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

[doublechocchip]

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??

"Don't believe everything you read int he redtops "

was that in response to my list? Probably not probably being paranoid.

But my post was not from things I've heard or read. But from the life I lived growing up in a vile cesspit of horribleness called Bolsover.

The guinea pigs belonged to our next door neighbour. The cat was ours. the ducklings were stray (the people below us had ducks but just left them when they moved)

We had windows put through regularly. One time the van was just driving off after replacing the glass when the window was put through again.

Gangs of youths loitered around the shop on the estate and would hurl abuse at you as you went past.

The youths were terrifying. Really evil little shits who would NOT have responded well to being challenged. All your windows would have been put through and you'd probably have got your head kicked in.

I would never advise anyone to say anything without first ascertaining what the situation is like where they are.

:( Hec

'the life I lived growing up in a vile cesspit of horribleness called Bolsover.'

isn't Dennis Skinner the MP for Bolsover? known as the Beast of Bolsover. You have my sympathy.

Yes he is. He is not the sharpest pencil in the case, but is not a bad bloke as it happens. He at least tries to represent bolsover instead of working hard to feather his nest, like most mps...

But Bolsover, well, imagine the uk as a person. Bolsover (I've said it before!) is an infected boil on a haemorrhoid sticking out of the arse of this country!

Hec - poor you and sad about your poor cat :(. No kids anywhere have an excuse for that behaviour. It's like one of my recent patients was chased off his estate cos he was a)romany + b)disabled. And his kids were abused for being too nice!?!

Some people are just scum.

The person who killed most of the ducklings was about 5 at the time.

He grew up to be a very horrible person who, I believe, spends most of his time at her majesty's pleasure.

Sad thing is, we predicted it. You could just see it. Even at that age. Poor kid never stood a chance.

Along with many others from that estate.

YANBU.I'm sorry you're having to put up with such behaviour from those tossers.

"Most yoofs, in my experience, will respond to politeness and reason."

Not in my experience, even when the yoof in question is my two doors up neighbour's teenage son. Lovely family (really!) he is just awful though and try to explain to him him that some of his stunts are actually dangerous (amongst other things he tied a rope across the street) does bring the following:

• it encourages him to start again as soon as you turn your back just to get back at you for daring telling him off

• turn him into a swearing animal

• as a "retaliation" he started a "kncck and run" campaign where for weeks (summer holiday) there was knocking on my doors ever 10-15 minutes obviously no one was ever there. Even though I was not going to the door every time, the "ennoyance factor" worked really well!

Times like this I really wish I had a stash of dirty nappies too!

Hec, I also live on what is apparently "one of the worst estates in Europe" (I actually disagree with this as I live on a very nice street, but hey ho...)

And I second -
I would never advise anyone to say anything without first ascertaining what the situation is like where they are.

"They're just kids having a bit of fun!

Nah..they're litte shites with no imagination.

I never needed to do that kind of thing as a kid...whaat if they did it to my Nan? Or yours? Would you think they were just kids having fun then?

Chuck cold water at them.

Sorry, badly x-posted!

Hecate this is truely shocking!

I think the people who think that teenagers will stop their behaviour if asked must be very, very lucky with where they live and the experiences they must have had. I live in a fairly decent area but even so I know that most teenagers when challenged (by a woman anyway) will resort to name calling, being cocky, coming back for revenge attacks, etc. The only thing that I have found that works is fear of someone bigger/stronger than them. I was in Asda the other night and a gang of teens were mucking around and being stupid. I was putting something in the trolley and one of the little darlings said something horrible about me (no, I'm no model, but even so, shouldn't have to put up with name calling!) as they were all walking past. Of course the rest laughed. I ignored them, but suddenly heard "What did you just say?" My husband had appeared from another aisle, who is 6 foot 4 and built like a tank. The kid tried to keep up the bravado but the colour drained from his face, his friends slunk away, and you could tell he was terrified he was about to be knocked out, and he made a pretty sharpish exit from the store! Actually my husband is a gentle giant and of course wouldn't assault a teenager, but I do think sometimes these horrors need someone bigger and stronger than them to stand up to them and show them that they are not at the top of the food chain, as it were. Another time my parents only stopped getting kids knocking on their door and running away every evening when my brother, aged about 20, was home from university and ran after them one night. He didn't catch them (which is good because he wouldn't have known what to do if he had and a group of them against just him could have been nasty!) but being chased that time stopped them from doing it again. So while I in no way condone violence or aggression, I do think that sometimes these little yobs need to learn a lesson. Unfortunately these days it's probably not worth standing up to them no matter how big/strong etc you are, because they could be carrying weapons.

Sims2 I think that's a very sound post. The idea of consequences is a foreign one to many many people.

Hec your post made me cry esp about your cat, so sad.

It was (still is but thank god I don't live there any more!) a horrible place.

There are some good people there.

But the good people keep their heads down while the shits go round making all the noise, so you'd be forgiven for thinking the whole place was populated by walking sacks of shit.

Of course, this thread is not about how horrible bolsover is and I've forgotten what my point was .

YANBU. I used to live in a large block flats and there was one person who used to pull into the drive at 1am and honk to make his friend come out. He woke the whole building up each time. Attempts to ask him not to were not well received. A stack of dirty nappies was always my fantasy retort as well. (I loved the idea of one falling smack on his windscreen delighted me!)

Firing an air rifle would be quite effective. Letting off loud fireworks might have the same effect.

Personally I'd go for a hand grenade.