That's a problem in my neighborhood occasionally. We've cleaned graffiti of the playground equipment several times. Sometimes children of 10-13 age will try to swing on the toddler swings. It amazes me that they'll do it right in front of an adult ... and they're shocked when I give them the laser-eye and say firmly, "You know better than that, young man. Get down from there - that's for babies!"
you know a lot of these teens have been abandoned, beaten, molested and are immature, if they want to hang on the swing, I don’t have an issue with it. If they are picking on kids, they need to leave.
My son literally lived 10 feet from a park. I was visiting and watching his kids and he told me not to go to the park. Well...the kids wanted to go so I took them. So there was quite a production with a group of teenagers berating an adult for not having her dog on a leash. The adult verbally fought back and there was a lot of cussing. I just went to the teenagers and told them to stop right now that they were being rude and they actually complied.
Several days later I took them back and there were a lot of children having a great time but evidently someone wasn’t nice enough to a 3 year old?!?! who was there alone. She ran home to tell on them and her father came back and was horrible to the other children. I took the kids home and we never disobeyed again. After that we just went to McDonalds, Burger King and museums and other places that you had to pay for.
Dang glad you don’t live near me I will be 55 next month and still love the swings at the park down the street