I am baffled by playground destruction trend by "teenagers" in Ireland. Probably costing taxpayer millions a year.
Why is it taken so lightly? I think once identified the responsible teens and their parents should be subject to concequences. Repair costs etc.
This is just horrid.
All pictures are from a single playground in Dublin.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1ekpoaa
Posted by Xeamus4Toes
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We pay the wrong people to have kids
Really sad these pictures
Not enough facilities, apparently.
Fucking horrendous. And there’d be a massive amount of pushback from locals you’d imagine. Little scumbags rule the roost. Plus their scumbag familys.
Same happened to a new playground near me. It’s missing railings and covered in cock graffiti.
Oh yeah, big tunnel slide three stories high… someone did a shit at the top of it, like planted one strategically.
You have to wonder what goes through their minds when they do this.
I do not accept the “no facilities”, “nothing else to do”, “bored”, etc. We had nothing growing up. We made our own entertainment and it never involved vandalism. It wasn’t even conceivable that we’d destroy something. I’m not saying it never happened at all when I ws young; just that we didn’t do it. I suppose my parents and my friends’ parents taught us about values. We were dirt poor too so I don’t accept poverty as an excuse either.
I’d love to understand the whole “lads, let’s just burn this thing down” mindset.
Let’s imagine we find those who did it, then what? The parents will either support them because they’re trash or claim innocence and their kids are running wild.
> I think once identified
Vandalism like this is rarely identified. That’s the problem . And it’s extremely difficult to identify it.
Portlaoise?
Take a quick walk around the corner to the tyrone place flats complex, you’ll fund the culprits there
This happened a lot to a playground near me. Everytime they’d replace a burnt or graffiti panel, they do it again. Meant they had to lock the gates of the parks when it got dark. Doesn’t stop teens hopping the 8ft fence and getting in but they brake more laws to do it now so more of a deterrent.
That is everywhere now
I grew up on the north side and just now living on the south side…one of the parks I went to recently had a 6 piece set of heavy steel bowls sitting on the bench for just anyone to use. I might be out of date but if they had just been sitting on a bench where I grew up…100% someone is gonna do something bad with them
It’s shocking but I also feel sorry for teenagers, there is just fuck all for them to do once they grow too old to use playgrounds. Unless their in sports or social clubs, that can cost a fortune, they’re sort of just left to exist.
Playgrounds have always been a popular target for burning and vandalism in this country.. no idea why and wish it would stop
Horrendous, wretched scrotes.
What playground is this?
They shouldn’t be let out of the house
They installed lovely toilets and a water refill station in a playground near us. All vandalised and set on fire within days. The toilets repeatedly. Absolute scrotes, but sure it’s not like anything is going to happen to them 🤷♂️
I can not understand why we don’t use community service more for nonviolent crimes, and also can’t comprehend why there are age limits on community service. We hear so much about prisons being full, but that seems to be the only resort judges seem to use, and for kids, I think that community service would be a great way to teach a level of responsibility that’s lacking in their upbringing.
Fine the parents , dock social welfare or humiliating community services hours
It’ll just buff out. Just young lads being scamps
So fuckin stupid… We can’t have nice things in this country.
They put in a brand new sheltered bus stop next to my house
.. lovely yoke.. plenty room for people.
First weekend… All the glass broken.
Moronic shite altogether
I lived in Korea for a few years and there are facilities like this and public exercise machines dotted all over towns and cities that never, ever get vandalised. Anecdotally, I believe hiking huts, toilets, barbecue pits and wood piles etc. all over the Nordic countries are never/rarely vandalised either. It’s 100% a cultural thing here and in UK, exacerbated by non-existent policing and zero consequences. The teenage urge to do stuff you know you shouldn’t, as an expression of your independence, channeled in all the wrong ways and simply never corrected.
Infuriatingly mindless.
Scrotes scrotes scrotes. The country’s biggest problem.
Everything is taken lightly here. It’s a joke.
We can’t have nice things. All these brain damaged teens are your future patriots who will be rioting and burning public things in a couple of years. Noone is going to stop them.