Places are starting to think minors are bad for business because they’re more likely to cause disturbances (and often hang around without spending money)
A lot of these businesses are creating curfews for unaccompanied teens after around 2/3pm on Fridays and weekends, banning them on Fridays/weekends altogether, and/or banning them in the afternoon every day of the week (although some of the bans, like at the boardwalk, are after around 8pm). Some are banning them outright.
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"They're being unruly, violating code of conduct, which can include running through the property in large groups, fighting and putting it on TikTok, basically disrupting business and making it uncomfortable for our everyday customers”
Quote from the general manager of the oldest mall in New Jersey
It is impossible to exist in public if you don't have money. You can't just sit down, because all the tables and chairs are in restaurants and there's fuck all public seating. You can't kick a ball around because there's not nearly enough open space. There are so few places where you can just go and exist for free. Wanna meet up with some friends and play some board games? You have to do it at home if you don't want to spend money.
Like seriously, next time you're in a city, just look around at the street and ask yourself "how much of this am I allowed to be in for free". The answer is probably just the road and the pavement. Anywhere else is shops and restaurants and banks and whatever else.
I used to think it was weird there was a crime called "vagrancy". Being in public without a place to go, just staying in one place. Then one day, I realized that public spaces were pretty much the definition of "I'm only here because I want to be somewhere else". There's nothing there, and why would you stop, really?
Vagrancy laws have their roots in keeping jobless people away, literally making not having a job a crime
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This is so random, just a 10 yo reddit post with less upvotes than this post lmfao I love it