Boy Skateboarding on moving train

[ThoroughlyDisgusted]

I was on a train yesterday and something flashed past me as I read my book. It then flashed by again. It was a child of about 8 years old on a skateboard going up and down the carriage of the moving train. He did this a few times and people started to comment about why he was allowed to do this and why his parents didn't stop him. One woman put her bag down in his path and explained that it wasn't a good idea for him to be skateboarding on a moving train. He asked her if she was the boss of the train and she replied something to the effect that he was disturbing passengers and that it was a health and safety issue. He then told her to "Shut the Fuck up" and started to walk away. His mum then appeared and said his name and walked away with him. She didn't make him apologise to the woman and I am not sure what happened next. They possibly just went a few carriages up and continued with the skateboarding.

Aibu or should his mother have made him apologise to the woman for swearing at her?

Mother is twat and the apple didnt fall far from that tree!!

They were probably on their way to buy some flags

It’s the parents. Some parents were total thugs as kids and teens themselves, and they haven’t grown out of it. Their kids are just the same.

I live in a little semi rural town in Scotland, and the last couple of years have been a nightmare. We have one sort of “high street” but it only has a couple of little shops on it. That’s were these kids hang out, ranging from 8/9 up to late teens. They fight, they chase people, they go into to local shop with hammers and knives… and some of them have their parents hanging out with them. The parents are also banned from the local shop as they run around with knives too. They’ve pretty much taught their kids to go down the street and harass people. And this is Scotland; police do absolutely nothing as soon as they see it’s a bunch of kids. They keep holding community meetings with us and saying it’s an “issue for the parents and the community to help these young people.”

No one has been stabbed or badly injured as the kids know the line the police are looking for. But it’s the parents. They’re just poorly educated thugs.

"Are you the boss of the train?" I quite like that one.

@ThoroughlyDisgusted perhaps you should have said "Actually I am. My name is Mrs "Train Company" and my family own this railway" just to see the baffled look on his face.

I found your thread title quite anxiety inducing as it made me worry it was going to be a physics question.
Yes - his mum should clearly have made him apologise for swearing at the lady is much easier to answer than something involving velocity and momentum and other stuff I never really grasped.

If the child was skateboarding on a train and then spoke profanities to you, I think the likelihood of his mother getting him to apologise were lower than low.

I walk with a walking stick and let's just say it might have accidentally caught in his wheels. Dreadfully sorry but it just slipped.

Why didn't the passenger the boy swore at tell him what for znd let the mother know?

Yanbu.

O can’t deny skateboarding up and down a moving train sounds like
fun and actually quite skilful but it’s not ok and he was a rude little whatname in response.

this would make a great physics question

when a boy is skateboarding forward at 8mph on a train that is going at 60mph, how many mumsnetters will be tutting at him?

Love this!!

Did he actually annoy anyone or hurt anyone? I wouldn’t care once or twice but would ask him to stop if it was more.

😂

That genuinely made me laugh out loud, ironically on a packed moving train so I've also just had a few looks thrown my way!

My feet would have inadvertently found its way in his path to trip him up…a little like my feet have a tendency to stick out into the aisle on its own accord when little feral kids are allowed to run up and down the aisles in a plane..you’ll be surprised how many kids stop running through the aisles once they’ve face planted once or twice!

219000?

😂 he sounds like an annoying little shit with knuckle dragging parents, but this did make me laugh. Thank you.

Awful, and of course he should apologise but it did make me think how much my DSs would have loved to do this!
If they had thought of it. And of course, I would not have allowed them!

Or an elbow in the face.

Says everything about what is wrong with our country today…..

Or in 1979

@BeltaLodaLife bloody hell! Can you say whereabouts you are, even roughly? I'll understand if you'd rather not though.
I'm also in a small town and luckily it's nothing like as bad, but whenever there are posts about kids misbehaving/making pests of themselves, the parents get VERY defensive and aggressive.

I’d have summoned the guard, to tell the little sod to behave.

That's not in the job description of the customer service manager.