A north-east teenager has revealed that he has been threatened after posting messages about illicit legal high meet-ups in Fraserburgh.
The male, who does not want to be identified, said he posted bulletins online about meeting up for legal high sessions in the port’s college campus and skate park as a “joke”.
The Press and Journal revealed this week that social media app Yik Yak, which is free to download for mobile phones, was being used in the town to highlight where the psychoactive substances could be acquired.
But the 17-year-old, who posted regularly on the anonymous messaging service, last night insisted he had nothing to apologise for.
“It was all jokes – I wasn’t being serious,” he said.
“People are now threatening me. I’m not worried, but I don’t want to be attached to this. What I was saying were things that people aren’t going to be happy about, but I wasn’t breaking any laws.
“Legal highs have actually been going down in use recently, because people don’t want to bother with them – they aren’t worth it. When we read about them in newspapers and stuff, kids just laugh at it.
“They don’t take it seriously. Everyone who takes legal highs knows it’s dangerous and they’re ruining their bodies, but they do them because there’s nothing better to do.”
No one at Yik Yak was available to respond to a request for comment on the messages left on their app in the Fraserburgh area.
The chairman of the town’s community safety group had called for parents to be more pro-active in what their children were doing with their mobile devices.
“Parents have got to be keeping an eye on their children who could be looking for a buzz or who want to try something different,” Brian Topping said.
“This could be the last thing they ever experience and that’s the last thing anyone wants.”