Watch out.....walls can bite!!!!

Whether it's a spoof or not, to me it makes the lads look like right twits which can't be bad.

Hating is too strong an emotion for people you dislike .

or even one dislikes .

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Jodi my hating, vengeful remark wasn't aimed specifically at you. More the general trend of the thread although of course it was an exaggeration (even a gross exaggeration). Also I was thinking more of the fence kicking than your car door.

Bloody youths who do this kind of thing are infuriating. But, as I said, I personally don't like the terms thug and chav, especially the latter.

I loved that Greatnan referred to 'a group of lads' in an earlier post.

Yes, peace.

Someone I know posted a video on Facebook and it was to do with bullying. A rather small-built young lad was 'picking on' a bigger, plumper boy. After having received a few pokes in the stomach, the plumper boy lifted the smaller one up and over his shoulder, and flung him down on a low wall. The smaller lad's legs were smashed against the wall, and he was seen staggering away, with his legs obviously very much injured. I know bullying is vile, but I also believe that this was a spoof video and absolutely horrible. I wish I hadn't seen it, because it's stayed in my mind.

That sounds much stronger than it was supposed to.
Let me clarify. 'Vengeance is mine said The Lord' and maybe I hinted at that in my original post, but tongue in cheek as I am not religious. And as for hating...these idiots are far too beneath my contempt for any such strong emotion.
So peace.

Hating? Vengeful? Get a grip petallas are you trying to be deliberately insulting or provocative?

Bags yes yes yes!

I meant vengeful.

Jodi I've had my car broken into several times, my house burgled twice (by youths the police said) and my GS was beaten up by a gang from a neighbouring town. I've also experienced vicious threatening comments from an enraged young man on at least one occasion.

However, in spite of this I do try not to develop a hating vengeaful attitude. For my own sake, not that of the thugs/chavs.

(halo emoticon)

Now, Bags, I hope you know you run the risk of being labelled a tree-hugging, do-gooding, loonie leftie! On the other hand, some of us might label you as a compassionate, mature, deep-thinking woman.

I hope I wouldn't, but I think I might be driven to vandalism if I only had a sad, useless little life to look forward to. I'm not condoning thuggish behaviour so please don't anyone snap back at me as if I were, but really, I think that dismissive phraseology "sad, useless little lives" is rather mean without us knowing the real circumstances of this incident. Give a thought to the no hopers of the world. Most of it isn't their fault. I think a lot of us would want to kick a few things if we felt hopeless when we were but kids.

Again, just another viewpoint. Another way of looking. Things are not always what they seem.

Whatever is the reasoning behind the footage, staged or otherwise, chav or otherwise, it was just mindless vandalism by people who have nothing better to do with their useless sad little lives.

Bags, if his mates caught this action on a phone, they probably posted it because they thought it funny. I could have been a 'dare' because they were evidently ready with the camera. On one occasion, a teenager who had just passed his test, crashed his car outside my house, took out two walls, a gate and two cars. And what was his mate doing while the driver (unharmed) was speaking to the police? He was photgraphing the scene and sending it out to all their friends in a 'look what we've done' kind of bravado.

Many of the video clips on You've been Framed are obviously set up in order to get the £250. I suspect that the group of lads were up to something like this.

I've just finished a morning dancing/exercising, and some of the 'moves' closely resemble the kick action in this video.
Maybe these silly lads would do better to get their kicks dancing, like the SA young men shown on the video I posted on Saturday.

It doesn't upset me a great deal, vamp. I'm just not convinced of its authenticity, and I don't think it's funny, even if 'just' (but I'm not sure it's a just punishment either but that's, no doubt, getting too deep).

I've just watched the video. Dislike the aggressiveness of it. The area being kicked looks to have had a lot of practice kicks already (the only area scuffed-up from what I could see) - so already weakened. It is juvenile, macho behaviour - maybe a semi-spoof which didn't work as intended. Quite what the intention was who knows.

I'm not sure why it upsets you so much, Bags. If it's real then a thug got his cumuppence and if it's a hoax then it's a good warning to any thug out there who thinks kicking in a wall would be a good idea.

As for posting it well it's either a warning or his mates thought it was so funny they'd share it with the world.

And why would anyone post such a video except as a sick (set up) joke?

petallus I had my car door kicked in by some nasty little trainee thug a few months ago at work. The video camera in the car park caught him doing it and it was exactly the same action action as used by the one on the video. It cost me to have it fixed, not just in money but was greatly inconvenient.
So I really find your comment offensive as you obviously haven't suffered at the hands of some of these types.

True, jane, and I abhor mindless vandalism as much as anyone else. What makes me think this is a spoof is that, among other things, those concrete slabs would take more than a few kicks to break. OK, it might have been an old wall that was weak in that place already, but if it was an old wall, it's unlikely the slab above would have slipped down so easily. More likely to have been jammed a bit with clart over the years. And stuff like that I'm thinking. I could be way off the mark, of course, but I might not be. Just putting forward possibilities.

The comments below are the worst bit....

bags whether or not the people on the other side were scheming b*st*rds out to ensnare the chavs innocent young people, we all pay for mindless acts of vandalism in two ways - the cost of repairing the damage, and the effect that that despoiling of the environment has on our sense of well-being and community.

Bags, the mind boggles about the idea of a 'glass wheelie bin'.

Me too, except we have our own glass wheelie bin now.

My dad, an academic, thoroughly enjoyed removing a fireplace from a wall... sledgehammer, pickaxe. Mum was scathing but quite right that he wouldn't have wanted to do such work on a regular basis