We haven't dropped the Happy Slapping issue yet
"There is a moral panic over hooded teenagers," gasped the Guardian today, with a lead that can't be beat:
Happy slapping, binge drinking, hoodie-wearing feral yobs have been swearing and spitting their way across the country this week. Tube drivers said yesterday they would strike over intimidating behaviour by gangs of youths on the District line. John Prescott recalled 10 "fellas with hoods" trying to beat him up and film it at a motorway service station. Tony Blair said people were "rightly fed up with street corner and shopping centre thugs" and promised to make the restoration of respect a priority for his government. Both endorsed the approach taken by Bluewater, which has banned hoods and caps.
Marketing 331 question: If you were the newly named marketing director for Neighborhoodies, would you:
a.) Get into the British market as fast as you can and reap the "outlaw" hype,
or b.) Get out as fast as you can?
2 comments:
Sell as many as possible, as fast as possible.
One wonders if the'd like to mandate other parts of a national dress code. I think there was some success with that for a while, in Chhina.
-j, out of contact for a while, but trying to become social again.
It sounds bad. It is bad and it is sadly happening in most large towns across the UK.
I wrote about it on my blog too, but only to air my frustrations. The average Joe Public is powerless to confront this issue without support from Parents (who have lost control of their kids) and the Police force who are too thinly spread on the ground to be effective.
Cheers, LukePDQ
www.lukepdq.blogspot.com
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