s that wouldnt have even raised eyebrows.

I remember my childhood well enough. My friends and I were not out and about causing trouble and it wasn't ok then for the kids who were.

crinkle77 ours has the crazy ‘could be nothing’ posts about people driving slowly etc. The ones that really get me are the posts of ‘I was out walking my dog and a man with an Irish accent/ dark skin/ Eastern European football tshirt / other racist description approached me and complimented me on how lovely my dog was. I then saw him again later talking to another dog owner. Could be nothing but there HAVE been dog thefts in the area’. Firstly, there haven’t been any dog thefts in the area - they’re often reported as dog thefts in FB but then turn out to be a gate left open by a postman and dog is safe. Secondly, if anyone ever posts out that a dog thief is going to be unlikely to steal a neutered, 10yo mongrel, it’s then decided that the dog thief wants these dogs as bait for their dog fights. It’s always completely nuts and I feel so sorry for whoever this poor bloke is who probably just wanted a chat with dog walkers.

their parents and relatives online just blame it on them having nothing to do

Never occurs to the little buggers to do a bit of gardening/ get some shopping for an elderly neighbour/ go round the streets picking up discarded rubbish/ cook a meal at home and give mam a night off*, does it?

There's plenty to do - they just don't want to do anything constructive.

*probably too young to use the dangerously hot oven, but not too young to ride a motorbike on the pavement while not wearing a helmet

When I was a kid (50's/60's) it was common for complete strangers to tell you off if they thought it was necessary - for say, dumping sweetie wrappers in the street, knocking on doors etc - and heaven help you of you cheeked them back (it wouldn't have vine occurred to any of us to swear at someone). Odds were that your mother found out about it somehow and you got a good hiding when you got home.

I don't advocate hitting children - but I believe the maxim of "it takes a village to raise a child". Children need to know where the boundaries are and what is unacceptable behaviour - they also need to learn courtesy.

I always told mine - :If someone tells you off, you do NOT give them any cheek. Come and tell me and if necessary I'll speak to them.

Entitled little shts who aren't stopped just grow into entitled big shts who can't be stopped.

I grew up in a council flat where there were asbestos-roofed brick sheds for tenants to keep prams, bikes etc in. Kids, including my DB, played on the roofs, despite being constantly warned that the asbestos was flimsy and they'd fall through.

Not only was my DB the one that fell through the roof, but he also managed to fall through the roof of one of the very few sheds that were locked, and that was owned by one of the families where both adults were out at work all day.

My DM had to call the fire brigade to come and get DB out. Of course, this made it a really big adventure. DB still laughs about it, 50 years later.

Our country is finished. We are a nation of morons. The few who aren't morons are in a tiny minority.

Utterly shameful.

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crinkle77 ours has the crazy ‘could be nothing’ posts about people driving slowly etc. The ones that really get me are the posts of ‘I was out walking my dog and a man with an Irish accent/ dark skin/ Eastern European football tshirt / other racist description approached me and complimented me on how lovely my dog was. I then saw him again later talking to another dog owner. Could be nothing but there HAVE been dog thefts in the area’. Firstly, there haven’t been any dog thefts in the area - they’re often reported as dog thefts in FB but then turn out to be a gate left open by a postman and dog is safe. Secondly, if anyone ever posts out that a dog thief is going to be unlikely to steal a neutered, 10yo mongrel, it’s then decided that the dog thief wants these dogs as bait for their dog fights. It’s always completely nuts and I feel so sorry for whoever this poor bloke is who probably just wanted a chat with dog walkers.

You're not in Reading are you? The grief and abuse I got because a daft woman posted a warning, with a surreptitiously taken photo, because a man with an Irish accent who got into a car (! Oh the scandal!) had complimented her dog. I pointed out how utterly ridiculous and frankly racist she was being to be told how I clearly was a traveller lover (they didn't use traveller, they used the hate speech term) and did I not care that someone could've had her dog stolen

Ha we get those I saw a van driving slowly with foreign people in it looking for something.... turned out to some poor bloke delivering for a company who was really lost! Put a stop to it for a while but there still curtain twitching

You can bet the people making these ridiculous comments would be the first to try to sue the bloke whose skip it is if one of their kids did break a leg or similar!