Tackle unruly boy who put feet on a train seat?

such young travellers? why didn’t other passengers support the pensioner doing the right thing? what a sad society we live in that such an incident is a national newspaper story!

roD cluloW, littleover, Derby. HOW I sympathise with the Lancashire pensioner who put the boy in an arm lock for putting his feet on the seat. I sit and seethe on buses when I see youngsters with their trainers on seats where people will have to sit. I did remonstrate with one young girl. Waiting until I was getting off so I would not get abuse, I said: ‘How would you like to sit on that seat where you have had your dirty shoes?’ A woman across the aisle said: ‘What did she say?’ The girl told her and the woman shouted after me as I got off: ‘You didn’t have to sit there!’ No wonder children never learn manners.

Betty roBinSon, Southampton. The pensioner was only doing the railway ticket inspector’s job. I watch the inspectors walk past people with their feet on the seats every week and not say a thing. Then other people sit down with nice clothes on and get dirty marks on their clothes. who knows where those shoes have been. Blame the parents for not bringing their children up with manners and how to behave.

GAil GrinDell, Southend, essex. GOOD for the man who had the courage to do something about the kids putting their feet on railway carriage seats. All the time I see young (and not so young) people who put their dirty shoes on a seat I might have to sit on at some time. Do they do this at home? Some youngsters have no respect for anything and think they should not be questioned about anti-social behaviour and give a lot of lip to anyone who has the temerity to say so. It’s their parents who should be reprimanded for not instilling decency in their offspring. rAy minGAy, Hayling island, Hants.