Feral youth - What are you supposed to do?

Feral youth - What are you supposed to do?

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Terminator X

15,118 posts

205 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Ignore them, cross the street etc is perhaps the best philosophy. 15 of any sort of group might end up the same way given "crowd think" or whatever it's called.

TX.

MajorProblem

4,700 posts

165 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Go home, plan, then go back stay at a distance until they leave, follow one and attack, cable tie legs and arms together and put a bag over their head, get a chainsaw but take the chain off the bar, let them feel the bar on the side of their face before you start it up, then press it up against their neck, watch them piss/st themselves.

Either that or duct tape them to the nearest lamppost with a sign around their neck.

supertouring

2,228 posts

234 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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MajorProblem said:
Go home, plan, then go back stay at a distance until they leave, follow one and attack, cable tie legs and arms together and put a bag over their head, get a chainsaw but take the chain off the bar, let them feel the bar on the side of their face before you start it up, then press it up against their neck, watch them piss/st themselves.
Have you considered anger management instead?

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

240 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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supertouring said:
MajorProblem said:
Go home, plan, then go back stay at a distance until they leave, follow one and attack, cable tie legs and arms together and put a bag over their head, get a chainsaw but take the chain off the bar, let them feel the bar on the side of their face before you start it up, then press it up against their neck, watch them piss/st themselves.
Have you considered anger management instead?
That *is* anger management biggrin

Pints

18,444 posts

195 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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There's a scene in the film American History X...

anonymous-user

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55 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Thankyou4calling said:
If they are typical 14/15 year olds I would've pushed them, pushed them hard maybe against a fence or wall.

I'm a big bloke, powerful and a shove would be enough to scare them witless.

No way would a kid get the better of me like that, I just wouldn't have it.
That's actually how it all came to an end. The gobby boy tried throwing another punch at me which got deflected and hit my mum on the the arm*, the next thing I remember was dragging him towards the bonnet of a freelander in the road that had stopped. It was only when I processed 'oh, that's a freelander' did I go back to semi coherent thought and process that I was about to chuck a lad onto someone's bonnet and possibly up and over into the road - Not cool. I had also clocked that he wasn't fighting back at this point and was totally limp (or not strong enough to put up any resistance) and I again thought he was just a kid and proceeding any further was going to take me down a path I don't want to travel, so I let go and went back to check on mum.

He was gone within 2 minutes after that. In hindsight I should have done it the moment he squared up to me, but like I've said, I didn't want to lay a fingers on him in any circumstances if it could have been helped.


!*Going over that my sick mum was hit three times and I didn't lash out really makes me feel like a lot less of a man. frown. Mum says I did the right thing, but my inner caveman ain't so sure.


Edited by 279 on Tuesday 7th July 17:39

Aldos Army

253 posts

191 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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why is it that we all feel the same towards these gangs of kids, yet the people who we elect to run the country on our behalf see things differently?

Personally I think the OP should have been well within his rights to give them a kicking and feel safe that he was perfectly within the law.

spaximus

4,234 posts

254 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Aldos Army said:
why is it that we all feel the same towards these gangs of kids, yet the people who we elect to run the country on our behalf see things differently?

Personally I think the OP should have been well within his rights to give them a kicking and feel safe that he was perfectly within the law.
Because they listen to the people who excuse this behaviour for whatever the reason they feel. Broken home, lack of facilities for young people, poverty as they have an Iphone 4 instead of 6, you name it.

At the age described they are not kids but young thugs, who will only learn when someone bigger hits them. If you were a shaven headed tattooed man would they have done the same, not a chance.

Hoofy

76,412 posts

283 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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supertouring said:
MajorProblem said:
Go home, plan, then go back stay at a distance until they leave, follow one and attack, cable tie legs and arms together and put a bag over their head, get a chainsaw but take the chain off the bar, let them feel the bar on the side of their face before you start it up, then press it up against their neck, watch them piss/st themselves.
Have you considered anger management instead?
Note to self: don't argue with MajorProblem.

Leafspring

7,032 posts

138 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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This is why I don't go out on foot after 8pm... this type of "kid" are s pure and simple unfortunately physical retaliation is illegal and "my little Tommy" will be the innocent party when the handcuffs come out after the battering.

I have been "mugged" by a 13 year old at (Stanley) knife point in Gravesend... fortunately he was stoned and built like an anorexic broom handle which is why I was able to spin him round and tip him head first into some unfortunate residents front garden pond.

I still feel guilty today... those poor carp must have been terrified



glasgowrob

3,246 posts

122 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Better man than me OP I would have saw red and went for the gobby one head first regardless

Don't understand why you didn't involve the police if it went down as you say get them involved and get the little bd charged


p1stonhead

25,584 posts

168 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Leafspring said:
This is why I don't go out on foot after 8pm...
Blimey. Where the hell do you live? Perhaps you should move?

Thankyou4calling

10,612 posts

174 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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279 said:
That's actually how it all came to an end. The gobby boy tried throwing another punch at me which got deflected and hit my mum on the the arm*, the next thing I remember was dragging him towards the bonnet of a freelander in the road that had stopped. It was only when I processed 'oh, that's a freelander' did I go back to semi coherent thought and process that I was about to chuck a lad onto someone's bonnet and possibly up and over into the road - Not cool. I had also clocked that he wasn't fighting back at this point and was totally limp (or not strong enough to put up any resistance) and I again thought he was just a kid and proceeding any further was going to take me down a path I don't want to travel, so I let go and went back to check on mum.

He was gone within 2 minutes after that. In hindsight I should have done it the moment he squared up to me, but like I've said, I didn't want to lay a fingers on him in any circumstances if it could have been helped.


!*Going over that my sick mum was hit three times and I didn't lash out really makes me feel like a lot less of a man. frown. Mum says I did the right thing, but my inner caveman ain't so sure.


Edited by 279 on Tuesday 7th July 17:39
After the event we all become pumped up and think shoulda done this shoulda done that.

Of course some 15 year olds are pretty grown up but as I said my tactic would be to shove them hard against ideally a low fence or wall and when I say shove I mean it.

If you push a kid even with 60% of your force in the chest with both hands at close quarters you'll send them flying and they won't be getting up quick, there mates will scarper and if they don't, do it to another.

It's easy to say after the event but a full grown man will have some serious shove and that won't get you in trouble either.

When the yob is lying on the pavement you can either walk away or stand over and tell him if he even thinks about doing that again you'll put him down so he can't get up in a hurry and yes I am powerfully built ;-)

TheJimi

25,018 posts

244 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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glasgowrob said:
Better man than me OP I would have saw red and went for the gobby one head first regardless

Don't understand why you didn't involve the police if it went down as you say get them involved and get the little bd charged
<reads post>

<looks at username>

Makes sense biggrin

Wacky Racer

38,198 posts

248 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Carry some nunchukas and learn Kung fu like Bruce Lee.

He knocked out 83 one after the other in "Enter the Dragon".....biggrin


Serious post:- Bring back the birch.

Hoofy

76,412 posts

283 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Thankyou4calling said:
After the event we all become pumped up and think shoulda done this shoulda done that.

Of course some 15 year olds are pretty grown up but as I said my tactic would be to shove them hard against ideally a low fence or wall and when I say shove I mean it.

If you push a kid even with 60% of your force in the chest with both hands at close quarters you'll send them flying and they won't be getting up quick, there mates will scarper and if they don't, do it to another.

It's easy to say after the event but a full grown man will have some serious shove and that won't get you in trouble either.

When the yob is lying on the pavement you can either walk away or stand over and tell him if he even thinks about doing that again you'll put him down so he can't get up in a hurry and yes I am powerfully built ;-)
You're right about the ease at which you could knock someone over if you put your weight behind you but that is still assault if you meant that kind of getting into trouble.

KFC

3,687 posts

131 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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If you're refusing to either kick the st out of them yourself, or get the police to deal with it, then you have no right to moan when stuff like this happens to you.

If everyone gives them a free pass every time they do it, they're not going to change are they?

Thankyou4calling

10,612 posts

174 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Hoofy said:
You're right about the ease at which you could knock someone over if you put your weight behind you but that is still assault if you meant that kind of getting into trouble.
"They were rounding on me officer, one lunged at me and I had no alternative but to push him away and protect my family.

My mother and brother felt threatened and they'll say the same"

You'd be fine with that. CPS would bin it.

jogger1976

1,251 posts

127 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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Sorry to hear your story OP. Unfortunately, this has been going on for years.

When I was a kid I grew up on a pretty st council estate. One of the things I will never forget was witnessing a gang of lads, some of whom I attended school with at the time, beat a Police Officer nearly to death after he'd come to the park to disperse them for anti-social behaviour.

Also, this was brought home when I read about this http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/16/edm... My cousin lives just down the road and only a week before he'd confronted some teenage scrotes who'd verbally abused his wife.

You've got to be absolutely sure you're prepared to go all the way and live with the consequences as some of these scumbags really don't care either way.frown



Edited by jogger1976 on Tuesday 7th July 19:56

pete a

3,799 posts

185 months

Tuesday 7th July 2015
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You're quite right not to have beat the st out of them, they are after all only kids still, grabbing one by the throat and squeezing very hard for a short while whilst giving some animated verbal encouragement for them to all foxtrot Oscar very sharpish would have been my tactic in that situation.