Today I received an anonymous email and I am posting this to obviously respond but also to get responses from the GeriritsenBeach.net community. “Anonymous Teenager” is not alone in what he/she thinks. There are a good number of “kids” and even some adults that don’t care for this site, they think that its trouble. I agree, I am a pain in the ass sometimes but this sites goal is to post the good and the bad. I’m not going to completely turn this site into anything “bad”…although it would be very easy :) . I think posting local news and happenings has more of a positive effect than a negative one.
I do respect that “anonymous teenager” sent this in:
anonymous teenager:
Coming from a teenager growing up in this neighborhood, you bring us down as if we are all bad kids. yes we get caught drinking and smoking in the park & yea we still continue to do it. but tell me when you were growing up you tried diffewrent thing, went out and partyed but luckly for you, you didnt have a guy follow you with a camera staing on a website every bad thing you ever did. so tell me this, what is posting pictures of us throwing eggs on a website going to do? imform the neighborhood of this well news flash everyone knows what we do on halloween, we do the same things our older brothers & sisters did. and they do the same as the kids before them. no ones perfect and our parents already see what going on they just choice to punish us and take care of it or ignore it. i check this website frequnelty because im waiting for a day is ee myself on here, but then i read the fact that you where now going to post names of kids who get caught in the skatepark? thats not your right at all, you dont need to inform the whole neighborhood of someone getting in trouble. so im saying this as a beach rat of gerritsen beach, stop stalking our lives and trying to get us in trouble where kdis we make mistakes let us learn from them instead of looking down on us.
Well anonymous…I don’t think you understood what I was trying to say in “Bit of a Pot Problem in Seba Avenue Park”. I agree with you that it is not my right at all to inform the neighborhood of someone getting into trouble, in fact I think its clearly defined somewhere in defamation, libel and slander law, unless however its the truth, or if it is written in a police blotter style.
I think you missed the fact that it is not me who’s going to be putting this list together it’s the parents of GB and the Property Owners. You could even argue that I am WARNING everyone to take it elsewhere. When I compare myself to you, if I were to get caught somewhere and receive a summons, I would NOT GO BACK to that spot, especially a park with a clear line of site down the avenue.
You say that I stalk “your” lives and i’m trying to get you in trouble by following you with a camera, and you bring up Halloween. Well…Get over it. The Halloween mischief is the only truly negative thing I post about and it only happens once a year. Even then I take pictures of the “good” from Halloween.  99% of the posts on this site are “good” and are not directed towards the “kids” of GB.
You ask “what is posting pictures of us throwing eggs on a website going to do?” First off, its news, a community problem, and its brought up at all of the meetings.  Secondly, it seems like it freaks you out that you could see pictures of you and/or your friends doing something you shouldn’t be. Maybe it will stop some of the worse “kids” in the future.  For example, I don’t have a problem with the shaving cream kids, they can use all the shaving cream they want on each other.  I only have a problem with those who are throwing eggs and glass bottles etc at buses, other vehicles, and people.
So I’m saying this also as a beach rat of gerritsen beach, stop using Seba Avenue Park, go back weeds, stay indoors, usually when arrests and summones are being issued it means it’s a good place to avoid. Especially since you now know that EVERY PARENT and pretty much everyone knows now, and that there may be a list forming.
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I actually can not believe you told them the kids to go back weeds? How many deaths, and how much violence actually goes on in the park? Yea, they break a few things tag up a few things but really dont you think the kids are safer in the local park? Would you rather the local kids go to another park to hang out and have fights w. the projects? OR MPark kids? This is a small community it always has been and will be. Sometimes as parents you have to pick your battles. Sometimes you should look the other way. I dont apply that to the kids tossing eggs and innocent people or agree w. the pot smoking but such as life. ITs called life lessons live and learn. I have three children and I know I want the best for my children and Im sure all the parents in GB want the same. BUT in the same token the parents know there kids are in the local park w.in walking distance hanging out w. all the locals. I grew up in GB. I remember going to raves backweeds. There was hardly a fight. Yea a few here and there but if the kids are going to drink a few beers hang out on skate boards why not just leave them alone? I also do not agree w. them destroying the park but who else uses the park? Aside from 10 others that I know go on rare occasion really the park was king of pointless.
Lighten up. Life is to short. You suggested going indoors. W. these economic times everything is so expensive. Where do you think these kids are going indoors? Something affordable? You are going to scare these kids away and put them in a dangerous situation.
I know its not YOU GB.net but leave well enough alone. I wouldnt mind if my child was up in the park hanging out bc I know they are local and I know they are w. my neighbors kids doing WHATEVER!
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Oh get a grip!!! obv you don’t give to squats. You just know there out of your house and out of your hair. Maybe if some of you parents thought OMG there talking @ my kidds, I know it. You would do something. So obv you don’t mind that your kid goes out and gets drunk and smokes pot. There still kids there not even 21 yet where they can hang out in the bar. And just becuase you did it at there age doesn’t mean anything!!! The world was a diffrent place 30 so years ago.
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SO since it is dangerous for the kids to go back weeds or to other neighborhoods we should just let them do whatever in the park?
I know some parents feel it is OK to let their kids drink at home, it is safer. But that is not the right message to send & sometimes these kids leave the house after drinking with their parents (the kid who got killed on Everett Ave a few years back,, supposedly drank at home with Mom then went to a party & got himself killed)
Fact, drinking is ILLEGAL before 21 and smoking pot is ILLEGAL at any age.
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I’m surprised at you. That was actually a well thought out and well written response to that letter. Usually your brain to mouth filter doesnt work. If the kid did read into the story correctly he or she would have seen that you were actually WARNING them about what parents and cops were up to, those sneaky devils. And these other commenters need to get a grip, its a god damn website not the fucking new york times. Everything that is put on this website most of us know about already, but this just gives you the correct information. So everyone chill out and if you don’t like it don’t read it!……….. But I know you all will anyway. HAHAHA
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Keep it up GB.net. You always report positive things – it’s the comments that get negative.
Hey Teenagers – it is a problem cause you leave the playground & the skate park littered with bottles and broken glass and drug paraphenalia so when kids who just want to come use the park show up they can’t. You want to compare yourselves to all the other generations of kids who did it? Sure we smoked & drank but we didn’t destroy things that were meant for little kids. Sure we shaving creamed & egged each other on Halloween but we didn’t terrorize the entire community. Hang out in the park all you want but don’t destroy it for everyone else.
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tell me, do you go up to the skatepark and find needles everywhere, roaches (butts of weed) on the floor, dime bags littered everywhere, no i didnt think so. enough with this littered park its getting old. every good day that park is packed with kids from the ramps to the playground. and tell me is that park destroyed? no i didnt think so either that park is in almost the same condition as it was when it was first built. come on prove me wrong, show me some evidence that our park is destroyed and what your saying is true. when you prove me wrong i will give you all the credit and admit that our park is destroyed. and on Halloween the neighborhood was terrorized right? people were running for their lives afraid that they were going to get killed by an egg that really what happened right? i think you need to find out what the word terrorized means before you use it in a sentence.
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the funny thing is…if my parents caught me smoking pot and drinking in the park as a teenager, I’d have
a) a beating
b) been sent away to some horrible 3rd world nation school
c) another beating
wtf? kids have it easy these days….
get off my lawn! damn kids and their rock and roll and hula hoops!
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Seems like the disgruntled teenager should spend some more time in school and learn how to spell instead of spending so much time in the park smoking pot and killing brain cells.
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ok so i spelt words wrong, i go to one of the best high schools out there for your information and i have never cut so i smoke pot big deal i didnt loose any brain cells.
xoxo anonymous teenager[=
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Just shows how great our educational system is. This kid goes to “one of the best high schools out there” and still cant put a proper sentence together.
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look at you criticizing kids, is that something you get off on? what are you trying to prove? nothing its on a computer its not like shes writing an essay to send in to the president. you are really a low life. i want to see you say something like that to your own kids if you have any. loser
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Yes i DO have kids and of course i wouldnt talk to my kids like this. They KNOW how to spell and KNOW what grammar is. All of you Gerritsen parents that think it’s ok for your children to drink and smoke pot, as long as they stay in the neighborhood are nothing but Brooklyn rednecks. Your children are going to grow up to be the same kind of lowlife you are. You are the people that give our great neighborhood that “white trash” reputation.
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oh sorry ill use microsoft word next time so adults dont sit here and call me stupid. HAA
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You might also want to stop smoking pot, then we will really think you’re not stupid.
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Actually, you are just stupid. you defend behavior that has no excuse. If this action was taking place in a different neighborhood, how many people would be blaming it on blacks? yes people are going to drink and smoke, but that does not give them the right to inconvenience other people who just want a nice park.
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Kids aren’t afraid of their parents. I knew if I got caught doing something wrong. I would be punished forever. These kids don’t give a crap!
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OMG how true is that!!! To bad maybe they should be a little scared. Life doesn’t get easier as you get older! And they stop making excuses for you when your an adult.
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You hear that? That was my skull! I’m so wasted!
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Aloha Mr. Spicoli
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Just send in the narc’s let them do there job!!! obv none of the parents think anything about this so let them get summons or arrested!!
It will def clear up this problem
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Send the losers to jail or fine their assets. Get a job fools or try improving yourselves instead of being “that dirtbag” smoking that rank crap in broad daylight at some skatepark.
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Yea really, I heard the bud these days is shit anyhow.
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Bravo, good for you, it shows how typical these kids are, they don’t want any consequences for what they do, they should be able to do what they want when they want. I say this site is great, it keeps us up to date in what is happening in this neighborhood the good, bad and ugly.
This idiot can’t even spell and he’s worried about who’s seeing him smoking pot, at least it’s an excuse for being stupid.
Keep up the good work, responsible people appreciate it, losers hate it.
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yes im the one who wrote the about how we get stalked and for your information “Proud to be from GB and not fit the awful stereotype” i personally have a job and yes after work i still go out and have fun with my friends. you want us to go back weeds? im glad “bellababe” said that because its true what do you expect us to go back weeds and hurt ourselves. where kids get over it, this website shouldn’t inform anyone of our bad actions, and for gerritsen girl, get a grip i doubt you would want your kids posted on a website. and if you were a kid you wouldnt want to be on here either. keep this website for only good things of gb, keep out the rest because its none of your buisness, ill say it again WHERE ONLY KIDSS GETT OVER IT let us get in trouble for our actions by our parents not by everyone else judging us on this stupid website.
xoxo anonymous teenager[=
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you have a job??No way what do you do if you dont mind me asking.
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If its in public than it’s anyone’s business…That’s first, and two, the list is not being made by the web site, it’s the community asking for it.. I, as one wish I could smoke weed, but my job doesn’t allow that, found out the hard way when I almost lost my job over it. I used to and not anymore. I can tell you though, the most embarrasing thing I ever went through was being arrested for a dime bag…A fucking dime bag. Anyway all I am saying is be smart about what you do. I am in no position to judge anyone, especially kids. Be smart, heed the advice and warnings of those around you. Dont take every accusation as threat, but learn from it…Be safe
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Keep up the good work GB net. Your web site shows the mostly positive and some negative aspects of life in GB. To the rest of you – don’t kill the messenger.
I can’t belive that some parents think that smoking pot and drinking with locals in the park is an acceptable pastime because it’s with people they know and their house is five minutes away. Is that the highest aspiration you have for your teenagers? Smoking pot leads to irresponsible behavior (broken bottles, graffitti, unprotected sex,etc.), petty crime and in some cases, stronger drug use. It takes a village to raise one child and if GB net feels it’s necessary to let the rest of know what’s happening in our own back yard, then so be it.
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growing up in GB that park was always troulbe it was known as glass park the party park this issue is not new kids are gonna do whatever they want let them learn I heard before they built the park they had a chance to do the streets over but they choose the park so thats it . It was your choice . So childern please clean up after yourselves so my childern can play the next day Parents if you don’t want you childern there go there and dragg there asses home be a parent . If your passing by and see the kids destroying and you dont want them there call 911 then call it a day
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I remember hanging out in “glass park” but the glass was from broken bottles, not bus shelters. We drank beer and smoked cigs but we didn’t know any better. Now we do. Like Oprah says, “when you know better, you do better.” I guess your parents don’t watch Oprah.
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i def agree with bob, all generations hung out in the park and the weeds and another places in gerritsen beach, and most of us were probably doing things we shouldn’t of been doing, that’s all a part of growing up, but we did not damage the park and throw bottles all over, i think that is the issue, so what the kids are hanging out at the park we all did it and it’s better them up there then hanging out in front of your house at all hours of the night, but kids use your freaking heads stay low key..stop drawing attention to yourselfs, stop wrecking the parks go where your not right out in the open, out of sight out of mind! maybe there should be a list just so the parents can see there kids name on it…instead of acting like it’s everyone elses kids and not there’s….so anonymous teenager spelt some words wrong…when did this site become a spelling bee…i think this kid got his/her point across and i think we all understood what they were saying….can’t get pissed about stuff you did when you were younger..although i think back then we were alot more respectful
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im sorry, but you “concerned” people have it all wrong.
i am not going to lie, there are some kids in this neighborhood that have no respect, so since the few that are out of control you automtically think that EVERYONE else is. the whole entire world drinks and does stuff they are not supposed to, we are not the only neighborhood that drinks and does other things. if you cant handle the way we act, dont try and change pur lifestlye, change yours move out. 3406703964 people are not going to change for one stuck up person who needs to loosen up.
you all have disobeyed the law, got in trouble, probably got arrrested and you know what you did? you got out and did the same thing all over again.
it is our turn to have fun, just because your done being a kid doesnt mean we have to end our childhood early because some people cant handle a little egg throwing on halloween. GROW UP. if someone throws a bottle at you, you calll the cops damn, you dont verbally bash the whole neighborhood on this dumb website. im guessing whoever made this up is very lonely because they have way too much time on their hands.
so what, i drink and party, but i respect my neighborhood and for you to go around taking pictures of me and or my friends is actually against the law.
you need my permission to put my picture on here,.
this is absoutly ridiculous and if your little meetings are so important than how come you, mr big shot with a camera has done nothing but snap away.
your wasting your time becase honestly, you think a list of names and a few photos are going to stop these kids, think again your making us feel like celebrities if you keep snapping shots of us.
your are nothing but a underpayed paprazzi, go back to school and learn a real trade.
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shut up asswipe
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Your blaming the wrong person…I know where your comin from..I was grouped into the same category and I was not one of the kids in the park..It sucks, but dont blame gb.net for writing what is public info. I have not seen any names posted by the web holder, til then point the finger at the kids/people bringing attention to the issue.
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You say:
“so what, i drink and party, but i respect my neighborhood and for you to go around taking pictures of me and or my friends is actually against the law.
you need my permission to put my picture on here.”
I know exactly what I can and can not take pictures of. I do not need your permission at all.
The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place. With very few exceptions.
Grow up he’s not the one making the list!! Your naborhood is!!! Stop making him the bad guy and yes I have the right to know what is going on in my naborhood. And if theres pictures hay it’s not gossip girl!!
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Dear Teenager,
It’s not illegal to take pictures out in public, anything you do outside is fair game, so get your facts straight, I have never been arrested, I never broke the law but I am no angel.
I don’t know what morals you were raised with but it sounds like you were not raised to be a responsible adult. I realize you’re young and it’s not your fault, your parents failed you, too bad, hopefully you will learn that life isn’t about smoking pot, I have hope for you.
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half the people who come on this site are beach rats theres no denying it. i dont understand, what is the problem with us kids, you adults did the same stuff. i can recall countless stories my parents and my older brother have told me from back in the day. from the raves in the weeds, to weedstock. come on now its all the same stuff now as was before. our neighborhood is one of the best in brooklyn, if not the best and you adults still complain? im not going to hide behind a computer to voice my oppinions im going to be real and tell it how it is. hanging out at the skatepark is just where we like to hang out. would you like us to hang out in front of your homes, make noise, drink, smoke, horse around, AND BE TEENAGERS no i doubt it. so just leave us alone we are not causing any harm. our park is clean and countless little kids play there everyday, im tired of this nonsense of how dirty the park is. i also believe that if you want to take out your camera and take pictures let it be of positive things in our neighborhood. there are plenty of places to go in this neighborhood to take amazing photos, dont go posting pictures of troubled kids on this site, people have eyes they can see for themselves.
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i said this before and i will say it again. stop worrying about what us kids do in the park, our parents will take care of it & start worrying about the alcholic adults in this neighborhood who harass litte girls with sexual coments. this whole degrading teenagers is getting ridiculos. yea some kids mess up the park what about the kids who sat there one rainy after noon & picked up every single peice of garbage around seba park. that was me and my friends the same kids who “destroy” the park just cause we smoke and drink. so before you start judging us once again ge tthe facts. we trasure that park just as much as the little kids do & the adults.it the only place we can go and have fun with everyone.
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One day you’ll have neighborhood kids complaining to you bout the same thing..Like in the other post it’s all a part of growing up, but on the flip side it’s all about being an adult
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anon teen – Hooray for you & your friends that you actually use the park & clean up after yourselves. Give yourselves a nice pat on the back. There are lots of teenagers in GB that hang in the park. I never had a problem with the low key groups that are there at night. There are however a number of kids who go up there & get really loud and break bottles on purpose. They are the ones who give ALL the teenagers in GB a bad name and they are the ones who get reported to the police. Fight & make a ruckus & you draw attention to yourselves. Chill & no one even knows you are there.
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I say throw a huge Weedstock with a generational battle of the bands. Whoever shreds the best gets the park.
For the closer… do a blistering multi generational rendition of Mike & The Mechanics 1989 glorious hit “The Living Years.” Every ones happy, not a dry eye, and we can all sit and wait 10 years for the next generation of anonymous adults to talk about how horrible the anonymous teenagers are. :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqZ7rQLw0c
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Teenagers:
Someday, when you are walking in the beach with your 3 year old daughter who really wants to go to the park, and you as a parent have second thoughts, remember what you are saying here. When you guys were “hanging out” I didnt feel safe to bring her to the park, and the park as mentioned above is littered with broken bottles and grafiti.
It is irresponsible. Three months ago I left Gerritsen Beach for a better neighborhood. I have a good job, make great money and never “hung out” while I grew up here. If people like myself continue leaving and you guys keep Hanging out, the property value will slowly conitnue to fall and this will be a true ghetto. It may not matter to you now, but it will someday. I hope when that day comes you regret what you are doing, this used to be a great place to live, and still has great potential.
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Adult:
You taking seconds thoughts about bring your daughter to the park i believe is over the top. i am at that park everyday and do not see any of this litter all over the park. also i do not see much graffiti, and the little that there is, how does that affect your daughter getting hurt or being scared to go to the park? anything i say on this site i will never regret, i think about what i say before i write it.
You say that the property value will falland is falling right now? explain to me how a single lot one story house down the block from me is going for over $300,000. when that house was first bought 6 years ago it went for at least 200,000, that seems like a big increase to me, dont you think? with this economic state that we are in houses will not become cheaper, get you facts straight.
Gerritsen Beach will continue to be the good neighborhood that it is for many years to come, sure we have our problems but most of them are dealt with.
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You can ask anything you want for a house. Is it actually selling for 300? were there major repairs done to shape it up. 300,000 is a pittance for a house, nothing to brag about, houses is Bushwick are more money.
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In other parts of Brooklyn a single story house on one lot is going for a lot more then $300,000. And that same house probably had work on it to raise $100,000 in 6 years, but that is still not a price to brag about. Excluding terrible, project housing areas, GB is a cheaper area to live in. I agree with this adult. I will not go to the park with my son. There is graffiti and broken glass everywhere; Maybe you went on a day that the parks dept cleaned it up. Not to mention that I know, from experience, that the teens at the park can get unruly. It’s no place to bring a young impressionable child.
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As a teenager in the late 50s and early 60s I can remember many a night’s hanging out at the Local Park drinking and rough necking with the guys and girls in our group. Yeah, looking back we did a lot of stupid things. Things I wouldn’t readily admit to my kids. When I became a father I remember taking my children to the same park and witnessing some of the same behavior of the kids that were filling the void that my generation left. That’s when I made a commitment to myself that my children are not going to follow the same self-indulgence and questionable behavior that my generation did.
To the teenagers that commented on this site I can assure you that everything you are doing has been done over and over again in the past. So get over it you’re not pioneering any bad behavior.
It saddens me to read of parents in our neighborhood that think it’s perfectly all right for their children to “hang out†as long as they are in walking distance to home. When my children were teenagers they learned early on that when they were leaving the house and I asked them “where are you going?†The last thing they should say to me is “I’m going outâ€. That’s when I told them to come back in and sit down and stay there until they can tell me where they’re going, who they’re going to be with and when will they be home. (For the younger set, that was before cell phones) Our children will do what ever their parents allowed them to do. As we blame our political leaders for what goes wrong with this country, we should blame our parents for what goes wrong with our children. Our children need and want parents who are strongly involved in their children’s life.
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The american way of life …every generation should improve and be better than their parents…take the joint out of your mouth and put the beer down…..hit the books [there made of paper with words in them] and make a better life for yourself.
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Well said, trainman!
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I so agree with the Bagels “Well said Trainman!” You were so right on it!!
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I have literally been sitting here for about a half hour reading these 40 some-odd responses. i cannot believe that this is even an issue. Frankly, I understand WHY you posted Anonymous Teenager’s letter, however I think it is just giving him/her attention that is in no way deserved. The whole point of even suggesting that a “kid” a.k.a. “a teenager who is old enough to know better,” take their business back weeds, is in itself the real message. The actions of these certain teenagers are ILLEGAL..so if you INSIST on taking your life in that direction, do it where you won’t be involving a community of people who, like the law, disapprove of this way of “hanging-out.” Nobody’s perfect, and to each their own. If smoking weed at the end of the day is what you want, you’re going to do it as long as there’s an opportunity for you to. As for leaving the situation to parents, obviously there are a lot of parents who don’t care enough to know where their children are. And for the parent who is saying it’s better to know your kids are safe in a park rather than back weeds, you are just the type of parent enabling this behavior. GB.net is suggesting back weeds for those who are vandalizing and breaking laws, not for kids simply spending time in a park. If you know your kid’s hanging out at the park on a Saturday night, try swinging by yourself and just checking in, you never know, maybe your kid is one of the ones that needs a good beating.
Again, I can’t believe this is an issue, and I don’t see how any adult (who isn’t in on the “high” action themselves) could condone such behavior. Going back and forth with a teenager, who obviously has no idea how unintelligent his responses and his actions are, is just a huge waste of time. The only good i believe that came of posting this letter, was this CHILD actually had to take time out of his busy pot smoking schedule to write these ridiculous responses and hopefully there was a valid spelling lesson in there somewhere as well.
GB.net works. it’s informative and eye opening. If you don’t want to end up in a negative story, then turn yourself into a positive person!
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Dear Teenager,
Let me type in your language so that you can understand what we are trying to say:
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I felt I needed to inject my two cents again.
As I read the many letters responding to the teenagers that felt that taking pictures was unnecessary and intrusive behavior into their personal lives, I needed to respond. I’m in no way defending what they do in the park but I take exception at the adult’s language towards these teenagers. They made an attempt to communicate with adults that use this site and in return they were called insulting names and comments about their spelling and grammar. We need to remember that the only difference between teenagers and adults is years of life experience. The only thing that derogatory remarks create is a lack of communication. Come on adults, you got to remember how things were when you were their age and how you felt when adults talked down to you. Did that inspire you to communicate? I think not.
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Reading through that letter and the numerous spelling mistakes makes me wonder why you are not focusing on the educational deficiencies in the community.
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Trainman ,well said.
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That is a run-on sentence.
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I love how some say that it is okay to smoke pot and drink at a public park. Last time I checked, there are children that play up at that park!! I do not want my child around a bunch of high, drunken, idiotic teenagers who think that they can do whatever it is that they want b/c their parents never taught them how to take responsibility for their actions!!! I get it, you want to be able to have your fun…but face it, smoking pot is illegal and drinking under the age of 21 is illegal! You should be arrested for doing that in a public park where there are children around!!! The people that grew up in this neighborhood that did that when they were teens would go in the back weeds…and for those of you who think that the back weeds are dangerous well guess what, no matter where you do it’s dangerous. So for all the righteous parents that feel it’s okay to let their teenager drink beer and smoke pot, why don’t you let them do it in your house so they are your responsibility and not the public’s!!! Maybe there will be less vandalism in our neighborhood if you do. Didn’t you ever hear the saying: you don’t shit where you sleep??
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Well said trainman. I couldn’t agree with you any more.
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The biggest problem I see is that some parents do not know how to take responsibility for their child’s actions anymore nor do they know how to teach a child responsibility! “Not my child”or “You must be mistaken” is a common phrase. It disgusts me to see that there are parents on here that say it is ok for their children to smoke pot and drink beer at a public park…I guess their mind-set is out of sight, out of mind. This is a PUBLIC PARK, where children play. I would be outraged as a parent to see a teenager smoking pot and drinking beer acting unruly (b/c the 2 come hand in hand) just feet away from my child. And if you think b/c this is a tight community that that will stop someone from calling the police, you are wrong. I have encountered a dangerous situation from a teen who was doped up in this neighborhood just blocks from my house, I was forced to call the police. It was scary, but he was so inebriated that he didn’t even know what he was doing. It can be dangerous in the back weeds, but smoking pot is illegal and drinking alcohol under age 21 is Illegal and dangerous no matter where you do it. If these righteous parents feel that it is so necessary that their child smokes pot and drinks b/c it’s their family “past time” then do it in your own house, take responsibility for your child and keep them off the streets so they do not destroy our neighborhood anymore. This is a nice family neighborhood, don’t let your child’s generation mess that up. Whatever happened to wanting a better life for your child then what you had.
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Finally, some comments that make any sense. For those who say “remember how it was when you were their age”…I will just say this: I remember it well, because it wasn’t THAT many years ago for me. The hardest part growing up in this neighborhood for me was that I didn’t want to be seen as “just another GB kid.” There are very few people my age from this neighborhood that I could even relate to because the popular pastime is THIS VERY SUBJECT OF DEBATE! The numerous parents using the “not my kid” or “live and let live” phrases ended up with kids, that turned into so called adults, STILL doing the same things; Hanging out on corners, smoking weed, drinking every night of the week, can’t keep a job, repeatedly getting arrested, in and out of rehab. What does that tell you? It says that if you DO remember what it was like being a kid, and you did all the things that these kids are doing….now you are older and wiser…..now you know better and you should know what you were doing was dangerous. Pass that wisdom on instead of encouraging obnoxious, harmful, and illegal actions! Please, I’m raising my family here too!
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power to you great letter as a pretty girl who goes up and down the ave i kno wat u mean so wat if we drink and smoke is it not influenced by the pothead drunk parents that wistle and check out me and my friends when we walk by u should be ashamed of yourselves not sayin all parents are bad but so arent the kids there are a good few of us so maybe its the parents fault
p.s. suck a dick
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You would be more convincing that you are a “pretty girl” who walks the avenune with friends minding your own business & these big bad “drunks” whistle & check you out although you are just innocent young ladies if you did not sound like a skank.
usually skanks are the type guys say vulgaer things to. So maybe you should start dressing, acting & thinking like a lady bet you’ll be treated like one.
Its also possible you full of it & no one is hanging out disrespecting you & you are just trying to get attention by lying
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Anonymous. U say u have moved out of the neighborhood. Cut the cord. Ur negativity, we could do without
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i wrote this article to g.b.net not to get judged on my spelling or to say its alright for teenagers to drink and smoke at the park. i wrote it to explain that you adults gang up on us teenagers as if we are so stupid. yea we mess up like i said a million times, were learning from our mistakes. and all the comments back on this article proved my point, adults look down on us as if we have no brains what so ever. im not stupid i can spell, i wanted to let the rest of the neighborhood to hear a different side of the story through my eyes, a teenagers eyes. also i am a girl i dont walk the streets dressed like a skank and my parents taught me to act like a lady and i do. i still get hit on by the alcholic adults of this neighborhood. yes i do agree, some parents do not take responsibilty for there childs actions but then again thats only a few kids. just stop looking down on us & judging us its getting old and annoying. thank you.
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then if your gonna make of list of kids that are doing bad things why not a list of drunks
that come out of the bars and hop in their cars and drive home. come on this all going
a little to far. if your gonna make a list then have the balls to go to the parents themselves
regardless of what their reaction is. if a list of drunks was brought to a meeting i bet
the reaction would be alot different.
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Do you think you are the only teenager to look at this way, if it wasn’t you it would be some other one. Your defending a point that really has no relevance. If you want adults to leave you alone, stop writing letters, stop telling them how to react. Its all a cycle. In other hoods I guarantee there are the same problems. I read you letter and responses to the posts, and, wow, I totally remember sounding just like you. Your letter only causes more unwanted attention. What you do, as you stated, is no different from any other generation. Keep in mind though, technology keeps very little private anymore. What is down out i public is for all to see. The expression “the walls have eyes/ears” holds many truths. If you are as smart as you say, which I’m not disagreeing with, than you will see my point
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what i think is funny is if you don’t want anything to be put out publicly on the internet or whatever; maybe you should not be out in public to begin with. So if you want things to be kept out of the public view than maybe go some where out of the public view! And some people should get off this guys back he is reporting news just like any other new website or station he is reporting the good and the bad; and the bad over shadows the good. so every one should calm down, and maybe if some people weren’t so stupid than maybe you wouldn’t end up on a website like this.
thank you………that guy
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This kid sounds like a product of Sheepshead bay educating. If they’re the future, we’re fucked.
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i agree with anonymous teenager. Out of every neighbor hood in brooklyn we are most likely the safest neighborhoods out there. so what they drink and smoke at a park how is it hurting anyone. my school has a worse drug problems the gerritsen. but u blow it way out of proportion. i use to like this web site. i use to like to learn old history about gb but now i think it abusesing its power as a source of news.
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i agree with anonymous teenager. Out of every neighbor hood in brooklyn we are most likely the safest neighborhoods out there. so what they drink and smoke at a park how is it hurting anyone. my school has a worse drug problems the gerritsen. but u blow it way out of proportion. i use to like this web site. i use to like to learn old history about gb but now i think it abusesing its power as a source of news.
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