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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26127022-1243,00.html

Love the close to home location. And love the age group 13 - 15. Luckily my oldest boy is only 12...Sheesh!!!!

B-Love

Hummm, check out the related coverage just below that article....

* 200 youths brawl in car parkHerald Sun, 26 Sep 2009
* Boy, 10, questioned over armed robberyDaily Telegraph, 23 Sep 2009
* Man dies after two punches to headDaily Telegraph, 7 Sep 2009
* Youth charged over footy mallet brawlNEWS.com.au, 17 Aug 2009

* Man dies after bid to break up street fightNEWS.com.au, 24 May 2009
* Brawling teens overrun railway car parkDaily Telegraph, 1 May 2009

Was it this bad 15 years ago?!?!?!

yes, i think it was as bad.. i dont remember it getting the same press as now though?

i used to be a regular at highpoint/knifepoint, and although i was aware of the reputation (now and at 15/16 years old) was never confronted with any of the said violence..

it is scary the age of these young people are?

Tinkerbell - 27 September 2009 05:27 PM

it is scary the age of these young people are?

I lived literally around the corner from HP for years - No dramas at all - only stuff I’d read and hear.

The age part is the scariest thing. As a 12 year old I never contemplated carrying a knife or a baseball bat. Our “gangs” used to hang out at the local fish & chips shop and play pinball machines.

B-Love

Bobby & his gang (aged 12) outside fish & chip shop

^ Which one is Bobby?

I’m suprised they didn’t pin point any ethinicity...totally unlike the media these days! unless it was all Aussies, then it is a ‘youth problem’ right.. ;p But does explain the lack of students at Braybrook tutor program on Saturday.

Highpoint isn’t bad. I go there with no issues all the time they don’t have many groups of kids who aren’t just normal kids not causing trouble...but now it might start to be a hot-spot.

Poppa-Stylez - 26 September 2009 08:13 PM

Hummm, check out the related coverage just below that article....

* 200 youths brawl in car parkHerald Sun, 26 Sep 2009
* Boy, 10, questioned over armed robberyDaily Telegraph, 23 Sep 2009
* Man dies after two punches to headDaily Telegraph, 7 Sep 2009
* Youth charged over footy mallet brawlNEWS.com.au, 17 Aug 2009

* Man dies after bid to break up street fightNEWS.com.au, 24 May 2009
* Brawling teens overrun railway car parkDaily Telegraph, 1 May 2009

Was it this bad 15 years ago?!?!?!

It was about 15 years ago that my friend was stabbed at Canberra civic Bus Interchange after a group brawl...so to me it was. Depends I guess.

i remember strong violence 15 years ago but i don’t remember it being as random as it seems to be at the moment.
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all these attacks on people who go to help or people just trying to get in cab - makes even less sense than 15 year olds stabbing each other over disrespect.
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hahaha asanka.

Funny i got jumped at my local fish n chip shop when i was 9!
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Change the headline to news.com.au plants seeds of fear in the minds of it’s readers!

Auds - 29 September 2009 10:39 AM

^ Which one is Bobby?

30 years ago i was the skinny black kid (I can say black yeah?) with the microphone head - 30 years on after a ‘slight’ weight gain and a Skin peel and a chemical hair straighten I’d be more like the fat kid in the far right

I have never had problems myself at knifepoint (and i was there all the time when we lived close by) but in the later years the gang element certainly seemed to become more obvious esp around Level 1 (cinema level)

On a side note why did they replace Streets Chill Grill with San Churro - dont they know I dont do south American - hheheheh

B-Love

I wonder if the recent increase in violence relates to the release of Street Fighter 4?
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It was all the World Warriors fault back in the day… Damn kids not giving ‘mercy’ in the second round!

B-Love - 29 September 2009 01:27 PM

dont they know I dont do south American - hheheheh

B-Love

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...but i thought....nah never mind.
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FunkyJunky - 29 September 2009 01:33 PM

I wonder if the recent increase in violence relates to the release of Street Fighter 4?
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It was all the World Warriors fault back in the day… Damn kids not giving ‘mercy’ in the second round!

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that bloody Ryu and his incessant “HADOKEN!”...don’t even get me started on Evil Ryu or “SONIC BOOM”...hahaha...shoppo memories! 
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imagine a battle between knifepoint & shoppo circa 1994...smacks of a screenplay huh?

Highpoint vs Shoppo??? Northland would have won!
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I lived for the city on the weekend back then how about ‘redhouse’ vs ‘grandprix’???

city places scared shoppo bunnies.
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in donnie it was all about tunza fun & timezone.

what do u expect from that side of melb
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lol redhouse haha fucken junkie kunts
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there was another place down the road which was worse then that barry

The old Darryl Lea Chocolate store?