Threw an egg at a car in an insomnia fuelled rage. AIBU?

You can’t use tomatoes someone in bed 3 streets away might have a tomato allergy 🙈😂😂😂

I live in a block of flats with a turning square for cars outside. It’s painted with double yellow lines.

Unfortunately, this space attracts antisocial behaviour, especially during warmer months. We tend to get cars parking up and people congregating there during the night, with people playing music and chatting/shouting away at all hours.

In the past I’ve just turned over and tried to get back to sleep (often being woken up a few more times that night). This was a real blight on our lives last summer, but we’ve had a bit of respite over the winter. Last year I thought seriously about what I could do to try and get the noise dealt with by the council, but from research (and past experience about a noisy neighbour), I don’t think this is likely to be effective. It’s not always the same cars/people. I’ve thought about going out there and asking people to be quiet, but given how inconsiderate they are being, I doubt this would work (and feels potentially dangerous). After thinking about it I decided there was nothing I could really do to solve this, and it was just one of those things, and I’d have to lump it.

Last night I was jolted awake at 3:30 am by loud music booming from a car. I looked out the window and saw it had pulled up just outside.

I had a tough week last week, getting some bad health news, and I have been suffering from a bit of insomnia. My job is always quite full-on, and I was already filled with a fair bit of post-weekend dread about the amount of work I’ve got to get through this week. I thought I’d been coping pretty well, but I do feel a bit stretched thin.

When I saw the car parked there, blaring music so loudly and probably waking at least a hundred people up in the overlooking flats, I was so incensed that I ran into the kitchen, grabbed an egg, and lobbed it from the window.

The egg splatted harmlessly next to the car, which drove away sharpish.

AIBU to become the egg vigilante?

Of course you're being unreasonable. It's actually criminal damage. You could have dented the car and egg white is a bugger to get off paintwork

Of course you're being unreasonable. It's actually criminal damage. You could have dented the car and egg white is a bugger to get off paintwork

Is it private or council housing? If it’s council, you should definitely contact your housing officer and if you know your neighbours well enough, get them to do the same so the HO takes notice.

Also find out who your local Councillor is and you’ll easily be able to get their email address and write to them. Councillors are usually keen to keep the electorate happy.

Also contact your local neighbourhood policing team - tell them there’s drug-dealing etc going on and they should be interested.

If there are double yellow lines, the Council should be enforcing no stopping, although obviously there won’t be wardens out and about late at night.

Yeah, I'm in the 'what a stupid reckless thing to do' camp. Not clever, not funny. Get a white noise machine FGS...

I am LOLing though, at the amount of posters on here saying 'YABU - you need to practice your aim, aim better, you need to have a better aim.' ROFL, LOL, Tee hee.' Acting like they're the first to say it, and thinking they're jolly hilarious! 😆 (Even though multiple posters have already said it.) See also: the hysterically funny 'ooh that's eggsellent OP!'

As has been said, I would be very worried about retaliation. People who hang around at 3am, acting anti-socially and like dickheads, are NOT the sort of people to say 'OMG she threw an egg at us, let's go home, and never return, and make sure we are always in by 10pm from now on.'

You may have opened a lion's cage @EggVigilante Good luck!

I get what you’re saying and I’m not trying to be unduly/ disproportionately alarmist, I understand this is not the main point of the thread. Trust me I also understand all the other risks eg the bag spills you allude to! I spend every day asssessing risks like these. But in a country where ‘egging’ is a thing I don’t think it does any harm to try to reduce this being ‘normalised’ (for want of a better word) - yes it’s not an every day occurrence but nonetheless the OP reached for an egg, not anything else. When I grew up egging houses was a thing on Halloween etc, and remember John Prescott? All I’m asking is that people consider not throwing eggs. As I said, and in my subsequent post, I have every sympathy with the OP. It’s difficult to read tone in these messages but we are all allowed an opinion - and mine is chiefly that people who act like the yobs OP refers to are the worst. But also that some
of the comments and jokes on this friend are nasty and unnecessary. Not sure that my relatively mild single comment mentioning egg allergy deserved you telling me I didn’t need to make it or ‘strongly’ highlight it but there we are - it’s not up to me what other people post. If it makes me po-faced, so be it.

It's not funny. Eggs can cause lethal allergic reactions. Finding throwing food funny is grim and ignorant

YANBU, however, tomatoes would be cheaper, eggs are a bit pricey these days! 🤗

That was an idiotic thing to do and not at all as funny as you were hoping it would come across on the thread. You're just as bad as the car yob, if not worse.

Oh, they will come back! (Though the OP will say that they didn't.)