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Author	GoldenZWeegie
Comment	Went for a walk around Victoria Park with a friend yesterday evening. Heard some banging and booming when we got to the Fossil Grove and discovered a group of about 15 young people, can't have been older than 15, throwing rocks, boulders and logs at the FG building. We walked past and two girls followed us, calling me 'a bam' and my pal 'speccy'. Going back to see what was happening after a particularly loud bang, we got shouted at more by the group, with one randomly using the n-word at us. I didn't see it, but apparently they were smoking something as well. My pal and another passer-by called the police to report what was happening, to which the group scarpered while shouting that we were 'grasses'. After they'd left, the passer-by told us that they were frequently in the park and showed us where they'd supposedly caved in one of the shutters of the building, which was almost totally bent in. We continued our walk to find that they hadn't left the park, just moved to the kids' playpark area. There they continued to sporadically shout abuse at us from a distance and moon us, all while children and families were using the equipment there. They ran off to the main pitch when a police car with its sirens on drive past. As we were walking down the path to the main gate, one boy followed us, telling us to fuck off and that we were 'grassy fucks'. I get that younger people need to let off steam, particularly after the last three years, but destroying cultural heritage and abusing other users of the park isn't the way to go about it. The pavilion has already been lost due to the arson, it wouldn't be good if further infrastructure or usage of the park was lost due to this antisocial behaviour.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/uiptkx/the_steamie_thursday_5_may_2022/i7eb9kd/
Created	Thu 5th May 2022 7:51am
Status	normal ()

Went for a walk around Victoria Park with a friend yesterday evening.

Heard some banging and booming when we got to the Fossil Grove and discovered a group of about 15 young people, can't have been older than 15, throwing rocks, boulders and logs at the FG building. We walked past and two girls followed us, calling me 'a bam' and my pal 'speccy'. Going back to see what was happening after a particularly loud bang, we got shouted at more by the group, with one randomly using the n-word at us. I didn't see it, but apparently they were smoking something as well.

My pal and another passer-by called the police to report what was happening, to which the group scarpered while shouting that we were 'grasses'. After they'd left, the passer-by told us that they were frequently in the park and showed us where they'd supposedly caved in one of the shutters of the building, which was almost totally bent in.

We continued our walk to find that they hadn't left the park, just moved to the kids' playpark area. There they continued to sporadically shout abuse at us from a distance and moon us, all while children and families were using the equipment there. They ran off to the main pitch when a police car with its sirens on drive past.

As we were walking down the path to the main gate, one boy followed us, telling us to fuck off and that we were 'grassy fucks'.

I get that younger people need to let off steam, particularly after the last three years, but destroying cultural heritage and abusing other users of the park isn't the way to go about it. The pavilion has already been lost due to the arson, it wouldn't be good if further infrastructure or usage of the park was lost due to this antisocial behaviour.