Leeneie
Read the article - perhaps didnt make my point too well.
Can't see for the life of me why a shopkeeper running a shoestring business (dealing in traditional music) should have to spend time taking photography of incotinent thugs in order to keep his premises approachable
The police are unable or unwilling to use such photographs as a means of prosecution, and the 'deterent' value of name-and-shame is non-existant, and has become a desirable trophy hunt rather than a put-off (as with the ASBO in the UK.)
The loction of the shop is, as I have already described, in a cul-de-sac of business premises, so a passer-by is far more likely to be injured by skidding on the leavings of our visiting yob rather than from a harmless jolt from a cattle fence.
Ennis is an extremely pleasant small market town which has gradually deteriorated, thanks to the behaviour of a handful of hoodie thugs who are managing to make life for the residents somewhat unpleasant.
"I also like Stringbean's idea that somebody should be going after the pubs. "
Great idea - lets make life harder for the publicans and close down a few more pubs (want a list of how many we've already lost)?
The perps aren't necessarily drunks, just yobs who demand 'respec'' for themselves but have none for the rest of us. Sorry - a gentle jolt in their cerebral area sounds well-worth trying.
Other than that, it's the old technique of punishing everybody other than the perpetrator.
Jim Carroll