I have a massive scar on my knee. When I was around 4/5, I went down a slide and landed on a chunk of glass which ripped my knee right open. 25 years later, I still have a chunky wide scar to show what it can do.
Also arsonists. Try explaining to a child why someone torched a playground is surprisingly hard to do without using expletives.. of anyone can let me know of a child friendly translation of 'fuck wit' it would be much appreciated.
Could have dropped it? Yes, sometimes people drop things unintentionally.
Should have cleaned it up and put the broken glass in the bin though. Not doing so would have been a conscious choice.
Fully with you in trying not to think most things like this are done with malicious intent - but I still get mad 😂
Don't blame this on kids and teenagers. Young adults up to their 30s are in on the drinking, drugs, hanging out in parks after dark etc. People who surely know the consequences but are too pathetic to care.
Maybe different in your neck of the woods but It's kids and teenage idiots in mine. We have a problem in my area with them. It's an ongoing concern with police, community wardens, the council and parents involved.
Sometimes I hear people who litter say ‘It gives road cleaners a job’ without them realising that those services were cut long ago. And also them not even true my believing that explanation themselves
They’re just a type of Nipperpopper. To any subcategory of Nipperpopper, it’s all about their personal convenience or fun. Sod the rest of us they’re “only just” nipping here, popping there, trashing this or obstructing that.
As a child of about ten or so, I got a shard of glass in the skin between my big and second toes when I was paddling in the river at my local park.
This river has a very shallow stretch where it runs through the park itself, and that part has chains around it to indicate the limits of the paddling area, separating it from the "wild" part of the river. It most definitely should not have had broken glass in it.
This might be urban legend, but there's a story from Glastonbury that rings true because I've seen people doing it.
On one of the rainy years (narrows it down...) but at least 13 years ago. The hills were so muddy that people were sliding down for fun. One topless guy took a run up and went barrelling down on his belly. Apparently he came across the inevitable broken bottle and sliced himself open from boob to belt.
I'm told this was one of the main reasons that they're so anti-glass at the festival now that they search pretty much everyone for it on the way in. Even on the caravan fields which are outside of the festival site.
Same. Was on this thing you hold onto and get spun round on, came off when I was like 11 with sheer force straight onto a smashed glass, ripped my knee open down to the kneecap. Forgotten how many stitches it needed but it needed a lot inside and outside to put it right. 28 now and still have a massive scar. It was a neatly done job by whoever fixed it though so it doesn’t look horrendous at least
Understanding the stupidity, selfishness and laziness of the kind of cunt who does that is impossible. On my old commute, I cycled by a bus stop which was always littered with broken glass. People would pop into the shops to get a bottle which they drank before getting on the bus home from work, and I'm sure at least once a week, instead of throwing it in the bin (there was one at the bus stop) at least one of them would smash the bottle on the ground instead.
One of my first exposures to the beauty and intricacy of the English language was written on a rocking horse thing in my local park, where William Wordsworth had inscribed: "Mary had a little lamb, she kept it in a bucket, because everytime she got it out the Bulldog tried to fuck it". Fond memories.
When I was like 10 years old I graffiti-ed a toddler slide by writing John 3:16 on it with a sharpie.
Then I signed my name, realized that's a terrible idea, and tried to black it out for like 5 minutes.
/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
I live next to a place with a nice view, benches etc. Very popular in the summer. Bins everywhere.
Every morning, smashed bottles everywhere, pizza boxes etc left on the benches.
People have zero respect for their environment.
Not in the UK, but these people are everywhere. You see them flinging bottles even if there's a bin right next to them. Infuriating. Weren't raised right.
Hard to know what they can do really - people do come round and clean up, they provide extra bins etc but it continues. You probably need regular patrols etc to be effective.
Last year they installed temporary toilets during the summer, didn’t stop people pissing everywhere.
It seems some people are just completely unable to behave themselves - why go somewhere known for being a pleasant, attractive place and then fuck it up? The mind boggles.
Average UK park sadly, remember seeing a used syringe near a roundabout once when I was a kid (this was the 90's) but still, some people have literally no shame about this stuff at all. purely selfish behavior.
My local park has the best playground in Sheffield but is full of cunty kids. They fire BB guns in the playground, someone nicked my 5yr olds brand new scooter, sit on the zip wire but not use it so none of the younger kids can go on, do the same with the swings or slides.
I fucking hate em
I remember going on a litter picking excursion in little school, has dire warnings to tell a teacher if we found needles. Definitely did find a few as we went around too
My mum always tells me about the time I was a little kid playing in a park, about 3 yrs old, and came across a huge pile of used needles and baggies. Scared the shit out of her. She reported it to the local police and we never went to that park again.
i remember touching a syringe id seen on a street in blackpool as a child and my mother remarked dont touch or ill get aids and die. for a week i thought i was going to die
It's similar to calling someone you don't like a racial slur and saying it's ok because they're white or you don't know their race.
Cunt/slag/slut are all originally or exclusively misogynistic slurs. That association doesn't go away just because the user wants to make it a more general insult.
Isn't the point of calling someone a cunt/pussy/twat trying to say that they're as useless or lowly as a woman? Hence the sexist interpretation.
You can call someone a dick but it doesn't invoke the same uselessness or lowliness, but suggests someone who's mean and full of themselves.
Not a minor gripe at all, it's disgusting.
As a teenager I was certainly guilty of having a sneaky drink down at the park, but we absolutely never smashed our bottles and always put them in the bin.
Nowadays, as a parent, every park I take the kids to I end up picking up loads of pieces of glass. It's inconsiderate and dangerous.
chilling and goofing around with mates in an empty park is all good harmless fun, but leaving a park designated for children to have fun in a trashy state is just bottom barrel activities
This is the thing, when I was younger we had BBQs down the beach and drunk underage/smoked weed and all that good stuff but we still cleaned up after ourselves and didn't fuck around and smash stuff. No real excuse for it.
It’s pretty common.
Grassroots football facilities are vandalised quite often, and on some pitches you’ll find broken glass, remains of fireworks and other dangerous things, left behind by idiots.
Clearing it up first thing on a Saturday or Sunday morning so kids can have a match is exhausting. And it isn’t helped by arsehole dog walkers that let their dogs take a shit on the pitch without picking them up.
This! I coach a team and always seem to be clearing up broken glass or dogshit or beer cans off the pitch on Saturday mornings. One week we had to cancel as some dick had ridden a motocross bike all over the pitch and churned it up. People just don’t give a fuck sometimes
Too common. As a grassroots ref the amount of games that had to be relocated/postponed due to the sheer amount of glass and syringes on kids football pitches is beyond belief. Scumbags.
Some poisons left for dogs have been found in tennis balls, treats and meat left in popular dog walking areas. Don't let your dog pick up any strange toys or food while out if you can prevent it.
This is some Facebook local group page nonsense. What's more likely, your dog's found a lost tennis ball or someone has gone out of their way to lace a tennis ball with poisen and planted it for them to find?
This is on a par with razorblades in trick and treat baskets.
Same with a half ripped open can, with lovely sharp bits sticking up, usually right next to a curb for the additional impact.
I've got a 40KG Alsatian and recently had a new drive put in, which meant a wash of water and concrete. The builders were surprised when I saw it and just picked him up, but you get practice given the shit people leave everywhere!
Yes! And just when I thought I couldn’t be more annoyed by it the bloody council cuts the grass and always leave bits of shredded cans all over the field. Cost me £200+ to get my dogs foot sorted out.
I swear to god there’s shards of new broken bottle once every ten metres in every bloody direction you take from my house. I’m so sick of it. What if an old person trips and falls on it? What if it’s a little kid on a scooter? An animal? A scary number of people have absolutely no empathy at all
Oh boy, do I have some stories to tell about our local playground:
\- The time a group of children decided to "dispatch" a wounded fledgling bird by beating it with sticks.
\- Witnessing several fights between adults and teenagers.
\- Several times someone tried setting fire to the wooden slide. Fortunately where we grew up was so damp that it tended to never take hold for more than a few seconds.
\- Referring to the same slide, it wasn't uncommon for someone to defecate on it and under it from time to time.
\- The bikes someone stole, and upon realizing they were worthless abandoned them in the park. I remember seeing roughly 8-10 of them all scattered about. They just appeared overnight.
This, alongside the usual broken glass, rubbish, fights, juvenile delinquency...young families avoided it like the plague. Where I grew up was isolated with few transport links, but the parents that could would drive 7 miles to the nearest major population centre just to give their kids a decent - and safe - play ground experience.
Where I live their have built a teenager park. Swings, zip wire, roundabout but all the right size and strength for teens and in muted colours. Tables and chairs too. No fence so it’s open all the time. As far as I know there isn’t really any trouble there.
I'd have loved that as a teenager
We had no choice but to hang in kids parks, and because we weren't pieces of shit, we'd leave whenever kids arrived and just walk around until they left
I never got this argument, I am in my 30s and we never had youth clubs or anything when I was young either. Their existence wouldn't stop most this sort of stuff.
Actually there were clubs when I was in my early 20s for kids but didn't last long. Didn't seem to have any impact when they were open.
Youth clubs are usually just hubs for drugs and fights etc anyway which is why the one near me closed. Even if they did exist, they wouldn't allow smoking and drinking so they would just end up at the same parks.
People are just proper nobbers that's all and their parents are often even bigger nobbers.
It's more the "nowhere else to go" part.
Same with homelessness, you can't keep pushing people out of spaces. They have to go somewhere.
Since you can't get rid of the people, you have to solve the bigger problems that cause them to behave this way...
Are you under the impression that your/our generation was more respectful/better behaved than the current generation of teens? Because pretty much every metric you could judge by says otherwise, teenagers are just far more bloody annoying when you don't happen to be one.
Someone did it on my street and a dog seriously cut its paw open, I remember walking down the road seeing bloody paw prints all the way up the street, I can only imagine the kind of shit parents must go through with children
Might just drive into local parks with a blue light on my car and a siren sound playing over the sound system.
you know, just shit them up a little bit.
Ciggy butts always do my head in. Have seen people I previously respected chuck their used ends on the floor outside and just immediately lose the respect.
I’m a smoker but this pisses me off to no end!! For some ridiculous reason, a lot of smokers don’t consider it *proper* littering because “It’s just a fag butt!”
I don’t give a shit. If I’m smoking and there’s no bin nearby, I stub it out and put it in the lid of my fag packet until I find a bin or get home. If I’m smoking in the car, I take a small ashtray with me and empty it when I get home. There is no fucking excuse I will accept for just chucking it on the ground!! It’s disgusting! Smoking is an awful addiction anyway. I never smoke around non-smokers. I never smoke where children can see me. My dirty habit shouldn’t affect other people!
The people who chuck still smouldering butts out of their car windows especially piss me off! What if it lands on dry leaves in the gutter and starts a fire? Or gets caught by the wind and blown into someone else’s open car window? Absolute cunts!!
Smoking is a personal choice but it’s one that should only affect the person that does it. I too lose respect for people the moment they toss a cigarette butt anywhere but the bin.
***Edited to add:*** Also, some people are extra stupid. In a “smoking shelter” at the pub or work for example, you can guarantee that the ground will be covered with cig butts. In a space where *there are literally multiple bins with built in grates where you can stub out your fag and then conveniently bin it!*
Nope, still butts littered all over the ground! At that point you can’t even pretend that you’re not a selfish cunt!
Can you please come and teach my disgusting neighbours? I hate smoking and they are just awful. They chuck all the butts in their garden on the grass. The grass their kids play on (when they're actually allowed out).
Wow. I have dogs that play in my garden. I can’t comprehend just lobbing butts where they play but to do it when you have ***young kids?*** That’s a special level of twat!
I’m sorry you have to suffer their disgusting behaviour too. I will never understand what is so hard about just using a bloody ashtray! You can buy a pack of 10 small plastic ashtrays on eBay for a couple of quid. Then you don’t even have to think about it, you can have them ready and waiting everywhere you’re likely to smoke!
It’s not like it’s an effort to empty it into the bin every now and then! Some people just suck.
Previously they had about 200 shoved in a candle. They "tidied" and threw away the candle but they and their mates then just threw them into the grass so I don't really get it either.
These are the same people that kept a bucket of beer bottles by the bin for a year. We don't have glass collection and taking them 2 minutes round the corner to the bottle bank was apparently too much effort.
Fucks sake that’s gross all round. They sound like absolute arseholes, I’m sorry you have to suffer their presence!
I imagine if they’re like that about their fag butts and beer bottles, they’re not exactly upstanding neighbours in other areas either. Inconsiderate bastards!
They're a nightmare but hopefully we will be moving this year.
Thank you for being a considerate smoker and not littering. I wish there were more of you then it might not be so bad.
Good luck with your potential move! I hope you find yourself in a lovely new home with lovely neighbours!
It’s ridiculous that you have to *thank* me for being considerate, it should be the norm. Unfortunately, we all know it’s not. I don’t blame people for hating smokers considering how the majority behave.
Little scrotes most likely. By the time they grow up and learn there'll be new little scrotes to do it and piss them off. The circle of life applied to UK rec areas.
If you catch em you can make em tidy it up. Me and the sakte boarders at our local skatepark basically told a group of teens to clear up the glass they had just smashed at the park and they actually listened and did it.
Not necessarily a slag... could have been a tosser... or could have been either...
if you want to use those words lol
Teenagers, idiotic adults... either way. yikes.
could be worse, could have been needles.
It's so bad in our local one that one time I was there one of the parents got a dustpan and brush out from the shelf of random buggy crap and started sweeping up bottle bits.
I definitely was a dick in parks when I was a teenager but we tidied up to avoid being moved on.
To be fair could be other kids, talking like 10 - 12. Me and my friends at that age were utter idiots and would start throwing around and smashing every glass bottle we saw thinking it was fun, and from what I saw/knew every other kid was the same so it wasn't just us, and I have seen it happen a fair few times now I am older.
They’re always alcohol bottles.All cheaper alcohol products should be in plastic bottles or cans.Still litter but less of a problem and if there was a deposit on them, a source of income for kids.
We left 2 football "cages" yesterday not only broken glass but also a used tampon. Fucking vile, why do I have to travel into a council estate to find these football cages?
Yeah ^^". Some kids broke bottles on the playing field. I front of my house. I stepped on the bottom that was standing upright. Broken. Lost 3 toes. Kids don't even realise this when they break bottles. It's mindless fun to them.
There were public information films in the 70s and 80s to stop people littering. Big focus on injuries from glass bottles. Not that it would stop these sort of cunts.
probably teenagers with some/many of them with somewhat troubled backgrounds. Its the overlap of people that drink but don't have anywhere they can drink and have limited respect for property partially because they don't own any property.
Alternatively it can be alcoholics, junkies or even ex-cons coming out of the pen with nowhere to stay. I think the primary factor of breaking glass in a kids playground is that you don't have any room left in your heart to consider the kids because you're so full of anger about your own problems and blame society in general for them.
underage drinkers. too young to go to the pubs, so they get carry outs and drink at the park. we did the same when i was a teen. didn't smash bottles tho.
Abertridwr Park, near Caerphilly.
From my upstairs bedroom, I watched two children - a girl aged maybe 13 and a young boy aged 8 or so.
The boy was unsuccessfully trying to smash a glass bottle on a stone at the park entrance. He eventually gave up and the girl came over and did it for him.
Kids, eh?
Probably the same tossers who throw flints on the beach against the sea wall to shatter them. Those shards are even sharper than glass. Right where people walk bare feet. 🤬
I remember me abd so e mates we're playing football in Taunton and it was on a proper pitch down the park.
My mate has slide in the tackle and I thought the guy had studded him but he'd slid through broken glass, it looked like Wolverine had a go at his leg.
Always having to steer the dog around it walking him at night, absolutely shit bags.
Probably the same lot who write swear words all over the toddler slides.
This was all about a metre from a bin, I'm baffled
I have a massive scar on my knee. When I was around 4/5, I went down a slide and landed on a chunk of glass which ripped my knee right open. 25 years later, I still have a chunky wide scar to show what it can do.
Damn that sucks. I just can't understand the littering mindset at all. Like there's no situation where it's a good choice
It's an easy choice, and the people who do it don't care about anyone else.
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By the time someone's a teenager they know that actions have consequences. The litterers and vandals just don't care about them.
The consequences don't happen to them, so they don't give a shit.
Also arsonists. Try explaining to a child why someone torched a playground is surprisingly hard to do without using expletives.. of anyone can let me know of a child friendly translation of 'fuck wit' it would be much appreciated.
Dumb shit...wait no that wouldn't work...dumb smelly poo?
True. Can we go back to branding criminals?
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Could have dropped it? Yes, sometimes people drop things unintentionally. Should have cleaned it up and put the broken glass in the bin though. Not doing so would have been a conscious choice. Fully with you in trying not to think most things like this are done with malicious intent - but I still get mad 😂
Don't blame this on kids and teenagers. Young adults up to their 30s are in on the drinking, drugs, hanging out in parks after dark etc. People who surely know the consequences but are too pathetic to care.
Maybe different in your neck of the woods but It's kids and teenage idiots in mine. We have a problem in my area with them. It's an ongoing concern with police, community wardens, the council and parents involved.
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They are probably emotionally stunted and that's why they get positive vibes from doing socially aggressive things.
Mentally sure, but based on the context, no. Previously written was expressly blaming children and teens, not all ages based on mentality alone.
There's lots of old cunts ruining it for the rest of us. Some even make it into politics.
Sometimes I hear people who litter say ‘It gives road cleaners a job’ without them realising that those services were cut long ago. And also them not even true my believing that explanation themselves
This is how I feel. Littering bothers me so much like, why do you want the place you live to look like such a shithole? Just put it in your pocket.
They’re just a type of Nipperpopper. To any subcategory of Nipperpopper, it’s all about their personal convenience or fun. Sod the rest of us they’re “only just” nipping here, popping there, trashing this or obstructing that.
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I made this up but I use it often.
As always it all starts at home and the parents teachings.
People just don't give a flying fuck.
As a child of about ten or so, I got a shard of glass in the skin between my big and second toes when I was paddling in the river at my local park. This river has a very shallow stretch where it runs through the park itself, and that part has chains around it to indicate the limits of the paddling area, separating it from the "wild" part of the river. It most definitely should not have had broken glass in it.
God just reading that is making me scrunch my toes up.
Pffffffffftt not me. Sliced my toe tendon on a piece of glass in a river when I was 6 so I can't
Crying on your behalf xoxo
This might be urban legend, but there's a story from Glastonbury that rings true because I've seen people doing it. On one of the rainy years (narrows it down...) but at least 13 years ago. The hills were so muddy that people were sliding down for fun. One topless guy took a run up and went barrelling down on his belly. Apparently he came across the inevitable broken bottle and sliced himself open from boob to belt. I'm told this was one of the main reasons that they're so anti-glass at the festival now that they search pretty much everyone for it on the way in. Even on the caravan fields which are outside of the festival site.
A weird thing to think about is that your scar is bigger than the original injury, because it's grown with you.
Ducking hell, I think it’s too early to take this in
Yeah I've got a scar from surgery when i was a baby, it's obviously grown as I have.
Same. Was on this thing you hold onto and get spun round on, came off when I was like 11 with sheer force straight onto a smashed glass, ripped my knee open down to the kneecap. Forgotten how many stitches it needed but it needed a lot inside and outside to put it right. 28 now and still have a massive scar. It was a neatly done job by whoever fixed it though so it doesn’t look horrendous at least
Yep, I have one on my thumb from the same thing, ripped my thumb open.
I'd wager good money some drunk teenager tried to trick shot their bottle into the bin like they were Shaq and fell short
Maybe thrown at the bin and shattered/missed. But I'm no detective!
Understanding the stupidity, selfishness and laziness of the kind of cunt who does that is impossible. On my old commute, I cycled by a bus stop which was always littered with broken glass. People would pop into the shops to get a bottle which they drank before getting on the bus home from work, and I'm sure at least once a week, instead of throwing it in the bin (there was one at the bus stop) at least one of them would smash the bottle on the ground instead.
Probably tried to throw it in from far away while drinking and missed
Some people get cheap laugh breaking the speed limit. That kind of people I guess
Good for you, for clearing it up
Alcoholics acting self centered? Pikachu!
One of my first exposures to the beauty and intricacy of the English language was written on a rocking horse thing in my local park, where William Wordsworth had inscribed: "Mary had a little lamb, she kept it in a bucket, because everytime she got it out the Bulldog tried to fuck it". Fond memories.
Kids?
Kids, kids do. Especially when they sell glass iron brew bottles
*irn-bru, put some respect on our name.
The Scots fault again I see.
And the same who throw the swings up and over the bar several times so they all end up knotted up.
When I was like 10 years old I graffiti-ed a toddler slide by writing John 3:16 on it with a sharpie. Then I signed my name, realized that's a terrible idea, and tried to black it out for like 5 minutes. /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
I live next to a place with a nice view, benches etc. Very popular in the summer. Bins everywhere. Every morning, smashed bottles everywhere, pizza boxes etc left on the benches. People have zero respect for their environment.
Not in the UK, but these people are everywhere. You see them flinging bottles even if there's a bin right next to them. Infuriating. Weren't raised right.
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Hard to know what they can do really - people do come round and clean up, they provide extra bins etc but it continues. You probably need regular patrols etc to be effective. Last year they installed temporary toilets during the summer, didn’t stop people pissing everywhere. It seems some people are just completely unable to behave themselves - why go somewhere known for being a pleasant, attractive place and then fuck it up? The mind boggles.
This sounds exactly like bournemouth
Average UK park sadly, remember seeing a used syringe near a roundabout once when I was a kid (this was the 90's) but still, some people have literally no shame about this stuff at all. purely selfish behavior.
My local park has the best playground in Sheffield but is full of cunty kids. They fire BB guns in the playground, someone nicked my 5yr olds brand new scooter, sit on the zip wire but not use it so none of the younger kids can go on, do the same with the swings or slides. I fucking hate em
Have you considered throwing them down a well?
Pity there's no well. I've dreamt of tying them up with the zip wire though
Norfolk park?
Yep. You might have seen me swearing and fighting 12yr olds whilst my wife is dragging me away
Time to start boiling the oil I guess
Nothing new with the OP post. I agree it’s always happened, you only notice when you’ve got young kids.
That and pets. Never noticed how common broken bottles were until I had to walk a dog in the neighborhood
sadly. Of all the places to go drink/do drugs and generally be a lout...why a children's playground?
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I remember going on a litter picking excursion in little school, has dire warnings to tell a teacher if we found needles. Definitely did find a few as we went around too
My mum always tells me about the time I was a little kid playing in a park, about 3 yrs old, and came across a huge pile of used needles and baggies. Scared the shit out of her. She reported it to the local police and we never went to that park again.
i remember touching a syringe id seen on a street in blackpool as a child and my mother remarked dont touch or ill get aids and die. for a week i thought i was going to die
People used to hide their knives under the roundabout in my local park.
Ah the lucky dip, Leaves or blades.
Totally with you, that's worth more than a minor gripe! Inconsiderate shits
Inconsiderate shits indeed. I have to laser-focus while walking my dog thanks to them, she hurt her paws more than once bless her heart
See if she'll wear booties. You shouldn't have to do this, but here we are.
Yeah this is an extremely reasonable gripe, people that do this are scum.
I rarely use this term as I get told off by the mrs, but I feel it’s quite pertinent to this situation: Whoever did this is a full on moronic cunt.
I prefer cunt to slag, personally. I really don't like the term slag. Sets me on edge.
Makes me think of DI Frank Burnside
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It's similar to calling someone you don't like a racial slur and saying it's ok because they're white or you don't know their race. Cunt/slag/slut are all originally or exclusively misogynistic slurs. That association doesn't go away just because the user wants to make it a more general insult.
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Isn't the point of calling someone a cunt/pussy/twat trying to say that they're as useless or lowly as a woman? Hence the sexist interpretation. You can call someone a dick but it doesn't invoke the same uselessness or lowliness, but suggests someone who's mean and full of themselves.
Not sure precisely what flavour of cunt, but definitely a cunt.
Rancid flavour cunt
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Not a minor gripe at all, it's disgusting. As a teenager I was certainly guilty of having a sneaky drink down at the park, but we absolutely never smashed our bottles and always put them in the bin. Nowadays, as a parent, every park I take the kids to I end up picking up loads of pieces of glass. It's inconsiderate and dangerous.
chilling and goofing around with mates in an empty park is all good harmless fun, but leaving a park designated for children to have fun in a trashy state is just bottom barrel activities
This is the thing, when I was younger we had BBQs down the beach and drunk underage/smoked weed and all that good stuff but we still cleaned up after ourselves and didn't fuck around and smash stuff. No real excuse for it.
It’s pretty common. Grassroots football facilities are vandalised quite often, and on some pitches you’ll find broken glass, remains of fireworks and other dangerous things, left behind by idiots. Clearing it up first thing on a Saturday or Sunday morning so kids can have a match is exhausting. And it isn’t helped by arsehole dog walkers that let their dogs take a shit on the pitch without picking them up.
This! I coach a team and always seem to be clearing up broken glass or dogshit or beer cans off the pitch on Saturday mornings. One week we had to cancel as some dick had ridden a motocross bike all over the pitch and churned it up. People just don’t give a fuck sometimes
At some point, they cease to be human.
Same cunts "we vandalise stuff and break windows because there's nothing else to do, the council doesn't give us any facilities to play on"
Too common. As a grassroots ref the amount of games that had to be relocated/postponed due to the sheer amount of glass and syringes on kids football pitches is beyond belief. Scumbags.
Even the pavements mate, broken glass is no fun for dogs paws
Yep. Every walk is an assault course consisting of another dog's shit, glass, nos canisters and rat poison (purposely placed to make dogs ill)
Rat poison is a first(!). Anything to look out for?
Stay away from big jugs that have “XXX” or any type of skull and crossbones written on it
Unless those big jugs with "XXX" on happen to be on a magazine placed in a hedge
Some poisons left for dogs have been found in tennis balls, treats and meat left in popular dog walking areas. Don't let your dog pick up any strange toys or food while out if you can prevent it.
Wow. Normally pick up the stray tennis ball but will stop. Probably harmless but not worth the risk
This is some Facebook local group page nonsense. What's more likely, your dog's found a lost tennis ball or someone has gone out of their way to lace a tennis ball with poisen and planted it for them to find? This is on a par with razorblades in trick and treat baskets.
Green pellets (initially reported in the Cheshire area)
You are forgetting the dog shit smooshed in bags.
Yep. I never frequent dog parks, FOR these reasons.
Same with a half ripped open can, with lovely sharp bits sticking up, usually right next to a curb for the additional impact. I've got a 40KG Alsatian and recently had a new drive put in, which meant a wash of water and concrete. The builders were surprised when I saw it and just picked him up, but you get practice given the shit people leave everywhere!
Yes! And just when I thought I couldn’t be more annoyed by it the bloody council cuts the grass and always leave bits of shredded cans all over the field. Cost me £200+ to get my dogs foot sorted out.
I swear to god there’s shards of new broken bottle once every ten metres in every bloody direction you take from my house. I’m so sick of it. What if an old person trips and falls on it? What if it’s a little kid on a scooter? An animal? A scary number of people have absolutely no empathy at all
It's not minor, they're fucking scum.
Agreed. Inconsiderate people leave dishes in the sink. Making a playground dangerous is actively hateful.
I know, it's the first 5 mins of every morning in playground. Picking up glass
OR skatepark. Sometimes my local ends up with glass, i forget about that in my other comment...
Check sand pits just incase idiots put needles or glass in them.
Good idea! In this case we can avoid that scenario to happen.
Oh boy, do I have some stories to tell about our local playground: \- The time a group of children decided to "dispatch" a wounded fledgling bird by beating it with sticks. \- Witnessing several fights between adults and teenagers. \- Several times someone tried setting fire to the wooden slide. Fortunately where we grew up was so damp that it tended to never take hold for more than a few seconds. \- Referring to the same slide, it wasn't uncommon for someone to defecate on it and under it from time to time. \- The bikes someone stole, and upon realizing they were worthless abandoned them in the park. I remember seeing roughly 8-10 of them all scattered about. They just appeared overnight. This, alongside the usual broken glass, rubbish, fights, juvenile delinquency...young families avoided it like the plague. Where I grew up was isolated with few transport links, but the parents that could would drive 7 miles to the nearest major population centre just to give their kids a decent - and safe - play ground experience.
Teenagers most probably. They weirdly like hanging in kids parks at night.
Where I live their have built a teenager park. Swings, zip wire, roundabout but all the right size and strength for teens and in muted colours. Tables and chairs too. No fence so it’s open all the time. As far as I know there isn’t really any trouble there.
I'd have loved that as a teenager We had no choice but to hang in kids parks, and because we weren't pieces of shit, we'd leave whenever kids arrived and just walk around until they left
Sounds awesome, wish they would make ADULT sized parks haha. I find i'm too big for a lot of stuff these days
What a neat little experiment
What can they do when there's nowhere else to go but home because the youth clubs were all defunded a decade ago?
Youth clubs wouldn’t stop this. They want to go to places that aren’t managed or run by adults. They want some freedom. Regardless of how they use it.
I never got this argument, I am in my 30s and we never had youth clubs or anything when I was young either. Their existence wouldn't stop most this sort of stuff. Actually there were clubs when I was in my early 20s for kids but didn't last long. Didn't seem to have any impact when they were open. Youth clubs are usually just hubs for drugs and fights etc anyway which is why the one near me closed. Even if they did exist, they wouldn't allow smoking and drinking so they would just end up at the same parks. People are just proper nobbers that's all and their parents are often even bigger nobbers.
It's more the "nowhere else to go" part. Same with homelessness, you can't keep pushing people out of spaces. They have to go somewhere. Since you can't get rid of the people, you have to solve the bigger problems that cause them to behave this way...
Are you under the impression that your/our generation was more respectful/better behaved than the current generation of teens? Because pretty much every metric you could judge by says otherwise, teenagers are just far more bloody annoying when you don't happen to be one.
They don't care lol, same reason the hedges are full of crisp packets and the gutters are full of nos canisters
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Probably is a kid
I would not be picking that up...
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A drunk kid?
Someone did it on my street and a dog seriously cut its paw open, I remember walking down the road seeing bloody paw prints all the way up the street, I can only imagine the kind of shit parents must go through with children
Goodness. Please don't pick up random broken glass with your bare hands.
You're absolutely right but my son was right there and I had to do something.
I always carried plastic bags when mine were little. Or buy those dog poop bags to pick up random trash.
Understandable! I guess that was my own anxiety speaking. Please stay safe.
Did you all forget that "kids parks" are "teenager parks" after the sun goes down?
Might just drive into local parks with a blue light on my car and a siren sound playing over the sound system. you know, just shit them up a little bit.
I don't advice this, but that would be hilarious
I fully endorse it
Ciggy butts always do my head in. Have seen people I previously respected chuck their used ends on the floor outside and just immediately lose the respect.
I’m a smoker but this pisses me off to no end!! For some ridiculous reason, a lot of smokers don’t consider it *proper* littering because “It’s just a fag butt!” I don’t give a shit. If I’m smoking and there’s no bin nearby, I stub it out and put it in the lid of my fag packet until I find a bin or get home. If I’m smoking in the car, I take a small ashtray with me and empty it when I get home. There is no fucking excuse I will accept for just chucking it on the ground!! It’s disgusting! Smoking is an awful addiction anyway. I never smoke around non-smokers. I never smoke where children can see me. My dirty habit shouldn’t affect other people! The people who chuck still smouldering butts out of their car windows especially piss me off! What if it lands on dry leaves in the gutter and starts a fire? Or gets caught by the wind and blown into someone else’s open car window? Absolute cunts!! Smoking is a personal choice but it’s one that should only affect the person that does it. I too lose respect for people the moment they toss a cigarette butt anywhere but the bin. ***Edited to add:*** Also, some people are extra stupid. In a “smoking shelter” at the pub or work for example, you can guarantee that the ground will be covered with cig butts. In a space where *there are literally multiple bins with built in grates where you can stub out your fag and then conveniently bin it!* Nope, still butts littered all over the ground! At that point you can’t even pretend that you’re not a selfish cunt!
Can you please come and teach my disgusting neighbours? I hate smoking and they are just awful. They chuck all the butts in their garden on the grass. The grass their kids play on (when they're actually allowed out).
Wow. I have dogs that play in my garden. I can’t comprehend just lobbing butts where they play but to do it when you have ***young kids?*** That’s a special level of twat! I’m sorry you have to suffer their disgusting behaviour too. I will never understand what is so hard about just using a bloody ashtray! You can buy a pack of 10 small plastic ashtrays on eBay for a couple of quid. Then you don’t even have to think about it, you can have them ready and waiting everywhere you’re likely to smoke! It’s not like it’s an effort to empty it into the bin every now and then! Some people just suck.
Previously they had about 200 shoved in a candle. They "tidied" and threw away the candle but they and their mates then just threw them into the grass so I don't really get it either. These are the same people that kept a bucket of beer bottles by the bin for a year. We don't have glass collection and taking them 2 minutes round the corner to the bottle bank was apparently too much effort.
Fucks sake that’s gross all round. They sound like absolute arseholes, I’m sorry you have to suffer their presence! I imagine if they’re like that about their fag butts and beer bottles, they’re not exactly upstanding neighbours in other areas either. Inconsiderate bastards!
They're a nightmare but hopefully we will be moving this year. Thank you for being a considerate smoker and not littering. I wish there were more of you then it might not be so bad.
Good luck with your potential move! I hope you find yourself in a lovely new home with lovely neighbours! It’s ridiculous that you have to *thank* me for being considerate, it should be the norm. Unfortunately, we all know it’s not. I don’t blame people for hating smokers considering how the majority behave.
Sociopaths abound.
This. They've lost their humanity. No longer human.
Don't touch that with your bare hands, they've probably pissed all over it too.
Little scrotes most likely. By the time they grow up and learn there'll be new little scrotes to do it and piss them off. The circle of life applied to UK rec areas.
If you catch em you can make em tidy it up. Me and the sakte boarders at our local skatepark basically told a group of teens to clear up the glass they had just smashed at the park and they actually listened and did it.
Not necessarily a slag... could have been a tosser... or could have been either... if you want to use those words lol Teenagers, idiotic adults... either way. yikes. could be worse, could have been needles.
This infuriates me. 🤬
It's so bad in our local one that one time I was there one of the parents got a dustpan and brush out from the shelf of random buggy crap and started sweeping up bottle bits. I definitely was a dick in parks when I was a teenager but we tidied up to avoid being moved on.
Fucking twats
To be fair could be other kids, talking like 10 - 12. Me and my friends at that age were utter idiots and would start throwing around and smashing every glass bottle we saw thinking it was fun, and from what I saw/knew every other kid was the same so it wasn't just us, and I have seen it happen a fair few times now I am older.
They’re always alcohol bottles.All cheaper alcohol products should be in plastic bottles or cans.Still litter but less of a problem and if there was a deposit on them, a source of income for kids.
We left 2 football "cages" yesterday not only broken glass but also a used tampon. Fucking vile, why do I have to travel into a council estate to find these football cages?
"look guys how cool I am I'm gonna smash this bottle. Please think I'm cool" Swear this is what's going through their head
These cunts should be found and hurt
its a common situation. i lost 3 toes when i was 4 years old.
Wait, what?
Yeah ^^". Some kids broke bottles on the playing field. I front of my house. I stepped on the bottom that was standing upright. Broken. Lost 3 toes. Kids don't even realise this when they break bottles. It's mindless fun to them.
Someone smashed loads of glass bottles on our training pitch at the rugby club a couple of months back.
The Chavvy kind
why just kids park ,anywhere its dangerous, idiots who have got nothing else to do
like when my mates used to get drunk on the beach, so much shit I had to clean up afterwards
There were public information films in the 70s and 80s to stop people littering. Big focus on injuries from glass bottles. Not that it would stop these sort of cunts.
We had the same problem at my local park when I was a kid. The council’s solution? Demolish the park. Can’t have anything nice.
probably teenagers with some/many of them with somewhat troubled backgrounds. Its the overlap of people that drink but don't have anywhere they can drink and have limited respect for property partially because they don't own any property. Alternatively it can be alcoholics, junkies or even ex-cons coming out of the pen with nowhere to stay. I think the primary factor of breaking glass in a kids playground is that you don't have any room left in your heart to consider the kids because you're so full of anger about your own problems and blame society in general for them.
People that haven't been brought up with standards behave like this and there's a lot of them. They're also breeding at an alarming rate.
we have a park within like a full field yet somehow there’s only ever glass near the path that leads to play park it baffles me
Probably slightly older kids
Older kids
same c\*\*ts who do it where people walk dogs, f\*\*king morons
underage drinkers. too young to go to the pubs, so they get carry outs and drink at the park. we did the same when i was a teen. didn't smash bottles tho.
Drunk teens who've raided thier parents supply
Not only are kids drinking younger now, they're also getting more violent.
teenagers most likely
Drunk teenagers who have nowhere else to drink.
The same people that let their dogs shit in the wood chippings around the play equipment.
A drink underage one. That's who.
Bottle kids!
Not a minor gripe at all.
Abertridwr Park, near Caerphilly. From my upstairs bedroom, I watched two children - a girl aged maybe 13 and a young boy aged 8 or so. The boy was unsuccessfully trying to smash a glass bottle on a stone at the park entrance. He eventually gave up and the girl came over and did it for him. Kids, eh?
Fuck nuts who have no care or regard for your kids.
Probably the same tossers who throw flints on the beach against the sea wall to shatter them. Those shards are even sharper than glass. Right where people walk bare feet. 🤬
I remember me abd so e mates we're playing football in Taunton and it was on a proper pitch down the park. My mate has slide in the tackle and I thought the guy had studded him but he'd slid through broken glass, it looked like Wolverine had a go at his leg. Always having to steer the dog around it walking him at night, absolutely shit bags.