I don’t know about anyone else but I am sick to death of hearing about how the youth of today are making ordinary folks lives a living hell.

Here is yet another example……

Couple brick up their window because of trouble-making yobs

How can this be acceptable  in this day and age ?

Somehow we have lost our way as a society. These yobs know the difference between right and wrong. Is it that they just don’t care or is it, as I suspect, they know that they won’t get punished even if they are caught.

Back in my parents day there was the threat of “the Birch” and I believe they still had this form of punishment available on the Isle of Man right up to the 70’s.

Perhaps now is the time to start a campaign to reintroduce this  kind of punishment for the kind of petty criminal activities that don’t warrant imprisonment.

I for one would vote for it.