Halfinch 51 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 My16yr old niece got in trouble recently for being drunk and causing a bloody nuisance, she isn't normally like that at home, and when i spoke to her she told me she bought some drink from a local shop because she looks older than her "mates" and it's "cool" to get drunk. so off i went to ask the shop keeper why he sold the drink to her, Reply was "well we can't check all the kids that come in here" Well i stopped using said shop, went past recently, still selling beer to kids, losing my custom made no difference at all. Had a disscusion today and seems to me one person can't make any difference, but someone suggested the major problem is the press are glorifying bad behaviour, ie cocain Kate, pete docherty, most footballers, etc. I think parents have a lot of responsibility, but i must agree the press have a lot to answer for. Seems to me it was mainly the press that got hunting banned too. What do you think? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Missie 1 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Could try reporting the shop. They can and should check ID of any young people that look a bit suspect. A local branch of Tesco Express got fined recently and nearly lost thier ability to sell alcohol and now are supposed to check anyone who looks under the age of 30. They don't though. I think with underage drinking its not so much the media as such but just part of growing up. Any teenager with friends will have peers around them offering fags, booze and possibly drugs. When I grew up my parents were very strict and living on a farm out of the way of the town I was rarely allowed out to the underage club nights etc that my friends went to, they were a lot less strict with my sister who was frequently to be found at the local park with her friends on a friday and saturday night getting drunk. By this time I could drink legally and it had lost a lot of its appeal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest world.hunters Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 tesco are worse then that now missie. me a mate and a women who was over 30 went in i got some drink but wasnt allowed to pay for it as even tho i had my ID the women didnt have hers they told me that i had to come back on myself as they cannot sell any alcohol to anyone at anytime unless everyone with them is over 18 and has ID. so i went back this little twat of a security guard said "NOOOO we have them on CCTV waiting for you" ofcourse there going to wait for me im pretty sure he just wanted me to kick off to have a good story to tell his mates Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markieboi 0 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 if he gets alot of kids in after booze and he makes say 100 pound a week from selling kids drink he rather do that than keep your custom if you spend say 5 pound a week in there just my little input Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Strong Stuff 2,171 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ring your local Trading Standards and have a discrete word with them, they don't always know there's a problem until someone tells them. I wouldn't let my Partners 11 year old Daughter watch the Brits last night, as I thought it was loads of druggies and pissed idiots thinking they're dead cool to be on TV off their heads That Docherty lad wants a good Not the example I'd like her to follow. Alternatively, you could always burn the shop down STRONGSTUFF .... The voice of reason .... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lurchergrrl 1,441 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I was gobsmacked by the drink culture in the UK when I moved here, and the glorification of it by the media. The fact that you can walk down the street drinking here still freaks me out. Do that in Canada and you'll pay a HEFTY fine for it. If kids grow up seeing adults sat outside pubs on the sidewalks, in parks and such, drinking and carrying on they're not going think there's owt wrong with it. I took my kids to the park on Tuesday, a gang of local scrubbers turned up at 3.30 with their cans and their fowl language, and my kids cried all the way home because I made them leave rather than be subjected to that Accepted public drinking combined with the media coverage of losers like Kate and Pete et al, you wonder what message teens are getting. But if the government stepped in to put a stop to it there would probably be a public outcry about a nanny state etc. I for one would love to see a law forbidding public drinking and a ban on coverage of the drink and drug exploits of 'celebrities'. I'll do the best I can to be a good example for my kids, but outside influence counts for a lot when you're a teenager. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ferretess 230 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Around here the police employ underage teenagers to go and buy fags and drink from shops and stores and then follow up in a fine then they name and shame them in the local paper, BUT , they always manage to get more from another shop or get someone older to get it next time, Our police have also starterd stopping kids walking about and if they have any drink with them ,, even if it is in a juice bottle they don't hang around they make the kids pour it out down a drain then walk them to a bucket to put the empty bottle in, and if they refuse they get escorted back to the station and mummy or daddy is called to come and collect there child,,, embarrasing to the parents maybe but a few days later there out with there pals doing the same thing,, the biggest majority of teenagers are ok and can handle a drink but you will always get the trouble makers that ruin it for the rest, All this said and done and through personnal experiance i personnaly find that around here anyway the attitude of the police does not help and often aggrevates a situation,, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Ring your local Trading Standards and have a discrete word with them, they don't always know there's a problem until someone tells them. I wouldn't let my Partners 11 year old Daughter watch the Brits last night, as I thought it was loads of druggies and pissed idiots thinking they're dead cool to be on TV off their heads That Docherty lad wants a good Not the example I'd like her to follow. Alternatively, you could always burn the shop down STRONGSTUFF .... The voice of reason .... I agree load of backslapping drunks , wouldnt watch it either Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I used to work in the local coop & regularly used to refuse to serve people to booze , the kids would come in try to buy it , got refused , the the kids go over the indian takeaway over the road & one of the blokes out there comes in & trys to buy the exact same stuff the kids tried to buy, so i refused him as well I left due to being held hostage by a junkie holding a syringe and i was out of there job or no job i wasnt paid enough to put up with that shite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Irish Lurcher 1,013 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Get used to it, its parts of the British culture, and for our own Irish culture. I drive my Taxi for a living around Dublin and he makes me sick to think how our visitors must perceive us. Every weekend in Dublin you have gangs of drunken kids been sick and causing nothing but trouble. The cops do what they can, but we have a more serious problem in Ireland at the moment with gun culture and drugs, two drugs related deaths in past two weeks, the cops have enough on their plate without crap from drunken kids. While most of the kids are well under age, which means no prosecution can be brought against them, I feel its fooken time the so called parents were made face the music. Fine the parents for their kid’s antisocial behavior, I bet you would see a huge decrease in such behavior. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
speedlamper 0 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 half the time its the feckin parents buying the stuff ban f****n alcohol i say! everyone should go out and get stoned on a friday night instead, nobody could be arsed fighting or giving shit then and the only things gettin robbed would be sweety shops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
speedlamper 0 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 half the time its the feckin parents buying the stuff ban f****n alcohol i say! everyone should go out and get stoned on a friday night instead, nobody could be arsed fighting or giving shit then and the only things gettin robbed would be sweety shops christ dont say that sure then there will be a rule dont smoke and drive be lethal everyone stoned off there faces tho know a few fellas that do alot of lamping that smoke while on the lamp its isnt half funny watching the lads going over ditchs oh no f**k that, tis nice having a smaoke when you get back to the car though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Irish Lurcher 1,013 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I only smoke when I am wearing my Blazer Quote Link to post Share on other sites
speedlamper 0 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 I only smoke when I am wearing my Blazer whilst sipping earl grey on the veranda Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Irish Lurcher 1,013 Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Who is veranda, local lass??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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