Does the park have an area for these children to sit and chat/meet up? The essence of what they were doing was to do just that. I wonder if there is a group of chairs to sit on slightly away from the younger children’s play area. I imagine their first intention was to mix and chat then secondly they used what was around them, which is only suitable for smaller children. Is there an adults gym area with seating nearby? We seem to do very little to allow teenage lads to relax in each others company, yet a group of them can give off a very intimidating air, just by the nature of their physical presence, aggravated by their posturing body language and the amazing insolence they have developed in a generation. I was hit by a lime bike being ridden by a 15 year old, out of school halfway through the day, who had acquired a bike. He rode it straight into the side of my car, halfway along, and told me he hadn’t seen me because he was listening to his music. He also said he couldn’t afford to pay, and then took off. Knowing he was stealing from me by leaving me with the huge bill. Not much you can do really but I found him around the corner happily boasting to a group of other school children, also out of school, so I asked them which school they were at and they absolutely refused to tell me. Even with a video of them the safer neighbourhood team couldn’t track the school and child down.
Something the lad and his pals probably knew too.
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