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... for playing football in the street!
Council bosses threaten children with prosecution - for playing football in the street | Mail Online
Quite unbelievable. I'd much rather my children were out playing rather than lying around the house playing their wii, DS, Playstation or Xbox and out getting some fresh air, climbing trees or riding their bikes.
My eldest was out playing the other day with a load of his friends in the road, it's a quiet road with not a lot of traffic and on the whole they are all sensible, very nice young boys.
However, he did break a plant pot in the front garden of the old lady over the road and I saw her telling him off. He apologised to her, but she wasn't very happy to say the least. I made his Father take him to the garden centre and buy her another pot (of course the one he broke was one of a matching pair so we had to buy two) but he took them over to her himself and apologised again for breaking it. She couldn't have been more pleased.
The point is, why should it be down to a Council that is crammed to bursting with little hitlers trying to justify their jobs and their massive salaries rather than be left to the parents and the use of a little common sense.
This initiative is being led by Newark and Sherwood District Council's Anti-social Behaviour Co-ordinator!
Anti social behaviour? Are they for real?
This is the best part though:
"A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said the force plans to warn offenders in the first instance. 'If they failed to move on or persisted to cause a problem, we would then consider arrests,' he added".
God forbid they catch any rapists, murderers or burglars. Arrest the children out playing - excellent.
Council bosses threaten children with prosecution - for playing football in the street | Mail Online
Quite unbelievable. I'd much rather my children were out playing rather than lying around the house playing their wii, DS, Playstation or Xbox and out getting some fresh air, climbing trees or riding their bikes.
My eldest was out playing the other day with a load of his friends in the road, it's a quiet road with not a lot of traffic and on the whole they are all sensible, very nice young boys.
However, he did break a plant pot in the front garden of the old lady over the road and I saw her telling him off. He apologised to her, but she wasn't very happy to say the least. I made his Father take him to the garden centre and buy her another pot (of course the one he broke was one of a matching pair so we had to buy two) but he took them over to her himself and apologised again for breaking it. She couldn't have been more pleased.
The point is, why should it be down to a Council that is crammed to bursting with little hitlers trying to justify their jobs and their massive salaries rather than be left to the parents and the use of a little common sense.
This initiative is being led by Newark and Sherwood District Council's Anti-social Behaviour Co-ordinator!
Anti social behaviour? Are they for real?
This is the best part though:
"A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said the force plans to warn offenders in the first instance. 'If they failed to move on or persisted to cause a problem, we would then consider arrests,' he added".
God forbid they catch any rapists, murderers or burglars. Arrest the children out playing - excellent.
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