Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Less common ASBOs)

Less conventional uses of ASBOs, as listed by a report to the Home Office to illustrate the difficulties with ASBOs, include:

• Two teenage boys from east Manchester forbidden to wear one golf glove.
• A 17-year-old forbidden to use the word “grass” as a term of abuse in order to threaten people.
• A 15-year-old forbidden to play football in his street.
• The oldest recipient of an ASBO, an 87-year-old man who was abusive to his neighbours.
• An 18-year-old male was banned from congregating with more than three youths, and subsequently arrested when he entered a very popular youth club.
• The first farmer to be given an ASBO was instructed to keep his geese and pigs from damaging his neighbour’s property.