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3:36AM Saturday 26 July, 2008 Sunshine Coast weather Mostly sunny min 9° - max 20°

Teens nabbed in Dicky Beach crackdown

12:00a.m. 12th May 2008

You can almost guarantee it wouldn’t have been a pleasant car trip back to Brisbane for a teenage girl caught trespassing at Currimundi State School on Saturday night.

The girl was one of three teens caught by police, who have stepped up patrols in the Dicky Beach area after increasing reports of teenage parties.

The park and surrounding area has become a hangout spot for teenagers, with residents reporting the gathering teens have become a public nuisance.

On Saturday night, four police crews monitored the area. Although it was comparatively a quiet night, they still discovered three teenagers trespassing at the school.

The teens are alleged to have walked up from the beach.

Two boys from the Caloundra area and a Brisbane girl were charged with trespass and their parents were called.

The girl’s father was forced to drive from Brisbane to collect her.

Caloundra police have been rostering on extra shifts to cover the area and have vowed to continue monitoring the problem.

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Posted by jdt1986 from Buderim
on 12 May, 2008 at 8:52 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I'm not making excuses, these kids should know better, but this article further reinforces the fact that the Sunshine Coast needs more entertainment facilites, ones that kids and non-drivers are able to get to easily and affordably. We have a couple of cinemas and bowling alleys, but that's about the best the coast has to offer...
Posted by Hemodragon from Coolum Beach
on 12 May, 2008 at 10:47 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Local council members and politicians can never seem to find fundings to improve activities or events for our local youth. Yet always seem to find extra funding for a pay rise. After all, they are worth it in their own eyes. The coast has quadrupled in population, yet entertainment or funded events for kids is non existant. Any wonder they are hanging around the streets at night.....What else is there to do. Such an enormous problem with our youth yet our politicians are too busy making sure their annual salary and purks are sufficient. there is always a solution to any given problem, but if you keep ignoring the problem, then what do you expect to happen........Simple minded politicians just dont get it. Cant wait to see what the next generation of youth will be like.
Posted by Big_D from nambour
on 13 May, 2008 at 8:37 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
What an absolute load of bollocks!

These kids know exactly what they are doing is wrong and they just dont care.

Its time the bleeding hearts in our community left their wonder palaces in LA-LA land and walked the streets at night with us and see just what the poor understimulated youth get up to and their what their response to the law is.

By the responses i have read here all of you should have smashed everything in sight when you were the age of these kids as we had far less supplied to us in the way of facilities but we didnt did we.

Thats because we were raised by decent people and we had respect for the law and each other.

Grow up people....they have no one to blame but themselves!
Posted by Big_D from nambour
on 13 May, 2008 at 8:45 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Lets all give them a hug the poor little cherubs.

What a load of bollocks!

These kids knew and know exactly what they are doing and that it is wrong....they just dont care.

An why should we fund them a cent to keep them entertained?

Now lets see...did we have cinemas every where?
NO

Bowling alleys?
NO

Skate parks
NO

Amusement centres
NO

Huge shopping plaza's
NO.

Did we stay out all night and destroy other peoples property....thats right NO.

Grow up mr and mrs bleeding heart and accept the fact that its their fault and no one else's!
Posted by Big_Bob from Maroochydore
on 13 May, 2008 at 10:44 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
why is a teenage girl down the beach at night with two boys
The poor parent who had to drive to the sunshine coast to pick up his Daughter
He should hang his head in shame that he allows his daughter to be there in the first place
Were are the parents of these Children
and why are they not home and wondering the streets ...............Wake Up Parents Take Control
Of Your Children?????????????????
Posted by jaydabangmasta from likeidtellyou
on 14 May, 2008 at 5:46 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
hell man you people need to put more like..entertainment place's around,if i still lived near my friend (the girl) id have been right there with her,you people need to just think,if you'd put like...game arcade's and mall's n what not around,we "kid's" wouldnt be out to roam the night's cuz we'd be to tired to even get up if we'd been out all day walking about,idiot's these day's..jeeze..
Posted by smellybelly3 from Brisbane
on 14 May, 2008 at 9:19 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
that girl was my sister and i had to drive up there with my dad to get her at 11 even tho i had work at 8am the next day

yes she knew wat she was doing was wrong
and yes she was sorry about it infect she payed for the petrol and is accepts wat she did was wrong she has never been in trouble with the cops

and wat girl can not say they havent gone and hung out with there male friends befor my two best friends are male you going to say i shouldnt hang around with them too? ohh and there was a another girl with her but she had to go home befor nightfall

yeah and the ride home was kinda nice after she said she was sorry we had a talk and had maccs

but really who has not been out late one night? and who has taken a short cut threw a school home?
yeah i bet you all have its called life sometimes you mess up and fall and u need some good parenting to get u threw it

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