The writer uses words and phrases that associate young people with negative things e.g. Violence and vandalism.

There is a metaphor that says ” Beirut of the North” and Beirut is associated with violence and war which is suggesting that what they are saying is that young people are making it that kind of environment.

The writer says flood when talking about complaints to the police. Flood has connotation of everything happening once. So what the writer is saying is that all of these incidents and all of the complaints happened at once.

The writer says yobs when he talks about young people. So yobs has connotation of a negative point of view on teenagers.