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'50s-style law and order is key
16/ 5/2008
RECENTLY a group of youths were riding their bicycles on the sidewalk up Flixton Road towards Urmston Station, weaving their way through a blanket of pedestrians as if they were on an obstacle course.
When confronted by an elderly couple who asked them to rise their bicycles on the road, they were rewarded by insults and obscene hand gestures.
Incidents like these would not have been tolerated in the 1950s and 60s – you did as you were told, or else.
For example, if some brave kid decided to ride a bike through Davyhulme Park in those days, never mind on the pavement, then the park keeper was on you like a tonne of bricks, and it was the same for the local bobby on the beat.
Upset him by misbehaving and you would get a cuff round the ear-hole. You might not like it but it taught you respect for others.
Even to put a lot more real policemen on the beat in today’s violent society would not alter the crime rate overnight, but I’m sure it would bring peace of mind to the law-abiding citizens, and especially to the elderly, knowing that the traditional British policeman is once again patrolling our streets.
HARRY WILD
Davyhulme
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society now is incredibly violant
now-a-days you walk down the street and watch everyone and expect the unexpected
if you hear shouting in the distance you try to avoid it
im 15 and of course i wasnt around in the 50's and 60's, however growing up the 90's (which still wasnt the best part of the 20th century really) i can even tell that the world has become more violant.
When i was growing up everyone got along, people said please, thank-you and excuse-me in the street
people would smile at you and be very polite
if teenagers were being too loud, all you had to do was walk up and say "please may you quieten down abit" and they would reply "oh sorry, yeah sure no problem"
but now you get a handful of abuse, verbal and physical.
Even when im on student leader duty at my school, if i tell students nicely to go outside because they're not supposed to be on the corridors, i get a mouthful of abuse.
Things need to change, its gone too far, too long have people lived in fear of the outside world, youth's have taken over and now they need to be shown whos boss
16/05/2008 at 19:54