Topic: Dallas mall requiring parents accompany teens after 6pm

[Pandora]

NorthPark management says the new teen policy has nothing to do with complaints filed by shoppers.

Unh hunh.

NorthPark is enforcing a new “code of conduct” that requires anyone 17 or younger to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian while inside the mall after 6:00 p.m. “I really do respect that there are parents who may not agree with us completely,” explained NorthPark spokesman, Mark Annick. ”I can tell you that we’ve also spoken with all of the merchants in NorthPark and they think this a very good idea,” added Annick.

Can't remember hearing if they've had smash 'n grabs or not, but it sounds like they're getting a jump on the summer "madness".

[IronDioPriest]

IIRC they tried to do something like this at the Mall of America, and the usual suspects creamed "RAAAAAAYYYYCCCCCIIIIISSSSST!" So again, IIRC, the policy was backed off to no "groups" of teens without guardians, evah. So now - as they did back in December if you remember - the "Urban-Americans" arrive separately and congregate, once inside, presumably via text, and then commence their crime once gathered.

[Pandora]

IIRC they tried to do something like this at the Mall of America, and the usual suspects creamed "RAAAAAAYYYYCCCCCIIIIISSSSST!" So again, IIRC, the policy was backed off to no "groups" of teens without guardians, evah. So now - as they did back in December if you remember - the "Urban-Americans" arrive separately and congregate, once inside, presumably via text, and then commence their crime once gathered.

Yah, I'm expecting that as well (I was thinking just that as I read the article).  People need to grow them some backbone in this country.

[LadyVirginia]

I think I saw a sign in a mall somewhere we visited that said no teens without adults on Friday and Saturday nights.  I remember thinking--guess this isn't the mall for me!  I assumed it meant they'd had trouble in the past.



But having such policies is just asking for someone to be offended-- usually the parents of the troublemakers are the ones who get outraged.

No one has to be civil any more because they have civil rights.

[EW1(SG)]

I think I saw a sign in a mall somewhere we visited that said no teens without adults on Friday and Saturday nights.  I remember thinking--guess this isn't the mall for me!  I assumed it meant they'd had trouble in the past.



But having such policies is just asking for someone to be offended-- usually the parents of the troublemakers are the ones who get outraged.

No one has to be civil any more because they have civil rights.

Ah, "civil rights."  As opposed to "human rights."

Human rights are those inalienable rights we have because we are.  Human, that is.

Civil rights, though, are those "rights" that other people, usually a government, let us have.  Or frequently force upon us, for the benefit of one group over another.