On Sat, 10 May 2008 11:33:12 +0100, Richard Miller
wrote:
>In message , MM
> writes
>>
>>Upset? Aw, diddums! These folks, like the yobs I often see on the local
>>buses, make other people's lives a misery. Just the effin' and blindin'
>>bit makes a lot of older people very uncomfortable, not to say
>>threatened.
>
>Sorry, but we can't make laws based around the excessive fears of
>law-abiding groups of people of small sections of the community.
Ah, that's that, then. Folks just have to get used to it and suffer in
silence. I see.
>I sometimes get nervous walking past a group of teenagers. But if they
>are not doing anything unlawful, I wouldn't for a moment want them to be
>subject to any sort of attention from the authorities.
And what if one of them passes an abusive remark behind your back, do
you turn around and confront them?
MM |