Think I Did A Bad Thing

[jennyjoan]

Last Saturday night I called over to my local Sainsburys at about 8.15pm. so dark. As I was coming out I saw a lad swinging a massive trolley into the windows of Sainsburys then missing windows then twirling it round and round. There were two other lads watching him and 2 wee girls.

I just couldn't stop yelling at him to stop it, stop stop it. He kept twirling - I asked one of the girls about 16 - is he on drugs. Yes he is on MDMA? and I couldn't understand her think she said Anthropax.

Anyway I took my purse out pretending it was phone and camera and screamed at him "I am a cop and I'm taking your photo from my purse". I will contact my colleagues and produce this photo of you. He Kept twirling for another bit then stopped and pulled his hood over his face.

I got home and realised what a danger I could have put myself in. But I did it. But I did laugh to myself - calling myself a cop and contacting my colleagues. That was a laugh.

Wasn't that awful. I really couldn't stand that vandalism - just felt I had to holler something.

[jennyjoan]

feel the age but I actually am a stunning beauty

[Redhelen72]

ok

[barry1010]

I don't look my age either, JJ. I look at least 10 years older :(

[anneasquith]

I think jj might actually be ‘ a stunning beauty’. In hindsight, maybe you were taking a bit of a risk, but your intentions were good .

[naomi24]

I did something similar. I watched a rough looking man who had been drinking a tin of beer just throw the empty can on the ground. Without thinking I yelled, ‘Hey! Pick that up! There’s a bin just there’. Instantly I thought ‘oh crikey! I shouldn’t have done that’, fully expecting him to come and hit me … but no, he meekly picked the can up and put it in the bin.

[david small]

I bet that he admired you from a distance naomi24.

[William51]

Your instant reaction was understandable. I would have reacted too, but i probably would try to reason calmly with the kids. It is counter productive to get a persons back up, it can lead to violence.

[emmie]

i stepped into a possible lynching when a mob of youths surrounded this one kid, they were pushing him around and i felt it was right to do something, i told them off and got my phone out pretending to call the police, they ran off like scared rabbits, it was only after i got home i realised that i could have been hurt.