Banned from the mall??!

[Lena]

why don't you blame the kids that have messed it up for the good kids, it's their fault.

Ultimately I place all blame on those who made the decision because they are obviously too asinine to deal with something so natural as teenagers at the mall. They shouldn't be able to place such harsh regulations and discriminate like they are. It's just plain wrong. Privately owned or not, the idea of a mall is that it is a public place, and they just totally destroyed that which makes a mall a mall.

What they're doing is basically saying that our money isn't good to them during those times, which is absolutely outrageous. Many of us are hard working kids who earn our money and we deserve to spend it when and where we want to.

Put simply, it's a major abuse of power.

 

[FelanMoira]

Ultimately I place all blame on those who made the decision because they are obviously too asinine to deal with something so natural as teenagers at the mall. They shouldn't be able to place such harsh regulations and discriminate like they are. It's just plain wrong. Privately owned or not, the idea of a mall is that it is a public place, and they just totally destroyed that which makes a mall a mall.

What they're doing is basically saying that our money isn't good to them during those times, which is absolutely outrageous. Many of us are hard working kids who earn our money and we deserve to spend it when and where we want to.

Put simply, it's a major abuse of power.

Actually, blame the teenagers who don't know how to behave - I've got no problems with the management that has made the decision to place these curfews, or require a guardian over 21 (at least in this case it was an adult over 21, many of the public places have required it to be a PARENT - in fact when they enforce the curfew in my town that has been in place since I was a teenager over 18 years ago, it has to a PARENT with you, not just an adult). I also have no problem with teenagers who know how to behave either, and the original poster sounded like one of those.

When my hubby and I go to the mall on a Friday or Saturday evening, a good 80-90 % of the teens (12-18 year olds) aren't in the stores, they are in the food courts with their cell phones (texting the person on the otherside of the table) and i-Pods or literally running through the mall knocking people over from one end to the other with very few bags from the stores, or standing in Spencer's gawking at the sex aids. I wish it weren't that way, and it seems to be getting worse. Before I was a teenager, the teens hung out in a parking lot in town. The teens around my age started hanging at the mall, the next age group really hung out at the mall and spent money (now that group would have been stupid to ban because ALL they did was shop from one end of the mall to the other - It was like the movie Clueless completely.

I wish it weren't necessary, but oftentimes it is, and I've heard that malls across the country are doing this with greater frequency. They haven't here yet, and I don't know if they will. I don't even know if it's the right answer to the problem either.

 

[Lena]

I don't even know if it's the right answer to the problem either.

I firmly believe that that is the job of security.

Honestly... You don't need a uniform and badge to ask for IDs and hand out bracelets.

 

[FelanMoira]

I firmly believe that that is the job of security.

Honestly... You don't need a uniform and badge to ask for IDs and hand out bracelets.

Yeah, but whenever my local mall only has 2 security guards on duty for the 200 teenagers in the food court, there is no means to "keep the peace" and keep control. In alot of areas, it's just a no-win situation.

And half of those teens probably came in with their parents and the 'rents just don't care.

Oh well.

 

[Lena]

And half of those teens probably came in with their parents and the 'rents just don't care.

:main_rolleyes: Very true.

At any rate, any mall that has this rule has basically lost my business. If they ask me for my ID, I'm walking out. Or, in a couple of months, I'll show them my ID.. THEN walk out. Call me spiteful.. :main_laugh: 'Cause I am.

 

[Mel&Keith]

I don't know if the malls here have curfews, I don't shop at them unless I have to and then I go during the school day but many stores have their own security now. A few years ago, the Louis Vuitton store almost got looted by a mob of people who had flooded the store to see a rapper shopping inside. They had to shut the store down for the rest of the day and now they have 4 Linebacker looking guys in suits throughout the store. People have changed and policies are having to change in accordance. The bottom line is the dollar sign. It's an unfortunate reality of what our society has become in a depressed economy.

 

[Leonardo]

i never grew up in a town where there was a decent mall. my "mall" contains 11 stores and army and navy recruiting offices. we call it the "small" or "hall"
its quite lame really.
no food or drink is allowed and the one or two security guards sometimes kick kids out for loitering. one good friend was banned for 2 months for loitering. he was meeting a few friends in an hour but wasnt buying anything.
thats a pretty harsh punishment for waiting for a few friends. he was 17 at the time.

also, before i could drive, i was waiting outside the mall on the concrete sidewalk for my mom and was told to stop loitering and either go inside or leave. it was the middle of the week. and our "mall" is never crowded.

so i guess i wouldnt really ever understand the point in putting curfews on a mall.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I blame the parents for giving the responsibility of babysitting their kids to the mall management and more often than anything the staff of the mall and the stores in the mall. I find it great to be able to walk through the mall and not be run over by droves of kids running around like it is their own personal playground. I blame the kids that don't know how to act and caused this problem for the rest of the kids that are good. Lastly in my opinion kids under 16 should not be out in public unsupervised at night anyway and over 16 should be mature enough to act accordingly not like animals. If you are going walk out from now on or boycott malls like this fine I may or may not have felt like you when I was your age myself, but fast forward a few years and I am a parent and a "Professional Babysitter" and now I see a completely different side fo the coin.

 

[Lena]

I understand where you're coming from. I'm just really insulted by it.

It's easy to see the positives when you're on the side that isn't being banned, you know?

All I want is to be able to be treated fairly and go to a mall when I want to, shop and spend my money when and where I want to, and to be denied that because of a number is infinitely insulting.