Why do teenagers hang around the doors to the bus station when you walk past them to enter the bus station it is like running the gauntlet you never know what they are going to say or do have they nothing better to do with their time they do not realise they wasting their teenage years.

Agreed, some of them can be a right royal pain in the arse - but they're not all bad I suppose .... And there are worse ways of wasting your life away - like spending hours on these bloody internet forums :lol:

The Riverside Bus Station is the capital of Shrewsbury's chav culture.

Bus stations are like that wherever you go. Train stations get the odd mad person but generally they have a higher class of clientele.

I walked through there the other day and there was a group of about 10, all with spots, greasy hair and identikit tracksuits smoking in front of the 'no smoking' sign.

What disturbed me most though was that they were listening to that god-awful cheesy, sped-up voice, happy hardcore rubbish turned up to maximum volume. Does anyone else think that sounds like those chipmunks that used to have a cartoon on TV a few years ago?

I notice that the bus station plays classical music sometimes to calm people down but it's often drowned out by the stereos of these walking ASBOs.

Come off it, they're not that bad. There's a few younger people hanging round the doors to the bus station, and you're all up in arms about it.

I wouldn't call them chavs. Many of them get out of the way out of politeness when people walk past, and I have never heard any abuse shouted at passers by. Ever seen full-on chav behaviour in Liverpool, London, Birmingham, etc? I've used the bus station throughout the day, and on Saturdays and Sundays too (even Sunday evenings, which are a bad time in any town centre), and I've never felt threatened.

I witnessed far more annoying behaviour from youths in the Quarry last Friday - they appeared to be from Shrewsbury School (floppy hair, wearing rugby shirts, all about 7 feet tall), and they were smashing bottles, with a couple of them throwing up, by the Claremont Hill entrance. Classy. But of course they would never be called chavs - it's just high spirits, isn't it!

To label teenagers as 'walking ASBOS' is a bit harsh. If i was a teenager I would be tempted to label these critics as 'whinging old gits!

Recognise them for what they are. Look through history teddy-boys, greasers,mods,rockers, skinheads, punks, grebos, chavs all condemed by people who say 'it wasnt like this when I was a boy'. I dont think the outlook on teenage culture will ever change as long as we have 'old' grouchers! I can tell you also im in the old,maybe a git myself category !

I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't inflict their music on me and refrained from smoking in a clearly labelled no-smoking area. The Shrewsbury school lot are just as bad but they're not chavs by definition, they are hooray henrys, toffs, sloanes or rugger buggers.

And of course it was like this when I was their age, I never claimed otherwise, lots of teenagers have always been hormonal, pimply, badly dressed, loutish etc.

They are not all delinquents by any means and maybe 'walking ASBO' was a little harsh but I haven't noticed the politeness Town Walls describes either. Most times I've tried to get past big groups by the Darwin centre entrance to the bus station i've almost had to push my way through because they were taking up the whole doorway and couldn't be bothered to move.

it is nothing new,this photograph shows a group of lads hanging around the bus station on the fifthteenth of June 1963.



there is a group of about 6 lads,on the right at the stand in front of the s14,Moston Road bus.

s.g.d.

Yes but I doubt they were "as bad" as today's lot at the bus station.

Back in the 1970s you had the 'trained' macho element ie: the squaddies all over the town. There were the football hooligans who were worse IMO as there was no effort to control or reduce violence then. Then there were the bored unemployed, kids left school with few job opportunities. There were the Hell Angels, skinheads and punks later in that decade.

Things don't change that much really. Young people are always going to want to be different/counted/admired/feared/respected/feel needed etc.etc.

Havent had the time to comment lately, been over seas working. Imagine my surprise, when I discover you are still talking about chavs. Made me laugh so much, I love Shrewsbury, great to be back. :lol:

Glad you see the funny side of it Alex.

Tch, walking ASBOs...?! I'm a teenager, wouldn't dream of doing anything antisocial, we aren't all like the weird chavvy lot who some people see fit to assume are the norm.

Its always the minority who spoil it for the majority, I know very polite people, but also recognise that there are some tw*ts out there.

Thank goodness were not all the same Sid, if we were there would be no one to whinge ! :blink:

It's the groups of town planners hanging around the doorways to the bus station - drinking, smoking and writing local structure plans - that I really can't abide.

You're close to being banned Town Walls...

only kidding! ;)

Now I know what ASBO means! :D

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