THERE is a significant minority of people in this country who believe the rules of normal society do not apply to them.

These people appear in many guises – keyboard warriors spouting bile on websites, yobs damaging other people’s property for the sake of it, idiots who treat residential roads as racetracks, and the brain dead blaring music from their homes or cars at all hours.

Today we report on another example of this couldn’t-care-less behaviour.

Vandals have sprayed black paint across the outside of the recently reopened Crown and Anchor pub in Worcester.

Who knows what those responsible were trying to achieve?

But whatever cheap thrills they gained from their vandalism the result is expense and inconvenience for landlady Lisa Wilshaw.

The pub has struggled in recent years and has only recently reopened under Lisa’s stewardship.

The last thing she needed was to wake up yesterday morning and discover such a mess.

This incident and last weekend’s attacks in the same area on another pub and a car are indicative of the kind of behaviour we refer to above.

Anti-social behaviour like this does not happen because of a bad upbringing, or poor education, or a lack of money.

Plenty of people suffer from all of these but still manage to lead decent, respectable lives.

It happens because some people think behaving badly is a badge of honour.

It happens because some people have no respect for others or themselves. It happens because some people think it is their right to do whatever they want whenever they want.

And these are the people the rest of us have to drive out of our society.