Kids wandering the streets in early hours

[Harry Bloomfield]

Several reports of this now and I have a couple of times seen them myself. Maybe 11 through to 17 year olds, male and females and spotted wandering around the village streets as groups of five to fifteen, at times from 11pm through to 7am.

Bus shelter glass is often shattered, as too are large expensive shop windows, some more than once - but no evidence that the kids are responsible, other than the damage began, when they were first began to be seen on the streets.

All seems a bit odd to me - why would kids of that age be out regularly wandering the streets in groups, at such strange times? Why would the parents allow them to do this?

 

[Vinty]

Their parents probably don't give a toss.
That is why so many end up falling into the hands of child grooming gangs.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

nice to see the kids out getting fresh air. maybe you should follow their example instead of sitting on your arrises in front of the news being covid groomed.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I have reported it via 101 and they say to report again immediately they are next spotted and to use 999 if they are spotted doing anything suspicious. 101 suggested they might be on the loose from care homes, I'm not aware of any local care homes for young people in the area.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

nice to see the kids out getting fresh air. maybe you should follow their example instead of sitting on your arrises in front of the news being covid groomed.

True if it were not in the middle of the night, on a school day, so suspicious, they were not so young and unaccompanied. Would you be not at all concerned about your 11 year old daughter wandering the streets in the early hours?

 

[Deleted member 292770]

True if it were not in the middle of the night, on a school day, so suspicious, they were not so young and unaccompanied. Would you be not at all concerned about your 11 year old daughter wandering the streets in the early hours?

more concerned that you’re awake in the small hours peeping on 11 year olds

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

more concerned that you’re awake in the small hours peeping on 11 year olds

I occasionally get up in the middle of the night to visit the toilet and glance out the window. SHMBO takes the dog walkies at that time. Others have also reported seeing them about. Mind, it's no surprise seeing as you would seem to not have concerns about your 11 year old being out wondering the streets.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Maybe the kids are tweeting that it is odd to see an lone elderly woman walking the dog in the middle of the night.

 

[Diver Fred]

Do have to wonder!

During the London Olympics I was working overnight around the park. Had to stop on the way in to Stratford at Harold Wood Tesco's. There was a number of teenagers in the Car Park using it as race track or using the car park as a meeting point. I'd made comment to the store security and they said it was a regular, 5 or 6 nights a week, occurrence. They had tried to stop it but it continued to carry on.

 

[cwhaley]

I'm only 31 and can honestly say only 15 or so years ago I was doing exactly the same. Looking back on it, I was probably wishing I was at home in bed at the time, but because there were probably a few lads I got on with or even more probable, a girl (!) I got dragged out with them. We just knocked about on the park or on the fields, and then wandered around the streets, sometimes into the small hours. For most of us we weren't out to cause trouble; it was more out of boredom and it felt quite rebellious... just the product of teenage hormones and curiosity. A minority of the group would want to cause trouble, but most had segregated by then. The worse I did was get a 'pink slip' for drinking cans of Woodpecker cider and pushing a friend around in a trolley. I can tell you now nearly all of our parents cared very much, which is why we had to lie about going to a friend's house to "do revision" or something!

It's probably not changed much since then, but I know none of us really had phones if that makes a difference. I also don't remember the pressures school kids face today over cyber bullying or identity. My Dad once got drunk (underage) in a pub in 1968 and he and his mates all ran out the pub with their pints and into the darkness of the town park. Over the years I've overheard their stories and the things they reminisce on aren't really different to the antics of today's youth!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Thanks, I can understand that, it just seems so odd on school days. Many years ago, me, my then partner and a few others would take massive groups of kids out on midnight walks through the local countryside of several miles. It got so big and regular, that I warned the police what we were doing, just in case they got calls about it.

 

[cwhaley]

Thanks, I can understand that, it just seems so odd on school days. Many years ago, me, my then partner and a few others would take massive groups of kids out on midnight walks through the local countryside of several miles. It got so big and regular, that I warned the police what we were doing, just in case they got calls about it.

That brings back memories! My school used to organise unofficial trips up to Edale or Holinsclough (can't remember which) in the Peak District and we used to do a midnight walk. It's what helped me get into hillwalking.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Me too, except we never did any midnight walks. We did the Dales, Three Peaks and Black Forest in Bavaria. It got me loving walking even more and I later walked much of the Cornish coast.

 

[cwhaley]

Me too, except we never did any midnight walks. We did the Dales, Three Peaks and Black Forest in Bavaria. It got me loving walking even more and I later walked much of the Cornish coast.

Can't beat it. I plot my own walks on old OS maps -- we go for hours at the weekends without seeing anybody it can be very rewarding... much better than driving in hoards to the honeypot locations and paying £8 to park your car!

Done bits of the Cornish coast and have happy memories of the old tin mines. I also remember a container ship which had ran aground, with somebody daubing "HMS Tony Blair" on it, but cannot find references to it nor remember the year.

 

[bernardgreen]

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