Your Say Thursday: How Do You Get Teen Gangs off the Streets?

With a machine gun. Next!

Anyway, in all seriousness, this week's Discussion for Dickheads is on the topic of gangs of teenage 'hoodies' (it's never been explained to me why the BBC can't just use the term the rest of us use and call the little bastards 'chavs'), and the link to the full topic can be found here.

Without further ado, onto the idiots.

"Why not give youngsters more to do at nights. They don't want to be sitting around with their family do they? Street corners are only what's availible in some areas!"
Gill, Birmingham

Well, Gill, I don't know about you, but I grew up in a small town without so much as a youth centre, and I've never stabbed a pensioner in the face. Having nothing to do is not an excuse to go around hospitalising people, or next Christmas season I'd be heading to Birmingham with a cricket bat. You are rubbish.

"I demand Vengance, I demand Revenge against these evil filth. We will never cure this cancer without an effective deterent. Bring back the death penalty and for a lot less than murder. Kill two birds with one stone; Let the death penalty consist of the convicted criminal be taken to the nearest hospital, rendered unconscious and remove everything from the body that is of any use to the organ doner service. What is left to be disposed of in the hospital heating boiler."
T. Thompson, Newcastle

Dear T. (Can I call you Mr. T?) you are a mentalist. What's more, you are an 18th Century mentalist. "I demand vengeance" indeed. While I'm all for doing something about 'hoodie youths' but the image you've me of yourself is of someone far more dangerous than a twat called Darren in a sky blue baseball cap, you seem the sort of nutter who would go around in velvet dress pants with a sword down them. Also, precisely how much less is 'a lot less'? Death squads stealing children's organs for dropping sweeties? You are a moron.

"Let them drink in pubs"
Ralph, London

Yes Ralph, because the one thing these people need is more alcohol.

"Vote BNP next time. We need them. Canning in schools should be brought back to teach youngsters dicilplin at early age."
david jones, carmarthen

Because, as we know, the solution to youth violence is to set fire to all the brown people. Them thar BNP will clear things right up, and make sure that next time you get your head caved in, it'll be from a sturdy, white, hard-as-oak British youth and not one of those smelly forrins.

"boot camps, floggings, and even better - compulsory IQ tests which if they dont pass, they get sterilised to stop the scum breeding."
Peter Mulholland, Norwich, United Kingdom

Peter Mulholland, meet David Jones, I think you'll get on fine. Eugenics is just fine so long as nobody gets their purse nicked. Honestly, I dislike these hoodies as much as anyone (as I keep saying), but going all Dr. Mengele on 'social undesirables' just somehow doesn't sit well with me.

"Five years in the military, whether we are engaged in conflicts or not. These hoodlums will enter the military as thugs and will leave the military with many useful values! Bring Back the Draft!"
Jules Beej, White Plains, NY, USA

Because they just aren't skilled enough at killing already.

"Stop blaming Society, the parents, alcohol. TV, computer games, Jews, Americans, Thatcher, Martians - oops I nearly forgot the victims - everybody and everything except the perpetrators themselves for a start."
David Walker, North Yorkshire

What? That's certainly a new one on me, "You know who's to blame for youth violence? It's those damn Jews." Speaking as a Jew, please don't try to drag antisemitism into every discussion in a bid to get people to agree with you, it only makes it harder when the real racists pop their heads out.

"a load of rubbish! us teenagers should be able to hang about with our m8s wen we wunt. not all teenagers are the same. adults always sterio type us its well annoying. we aint all bad!!"
boo

You fight that stereotype, boo.

"round them up from the streets if they are drunk put them in a hole in the ground for 2 days,if they do it again make it 4 days and if done a third time leave them to rot"
art padmore, essex

So if I go for a drink and decide to walk home from the pub I risk being pushed into a hastily-dug hole by Art Padmore? Fucking hell, no-one's safe. My advice to you: Drink paint.

"I think that the sentencing needs to be much stronger regardless of age, if a teenager of 15 commits murder then he/she should be punished in the same way as a 45 year old. And with the death penalty debate I think that the murderer should be executed in the same manner the victim was killed. I agree that people over the age of 10 should understand what is right and wrong, unless they are clearly mental. Gangs are a fact of life, tribes, gatherings, raves, but criminal youths should be burned"

George, Cambridge, UK

Oh George, you were doing so well. Why always with the fire, George? Why always with the fire?

So there you go, that was the first Your Say Thursday. Written in EditPad Lite, because Google refuse to fix their shit and make Blogger work with Opera. Oh well, I'm looking into getting a domain soon as I don't trust Google not to wipe my page should I say something too controversial which, as you might have realised if you're a regular reader, could be any day now. Nude midget.

On the topic of controversy, one final thing before I go, what was with the idiots on Question Time tonight claiming "it would be marvellous to have the first woman president, it would be marvellous to have the first black president" - in what way, at all, whatsoever, does the colour of the skin of the President of the United States of America have to do with anything? What about what they keep between their legs? Only the pandering left insist on banging on about how great it is that there might be a black president or a woman president or a one-legged president... how about we let the Americans pick the person who's actually best for the job? I don't care if they're black, white, male, female... whoever stops their lot shooting our lot when they're supposed to be shooting at the other team is a good pick for me, because the only way they could be any worse than this one would be if they started shooting nuns.

Goodnight.