Anger over "Bridge of Booze" in Brockworth

“MontyToplady, do you actually live on the same planet that I do? I have encountered literally hundreds of young people that I am confident in calling 'feral'. Some of them live near me, some of them I simply encountered in travelling around. In past times, such youngsters were called 'guttersnipes' or 'street urchins'. These can all be considered terms of abuse, but alternative terms are politically correct, and only seek to mask the basic problem, which is that of careless parenting. I'm not blaming the young people, who know no better; I'm blaming their parents for not teaching them respect for themselves or others.”

“Altrux you are misguided in using the word "feral" aimed at young people. It is offensive; the young do not use it towards your age group (therefore making you the worse of the two parties); and it makes people like me cross. It is basically a non-winning strategy.

You are completely correct in saying it is "just like the Hardwicke story yesterday". That story was completely made up. Everyone knows people are making up stories to try and shut this bridge to protect their utopia, and everyone knows it is nothing more than a few kids hanging about.

If there are crimes being committed then report them. Arson!!!Drug Dealing!!!!

(Does nobody know that this is a repeated pattern accross the county where people make up the same lies about young people when they fall foul of developers patter? It is SO predictable and I can give 10 TiG stories that reported it!)

But nobody can find any crime apart from legal snobbery”

“I'm not sure about 'posh' houses in Nightjar Road, but at least the residents of the rivers estate where there is a real community can sell their houses easily even in this depressed housing market.
However on Nightjar Road it's a different story.

One 4 bedroom detached house on Nightjar Road has been for sale for over 18 months! It started off in early 2011 at £260,000, then £250k, then £240k and still wont sell! Another 4 bedroom detached joined it for sale, 6 months later still un-sold.

Estate agents tell me it's not the bridge that makes buyers run away after a viewing - it's that both these houses look on to the new school block only a few yards away from their garden fence.

So you might want the bridge taken away dear residents but you can't remove the school as easily!”

“Safeandnice.........it's a footbridge.”

“Why is this picture of Barnwood's Community Partnership activity linked to a completely different journalistic occurance. Saturday morning in Barnwood was well spent with Youth from the Vibes "Streetwise Crew" giving of their best - Well done all participants - thank you.jg”

“Why dont they open up the bridge to all traffic so everyone can use it?”

“This is a case of "location, location, location", as I doubt whether these "feral youths" will have much difficulty scaling the brook even if the bridge is removed. Similar problems are evident throughout the land including local areas like Abbeydale and Hardwicke - i.e the proximity of new houses to estates used as dumping grounds for folk society has long given up on.

As the good song goes: "There but for fortune go you - go I".”

“Posh houses? Really? 40% of them are 'affordable', like all other modern developments. There are lots of 2-bed housing association properties on the Nightjar estate, and seemingly decent people live there.

The crimes are much more serious than described here: arson attacks, car damage, regular drug dealing etc (just like the Hardwicke story yesterday). Some residents are desperately trying to sell their houses and leave, but can't. The bridge has little legitimate usage, other than dog walkers - it's not a through route to anywhere. It is 90% used by feral youth to cause trouble away from the gaze of their own neighbours.

People are rightfully sick of being targeted by these scum, and our pathetic law and order system has once again failed.”

“Testing hopelessly flakey login system..”

“On no, here we go again! How many times will people buy over-priced houses in estates they are told are exclusively for the well-to-do middle and professional classes...only to find they have to live near the hoi-poloi and throw their toys out of the pram?

The bridge of booze is a walkway between the private posh houses and the council estate. Of course they want it removed. And this is a well trodden path....blame young people. The crimes are pretty bad:

"They kick over bins, throw things, smash stuff and then escape over the bridge."

Who do they escape from, the private police of the estate? Its just utter utter utter nonsense.”