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My old GW in Darlington, Co Durham (big shout out to anyone on Dakka that goes there!) didn't have too much probs with chavs, even though it is smack in the middle of town. This is mostly due to the fact that when I went to the Vets night most of the people attending were Soldiers or at least in the Territorial Army (the benefit of being near Catterick Garrison, the largest military base in the UK). Even the manager (for the time I was there, I'm aware he's moved on since then) was an ex-Royal Marine. Not really the type of people you wanna mess with, even chavs worked that out.

Up in Aberdeen I've never had a real problem on Vets night, although chavs (or 'neds' as they are called in Scotland) are swarming around town. Fortunately the Aberdeen GW is on the edge of the town centre, away from most of the night life, so there's no real draw for the neds to be there. I find that whilest walking back to the car park I have had one or two jeers thrown at me for carrying a GW model case, but I just ignore them.

If there was a ned in the GW causing trouble then the lot of us would just form up as one and literally force them out of the shop. One thing I find about wargamers everywhere I've been, we tend to stick up for each other if there are problems in the store. Plus we also have one or two squadies (the British term for soldiers) and an ex-prison officer who game there so that helps too .

I intend to
if im right in thinking (dont have any paperwork here) i shouldnt be going back on tour before i leave, so ive done my 2 tours of Iraq, im done with it

then i need to get used to the outside world, where i have a chance to spend my money that i earn lol, once i get a job that is

FIrst of all little fun fact. I learned a new work today. Never have herd of "chavs" until i had to google it up. I figured it was some sort of insult but yeah isnt something that is really used here in the states. intimidation always seemed to work. Myself being a somewhat bigger rough around the edges sorta person it ussually works. The police thing works wonders however since at my store the local polica startion is all of 300ft away from the store. Walking outside and yelling down the street is prolly easier then ever calling.

JD21290 wrote:I intend to
if im right in thinking (dont have any paperwork here) i shouldnt be going back on tour before i leave, so ive done my 2 tours of Iraq, im done with it

then i need to get used to the outside world, where i have a chance to spend my money that i earn lol, once i get a job that is

I concur, I think you would be perfect for librarian or public school principal.

(sound of bolt locking) I said, "NO TALKING!!!" Braaappp.

The scary thing is that these individuals breed a lot faster than the rest of the UK population, a situtation encouraged by a welfare system that has enabled girls to make a career out of having babies. It has been seriously discussed by some Councils (including the one I work for) whether teenage girls in certain areas should be forced to take contraceptive pills.

Back on topic, as suggested by some posters, there's not much you can do except ignore them. Take heart from the fact that they will never have happy lives and will probably die from alcohol poisoning long before you even think about retiring.

Since we're a private club that pays for its own space in rent....we decide who comes and who gets voted in.

Your a tool or an ass you wont make it through your trial period.

Used to help run a club a long time back, we'd get the occasional little gang of kids show up in the grounds of the school hall we rented and some would try to sneak in and steal the figures or harass the younger kids arriving or leaving. I paid my younger brother in beer and smokes to come over with his own gang of monsters, a couple years older than the gaks that were pestering our club and they beat em up, covered them in paint and mud and then harassed the little bastards around the town.

Fight evil with evil.

Samus666 wrote:
Some stuff

The teenagers are most troublesome, but most fail to grow out of their chaviness completely and just turn into anti-social, drug-dealing child-neglecting dole scum. This is the extreme, you understand, not all chavs are this bad, but you get the idea.

Some more stuff

Samus666, we have those here in the states. Wanna-be-gangstas, D-Bags, and Wiggers (a rather offensive term) all describe them.

Just remind yourself, in the game of life, you've won, and they've lost. They're just poor sports about it.

I would ignore them as there people who have no real friends and think its cool to go 'braaaaaap' or 'innit' tbh that is just pathetic.
I've never had trouble with chavs at a gaming store but if one off them touched my friends or my own models then i would literally force him out and then chase him down the road.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Used to help run a club a long time back, we'd get the occasional little gang of kids show up in the grounds of the school hall we rented and some would try to sneak in and steal the figures or harass the younger kids arriving or leaving. I paid my younger brother in beer and smokes to come over with his own gang of monsters, a couple years older than the gaks that were pestering our club and they beat em up, covered them in paint and mud and then harassed the little bastards around the town.

Fight evil with evil.

See the system works!

Violence will if applied correctly solve evrything.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Used to help run a club a long time back, we'd get the occasional little gang of kids show up in the grounds of the school hall we rented and some would try to sneak in and steal the figures or harass the younger kids arriving or leaving. I paid my younger brother in beer and smokes to come over with his own gang of monsters, a couple years older than the gaks that were pestering our club and they beat em up, covered them in paint and mud and then harassed the little bastards around the town.

Fight evil with evil.

Now thats a sublime solution to a gross problem.

Chavs? We don't have those. Are they a side-effect of government health-care?

Frazzled wrote:
Usually riff raff won't enter the den of evil that is the local FLGS. Can't be a gangsta steppin into a toy soldier store yo.

Hah. Funniest thing at our game store is a couple of thugged-out gangstas came in. The manager was expecting problems, but the one guy started trying to sell the other on playing 40k. He was going on about how these space marines were all bad-ass and got his friend to play the black reach demo game....

our store manager enjoys selecting one of the spankers in the grup, and telling him his order has come in. That is always good for a laugh.

A good story I have is seeing some of the aforementioned mall rats come in and start heckling some guys in army uniforms sitting at the painting tables, saying they were wannabe generals, and they wanted to look like their models. Then these guys stand up. none of them were below 6"3', and they were all built like brick gakhouses.

Mall rats fled.

Hilarity ensued.

I used to run a club in school, and loads of chavs would come in and steal the models.

These aint proper chavs but the hammered wannabes you find in school.

LunaHound wrote:Atleast they have better fashion sense than the "chav"
we have in Vancouver *shudders

As a fellow Vancouverite, I concur.

Fortunately, though, I've never really had a problem with them.

On occasion we'll have a couple wander in to the Metrotown store, but thus far the store manager has sorted them out.

JD21290 wrote:I see your warrant card and raise you 1 MoD card

Touche sir. The warrant card will do me though. Don't get shot at anywhere near as often.

Redbeard wrote:Chavs? We don't have those. Are they a side-effect of government health-care?

No its a side effect of a stupidly lax welfare system that gives people a living for nothing.

Frazzled wrote:

Polonius wrote:You guys get kids causing trouble over there in merrie olde england? My FLGS is in the hood, next to a barber shop and across the street from housing projects, and I've never had any problems.

Of course, the owner of the barber shop recently sliced up a would be thief with a straight razor, so maybe punks know to stay away.

I dunno, here in the states businesses can generally make a call to the local Police, and they'll harass the local riff raff until they know they're not wanted.

Usually riff raff won't enter the den of evil that is the local FLGS. Can't be a gangsta steppin into a toy soldier store yo.

Yeah, there are few things less "gangsta" than playing with army men....

niceas wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Atleast they have better fashion sense than the "chav"
we have in Vancouver *shudders

As a fellow Vancouverite, I concur.

Fortunately, though, I've never really had a problem with them.

On occasion we'll have a couple wander in to the Metrotown store, but thus far the store manager has sorted them out.

Which ones do you see around? I cant stand the one with short spiky hair with bleached tip
wearing poofy jacket ( VERY POOFY )
while wearing tight track pants ( usually kappa brand )
and they usually speak very fast , like they are about to have diarrhea or something.

What the heck lol? fashion disaster from 80s?

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Used to help run a club a long time back, we'd get the occasional little gang of kids show up in the grounds of the school hall we rented and some would try to sneak in and steal the figures or harass the younger kids arriving or leaving. I paid my younger brother in beer and smokes to come over with his own gang of monsters, a couple years older than the gaks that were pestering our club and they beat em up, covered them in paint and mud and then harassed the little bastards around the town.

Fight evil with evil.

Loved it

I didn't know there was a term for them

Lord-Loss wrote:What is an Anti-Social Behaviour Order?
An Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) is a binding agreement between a person or persons who have committed acts of anti-social behaviour and the police. The principle behind these orders is that they act as a legal and binding contract signed by all parties concerned in the hope that they will reduce the chances of the individual in receipt of the ASBO from causing any further acts of anti-social behaviour.

Ow. That actually hurt my brain.

@ Luna

Can't say that I've ever paid attention to what pants they're wearing, but without doubt the frosted hair and poofy jackets are common.

We had a crew of underage chavs come in the other day - 3 young girls in their early teens (if that), playing horrible music and harrassing people in the burnaby bunker. Thor came over and glared at them and they left pretty quick.

Rofl,wow.
I hate chavs,and i agree most people say "they'd do something" but when it comes down to it,it's not going to happen.

You've hit a tough subject since the law isn't in your favour,best bets to phone the police get a discription of the witch and get him done for criminal damage,enough said!


Would he happen to look like this ?


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squilverine wrote:

They are trying to get attention to make up for the fact that the only love they have ever had in their sad little lives is when their uncle used to creep into thier room late at night.

I lol'd,that was golden

By god I have hit upon the ideal solution to the explosion in the spieces now categorised as Chavus Vulgaris. Previously when the population levels of pesky vermin got out of hand we would let a bunch of toffs dress up for the day chase them on horse back and then unleash the hounds on them, seeing as they are no longer allowed to hunt foxes, how about hunting chavs?

Lets have less of this...



And more of this...

You lot wanna try living in Newcastle. Admitedly there aint many that go into my local GW so it aint all bad though there have been some

I'll be honest, I can't think of much I'd less like to do than live in Newcastle

Haunted_Undead wrote:You lot wanna try living in Newcastle. Admitedly there aint many that go into my local GW so it aint all bad though there have been some

I used to. Brilliant place, I may move back there.

Mind you I never used to wargame there. I was a student so no money, no time and frankly I didn't quite click with the other gamers at the store there.

In the Leeds store kids have tried to nick stuff quite a few times. We used to send Neil after them, a geordie and former docker who was built like the proverbial brick house. That scared 'em.

The best time was when a friend of mine caught them trying to flog stolen stuff (GK's I believe) round the corner from the workshop! Talk about cheek! They got dragged into the shop, arrested and bollocked for some time by the manager.

Pipboy101 wrote:Just call the police if he broke something. They did not have your permission to pick it up and broke it on purpose. That is a crime and the cost of the models are expensive. Call the police, have a report taken and if that does not work then take them to small claims court. Since they are childern then their parents will have to go to court and be responsible for the damages. That will normally do more than a simple beating.

hahahahaha... he said call the police....hahahaha.... he expects them to come out and deal with chavs .... hahahaha...<couch>...ha...ha.. <cough>.. he wasnt joking?..... how naive.

Police do nothing about chavs unless they make what is a real nuisance of themselves - in the polices eyes, the chavs know this and what is more if the police do take action it can be no more than temporarily clearing them away. Once you get them to do this the chavs will be back to make more mischief, only this time they have a specific motive.

Years of PC dogma and inept social work reinfocrced by a generation of bad parenting has left the UK vulnerable to large numbers of louts with no sense of community or common decency.

It's not a that big problem in Denmark. At least where I play. Annoying people is just getting ignored 'til the point where he or she leaves.

I used to work at a FLGS when I was in college. One day while I was in the back running a tournament I saw some new kid come in. He proceded to pull something out of his shirt and spray my co-worker with something. I immediately ran up and picked him up by his shirt collar and back of his pants and literally tossed him out of the shop (this was back in the day when I was still in shape and weight lifting, couldn't do THAT today :( ). It turns out he sprayed my buddy with silly string but he had no idea who the kid was so I still felt more then justified. Never did see him again.