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WWYD kids playing with a ball in the street

36 replies

Sleepplease1111 · 18/05/2021 09:20

My house is opposite a bus stop which is a pick up point for secondary school children. Yesterday morning I’m guessing the bus was late because I could hear a food ball being bounced/kicked around for a while, it then his my front gate and then either my house or next door ( I wasn’t looking) I knocked on my window to tell them to pack it in, this morning I could see they were more purposefully kicking it against the gate and next door (this is across the road). What would your course of action be?

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Jahebejrjr · 18/05/2021 09:21

I’d do nothing. Why would you?

Seeline · 18/05/2021 09:22

Report to the school

Seeline · 18/05/2021 09:23

@Jahebejrjr

I’d do nothing. Why would you?
Because kicking a football across a road with traffic on it to purposefully damage private property is something most people would have an issue with??
Jahebejrjr · 18/05/2021 09:25

It’s a football not a demolition ball. They are kids. Just leave them be. They’ve all been through enough this year

Seeline · 18/05/2021 09:26

So oyu would be happy driving along a road with kids kicking a ball right across the road?

MaMaD1990 · 18/05/2021 09:27

@Jahebejrjr

It’s a football not a demolition ball. They are kids. Just leave them be. They’ve all been through enough this year
Good God, this is ridiculous. I'm assuming you'd be happy for kids to be kicking a ball at your house? I'd try and get the ball and take it away if they didn't stop and phone the school about it. Little shits.
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Sleepplease1111 · 18/05/2021 09:28

These are teenagers not toddlers, they should know better.

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ConfusedAdultFemale · 18/05/2021 09:28

Are they kicking the ball into traffic or were they bouncing it around and it accidentally hit your gate? Either way there isn’t anything you can do really, it’s not a police matter and the school aren’t likely to do anything. You could speak to the bus company if you’re really angry that a ball hit your gate once, but they’re not likely to do anything either since it didn’t happen on the bus.

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Sleepplease1111 · 18/05/2021 09:29

Sorry my quote for @Jahebejrjr didn’t work.

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Stinkywizzleteets · 18/05/2021 09:29

Get some goalie gloves and guard your gate. A bit of exercise and having fun with them might get them on side. They’ll be cutting your grass and bringing you provisions in no time.

Tiktokersmiracle · 18/05/2021 09:29

@Sleepplease1111

My house is opposite a bus stop which is a pick up point for secondary school children. Yesterday morning I’m guessing the bus was late because I could hear a food ball being bounced/kicked around for a while, it then his my front gate and then either my house or next door ( I wasn’t looking) I knocked on my window to tell them to pack it in, this morning I could see they were more purposefully kicking it against the gate and next door (this is across the road). What would your course of action be?
I would think "how nice, children not sitting on phones/doing tiktoks/happy slapping each other and playing with a football just like on my youth, good on them" Then I would shut my curtains and have a cup of tea with a sense of enormous well being that kids continue to play... HTH
Tsubasa1 · 18/05/2021 09:30

Yabu

ConfusedAdultFemale · 18/05/2021 09:30

And for what it’s worth, I get the annoyance of a ball (or frisbee or drone, or sodding water balloons and snowballs) hitting your property. Gets difficult to remember they’re just teenagers mucking around and not being malicious, even if they should know better.

Elouera · 18/05/2021 09:32

How ridiculous those saying they'd let teenages continue to kick a ball at their own windows and house!!!

I'd go outside and ask them to stop. If they don't or it re-starts when you go inside, I'd start filming them. You then have evidence for the school/parents if they broke a window or damaged your property.

museumum · 18/05/2021 09:32

Five or tens mins while waiting fir the bus really wouldn’t bother me one jot.

If they set up there for an hour in the evening it’s a different matter.

Original poster
Sleepplease1111 · 18/05/2021 09:33

@Tsubasa1

Yabu
I’m being unreasonable for knocking my window?
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Jahebejrjr · 18/05/2021 09:34

Kids kick footballs at my house all the time and no damage yet. And they kick it with some force.
As for the person who said they are doing it with criminal intent, don’t be daft. They are doing it to annoy the OP. Teenagers can’t process consequences brilliantly. I guarantee if they did any damage they would be shocked because teenagers are daft like that.

Seeline · 18/05/2021 09:34

I don't believe that people are happy for a group of teens to be kicking a ball across a public road - that has traffic on it - with the sole purpose of hitting it against private property to ensure the ball returns to them , again across a public highway. Presumably at rush hour.

Is it an actual school bus that collects them, or just public transport? If it's a school bus, the school will know which kids are involved if you report the location.

Geamhradh · 18/05/2021 09:34

@Elouera

How ridiculous those saying they'd let teenages continue to kick a ball at their own windows and house!!!

I'd go outside and ask them to stop. If they don't or it re-starts when you go inside, I'd start filming them. You then have evidence for the school/parents if they broke a window or damaged your property.

Nobody has mentioned windows except you. But yes, get the OP to film minors on the street. Way to go to get HER in trouble with the plod.
MaMaD1990 · 18/05/2021 09:36

@Jahebejrjr

Kids kick footballs at my house all the time and no damage yet. And they kick it with some force. As for the person who said they are doing it with criminal intent, don’t be daft. They are doing it to annoy the OP. Teenagers can’t process consequences brilliantly. I guarantee if they did any damage they would be shocked because teenagers are daft like that.
Of course they do...
Grenlei · 18/05/2021 09:36

OP, you will find this is 'acceptable' to quite a few people.

We live 5 mins from a park (in one direction) and 2-3 mins (in the opposite direction) from a huge area of open parkland - over 100 acres. Yet the grotty neighbourhood kids (ages approx 7-13) persist in playing football in the middle of the street. Ours is a moderately busy road and also a bus route. They don't give a shit and nor do their parents. They quite regularly bang the ball off cars parked in the street (admittedly as we all have front gardens with driveways they don't hit front doors etc).

It's one of many reasons why I can't wait to move!

Jahebejrjr · 18/05/2021 09:39

@MaMaD1990 Yes they do. I have boys who are football mad. My house takes an absolute battering but it’s still in one piece. Even the windows

helpfulperson · 18/05/2021 09:40

They should be inside playing computer games. Image teenagers being outside - shocking.

1starwars2 · 18/05/2021 09:41

Totally reasonable to ask them not to kick it against houses/knock your window.
However I get why people are happy they are playing.

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Sleepplease1111 · 18/05/2021 09:41

@helpfulperson

They should be inside playing computer games. Image teenagers being outside - shocking.
I’m assuming your username is an attempt at irony.
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