BOY SPAT IN MY FACE
ON Friday, June 21 between 7.30 and 7.45pm, I was driving slowly up Ireland Street.
It was a lovely sunny evening so my car window was open.
I had just gone passed the junction with Houghton Street when two young boys on bikes came flying out of Smyth Road, looking neither left or right.
Both dark haired, one boy looked about 11 years old on a normal boy’s bike; the other, who could have been younger, was on a very distinctive tiny bike which was either all-black or very darkly coloured.
Both rode very aggressively towards me so I stopped.
As they passed me laughing, the older boy spat copiously through my open window. The spittle hit me in the face. This is not normal behaviour. These boys need help or they will be dead or behind bars within 10 years.
Had I been a man in his prime, God only knows what would have happened to them, but perhaps that’s why they chose a 70-year-old grandmother.
Parents – and grandparents – please help your boys before it’s too late. ognise, celebrate and promote the achievements of individuals, organisations and communities leading and inspiring a change that will transform the lives of people affected by dementia forever, challenging misunderstandings, changing attitudes and taking action.
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What a cruel way to treat your own brother, Or sister, mother , father or son, Just turn off the TV and away with the press
Then your world will have really begun. schizoids with