The menace of rowdy teenagers

This is an interesting story about how a 66-year-old granny from England tried to safe her car and protect her grandchildren from a bunch of rowdy teenagers.

And for all her heroic troubles, she ended up in jail, waiting to hear if she will face charges of assaulting a 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.

Not that these teenagers were innocent bystanders in the incident as well. They, along with a group of others, had first kicked a ball against her car. When she asked them to stop, these teenagers started threatening her in front of her two grandchildren. Her granddaughter was allegedly hit in the incident.

This was when she allegedly hit the boy and dragged the girl by her hair. For these Brenda Robinson was arrested and jailed overnight in Bournemouth. No action is being taken against the rowdy teenagers.

Delinquent teenagers are fast becoming a menace in housing estates all over England. No one – that includes the school, community and parents – seem to be interested or in power to stop this worrying trend.

Of course, there are the police and the much maligned Anti Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) but its effectiveness is yet to be determined and even then, in most cases labelled unjustifiable by human rights groups.

I think the only solution to solve the problems of rowdy and rude teenagers is to give immunity from prosecution for parents and teachers to punish these offending lots.

Proper education starts at home and continues in school. If these teenagers don’t get them in either of these places, it will inevitably lead to them being a bunch of rotten teenagers.