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Strike For The South
08-20-2006, 06:55
Ok so I just finished watching HOSTEL (messed up) Now besides the gore and unecaserry amounts of fornacation there was something that cuaght my attention. Child gangs like little kids roaming the Slovikan countryside for candy and gum and monies. Are there any truth to these gangs?
cegorach
08-20-2006, 16:17
I know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.:book:
IrishArmenian
08-20-2006, 21:50
I would always do that with my friends. But only between the ages of about 6-8, at which point I moved back to the city. I loved those times. So much room for football. If I remember correctly, we had enuff for 11 versus 11. I bugged my two oldest brothers to make us Goal Posts with Nets. They did, and I was so happy. Good times. I beleeve this is really odd if you are reading it probably. Different culture.
Strike For The South
08-20-2006, 23:19
No they went around beating up adults who wouldnt give in to there demands and bash there heads in with rocks. I played football to I HAVE FRIENDS PEOPLE LIKE ME!:laugh4:
IrishArmenian
08-21-2006, 00:11
Oh, probably should've mentioned that part. I meant real Football, not the bastard-child of Rugby. That, I did not do, though in a couple of years I was a pre-pube killing machine! (err, small child with a rifle)
Evil_Maniac From Mars
08-21-2006, 02:17
I would always do that with my friends. But only between the ages of about 6-8, at which point I moved back to the city. I loved those times. So much room for football. If I remember correctly, we had enuff for 11 versus 11. I bugged my two oldest brothers to make us Goal Posts with Nets. They did, and I was so happy. Good times. I beleeve this is really odd if you are reading it probably. Different culture.
Yes, childhood in Europe is wonderful. Whenever I go back now, I round up a few friends and cousins to try and bring some of it back.
Banquo's Ghost
08-21-2006, 11:44
I know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.:book:

Rather surprised that you think it is true for Russia. In my experience, it's no more prevalent than teenage gangs in Western Europe. Children in Russia are still pretty well behaved - it's when they get drafted (or drop out to avoid the draft) into the army that they turn brutalised and nasty.

St Petersburg has a real problem with skinhead gangs in their early twenties, unemployed and recently released from the purgatory of the service, but children - not to my knowledge or that of any of my friends and in-laws (who stretch from Petersburg and Moscow over to Perm and Irkutsk).

Maybe you are thinking of Byelorus? I don't know that country so well, and it's a lot poorer.
Fragony
08-21-2006, 11:51
I know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.:book:

Just read an article of a polish childgang where the leader was 4 years old :dizzy2:
cegorach
08-21-2006, 17:32
Just read an article of a polish childgang where the leader was 4 years old :dizzy2:

Where ? :inquisitive: So the members were 2-3 years old I assume :laugh4:
cegorach
08-21-2006, 17:36
[QUOTE]Rather surprised that you think it is true for Russia. In my experience, it's no more prevalent than teenage gangs in Western Europe. Children in Russia are still pretty well behaved - it's when they get drafted (or drop out to avoid the draft) into the army that they turn brutalised and nasty.

I meant homeless children they are pretty serious problem in Russia - probably from the XIXth century and never really solved.:book:
Fragony
08-21-2006, 17:37
Where ? :inquisitive: So the members were 2-3 years old I assume :laugh4:

Krakow, this is the only link I have, and FOK! isn't the most, well, reliable source.

http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/67529
Banquo's Ghost
08-21-2006, 18:29
Krakow, this is the only link I have, and FOK! isn't the most, well, reliable source.

http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/67529

Sadly, I don't read Dutch but it looks like the perpetrator was a delinquent kitten... :grin:
Banquo's Ghost
08-21-2006, 18:32
I meant homeless children they are pretty serious problem in Russia - probably from the XIXth century and never really solved.:book:

Homeless children I'll agree with you on. Orphanages in Russia are still pits of hell.
cegorach
08-21-2006, 18:59
I didn't mean orphanages, but those children who live in the streets, in subway, railway stations etc. From time to time they are swept by police, especially in time of celebrations or international meetings, but the problem is horrible.



@Fragony


Krakow, this is the only link I have, and FOK! isn't the most, well, reliable source.

It is first time I hear about it and surely it would be in the news etc.:juggle2: