To think that certain people should be banned from public parks

[ElleBing]

We have a really lovely park near where we live. It's really big, with lots of grassed areas for picnics etc then an enclosed play area.

DH and I took DS there yesterday for a quick run around before dinner time. I noticed that a group of chavs had set up camp next to the enclosed park whilst their kids ran amok inside. The chav parents were sitting on the grassy bit drinking cider, eating junk food and swearing. Two of their kids started fighting one another and rather than try and intervene, the person who I assume was the father sat in the kids' pushchair screeching at the LOs to stop fighting. They carried on drinking their cider before deciding they were going home to "watch Nanny McPhee on pirate wiv a bag ov chipz" then when the motehr of one of the LOs wanted the child to leave the play area she started shouting "come on will ya pooface" Eugh?

All of the other parents were doing cats bum mouth, not just me. I wanted to tell them to shut up with their common mouths and bad language but too middle class, you see? I'dlove to be able to stand up to these people who make life unpleasant for everyone else...

Anyway, DH were talking about them and I said that people like them shouldn't be allowed in parks. They should have an admissions policy. AIBU?

erect death camps and lure them there with a trail of chips.

OMG I csall my dc the most awful names in the park, come on poo face, stinky bum, thing 1 and thnbg 2, the pests etc, bet you would judge me.

ACtually, I call DS stinky bum. I think it was because they'd been swearing and calling the younger boy a "dickhead" that i felt a bit uppity about it. It didn't seem jokey

So much for a tolerant society

Agree with blinks! You may also need some hideuos alcopop to help lure them too

ok calling a child a dick head is deffo not on, but the kids have as much right to run wild as any others.

Tolerant society?

I don't think I should have to tolerate my DS being exposed to swearing and drinking/smoking in a park..

I don't really get the point you are trying to make. Some people are not like you and seem rather unappealing, so they should be ghettoised?

I don't find it pleasant hearing other parents being verbally abusive to their children.

I far do we take being a 'tolerant society'? As far as thinking it's ok to call a young child a dickhead? 30 years ago we'd have tolerated other parents giving their child a smack. Thank god we've moved on from that. Would be nice to think we could move a bit further.

YABU - I assume the park is a public place for ALL to use?

Although I do like blinks idea of a modern day hansel and gretel.

YABU - they are just as much entitled to live and use free public facilities as you.

And I'm not convinced that a bit of swearing and junk food makes them so bad they have to stay at home.

How about instead of bitching at the ones who took their kids to the park and made a day of it you bitch at the ones at home playing xbox all day.

How were they making life unpleasant for you?

I notice how suddenly they are abusive parents, swearing at their kids and calling them names...bit different from the OP, where it's just "pooface"...

You should spend time teaching your children that this is how some people live and you would rather they didn't repeat those words. We live in a free society, we do not ban people from parks because you do not like the way they behave, they have as much right to be there as you.

I don't think they should be ghettoised. I think that if they're going to go to a public park where lots of children are playing, they should moderate their language, probably not swig bottles of cider or smoke. It's called appropriate behaviour. Are you seriously telling me you'd be happy for your LO to come hom from the park using bad language that they picked up from some thickos too dumb to employ some decorum?

Not that there's anything wrong with the odd, lazy day playing xbox.

Absolutely tinier and whilst there we should sterilise them, stop them breeding and creating more chavs

There are regulations about using public parks quite often. It's not a free for all for anyone to behave however they like.

The council provides parks for public use..

If you dont like the people who use yours find another one

perhaps one that has a sign that says middle class parents with well behaved children only

What's wrong with drinking alcohol in the park while your children play

bet if it had been champagne drunk by a load of hoorays in boaters it would have been all right

There are other lifelines parks OP

You don't want anyone to drink or smoke in public, where your DS might see...

Perhaps you should stay indoors.

Oh so because it's a public park, that's carte blanche to behave however we like. OK, I misunderstood.

I'm just off to streak through the park before injecting heroin through my toes on the slide, just because it's a public park and I live in a tolerant society.

FGS.

No, I wouldn't be happy, and if you'd posted 'AIBU to think people shouldn't swear in the vicinity of small children?', I'd have agreed. I assume you don't really think they should be banned though? Or on what criteria are you going to base this ban? Some kind of class/parenting test at the park gate?

Fortunately, we (at the moment) live in a free society where unless you're a convicted criminal you're pretty much free to go anywhere. I prefer that to the alternative, even if it sometimes means I have to remove myself/my child from somewhere if I'm not keen of the behaviour of people nearby.

Parks are actually for public use, not just for parents and small children.