banning hoodies

**The_Doctor** · 05-12-2005, 18:00

Taking away peoples hats is mad. I do not see the point of it.

What if they start wearing, bicorn or tricorn hats, or top hats, or a big Mexican hats, or a big furry Russian hat, or a bearskin like the Royal guards.

Or what if they had long hair and it covered their face.

**Kanamori** · 05-12-2005, 19:18

Lol, England is starting to sound like a police state. When I was in London, I didn't see any of this stuff...I've been to Tijuana often too, and the worst I've seen is a drug bust where a guy tried to runaway, and got checked into a building.

buncha' hoodlums

**Duke Malcolm** · 05-12-2005, 19:32

Britain, for God's sake, Britain!
These are Scotland's laws, too!

**BDC** · 05-12-2005, 19:39

Originally Posted by Kanamori

Lol, England is starting to sound like a police state. When I was in London, I didn't see any of this stuff...I've been to Tijuana often too, and the worst I've seen is a drug bust where a guy tried to runaway, and got checked into a building.

buncha' hoodlums

I would agree, but I have been glared at enough times walking past McDonald's and been threatened by enough people on scooters to be annoyed.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 05-12-2005, 20:07

I have no problem with this. Nobody has a right to menace people, and this really is an 'if you don't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear' issue.

I hate hooded tops anyway, I think they're exceptionally ugly. Real men wear short sleeves at all times.

**Steppe Merc** · 05-13-2005, 00:10

Hoodies? I guess that's a hooded sweatshirt?

I hate hooded tops anyway, I think they're exceptionally ugly. Real men wear short sleeves at all times.

Yeah, I'd agree, except I have no body fat so for survival I resort to wearing sweatshirts during winter... Some have hoods, but they aren't the huge ones most people in my school wear, and I never put them up...

But if this is to fight against gangs, and if it's a problem, very well. Hats are stupid anyway, and as I said, I never actually wear hoods. Does this mean that people can't wear hoods or wear hooded sweatshirts? Cause if someone just has a hooded sweatshirt and is obviously not the sort gangs wear, I wouldn't think they ought to get in trouble.

And at least in America, not only poor people wear stupid clothing or try and make gangs. A lot of rich spoiled ones do so as well. Just out of curosity, are these gangs trying to be like the LA and New York sort of gangs? And if so, do they attempt to talk like them, just with an English accent? Cause that would be strange....

And what the hell's a yob?

**KukriKhan** · 05-13-2005, 00:24

yob = backward spelling of 'boy', originally. Now used to designate Brit juvenile delinquents.

On a related note: there is some internet chatter about how these yob gangs, beyond hurling insults to passersby, will sometimes pick a weak-looking victim, knock him/her down and each member slaps/hits the victim, while 1 guy takes vid/pics with a cell-phone - presumeably to share the images later.

Any info on this trend?

**Kanamori** · 05-13-2005, 01:25

What a bunch of losers; some real gang members in Chicago should beat em up .

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 05-13-2005, 01:35

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

On a related note: there is some internet chatter about how these yob gangs, beyond hurling insults to passersby, will sometimes pick a weak-looking victim, knock him/her down and each member slaps/hits the victim, while 1 guy takes vid/pics with a cell-phone - presumeably to share the images later.

Any info on this trend?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4539913.stm

BBC article. Rather bizarre story really.

**JAG** · 05-13-2005, 01:46

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

yob = backward spelling of 'boy', originally. Now used to designate Brit juvenile delinquents.

On a related note: there is some internet chatter about how these yob gangs, beyond hurling insults to passersby, will sometimes pick a weak-looking victim, knock him/her down and each member slaps/hits the victim, while 1 guy takes vid/pics with a cell-phone - presumeably to share the images later.

Any info on this trend?

It does exist unfortuantely and it is a totally new thing, in relative terms. Maybe the last few months. It is the same people we are talking about in this thread who carry out the 'happy slappy' stuff.

**Craterus** · 05-14-2005, 13:41

Originally Posted by Martinus

Taking away peoples hats is mad. I do not see the point of it.

What if they start wearing, bicorn or tricorn hats, or top hats, or a big Mexican hats, or a big furry Russian hat, or a bearskin like the Royal guards.

Or what if they had long hair and it covered their face.

I agree with the above post. And I don't see the problem if people had their hoods down. Would they be taking old ladies' anoraks off them on col winter days?