There is a large shopping centre in the UK (Bluewater in Kent) that has just announced that it is banning anyone wearing hooded tops, baseball caps, or any other clothes that obscure your face. Apparently they have a problem with gangs of hood rats hanging around abusing people, swearing, etc.

Notwithstanding that its a free country etc and you should be free to do what you like I don't have an issue with this myself. There is only one reason teenagers wear those stupid hoodies, and its because they don't want their faces on CCTV (or they want you to think they don't want their faces on CCTV). If they need people to feel scared of them to get some sense of worth into their pointless existences hen they can hardly complain about being banned IMHO.

Whats more, and while I am being iliberal, we should go back to the days when large groups of teenagers hanging around on street corners got moved on by the police. I don't care if you are hard as nails, gangs of pack-hunting scrotes hanging about are intimidating, and even if they don't intimidate you they will intimidate your girlfriend or granny. I couldn't give a monkeys if they've got "nowhere to go" either (anyway, they have, they could go home or to the library and do their schoolwork).