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AIBU?

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Original poster

to be thinking "when they come back later Ill be ready for them!"

41 replies

doublechocchip · 18/12/2010 19:15

Ok so maybe I have watched home alone a lot recently but a gang of 'yoovs' keep lobbing snowballs at our windows and doors after 9pm and waking up the dc's.

Once i could cope with but its happening a lot and I refuse to sit here and put up with it.

Now as much as Id like to lob a brick back at them I realise I will probably hit mine or my neighbours car or knock one of them out and be sued!

So after scheming I have a stack of ds' shitty nappies by the door to chuck right back at them if they come back tonight!

aibu??

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GypsyMoth · 18/12/2010 19:19

yes you are being unreasonable!!

ledodgy · 18/12/2010 19:22

Yes throw snow instead. When a group of hoofs did this to our house last year. I snuck out into our back garden and waited until they were on the other side of the wall and chucked a pile of snow over which by the sounds of it covered them. The beauty of it was they thought each thought the other had done it. Grin

ledodgy · 18/12/2010 19:22

Haha yoofs not hoofs, bloody iPad.

Rosebud05 · 18/12/2010 19:22

Are you serious? That's gross. Couldn't you just ask them not to, explaining why. Is it just your house they're chucking snow at?

HecTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly · 18/12/2010 19:23

You would be if you actually did it.

You aren't being to have a silly fantasy about it Grin

Really the best thing is to ignore. Reaction is what they are looking for - craving. If you do anything, they will love it and they will have won.

Only thing to worry about is if they break a window. Do you think the snowballs are coming hard enough to do that?

GypsyMoth · 18/12/2010 19:24

rosebud,sadly,i do think the op was being serious!!

MadamDeathstare · 18/12/2010 19:24

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Sassybeast · 18/12/2010 19:26

Top tip -take a photo of them. The little shits terrosrising our street haven't been near me since 2 nights ago - it was great to hear them yelling 'Shit - she took a PHOTO' as they ran off.

rainbowinthesky · 18/12/2010 19:27

Yuck. I would speak to community police if it's a real problem. I really wouldnt be throwing dirty nappies...

shongololo · 18/12/2010 19:33

they're kids having a bit of fun. Just explain to them politely that you have little ones, and ask them not to. Most yoofs, in my experience, will respond to politeness and reason.

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doublechocchip · 18/12/2010 19:33

sassybeast-ahh a photo now thats a good idea!

I realise that it is attention they seek but I hate the whole 'ignoring, rise above it' thing even though Im sure somewhere deep down it is the right thing to do.

Ah but to have one land in one of their faces....[can dream...]

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Besom · 18/12/2010 19:33

I have regular fantasies about running screaming from the house and stabbing local yoofs basket ball with the kitchen knife. They might as well stand outside dd's window banging a drum (at 11 pm).

However, I find if I go out and ask them, explaining that they are waking dd up, they apologise and stop. They are obviously not bad kids though.

So, Yanbu but you would be if you did it.

marriednotmulled · 18/12/2010 19:35

Be careful, some little shits are armed Shock

HecTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly · 18/12/2010 19:44

shongololo - I don't suppose you're on a council estate in a mining village are you?

Because that's where I grew up.

Most yoofs, in my experience, will respond to politeness and reason by putting all your windows through and skewering your guinea pigs to the bottom of their hutches and skinning your cat alive and throwing ducklings against walls and shoving them down drains.

Saying "hey chaps, move along now please, you aren't really aware of this, but you're rather disturbing our evenings" will, depending on where you are, be more likely to get your house firebombed than to get you an apology.

VallhalaLalalalalalalalaaaaaa · 18/12/2010 19:48

Shongololo doesn't come from or live where I grew up either!

I've no problem with your proposal, doublechocchip.

LifeForRent · 18/12/2010 20:04

YANBU. I love it. My dh said "tell her to wrap that brick in a nappy". Gosh, I didn't think he was thuggish at all!

purplepidjbauble · 18/12/2010 21:16

YANBU

I'm a p/t youth worker. We have a right mixture of all of the above. Without doubt, if you said "I appreciate you're enjoying the weather, but it's disturbing my babies" then the majority would make the minority see reason.

You probably won't get a tugged forelock and an abject apology, you'll probably get a mutterd "sorry, missis" and you might get the odd fuck off. But they'll most likely move away as long as you speak to them like human beings.

Don't believe everything you read int he redtops Xmas Wink

purplepidjbauble · 18/12/2010 21:17

Oops, should have been clearer - YANBU to feel like that, YABU to throw human excrement.

Maisiethemorningsidecat · 18/12/2010 21:21

Try the "please stop throwing snowballs as it's waking up my babies and I'm sure you don't mean to or want to" line first

If that doesn't work, then take photos - it scares the living daylights out of the little shits. And phone the community police.

BreconBeBuggered · 18/12/2010 22:12

The youths who do that on our estate at night are very definitely not children enjoying the snow. I'd be tempted by the shitty nappy option too if I had any. But my aim is woeful.

LaraJade · 19/12/2010 01:27

You could always go out and say, 'ooh I love snowball fights! You seem to be having great fun. So we've decided to join in!' (with a really sweet smile even though you do want to slap them).
Hopefully they will get embarrassed and scarper. If not then..fiiight!!

ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo · 19/12/2010 01:33

i like larajade's idea. the only thing is, i could forsee them coming back again and again to see how long you will play along before getting bored of them.

notinbed · 19/12/2010 01:37

If they're the sort who won't respond well to polite requests, then they're unlikely to respond any better to having dirty nappies thrown at them.

festiveflashingmammaries · 19/12/2010 01:38

have you got a pressure washer? being wet in this weather would be worse than being hit by a shitty nappy!

TitianTinselTemptress · 19/12/2010 01:41

YANBU - manky nappies all the way - but then I am too drunk to focus....