A GLENROI resident says there’s no point beautifying the area if groups of unsupervised children continue to roam the streets at all hours of the night and day looking for trouble.
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The man, who asked not to be named, said he saw council workers planting trees on Glenroi Oval last week and thought it was a futile exercise.
“I just wondered how long they’d last and by Saturday I saw they’d been trashed,” he said.
The resident said there were groups of boys as young as nine years old who roamed the streets of Glenroi throwing rocks at cars and destroying property.
“On the weekend I saw one boy banging a rubbish bin on the concrete footpath trying to smash the concrete,” he said.
“He did it for about 10 minutes before he realised it wasn’t working.”
The resident said he wasn’t sure if the child vandals were bored or just enjoyed being destructive.
He said it was not uncommon to see children leave for school by themselves, return alone in the afternoon and then walk around the streets in the afternoon and night.
“There are no parents to be seen, I don’t think they give a rat’s,” he said.
“Parents have got to take responsibility for their children, it’s as simple as that.”
Two privately-owned homes on the corner of Orchard Grove Road and Marsden Place were also recently targeted by vandals.
“They just burn things down, or break windows,” the resident said.
“We need more police patrols in the area or we need to do what Dubbo did and sell the whole area off.”
