{"id":148633,"date":"2017-04-10T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148633\/resident-concerned-about-rowdy-teens\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T06:01:29","slug":"resident-concerned-about-rowdy-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2017\/04\/10\/resident-concerned-about-rowdy-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident concerned about rowdy teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worried resident, Symhurst writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am concerned about a group of teenagers loitering around a caf\u00e9 (opposite a park) in Collins Road, Symhurst.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I believe they smoke marijuana and they loiter around the shop for hours on end.<\/p>\n<p>When you approach them they are very disrespectful and use foul language.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s concerning for the community in general.<\/p>\n<p>They act like gangsters &#8211; anyone or a group that hangs around for long periods smoking or whatever can only be up to no good.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also concerned about the lack of police visibility in this area.<\/p>\n<p>You hardly see a police vehicle or CPF vehicle in this area.<\/p>\n<p>The only time I\u2019ve seen a police vehicle in this area is when they were having lunch under the tree in the park.<\/p>\n<p>I recently had my company truck stolen in this area, which makes me more concerned.<\/p>\n<p>One of the people who hangs around the caf\u00e9 even has a small child.<\/p>\n<p>They generally make a nuisance of themselves and are very rowdy.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to contact the SAPS via email but have received no response.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Editor\u2019s note:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sgt Styles Maome, the communications officer for the Primrose SAPS said, \u201cThe Primrose police have not received a complaint regarding the youth at this particular venue and we continually patrol in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will monitor the area near the shop as mentioned in the letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8f61b5c4cda9aba7d87f5e12b19aa597'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Symhurst resident is worried about a group of teens allegedly smoking marijuana and loitering in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":148829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,18,6],"tags":[979,969,1208,2734,1167,1480,998,2526],"class_list":["post-148633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-letter","tag-melissa-hart","tag-opinion-2","tag-primrose-police","tag-saps","tag-symhurst"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["germiston","germiston city news","letter","melissa hart","opinion","Primrose police","SAPS","Symhurst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}