MAY I congratulate B J Dutton of Colne (LT, June 28) who hit the nail on the head regarding anti-social behaviour.

I challenged a parent, about their kids running over our garden chasing their full-size leather football and not giving a monkey’s about the sparse numbers of flowers I have. Sparse because it’s not worth putting them in when they will only get run over.

The response to my challenge was: ‘Kids, Roger says you can’t play round here!’ She absolved herself of her responsibility, so she thought, and passed it on to me.

End of story.

The police aren’t much better.

Roger Ball, Pleasington.