Who Would Allow A 12-14 Year Old Daughter To Camp Overnight In Leicester Square?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2397659/One-Direction-fans-turn-Leicester-Square-makeshift-campsite-70-000-expected-invade-world-premiere-boybands-movie.html

[DJHawkes]

their parents?

[EcclesCake]

Having read through the article the only ages mentioned at a boy of 14camping with his mother and a 16 yr old girl whose mother was in a nearby hotel.

There is a mention of the Met, WCC and Event Management all looking after security and I would imagine that meaning a perimeter fence of some sort has been erected and the access and egress being controlled along with patrols.

I would imagine younger fans are being chaperoned by older siblings or their poor parents.

[Gromit]

They are perfectly safe. It is Ronnie Wood there, not Bill Wyman.

[Prudie]

In that situation lots of parents, me included (as long as they had friends with them). Safety in numbers.

[ummmm]

Me...I'd allow them.

[hc4361]

Me

[anotheoldgit]

EcclesCake

/// Having read through the article the only ages mentioned at a boy of 14camping with his mother and a 16 yr old girl whose mother was in a nearby hotel. ///

Wrong

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/20/article-2397659-1B5E3793000005DC-858_634x390.jpg

/// Happy campers: One Direction fans Chloe Glasscoem, 13, Lianne Kidd, 15, Kelsey Smith, 14 and Caitlin Derrick, 12 arrived in Leicester Square on Monday night ///

[sherrardk]

AOG - it doesn't specifically say that they were or weren't with an appropriate adult.

[Mamyalynne]

Guess he was invited.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// Me...I'd allow them. ///

And would you also approve of them carrying a banner with the words.

"1D Boxers or Briefs" written on it?

See video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10253526/One-Direction-fans-camp-out-in-Leicester-Square-ahead-of-This-Is-Us-premiere.html

IMO standards amongst some of our young girls are certainly slipping.

[EcclesCake]

I remember much more explicit banners at Duran Duran concerts 30 yrs ago!

[FredPuli43]

Of course I would, in the circumstances that this happened in. No idea how far away from Leicester Square you are, AOG, let alone from teenage girls of now or 50 years ago, but nothing in what you appear to be scandalised by would worry me; and I have a daughter who was once 14; in the slightest.

[Gromit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1266664/Mandy-Smith-I-DID-sleep-Bill-Wyman-I-14--man-life-God.html

[ummmm]

AOG - My boy is off to the Reading fest today. I trust he will behave in a manner that I find acceptable :-)