The campaign receives requests from website visitors for information about issues of antisocial behaviour in their immediate area. Rather than duplicate the same information when asked to provide instances of antisocial behaviour, and in response to two questions asked by a resident on Saint Johns Park West Clondalkin, we provide a list of antisocial activities that took place on a single road in this 'residential ' housing estate.We hope this list will enable you identify with similar problems that take place on your road. We must always remember, antisocial activities cannot be attributed to every person living on a road, in most cases just a very small minority of people are involved in these activities. A very small number of people have the potential to bring a housing estate to its knees, a very small number of people have the potential to make a location a no-go area. The same people now hide amongst their neighbours and ask 'who are they talking about'. But you do not have to look far when you stand to the centre of a road.These people cannot be allowed to tarnish the good name of decent, honest and law-abiding people who just want to live and rear their families. Where are all the open access Bebo sites, the lads in hiding.(follow links on this site)
Local sports clubs take note
It
is obvious that the person who asked the question below must be aware
of the person who sent letters in the post, simply because; if
antisocial behaviour letters were posted to all residents on this
particular road, then the person posting the letters must have been a
target for antisocial activities over very many years. How can anyone
identify an individual amongst the many, if the person or persons
concerned were in actual fact victims of antisocial behaviour by a
selective number of residents on the road. Can you really explain this
to the Gardai?
Reply to two questions posted by a Saint Johns Park West, Clondlakin resident (Kevin) on a Bebo antisocial behaviour website.See www.bebo.com/asb-ireland
Please note: Reference to this individual and his questions were removed without consultation by the service provider Bebo.
Question 1. Why have you got a picture of St Johns up? there is no anti social behaviour there?(2006)
Questions. 2. Everyone
in johns park knows who you are give it over spreading lies about the
road on the internet, what happened to the letters in the post? (2007)
Dear Resident,
Thank you for contacting the campaign to stop anti-social behaviour in Ireland.
It is with regret that this campaign has to resurrect an issue of a
past problem, but you asked for information which I hope will help you
resolve your curiosity, interest or problem.. I bring you back to your
initial contention nearly twelve months ago that there was “No antisocial behaviour in Saint Johns Park West, Clondalkin”.
Let me assure you that our investigations have identified a litany of
anti-social activities (and continue to this day) over many years
against both current and past resident living in this area. You now
bring to our attention that you have knowledge of an individual or
individuals who are spreading misinformation about anti-social
behaviour in your area.
Let
us be mature adults for once and ask ourselves “Why would anybody in
your immediate area want to spread this kind of information and why
would anyone want to spread such information knowing that it would have
a direct impact on the value of their own property, would stigmatise
the residential standing of the area and would make the selling of such
property much harder, unless that information was true. A
substantial number of people in your immediate area do not make
unwarranted complaints to the Gardai unless there is some credibility as
to the nature of their complaints. Let me also inform you that we are
also fully aware that a number of residents in your area have been
targeted because of an assumption that they are members of this
campaign.
With regards to your leafleting query I must emphasise, that any leafleting or other campaigns must have the unanimous support and approval of this campaign before any reference to the campaign can be used. If you feel you are missing the leaflets in your letterbox then by all means inform us and we will facilitate your entire area with a once monthly anti-social behaviour newsletter. It would be of our opinion that such a leafleting campaign would be of no advantage to decent, honest and law abiding people who take pride in their community, but for whatever reason may want to move on to better things. There again, if you wish us to proceed, I can assure you that this campaign has, at its disposal the financial resources available in order to maintain a prolonged campaign.
Let us put aside the information that possibly others are feeding you and
look at the real facts that we have gathered throughout our
investigations. Keeping in mind that you are a law abiding citizen and a
respected individual in your community, we must now try and wash our
minds of exactly what we have been fed over many years. We must look at
the hard facts and then make our own minds up as to the substance of
the grievances by which intimidation, gangland activities, hurt and
pain has been felt by a substantial number of people in both your area
and the neighbouring areas that surround you. We must also remember that
in drink people and especially young adults (and you should look to those close to centre of the road) say things that they would not normally say when they are sober. A lot can be learned from a drunken individual on
your road ( and his friends and buddies living in Greenpark). There
are no more late night parties to be seen on your road where residents
property is damaged (2009) by drunken youths who shout abuse at
residents homes on the road. When the gangs staggered out of their
friends house and onto the road as they made their way towards
Greenpark, along the way kicking and pouring drink over residents cars,
kicking hall doors and uprooting bedding plants in residents gardens.
The parents of the same youths and young adult drive their cars in and
out their driveway's, close the gates behind them and retire to a nights sleep
in the full knowledge that their homes are free from attack. And the
same parents drive in and out of their driveway's as if butter would
not melt in their mouth's.
So as not to bore you, while at the same time keeping in mind your initial belief that “there is no anti-social behaviour in Johns Park West, Estate”,
I will provide you with a short synopsis of the activities that have
occurred over very many years. I will confine this information to your
immediate area. The many residents who experienced attacks of
anti-social behaviour were residents who went in and out of their
homes, said “hello” and “goodbye” and basically did not bother anybody.
It is also important to note that in our investigations we have found
that all of the residents (victims) concerned have never been reported
or investigated for any inappropriate activities by the Gardai or other
statuatory body. Another important aspect of the problems that have
caused so much heartache for many people living in your estate over the
years,is that the two families who encouraged and directed others
(including young children living on your road) to carry out attacks on
individual residents homes, are the same people who hide behind their
widows as their own children encourage other children and young adults
(some from Greenpark) to carry out attacks on residents homes both they
and their parents have singled out for treatment.
Why
do the same parents, children and young adults make it their business
to attack individual residents homes (single out homes) and motor
vehicles late at night ( running out of their homes and throwing
bottles, firecrackers, paint, kicking cars and attempting to gain entry
to vehicles) when the residents have long retired to bed. It may be of
interest for you to know that it has come to our attention that one of
these families holds a close association to an individual living in
Greenpark who is a know car thief. It might also be rewarding if you
were to seek out the many reasons why so many people have left the road
over the years.
Here is just a small example of incidents that have occurred on Saint Johns Park West alone
- Children being assaulted by both adults and their siblings on the road and neighbouring areas.
- Family pets (dogs) immersed in engine oil, let out onto the road and back to their owners.
- Dogs poisoned and left out on the main road.
- Teenagers being assaulted outside their schools by others who they do not know, (the perpetrators know the names and addresses of those they are attacking) but the perpetrators of these assaults have connections with others on the road. (Gardai and school authorities informed)
- During the early hours of the morning individual residents cars checked by a neighbour to see if the vehicle was left unlocked. Vehicles completely checked out, nothing taken and nothing damaged. Just another inquisitive and information gathering procedure and to let the owner know “I was in your car”. But don’t as much as throw a paper bag at their car. Would you think this was the work of a teenager?
- Another vehicle opened, a mobile phone taken off the seat and the door (by a next door neighbour) then relocked. Is this the work of a teenager?
- Eggs and stones thrown at residents homes(regular attacks by youths and young adults who,live to the centre of road)
- Garden lighting pulled out of the ground and other lighting kicked and damaged.
- Garden benches in front gardens overturned and left on the road so often that resident had to remove such.
- Windows broken by hurling balls and footballs (reported to Gardai)
- individuals urinating on residents doors( living on road)
- door bells being constantly rung
- Bedding plants being torn up out of gardens (others gardens well kept and free from such actions)
- Flower pots overturned and the plants thrown around on the ground
- Home telephones being rung at all hours of the night
- Contents of waste disposal skips being emptied into individual residents gardens
- Waste bins being overturned in gardens or stolen.
- Waste bins taken by individual residents on the road in order for them to dispose of their excessive waste.
- Individual
residents cars(older vehicles) being targeted for attack while other
more recent cars (new vehicles)are left untouched on the road or in
the driveways.
- neighbours getting into their next door neighbours rear gardens while the occupants were out
- sheds and other external buildings being checked out(video)
- Vehicles damaged if left on road( regular occurrence to centre of road)
- Individual resident challenged by a neighbour to a fight (taken on) “but not on the road.(centre of road)
- Vulgar and abuse signs shown to residents as they walk the footpaths or drive out of the estate
- Some youths, from within their own garden walls hurdle vulgar abuse at other residents as they go in and out. Mammy and daddy in residence.
- Residents being followed to their place of employment or business.
- Individual residents being coerced into going onto the road because of a problem, as the perpetrators of the problems whisper to others their innocence of the events, as they spread bad feelings and gossip about others.
- Women being subjected to the most degrading comments as they pass the shops or groups of teenagers on the road.
- Doors being kicked and rammed during the early hours of the morning (individual residents being picked out among the many others).
- Children being criticised about their clothing by adults
- Resident assaulted by a neighbour’s son (young adult-centre of road)
- Cats taken and strayed in other areas ( traps)
- Youths barricading residents in their homes with hurling balls and footballs targeted at windows and vehicles as their parents watch from within the protection of their own home at their sibling directing the attacks.
- Elderly people scared and made prisoners in their homes as youths ring bells, set off car alarms and taunt the occupants.
- Driveway entrances being deliberately blocked or made difficult to enter or leave by individual neighbours.
- Bottles, cans and others thrown over back garden walls into individual residents gardens from the green in Greenpark.
- Racist abuse hurdled at children as young as five (5) on the roads by youths and even some of their parents.
- Individual residents nearly having fist fights with other residents because of their perceived parking rights.
- Gardai constantly patrolling area because of anti-social activities. (reported and documented over many years)
- Residents leaving the estate after 2-7 years because of anti social problems being directed at either them, their children or on the road in general.
- Some residents told they could not be accepted until they were at least five years on the road.
- Residents with bigger than normal vehicles (vans ect) being targeted in an effort to make them move.
- Law abiding residents and their families being used as scape goats in a gossip war by those who feed other with misinformation.
- Walls to front of house egged or hit with mud balls after the front of house.was painted.
- Youths on road using nails or pins to scratch cars that are parked on road.
- Youths from other areas(Greenpark) targeting individual houses on the road with the help of information from their friends who live on the road.
- Residents
being two fingered when they look out their windows.( sometimes from
the bedroom windows of other residents living on the road)
- Cars stolen and burned out in the nearby shopping car park
- Known car thief from Greenpark living on road with friends, resulting in an increase in car thefts on road.
- Cobblelock
paving in garden driveway's untouched by road gang while other
neighbours driveway's are targeted with paint and other liquids.
- Individual residents cars being constantly checked late at night by friends of friends living on the road, to see if doors were left open.
- Telephone
calls late at night to see if residents are in their homes, Elderly
people targeted for this late night laugh by the lads.
- Alcohol
bottles thrown into the gardens of individually targeted residents by
youths and young adults who ramble up the road to Greenpark and who
are the friends of individuals living on the road.
- If you have it , then I want it race, as some residents play the keep up with the Jones game by the working class of "anything you can do I can do better" and then criticise others for not partaking in the game.
- Individual members of a local sport club (adult and juvenile members and their neighbours sons) living on the road, through the manipulation of others, directing antisocial behaviour attacks on individual residents and their property. (Reported to Gardai over many years)
Saint johns Park West, Greenpark
Many residents to the top of the road have to endure the mayhem of roaring and screaming on weekend nights by youths hurdling bottles and cans into residents gardens as they make their way from their buddies homes (centre of road) to their homes in Greenpark.
Conclusion
It is important to note that all these events did not occur over the past one, two or three years. They have been happening over a considerable number of years, possibly as much as twenty. From a statistical point, it is interesting to note that since a small number of individuals were identified for their discrete and behind the door promotion of anti-social behaviour (adults and young adults using children to incite other children) on your road, anti social behaviour in itself has diminished significantly.
information courtesy www.bebo.com/asb-ireland
See also: camaigntostopantisocialbehaviourireland.yolasite.com
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