IN response to your report 'Video nasty' (January 17), Monkton Road has, unfortunately, changed down the years from a respectable area to become one which, like others, is run by yobs.

Even when caught, the police and the judicial systems are powerless to do anything about it.

Lawyers blame society, parents, or teachers for failing to help the youngsters who often claim they were bored because they have nothing to do to entertain them.

How long do the law-abiding citizens have to put up with these youths before something or someone takes the law into their hands like the late Charles Bronson in those Death Wish movies?

I only hope it doesn't come to this.

Put the yobs into a room by themselves with nothing but their thoughts for a length of time, or bring back National Service.

P J Markwick,

Forge Close,

Jockey Lane,

York.

Updated: 09:28 Thursday, January 20, 2005