Please, give kids a chance

As I read your letter (The Border Mail, March 19) explaining your views on how terrible Border teens have become and that they are responsible for all crimes around the area, a spectacle of emotions overcame me.

At first I was interested, teenage trash has become a hot topic.

But sadly as I read on I could only ponder how someone could be so ignorant, so miserable and so convinced they were right.

You must suffer from a terrible case of tunnel vision.

It seems your eyes can only see as far as the papers or TV where of course only the worst is shown.

You mentioned your point of view had proof, well, Mr Krooglik, it didn’t.

To have proof means to have dates, statistics, names.

All you managed to prove is that you really have no idea.

Please, for your own sake, give kids a chance.

The trash you hear of is from a minority, a very small minority, usually involving the same group of scum.

I really do hope you find some light in that tunnel of yours, but probably not, you seem so sure.

Anyway Mr Krooglik, I’m off to burn a car, because that’s what all us teenagers do right?

— LIAM MATTHEWS,

Thurgoona