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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
Dave Larrington wrote:
In ps.com, Duncan Smith tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: Over the last half year, while cycling home at night the local kids have been displaying threatening behavior on average about once a month. So far this has been: Wait until you are dead level, then quite suddenly jumping out into the road, shouting and waving at the top of their voices - presumably an attempt to make you fall off? Shouting abuse - you fat/flash? b*stard and other profanities - a reference to blinking cat-eyes? As above, but also throwing a well aimed bottle at your head. I think it's probably different kids in slightly different locations each time. So far I've kept a non-confrontational approach and just ignored it. Do other people get the same problem, should I react/fight back, report to police, or just continue to ignore? Maybe it would help to look less conspicuous - remove hi-viz, hats and turn off lights before the town centre? Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. No offence! |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
Phil Cook said the following on 04/10/2007 21:58:
report to police, Yes. What do you think the police will do? -- Paul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007, Paul Boyd usenet.is.worse@plusnet wrote:
Phil Cook said the following on 04/10/2007 21:58: report to police, Yes. What do you think the police will do? Write to the local paper saying they take all allegations of criminal activity very seriously. Nothing else. But I'd still report it - I've a touching faith in authority, no matter how misguided. regards, Ian SMith -- |\ /| no .sig |o o| |/ \| |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
Paul Boyd wrote:
Phil Cook said the following on 04/10/2007 21:58: report to police, Yes. What do you think the police will do? Nothing, unless you push it. Keep on reporting them and eventually the police will do something if only to shut you up. -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
marc wrote:
Dave Larrington wrote: In ps.com, Duncan Smith tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: Over the last half year, while cycling home at night the local kids have been displaying threatening behavior on average about once a month. Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. No offence! Alternatively get in your car and mow them down. -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
Duncan Smith wrote:
Over the last half year, while cycling home at night the local kids have been displaying threatening behavior on average about once a month. So far this has been: Grim. Where is this? The only time some lads (14-15?) tried to line across a bike path and get me to stop, I put it in the bike ring, started shouting 'YYYEEEEAAAAAA' and sprinted full pelt at the biggest one. When he moved slighly, I adjusted course to keep aiming at him. They moved properly aside sharpish at that point. It would have hurt me more than them if I'd hit, but they didn't know that. Arthur -- Arthur Clune |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
On 4 Oct, 21:02, Duncan Smith wrote:
Over the last half year, while cycling home at night the local kids have been displaying threatening behavior on average about once a month. So far this has been: Wait until you are dead level, then quite suddenly jumping out into the road, shouting and waving at the top of their voices - presumably an attempt to make you fall off? Shouting abuse - you fat/flash? b*stard and other profanities - a reference to blinking cat-eyes? As above, but also throwing a well aimed bottle at your head. I think it's probably different kids in slightly different locations each time. So far I've kept a non-confrontational approach and just ignored it. Do other people get the same problem, should I react/fight back, report to police, or just continue to ignore? Maybe it would help to look less conspicuous - remove hi-viz, hats and turn off lights before the town centre? Many thanks, Duncan A few years back, I came upon a group of lads who were sat on someone's wall, drinking. As I passed, one of them threw a beer can at me and it struck my front wheel but without much impact. Still, I don't put up with that behaviour, so swung around to go back and have a go at them, wether that was a good idea or not. As I reached them, another one pulled a lump hammer out of his jacket, so I swung back out and made my escape whilst one of them tried to chase me on foot. Obviously, they didn't like being confronted and made their way off, leaving their empties on the pavement. I came back and was met by one of the neighbours who saw the whole thing, so I asked him to call the police, who came, collected the beer cans, took my details and went on the hunt. The group were picked up down the road, together with the lump hammer, and were connected with an earlier incidence of criminal damage. The police visited me later and took a statement about the incident. I didn't hear anything since then, since the police are particually bad at telling interested parties about the outcome of any action. But I'm happy I did my bit, after all nobody should tolerate such behaviour. David Lloyd (at work) |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
unlurk
Duncan Smith wrote: Wait until you are dead level, then quite suddenly jumping out into the road, shouting and waving at the top of their voices - presumably an attempt to make you fall off? Since moving to Newham and returning to cycling earlier this year, I've had variations on this happen several times. Typically, they're waiting at the roadside, as if to cross, and as I pass yell at the tops of their voices into my ear. I've also had them do the same sort of thing while passing me on BMXes. Twice this has happened to me on busy fast roads with their fair share of HGVs, where I dread to think what the consequences would have been if I had come off. Shouting abuse - you fat/flash? b*stard and other profanities - a reference to blinking cat-eyes? In addition to the usual homophobia etc. that I'd occasionally get from gangs of teenagers if I were on foot, I tend to get "nice bike" and variations on that theme. I consider that to be an occupational hazard of riding the folding BSO[1] that I'm currently using, and is in itself harmless. They do seem more willing to shout abuse if you're on a bike, though, presumably because you're unlikely to stop. It never seems to happen when stopped at lights. The great thing about folding bikes is that although they're an object of ridicule when you're riding them, they do seem to attract a look of awe when you fold them up and bung them in a supermarket trolley or whatever. As above, but also throwing a well aimed bottle at your head. Not had that, thankfully, though I have been spat at (thankfully with poor aim) from passing cars. I think it's probably different kids in slightly different locations each time. So far I've kept a non-confrontational approach and just ignored it. Works for me. Sadly, in the interests of not swerving into traffic, I try to expect that likely looking people at the roadside will do the shouting thing, so it doesn't scare me quite as much. Having been a teenager myself, I feel bad for stereotyping like that, as law-abiding teenagers are invisible enough these days. /unlurk Kim. -- [1] It was cheap, it fits in the flat without hassle, and I didn't want to invest in a decent bike until I was sure that my dodgy knee[2] would cope. [2] Childhood injury that has caused the knee to fatigue easily since my late teens. It seems that moderate cycling has improved it massively, so that's another excuse[3] to invest in a proper bike sometime next year. [3] Apart from it being free as I'm not running a car any more, obviously |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
On Oct 5, 11:38 am, (Arthur Clune) wrote:
Duncan Smith wrote: Over the last half year, while cycling home at night the local kids have been displaying threatening behavior on average about once a month. So far this has been: Grim. Where is this? Northampton, and not really the town-centre either, just the outskirts. It's a shame but not that bad, in a year they haven't managed to actually hit me yet. I imagine in some areas of Manchester they must make commuting by bike a serious difficulty - if not impossible? Regards, Duncan |
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How to best handle threatening behavior from the local teenagers?
Duncan Smith wrote:
On Oct 5, 11:38 am, (Arthur Clune) wrote: Duncan Smith wrote: Over the last half year, while cycling home at night the local kids have been displaying threatening behavior on average about once a month. So far this has been: Grim. Where is this? Northampton, and not really the town-centre either, just the outskirts. Whereabouts? I used to avoid certain areas around Billing/Lumbertubs! |
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