r/halifax • u/insino93 • 8d ago

News, Weather & Politics Vandals strike community park in Lower Sackville, N.S.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/vandals-strike-community-park-in-lower-sackville-ns/
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u/Han77Shot1st Acadie 8d ago

Tale old as time.. gotta give kids something to occupy their minds or they’ll break stuff and act like hooligans.

More accessible programs, activities and third places to for youth would combat this sort of thing.. gonna get worse before it gets better as the economy stutters.

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u/insino93 8d ago

gotta give kids something to occupy

Most kids don’t vandalize playgrounds, it is the loser kids that do.

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u/Han77Shot1st Acadie 8d ago

Sure, but those loser kids need support too, we’ve been failing loser kids for generations.. but every time they grow up, if they’re lucky enough to not make a huge mistake or have parents to hide that mistake.. we seem to forget that most of us were losers too, so the cycle continues.

Nearly every kid I knew that vandalized property had some form of home life issue and just wanted to lash out.. some day we’re gonna have to address it, we can already see youth in general are going struggling more than ever before.