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Fear of teenage violence is so widespread that most British adults would not intervene if they saw youths behaving in an antisocial manner, according to a new report.
I'd like to think I'd be sensible but on a number of occassions I've been in a situation where I've said to myself "Stay out of this" only to find I was already striding over to the incident.
So far I've survived OK though.....mostly it's having had kids myself and I've got used to raising my voice and telling them off. It's amazing to me the number of times I've treated street yobs like my kids and just told them off and they've all gone off looking a bit sorry for themselves.
I know that I'll regret it one day so I try not to interfere........it's different if they were really hurting someone though. You have a duty of care then I think.
When I was a little one (am only 21 now) I would never have shouted at adults as I was generally scared of the big people (as were all my friends). Nowadays however I get all kinds of obscenities shouted out at me from younger people. I wouldn't intervene and do anything as they tend to know that there's not much I can do, for example, if I were to try and break up a fight involving younger children, it's most likely it'd be me that gets in trouble!
Last year there was an incident on our street where there was a group of kids hanging round the corner shop causing hassle, and I believe bullying some other kids.
A local bloke was passing and intervened, one of the kids punched him, he fell and hit his head on the ground. The paramedics couldn't save him.
The kid in question was already asbo'd to the hilt, was a known troublemaker (was arrested loads of times but to the frustration of the police the courts kept letting him go). What did he get for this offence? 3 years.
