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

I have terrible sleep problems but I would never dream of throwing an egg at a car I would go through the proper channels, I do have sympathy with you as 3.30am is beyond a joke.

Good for you OP! Have an egg from me!

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

If they don't come back it's worked. If you live in a block that's constructed in such a way that you could lob the egg from an area which didn't identify any one specific home/culprit then I guess it's alright.
But they could decide to come back en mass and lob eggs at you and neighbours homes? Fingers crossed they won't.

See I’m jealous, because the way our windows open I couldn’t throw an egg with good aim, and we have cars doing this outside ours.

I did the same when I lived in a block of city centre flats, Ripe tomatoes work well too. The twat in the soft top blaring out at 4 am never knew what hit him.

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!

RE. The death due to cheese being thrown.
Yes, that is tragic - it is also true that it would have been very hard to get through his life not coming into contact with cheese knowingly or unknowingly and really the main reason he died was the school not administering an epi pen.
If the most basic things can cause a fatal reaction, you can't ask the whole world to live as if that was a likely thing to happen.

So is anti social driving.

Being on the receiving end of late night boy racers I feel your pain OP.

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.

Contact the police each and every time this happens. Rude, thoughtless twats in cars. They need to be made to think about what they’re doing.

Ask local councillors for suggestions too for how to reduce this antisocial behaviour.

I’d be buying some cheaper eggs and perfecting my aim. You’re not a yob. They are. The reason they continue to do it is because there is no consequence. As long as they can’t tell where the egg is coming from, have at it. I may steal this idea as we had similar last year!

But this lad wasn’t a thug sitting in his car playing loud music in a residential area.I
You are being ridiculous conflating the two..

Eggsellent!
If you threw something at the cars every time then the problem would disappear :)

Good for you!

Good for you

Truly my sympathies to have a child with a severe life threatening allergy. And you're right ofc we shouldn't throw food around as sensible adults.

Having said that, an egg splatted on the road is fairly easy to spot and hopefully for your DC to avoid. And there are plenty of other contexts of food spills which are not as visible (food waste bag with unknown food products dripping on the pavement, someone dropping a drink by accident on the pavement, someone eating something on public transport and so on) so I don't think the egg throw risk needed to be highlighted as strongly as it has been on a relatively light hearted thread about yobs making noise at 3am.

Can totally understand why you did it. I'd have been tempted to do the same. But in the forefront of my mind is a story from my town a couple of years ago.. some troublesome kids started throwing eggs at passing cars and hit a woman in the face. The lost her eye. She was a nurse so has also lost her career. So would caution the use of eggs. Maybe water balloons next time? But as more longterm plan I would look into contacting council/landlord/whoever to come up with a solution.

There is more action you can take. Find out who the landlord is for the block and any neighbouring ones affected. Find out if your neighbours are also disturbed - do you have a TRA? Every single time this happens, contact the council’s noise reporting line, and follow up the next day with an email to your local councillors. Keep records of every time it happens and take pics and licence plates if you can. If you can face the effort, make a complete nuisance of yourself and the council may do something (install CCTV or parking controls?) to make you go away.

It is a funny comment, yeah.
If my child could die from a common product that they come into contact with every day I would probably suggest they don't act like a wazzock in case someone whizzes it at their head.
You're aware that laughing at a joke doesn't automatically constitute unwavering support for the course of action therein, aren't you?
Have a tiny sense of humour.

I don’t blame you one bit op. I say that as someone whose front windows once got egged in a drive by lobbing; possibly by the cleaner I had recently sacked. It’s an absolute bastard to get off.

Simeone once parked a BMW on our street (because they didn’t want to pay for residential parking on their own road).
Alarm goes off and was blaring for 6 hours (this is before cars were stopped from having this kind of alarm). We and others called the council once it got to 11pm.
The following morning we walked past said car on the way to the station, whose owner was sadly staring at all the dried egg on his expensive car.
It wasn’t us but I didn’t have a shred of sympathy for him.

At least use cheap eggs!

I would just be cautious of making sure you miss so you don’t have to pay for damage, hopefully them not knowing if your next aim will be better would discourage them from staying in future.

Plus are you able to disguise what window you are at so they can’t retaliate?

I would contemplate warm apple juice in a water gun so they can worry it’s pee.

Well, there is a regional egg shortage. Children in California are having to eat their avocado toast dry as it's still something like £5.50 a dozen, despite Erdoğan riding to the rescue! I would consider throwing something cheaper, like lentils.

If you want to start a go fund me to buy more eggs i’ll contribute- go you!

Anyone else with egg allergies- as we say in Scotland, nae luck!

its Difficult to know what to do though in these circumstances. I also live in a flat and have similar issues, especially as since living here a pub opened opposite and a small public square was built both of which have not improved things. Some young people round here literally walk around carrying a boombox?! Police don’t care unless things turn violent. Our area has a ‘noise control’ team but it’s only open at certain times, takes hours to call back, often by that point either the noise has stopped or I miss the call anyway as my phone is on silent as I’ve given up waiting and am desperately trying to get any sleep at 4.30 am… basically totally ineffectual. Things improved when I got a very big tall neighbour who wasn’t afraid to go out and tell them to move on. Alas he moved on too eventually! Good luck but please do not throw eggs.