A 46 year old woman was at the pictures with her husband and two children when a group of youths became noisy. In time-honoured fashion, she asked them to keep be quiet.

After the Harry Potter film, the family walked to a restaurant, but were tailed by a car with some of the youths in it who were shouting abuse at them. A short time later, two of the youths entered the restaurant and threw bleach over the woman and then ran out.

According to the Mail, the five or six youths consisted of white, black, Asian and ‘mixed-race’ teenagers aged about 14 to 19. A little feral family, perhaps. A unit which operates outside the realm of civilisation. They tried to be part of ‘our’ world, but couldn’t get the hang of it. The breakdown of the family, the sense of entitlement, the drink and drugs, the lack of discipline in school, must add up to considerable confusion in a young person’s mind.

People might think I’m a prude for some of my posts, but let’s be real: when a society encourages and supports people living as ‘partners’ rather than husband and wife, where ‘gay marriage’ is allowed, when IVF for women is given without considering the child’s need for a father, where schoolchildren are told of their rights to contraception and abortion, society changes. The normal rules for living together change and therefore so do attitudes.

Detective Inspector Richard Baildon, of North West Leeds Division, said:

This was a completely unwarranted attack on a mother out with her family, the consequences of which could have been much worse.

It was a deliberate act, designed to cause pain and injury, and it was totally unprovoked and unnecessary. We are determined to trace those responsible.

The consequences could have been much worse? Yeh, mate, it was just a harmless prank gone wrong, wasn’t it?

It shouldn’t be too hard to trace the culprits with all the CCTV around. What’s the betting they don’t even bother looking?

He continued:

I would also appeal to any members of the group who may want to distance themselves from the actions of the others to get in touch before we come and find you.

That ought to get them quaking in their trainers. They know their ‘rights’; how to play the system that stupid adults made for them. No wonder they can snigger at us. Don’t we just deserve it for what we’ve done to them?