The yob population has grown to nuisance proportions in recent years and it's become necessary for "decent" people to take steps to stop them getting onto one's land.
For example, residents on a Kentish Town estate are calling for a perimeter fence to "keep out the yobs", reports local newspaper The Ham and High. "We get youths from all over northwest London coming in and indulging in antisocial behaviour," explains the residents' association chairwoman.
Elsewhere, people have tried to tame yobs with "yob contracts", also known as acceptable behaviour contracts, we learn from the Norfolk Evening News.
Others simply attempt to drive them away. "Yobs warned - dispersal order is going into effect," shouts a headline in the Northern Echo, as posters go up in Middlesbrough town centre to "warn youngsters they'll be arrested if they fail to move on when ordered".
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