Building a stick fort in the woods is anti-social behavior Building a stick fort

[Locutus]

and police take that very seriously

because, nannys in britain.

Parents' fury after young girls who built den during holidays moved on by police who checked if they had Asbos

• Teenagers were sent home from woods after police received complaints
• Mother of one girl is furious daughter was punished for playing outside
• Police say they take complaints of anti-social behaviour very seriously

A group of children who spent their school holidays making a den out of sticks have been accused of anti-social behaviour – and forced to move on by police.

Officers told the young girls that they were not allowed to play in the woods because they had received a number of complaints from dog walkers.

Last night primary school teacher Nicola Booth, whose 14-year-old daughter Becky was sent home from Warkworth Woods in Newcastle, revealed that the police had even checked if the children had Asbos.

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Parents' fury after young girls who built den during holidays moved on by police | Mail Online

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[SLM]

Foolish, foolish children! Do they not know the only good fort is a pillow one! Sticks, along with their nefarious companions stones, break bones.

 

[petros]

If they used lumber they would have in real deep sh-t with the permit dept.

 

[Sal]

But it isn't about the stick fort...it's dog walkers complaining so perhaps they were harassed but the parents have made it about the stick fort and in one instance when the police said they would come and talk to the parent about it, they refused. Hm, why would they do that?

 

[petros]

But it isn't about the stick fort...it's dog walkers complaining so perhaps they were harassed but the parents have made it about the stick fort and in one instance when the police said they would come and talk to the parent about it, they refused. Hm, why would they do that?

Dog walkers would never walk those woods alone. They feel like they are super human with their mastiff at their side and are required by super hero code to be extra big nerdy pains in the asses of the sane.

 

[Sal]

Dog walkers would never walk those woods alone. They feel like they are super human and are required by super hero code to be extra big nerdy pains in the asses of the sane.

lol... there's more to this story for sure...

 

[petros]

Of course.

 

[Cliffy]

Sounds like there is more to this story than what is in the OP.


About ASBOs

Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) are civil orders made against someone who has engaged in anti-social behaviour in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.

ASBOs were introduced by the Labour party under Tony Blair in 1998. The intent was give the state a way to prevent and control low-level behaviour that would not normally warrant a criminal prosecution but brings fear and misery to those living amonst it.
ASBOs are designed to limit and correct the recipient's behavior. For example, by forbidding a return to a certain area or shop, or by restricting public behavior such as swearing or drinking.
As the ASBO is a civil order, the defendant has no right to evidence that might disprove the assertions of the plaintiff, though violating an ASBO can incur up to five years imprisonment. This means getting an ASBO does not give you a criminal record, but breaking the ASBO could.
ASBOs are not without contraversy. Many critics suggest that they may be "desirable" to certain people as a "badge", to be respected amongst peers.
In the United Kingdom, an ASBO may be issued in response to "conduct which caused or was likely to cause harm, harassment, alarm or distress, to one or more persons not of the same household as him or herself and where an ASBO is seen as necessary to protect relevant persons from further anti-social acts by the Defendant."[5] In England and Wales they are issued by Magistrates' Courts, and in Scotland by the Sheriff Courts.

 

[petros]

Aren't you glad we we don't have those laws here Cliffy?

 

[Cliffy]

Aren't you glad we we don't have those laws here Cliffy?

Yup. They would have slap an ASBO on me back in the 70s when I built my "stick shack" in northern BC. They never consider that the government might be part of the problem.

 

[petros]

A house is just straight sticks, mud between paper and rock heated into glass and insulation. Being nonsymeticral is illegal.

 

[JLM]

What a bunch of sh*t! Is the whole world going nuts? I was building forts in the bush when I was 6 years old. Can't believe this sh*t is in the news!

 

[taxslave]

What a bunch of sh*t! Is the whole world going nuts? I was building forts in the bush when I was 6 years old. Can't believe this sh*t is in the news!

I can. This is England where bureaucracy was invented.

Anyone know how many ASBOS one can wrack up before getting a few weeks of free room& board?

 

[Blackleaf]

Foolish, foolish children! Do they not know the only good fort is a pillow one! Sticks, along with their nefarious companions stones, break bones.

Although you didn't have to put up with them playing outside your house.

 

[petros]

Where should kids play? Indoors?

 

[taxslave]

Where should kids play? Indoors?

On the freeway.

 

[petros]

On the freeway.

As long as nobody is playing with Blackleaf, all is well.

 

[Blackleaf]

Where should kids play? Indoors?

You didn't have these kids playing and causing trouble outside YOUR house, did you?

You're one of those NIMBYs.

 

[taxslave]

You didn't have these kids playing and causing trouble outside YOUR house, did you?

You're one of those NIMBYs.

Canadian kids are civilized and polite. They do not create problems.

 

[petros]

You didn't have these kids playing and causing trouble outside YOUR house, did you?

You're one of those NIMBYs.

I have girls the same age prostituing outside my house. I'd rather they built a fort and played like girls that age should.