From: "Stephen Sullivan" <...>

One thing that did make me laugh was that I was walking home from work
across our local park, a couple of weeks earlier a man close to my age
of 45 was seriously assaulted for allegedly asking a group of youths to
stop being anti social, so approaching them I was trying not to look too
intimidated . As I walked along and approached a group of eight
youngsters one of the group said “Hello mate” I replied "evening, you
alright" “Fine” he said "have a good evening" “you too” I replied. I
then over heard him saying to the other people in the group “see not
everyone round here is a miserable old git” Engagement and open
mindedness is the key and not tar everyone with the same brush,

Nice story. It just goes to show that we probably think the yoof are all drug taking alcoholic yobs, and they think we are moaning old codgers. Good to see the stereotypes broken in this story :-)