[coconutt2000]

This is a good thing... The mall is not a substitute for a parent or a baby sitter.

[SouthernFreebird]

That's gonna hurt. As a parent of teenagers I wouldn't waste my money in a place that doesn't welcome shoppers. Thank God our mall is not suicidal and allows teenagers to shop and hang out.

[Fierce Allegiance]

They discuss the Eastfield Mall & Holyoke mall, but interview a kid from Lynn? Lynn is over 1 1/2 hours away from either mall. Even the language is different.

[chaosagent]

I would have been in real trouble at this mall.

I was married and in college at 17, and my parents lived about 200 miles away.

I guess my wife could have taken me. She was 18 at the time.

BTW we will have been married 38 years in September.

[Nonstatist]

The malls should enforce rules against loitering perhaps, but carding kids to restrict entry into what is essentially a public place, is overkill, IMO. Its always easier to ban than it is to police, isnt it??..

[Asphalt]

What the heck? Can you say d-i-s-c-r-i-m-i-na-t-i-o-n? The mall can do whay they want, but I smell lawsuit

[rwfromkansas]

This is pretty dumb.

Malls have long been one of the top places teens go to hang out.

This will kill their business.

[twntaipan]

I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but why is it that there can be "age-profiling" to prevent teens from hanging out at the mall but no "racial-profiling" to prevent Middle Easterners from carrying out terrorist acts?

I mean, kids hanging at the mall is hardly a threat to national security.