Enough With the Marauding Teenagers!
A couple of months ago as we were walking East on Greene Avenue between Waverly and Washington we noticed in our peripheral vision someone approaching fast from behind. When we spun around, it was a teenage boy, probably about 15 years old, who had crept up and was hovering inches from the back of our…
A couple of months ago as we were walking East on Greene Avenue between Waverly and Washington we noticed in our peripheral vision someone approaching fast from behind. When we spun around, it was a teenage boy, probably about 15 years old, who had crept up and was hovering inches from the back of our head mocking us provocatively to the clear delight of his jeering friends. Ever risk-averse, we quickly walked out into the middle of the street and starting dialing on our cell phone. With a few shouts, the pack continued down the block. We jogged back to a police car we had noticed parked back on Vanderbilt, told the cops what had happened and went home. The next day we heard that a woman had been mugged half an hour later a few blocks from there by a bunch of teenagers. We’ve heard of several similar instances in the area in recent weeks. And it’s not just Clinton Hill. A post on Brooklynian describes how a trio of teenage girls (19, 17 and 12) mugged five different people in Prospect Heights on Saturday night (and how only one of them decided to press charges) and an email we received yesterday told of a violent mugging of a twenty-something male by a group of boys at around 8:15 Monday night at Dekalb and South Oxford Street in Fort Greene (above). What can the community do to combat this activity? Obviously greater police presence would help, but given the paltry resources the NYPD devotes to this part of town, it’s going to take a lot of vigilance on the part of residents in terms of reporting even small incidents of harassment and pressing charges. And everyone should be aware that a lot of these muggings are happening during daylight hours, often between the end of school and dinner time, so it’s a good idea to minimize iPod and cell phone usage during those times. Please use this comment thread to document other similar incidents that you know about in recent months as well as to suggest ways to address the problem.
“sorry, but i have a bit of a problem kicking the shit out of kids only 9 or 10 year old, period.”
You got punked by some 10 YEAR OLDS??? You’re officially soft. Wring their fool necks! I can’t believe some of the comments I’m reading here. Marauding teens suck, and there are variouis ways to handle these situations depending on who you are and the resources you may (or may not) have at hand. But SOME of you people clearly just don’t belong in Brooklyn!
11:41 + Guiliani + John McCain = LOSER!!!!!
11.57, as far as I know there is no drug currently available. CBT is the best bet.
“Asshat Hill” is pretty funny, you gotta admit…
11:31 & 11:53 your low IQ is showing
“Putnamdenizen…your statement makes sense.
The What”
Dogs and cats living together… Mass hysteria!
“P”BTW, idiot at 10.09, love your racial sterotypes you usless POS. All blacks have carpet knives/box cutters and are looking to beat down whitey.”
Nope, just Asshats. The white people who was born and raised in this city are very “Street Smart”. They know the ins and outs of NYC. They would not move into the Ghetto and trying to change things.
“Just stop posting already. You contribute nothing and now you’ve had your 15 minutes via your friends at NYMag, so go find another little pond. What’s more, you are a f*cktard. It’s obvious that you’re incapable of parsing any of the cut and paste you post ad nauseum or of making any type of intellectual or analytical contributions to this board. Your impotent attempts to portray yourself as some sort of visionary re: the economy or RE are laughable. If you want to talk about asshattery, you wrote the book. So go away.”
Awwww what the matter.. Got swept up in “Ghetto fever”… LMMFAO!
“In the swanky neighborhoods of Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Lima, etc, rich folks who live in the million-dollar mansions usually do not show themselves too often on the street. They know the income disparity between themselves and the city’s poor. Americans, clueless about socio/economic issues, delude themselves into thinking that this is an egalitarian city where everyone has the same shot at success and wealth.”
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner folks, no more numbers please!
This falls into my “cognitive dissonance” rant! You Asshats go get it. Brownstoner is King Asshat from OHIO and trying to get people killed by being “Pioneers” into the “wilderness”! BTW With the upcoming crash ZI don’t things will “Improve” in the Ghetto. The way of life, the schools and crimes will continue to suck.
“Is “Maruading Teenagers” the new code word? I remember a few short years ago the term “Wilding” was used frequently by the press to describe a group (defined by 2 or more) young blackmen gathered together on a street corner.”
Yes it is and the teens convicted in the Central Park Jogger case was found INNOCENT! So much for Just-us,huh.
“Learn this phrase: Not in the face!”
ROTMFFLMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One last thing, the police offers from the 88 pct. are sick and tired of the “Complaining Asshats”. One Cop and I had a conversation and he said (Paraphrasing) “These Asshats move into the Ghetto and what us to change things overnight”. Brownstoner lives on the worse block in Asshat Hill. Tons of people have been shot and killed on that corner. Brownstoner didn’t do his homework and was moving with the other “Pioneers”, how is that working out?
The What (Not in the face, LMAO)
Someday this war is gonna end….
11:41, if you think that 11:30’s comments were pathological, I would like to know what kind of phycosis medicine are you prescribe to. I don’t know 11:30’s race or nationality but I am so tired of whitepeople making other whitepeople feel alienated because they have sympathy for people other that whitepeople. I hope I live to see the day that dinosaurs like you are extinct.
11:30, although I have reservations about somethings in your comments I respect your right to say it and also believe that we should not begin fearmongoring.
“suggest ways to address the problem”
Get a dog. A well-bred rotweilier or German Shepherd is a good choice. Walk around with the dog. Problem solved.