Fife facing a ruinous future

Sir, – Months ago, along the West Road in Strathmiglo, a supportive wall started to disintegrate.

As soon as this was discovered, some youngsters saw an opportunity and started to wreck more and more of the wall, tearing stones out for a dam in the burn that runs through the village.

The council in Glenrothes decided to repair the wall, as it was getting into a state of collapse, due to the resulting massive hole.

Works started last Monday. A small container was placed, everything was properly fenced off.

As soon as the workers finished their first working day, the youths were up and over the container, trying to ruin whatever they could.

On Tuesday the workers started to build the wall again, only to find by Wednesday that 50% of their work – paid for by the taxpayer – had been ruined by a group of senseless youths with no boundaries.

Say anything to these youths about their destructive behaviour, and you will get the kind of verbal abuse that makes a sewer seem clean in comparison.

When I was a child, my parents taught me to respect others and stay away from their possessions.

If the young are our future, I am very afraid for the future of Fife since these youths have a clear lack of respect for people or property.

Perhaps the council could present the invoice for the extra repair work to the ruined wall to their parents. I wonder if they would still tolerate the appalling, abusive and destructive behaviour of their children then? Maaike Cook. Cash Feus, Strathmiglo.