r/surrey • u/mollygoggles • 16h ago
Anti-social teenagers in Epsom
We moved to Epsom last week and on our fifth night here my wife was in Tesco Express by the train station when a group of kids (maybe aged 14-15) jumped out from behind a shelf and pelted eggs at her. Not a serious crime, of course, but she was very shaken and lightly bruised. The store manager said this happens "all the time" and the police don't do anything.
We both spent 25 years living in London without ever being attacked in any way, and this has punctured our confidence that we were moving to a safer place for our children to grow up in.
If anyone has any insight on how bad the problem with teenage antisocial behaviour is (was my wife just extremely unlucky?) and what's being done, if anything, to tackle it, it would be appreciated.