Town forbids young people going out after 9pm without a parent or responsible person.

[BlackStar42]

Well, Bangor's on the coast. Can't you drown all the troublemakers?

On a slightly more serious note, I don't understand the hatred for ALL teenagers in this thread. Most people were young once, and not all of them were criminal scum. I personally may have been an angst-ridden douchebag, but I never did anything illegal.

 

[Dangit2019]

If 16 year olds are out and about past 9 it cant be any good.
Seriously its 9, go home.

Maybe but you should still have the right to be out at that time.

Yeah, that's more of the parents' business than the government.

 

[F'Angus]

My friend goes to uni in Bangor... I'll ask what she thinks.. brb. Ha

 

[Racecarlock]

google-fu

Is that similar to yahoo-rate and jeeves-jitsu?

 

[Kargathia]

If 16 year olds are out and about past 9 it cant be any good.
Seriously its 9, go home.

Maybe but you should still have the right to be out at that time.

My town has the same law, but its midnight. If you are out past midnight and are underage you get a ticket, or get dragged home or to the station by the police, your choice.

So essentially the police are providing you with taxi services to get home past midnight?

Sheesh, talk about service...

 

[j0frenzy]

This may be a cultural thing, but do 16yos not work in the UK or is it just that nothing is open then? When I was 16-18 I was routinely closing for the ice cream shop I was working. We stayed open until 11, often didn't get home until 12. And then there were the theaters when I had days off. I love me some movies. There were several good reasons for me to be out after 9 then.
I'm fine with a curfew in theory, but 9 just seems more than a little restrictive.

It's not a cultural thing, it's just the fact that there's fuck all jobs left here.

So this law is stupidly short sighted since it assumes there will never an jobs for young people? Great.

 

[aestu]

This is a case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Yes, we are heading towards the world of "Airstrip One".

Youth curfews make sense but anyone with an ounce of "sense" knows this is an effort to batten down the hatches before the storm of justified indignation at the despicable state of our politics and economy.