Would you report a 12 year old unattended on a train?

[GloGirl]

If you saw two 12 year olds on a train without a grown up would you report it?

"Any adults who saw two 12-year-olds getting off a train on their own should have questioned that."

YABU - call the police!
YANBU - no, I wouldn't

BBC News - Missing Balloch schoolgirls spent night locked inside train
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56476935

Really weird story.

Yes fair point re hiding

Me and my friend tried to get locked into a shopping centre once fuck knows why! Well we were bored I suppose.

No I wouldn't call police for 2 12 yo on a train. Kids go to school on trains fgs!

In part it depends on time. Two young looking kids at 8 pm at night? As a woman who's old enough to be their Mom I might try and chat to th to see if they're ok. If I was a man I'd move to another carriage. At 5 pm and them looking happy, I'd assume they were on their way home from school.

Two kids got onto a train without tickets, knowing they shouldn't. When they got stuck unable to get back on, they didn't tell an adult, they just kept hiding until they could sneak back on and it was then sufficiently late that they dozed off. Except it doesn't sound like they dozed off in a couple of carriage seats else someone would have seen them.

Two little girls asleep on a train would Def ring alarm bells that late so where were they hiding?

But yeah, totally the fault of every other passenger....

I have been locked on a train before with a few other commuters. The driver must have just forgotten to open the doors and left. Luckily we managed to attract someone's attention eventually and were released. It can happen... That said, story is weird, my children travel by train to school and have sent them to nrp by train too!

The carriage should have been checked at the end of the line but 2 twelve year olds on train unremarkable. Most 12 year olds have a phone. Did the friends battery run out too?

No I wouldn't, as
1 - 12 year olds can look older
2 - they're together
3 - they could easily be getting public transport to school.
If it was my 12 year old I wouldn't be placing blame anywhere else, or running off to newspapers, I'd be totally and at them for doing it in the first place!!

Mama needs to ask herself why her child was on a train without a ticket and travelling when it is supposed to be essential travel only.

Who is to say they didn’t hide from the train crew when the train was checked?

Fell asleep my arse.

Friend bubble? My arse.

Essential travel? My arse.

You should know where your 12 year old is mama bear.

And some poor sod will probably get a rocketing because your children were out for shits and giggles.

After being threatened by a youth last week, I’m not feeling the sympathy.

Wee rascals!

I hope the train staff don't get into trouble cos of those two.

Of course they didn’t fall asleep - what utter pish. They hid and got locked in (maybe on purpose) and then overnight it stopped being fun. Bet they won’t do that again. Serves them bloody right, hope they had a horrible night.

Bloody awful parenting to have your 12 year old daughter running around town jumping on trails without tickets and goodness knows what else.

*trains

I read that story earlier... the kids' version is so full of holes. It's laughable.

Mum's been given the scare of her life but decided to get on to the media rather than educate herself and the kids about how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I call bullshit and dreadful parenting.

The parents hadn't a clue where they were. Gone to Glasgow for a day out?? Then meant to be having a sleepover. Lockdown??? Their story has more fish than a trawler

I agree, it looks like the mother is looking for someone to blame.

Only person to blame is the kids. Many kids have to get buses/ trains to school. Also feel there is a bit more to this. They both 'accidentally' fell asleep and managed to get locked on a train- and neither kid had a phone?

Blamey-Louise needs to look no further than a mirror if she wants answers.

But of course blaming someone else is always the easy option.

There has been a bit of a trend on YouTube over the last few years for people (usually young) to get themselves deliberately locked in over night somewhere and then filming it. Supermarkets, IKEA etc.

Kids taking an hour school trip is the norm here...... I wouldn't bat an eye. Wouldn't take much notice if it was out of school hours either tbh.

I've read the article
It sounds like they're far too immature to be out unsupervised and the mother being a complete knobhead is blaming everything except her own parenting.

Honestly you lot, you need to move back to the Mail Online comments section

Some driver or guard is going to be getting a bollocking for not properly clearing the train before locking up for the night. I've no idea if Helensburgh services are driver only operation.

What though were these two doing riding around on trains at the moment? Essential travel only in Scotland isn't it? Schools would have finished many hours beforehand. Lack of a ticket isn't surprising at all though, checks have been suspended in many areas at the moment and some people have been taking advantage.

My dd is 12. I’m shocked these girls had the nerve to do this tbh. The girls’ mother shouldn’t be blaming staff. But the girls. They’re tiny by the looks of it and could easily have hidden out of view of staff.

I was at the mother's quote too.

I was on a train to school every day at that age, and often came back quite late in the evening if I'd been to friend's for tea or anything. Unless a child was distressed or very clearly too young to be alone I wouldn't think anything of it.

Mistakes do happen - I got locked on a train before, but luckily at a busy station where it was easy to flag someone down. But the more the parents try to blame other people, the more it makes me thing their kids are to blame!

Jesus Christ.

I flew solo from NYC to Rio de Janeiro as a 12-year-old American in the 1970s. Didn't speak Portugues, didn't have a phone. Happily alive 40 years later.

Also navigated Rio & Sao Paulo as a young teen pre-1980.

FFS.