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

[C19fan]

Am I racist for noticing?

[albie]

There’s that “teenager” word again

[albie]

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

[central_va]

So don’t need to look?

[Hyman Roth]

Hit them over the head with a watermelon 🍉

[Behind Liberal Lines]

So, “pranksters” is the new word?

[mewzilla]

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?!

[MayflowerMadam]

Never heard of “tearaway” before.

I blame the parent at least 75%.

[from occupied ga]

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

[gitmo]

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

[mewzilla]

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.

[mewzilla]

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

[ansel12]

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.

[ComputerGuy]

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

[maddog55]

Dox them and ban them for life from the stores.

[yldstrk]

I am tired of reading weird UK happenings.

[quilterdebbie]

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

[The Louiswu]

“Prankster” being dealt with a couple of years ago

[mewzilla]

Not just the UK...

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

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

[mewzilla]

Well lookee here...

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