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The scourge of supermarket pranksters: Security guards report huge rise in teenage tearaways harassing staff and shoppers for clicks
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 17, 2025 | Rory Tingle

Posted on 07/18/2025 3:08:00 AM PDT by C19fan

Shop security guards have complained of a 'massive' rise in antisocial behaviour by teenage tearaways harassing staff and customers for social media views.

Supermarkets have started turning off their WiFi to stop mobs gathering at in-store cafes to use the Internet while passing time filming themselves 'trying to get a rise' out of employees.

They also face the scourge of influencers carrying out 'pranks' with the aim of going viral on TikTok, as well as other platforms such as YouTube and Instagram.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: crime; europe; internet; media; retail; social; socialmedia
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Am I racist for noticing?
1 posted on 07/18/2025 3:08:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

There’s that “teenager” word again


2 posted on 07/18/2025 3:08:45 AM PDT by albie
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To: C19fan

Sure am glad this only happens in the UK! -sarc


3 posted on 07/18/2025 3:11:54 AM PDT by albie
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To: C19fan

So don’t need to look?


4 posted on 07/18/2025 3:16:51 AM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: C19fan

Hit them over the head with a watermelon 🍉


5 posted on 07/18/2025 3:26:03 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: C19fan

So, “pranksters” is the new word?


6 posted on 07/18/2025 3:32:55 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: C19fan

Meanwhile, the UK’s Deep State has just lowered the voting age to 16, removed the requirement of photo ID to vote at the polls, and increased the mail-in voting period from 11 days to 14 days.

Is anyone taking note of THAT?!


7 posted on 07/18/2025 3:34:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: C19fan

Never heard of “tearaway” before.

I blame the parent at least 75%.


8 posted on 07/18/2025 3:36:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: mewzilla

I’d think that was from the Bee, except nothing seems too stupid for the current British government.


9 posted on 07/18/2025 3:37:52 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: C19fan

Read the comments on the site. They sound like FReepers. And they want gun rights.


10 posted on 07/18/2025 3:39:21 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: from occupied ga

They’re also automatically registering voters.

And this isn’t idiocy.

Deep States’ frontment are idiots, but the people hiding behind them are most assuredly not stupid.

And neither are voters in the UK.

Or their Deep State wouldn’t have to steal their elections.


11 posted on 07/18/2025 3:45:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: gitmo

What they need is a formal, written constitution and the pols who will respect and enforce it.


12 posted on 07/18/2025 3:47:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: C19fan

If you think about it, this is the petty kind of girlish acting out that feminized males would do, it’s sure safer and cleaner than the bar fights of old, and more of a ‘look at me’ desperation, yet another neurotic, misdirected release of testosterone.


13 posted on 07/18/2025 3:51:30 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: C19fan

Natural behavior. It’s a world-wide phenomenon.


14 posted on 07/18/2025 4:02:02 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Dox them and ban them for life from the stores.


15 posted on 07/18/2025 4:02:36 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: albie

I am tired of reading weird UK happenings.


16 posted on 07/18/2025 4:16:08 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: MayflowerMadam

Same here! I just googled “tearaway British slang” and got “rebellious and unruly or reckless young person”.


17 posted on 07/18/2025 4:22:21 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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“Prankster” being dealt with a couple of years ago
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18 posted on 07/18/2025 4:24:26 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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Not just the UK...

U.K. plans to lower voting age to 16. Could Canada follow?

That didn't take long, did it...

19 posted on 07/18/2025 4:29:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla
Well lookee here...

Independent MP to push a lowering of Australia's voting age after UK decision

20 posted on 07/18/2025 4:31:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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