Scooter boys

The Department s other examples include Paralysed Girl Determined to Dance Again , I Plan to Give Away My Baby, Says Mother-to-be and They Are Calling It the Street of Shame . One could have also fed into the computer Youngsters/Youths/Wild Ones/Scooter Boys/Hells Angels, Invade/Beat Up/Wreck, Town/Cinema/Football Match/Pop Festival . 

Harassment was usually more subtle than straightforward expulsion. This particularly took the form of stopping scooters to examine the driver s licence or the machine s roadworthiness. Such practices can be interpreted as either the ascription of secondary status traits (anyone who drives around dressed like that must be driving illegally) and hence providing an excuse to pin a charge, or simply to make things so unpleasant and inconvenient for the scooter-boys that they would move away. 

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