East Lancashire snow: ‘Despicable’ yobs ambush gritter (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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East Lancashire snow: ‘Despicable’ yobs ambush gritter
11:35am Wednesday 6th January 2010 in News
BARRICADE: Youths built snow bollards across Dunoon Drive, Blackburn, blocking the gritter
A GANG of youths have been criticised after ‘ambushing’ a gritter on Monday night, preventing it from treating side streets in the Shadsworth area of Blackburn.
A group of a dozen teenagers built a series of three-foot high snow bollards which, combined with parked cars, made it impassable for the plough and gritting vehicle.
Councillor Jim Shorrock said the behaviour was “despicable”.
He said: “We are having great difficulty in Shadsworth as it is with a lack of gritting, and grit bins not being filled.
“So to purposely stop the ploughs from coming down is despicable.
“Of course we want the kids to have fun.
“But they must keep the roads clear so that emergency services, and services for elderly people, can make their way through.”
Comments(23)
dadada
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12:40pm Wed 6 Jan 10
frank
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12:42pm Wed 6 Jan 10
blackburner
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2:11pm Wed 6 Jan 10
lets get this into perspective, in the current extreme weather situation which is worsening all the time,
at this time of year these gritter drivers are the
FOURTH EMERGENCY SERVICE
superheavy
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2:27pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Davidoff
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2:58pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Like Hellboy, it WAS infuriating watching the cowardly little twerps doing all this. Infuriating because you knew if you called the police you'd be told off for wasting their time. So who do we turn to? As Hellboy correctly points out - and we've sadly seen in news reports - if you try to tackle these people you never know what they will do and you are likely to have bones broken or end up dead. It's because these imbeciles aren't being punished for this by the authorities that they are DOING it. In Darwen last weekend a gang of 10 youths brutally attacked four people in the town centre. Will they be caught? Doubt it, given there was another report - guess what involving? - a few months ago with TEN youths involved so obviously they weren't caught from the last time. So, it takes 10 of you to pick on one person does it? How brave of you. Just one of you on your own would go screaming to your mummy or daddy (if you have one in this day and age or even know who it is and not the last man out your front door) if you tried it. So, you go round in gangs because you are cowards.
If we try to deal with them ourselves in numbers these same gang members are very skilled at making up tales so that they get off and you are the one in trouble. And if we try to deal with it ourselves the law is most definitely not on our side.
It's high time our streets were taken back and these people driven out of our communities once and for all.
GANGS = COWARDS.
MerlinTheVoiceofReason
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3:11pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Davidoff
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3:14pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Stone Island
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4:36pm Wed 6 Jan 10
ASIAN-MEMBER-BBURN
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5:17pm Wed 6 Jan 10
angie3
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5:22pm Wed 6 Jan 10
I had the unhappy experience of once living on a council estate and any sane person knows that alot of kids on these estates have crap parents who spend the day drinking smoking and doing sod all else. Not great role models for the kids who then get the attention elsewhere by causing trouble.
moggy669
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5:56pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Its the only language they understand.
Davidoff
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6:30pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Davidoff
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6:39pm Wed 6 Jan 10
I've just watched a news item on Granada Reports about a house in Blackburn where just one family - not a housing estate BTW - terrorised the entire street. What excuse do they have? They were evicted from the house by police in the end. Sorry, but people choose to behave in this way, they can always choose not to do so. Like the rest of us in society does.
Violence is not the answer but unless someone, somewhere does things it will get worse. Granada Reports also released results of a survey undertaken in Lancashire over reports of anti-social behaviour: over 13000 reports per month, last August that rose to over 14000. Burnley was listed as the second highest in the UK for the worst anti-social behaviour with Pendle second.
All people want is to be able to live in safety and peace. That has been taken from them. It's simply not right that people are too afraid to leave their homes in some areas during the day or night. One in the GR feature, a teacher, said she had to water her plants at night for fear of harassment by the family. The other resident had faeces daubed on her back wall by the family.
When the police showed up the house to serve papers, the fact the lady opening the door was so shocked they had arrived summed up the fact that they didn't even know they were causing problems.
People just want to live in safe communities. As they should be able to.
Davidoff
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6:46pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Yet, those same apologists dial 999 when it happens to them no doubt. To those same apologists, are you aware these 'children' carry knives? Or worse? Act as drug mules? Yes, for people living in such areas this is a very real problem. In problem areas. These are hardly activities children should be indulging in yet have been for quite a while now.
Read this, this is what people in Darwen live with:
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Davidoff
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6:52pm Wed 6 Jan 10
Frenzy
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11:59pm Wed 6 Jan 10
There is enough BS out there in this world that u now have to bring your differences into this.
It is said - if u have something useful to say, then say it! Otherwise remain quiet.
johnboy12
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4:33pm Thu 7 Jan 10
Squeegy72
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8:30pm Thu 7 Jan 10
Hellboy
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3:41pm Fri 8 Jan 10
Davidoff wrote:Thank you very much for your support of my comment,Davidoff(whi
These yobs did the same in brave little gangs (cowards) in Darwen yesterday to people. Agree with Hellboy, name them. Then at least the rest of the public can avoid them out on the street. Those imbeciles in Darwen yesterday were unavoidable because they ambushed vehicles, pedestrians in areas, streets they knew people were boxed in once they started. It was then made worse by older track suited chavs whom acted like their 'gang bosses' making verbal threats to anyone who tried to tackle the scum. There were no police or community patrols out. So, yet again, these gangs in Darwen - and probably today as well until they go back to school - are allowed to assault people. For starters, who knows what is in these snowballs? Needles, syringes even? These are far from ordinary children having 'fun in the snow' but maliscious little monsters who prefer to bully, intimidate the rest of the public from their own little corner of blighted England. Yet get one of them on their own in a cornered situation they'd soon be crying their eyes out. Well, good. Because people are sick of you and your uncivilized ways. Let's all go snowball your homes. Nah, you'd probably enjoy that sort of thing. Such is your mentality.
Like Hellboy, it WAS infuriating watching the cowardly little twerps doing all this. Infuriating because you knew if you called the police you'd be told off for wasting their time. So who do we turn to? As Hellboy correctly points out - and we've sadly seen in news reports - if you try to tackle these people you never know what they will do and you are likely to have bones broken or end up dead. It's because these imbeciles aren't being punished for this by the authorities that they are DOING it. In Darwen last weekend a gang of 10 youths brutally attacked four people in the town centre. Will they be caught? Doubt it, given there was another report - guess what involving? - a few months ago with TEN youths involved so obviously they weren't caught from the last time. So, it takes 10 of you to pick on one person does it? How brave of you. Just one of you on your own would go screaming to your mummy or daddy (if you have one in this day and age or even know who it is and not the last man out your front door) if you tried it. So, you go round in gangs because you are cowards.
If we try to deal with them ourselves in numbers these same gang members are very skilled at making up tales so that they get off and you are the one in trouble. And if we try to deal with it ourselves the law is most definitely not on our side.
It's high time our streets were taken back and these people driven out of our communities once and for all.
GANGS = COWARDS.
ch was removed by the LET...I wonder why?),and I agree with your comments in regards to this article wholeheartedly!
To those who think that Shadsworth is full of chav-scum,think again;there are a majority of Shadsworth residents(you did catch that didn't you...? A MAJORITY!)who have had to endure lowlife scum like this lot for MANY years.
We have been let down by Twin Valleys,the Police AND local Councillors,so all you detractors of the Shadsworth area should get your facts right before assuming that all of us are nothing more than filth.
Thankfully,there are intelligent people like Davidoff who understand that the minority are the problem,not normal,hard-working people(there are many in this area)who just want to go about their day-to-day business without being victimised by the Local Yokels AND idiots making sweeping statements on here who seem to be living in some Utopian ideal from their Ivory Towers...
Hellboy
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3:59pm Fri 8 Jan 10
angie3 wrote:Are you a Social Worker?! By the tone of your comment,you are the type that would happily give a 10 year old knife-wielding thug a pat on the head and a lollypop,as 'it's not his fault' that he's carrying the blade in the first place!
Bloody hell its no wonder the youth of today are messed up when the adults act like psychos threatning to bash kids heads in etc .
I had the unhappy experience of once living on a council estate and any sane person knows that alot of kids on these estates have crap parents who spend the day drinking smoking and doing sod all else. Not great role models for the kids who then get the attention elsewhere by causing trouble.
deluded retards like you just come on sites like this to pontificate about how YOU think society should be,regardless of the REAL facts because by standing up for the local monkeys gives you a feeling of importance...I hope that the next time some nasty little toerag decides to make you his target so that he can show off to his mates,you won't bother ringing the police,as that would make you the ultimate hypocrite.
And I am not a psychopath,just a normal individual that has had enough of bleeding-heart liberals like you defending the lowlife and vermin that now infest our towns and cities.
now in the north
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6:18pm Fri 8 Jan 10
Most of them are down to earth. They dont bully and hurt each other as they are all pretty much in the same boat.
However, the lads that hang about outside, under 14's mostly, are little gits.
I grew up on every bad estate there was when I lived down south, my parents smoked and drank. They also had special needs. My family were notorious for trouble of one kind or another. However, my siblings and like to consider ourselves good people, taxpayers etc. My children are achievers in a affluent area (full of bullying spoilt brats incidently) and they are respectful and well spoken.
The problems I feel are that incresingly now, children are raised by nurseries and schools, who do not teach morals and who have little power of control, only to go home to parents who have been working hard all day and have little time for them.
Lots of these kids only have peers to be family to them. They group together and amalgamate all that is bad and attention seeking, they have no-one controlling them as it is now everyone elses job.
Perhaps the economic downturn will mean, more parents raising their children.
13fish13
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2:40pm Tue 12 Jan 10
yourmumyourdad says...
12:08pm Wed 6 Jan 10