AIBU to hate the parents across the street?

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Not all of them, just the one house. Every time it snows, their little brat starts throwing balls of ice and snow at the front windw of our house. He actually managed to crack the pane. Ny mother went outside to ask him to stop doing that and where were his parents. The boy didn't say anthing but pointed at the house at the end of the street where his father was watching from the doorway. The father proceeded to scream that he was only having fun and that it was none of her business! This same boy has also broken an ustairs window in the past which had to be replaced? Surely it's not just harmless fun when there is damage to property?

Give them the bill for the broken window and see how much fun father thinks it is then.

Having fun is OK, damaging others property is not.

I'm sure lots of children would love to be given paint and be allowed to run free decorating the neighbourhood - but there not for a reason

You are not being unreasonable the father sounds like an idiot and a very useless role model to allow his child to break other peoples windows then shout at your mother he's having "fun" ffs what an arse! Its great to encourage fun and play but throwing snow and ice balls at peoples windows is not on...

Presumably it would be OK for you to go and throw snowballs at their windows then?

I mean you'd only be having fun .... right?

How old is the boy? If someone was damaging my property apprently on purpose I would call the police. If the child is too young to be held responsible in law I would maybe speak to the local CSO to see if they could put a stop to this sort of anti social behaviour.

I had the same problem before christmas. They were throwing snowballs at our house constantly for half an hour. DH asked them to stop and it made it worse. The woman accross the road was stood outside, DH asked her if there was anything he could do and all she said "only one of them is mine and he's stopped now". I called the police (not 999, but just a non-emergency number) later on and got a crime ref number. I e-mailed the council and gave the addresses of the couple of houses I knew were definately doing it (there were more, but I didnt know them all). I took pictures of the house and made it known I would be complaining. We are pretty much left alone now, although stones (well pebbles) are a common source of throwing items.

If I were you Id take a picture of the window and press charges for damage. They wont think its funny then will they.

Are you in UK? Write to the council, its anti-social behaviour and they could get into trouble.

YANBU to hate a particular household, after all you dont choose your neighbours. I hate the 2 households I was talking about before. Unfortunately for me they dont do enough to be thrown out or for me to be able to move

Good luck

sorry anything she* could do

YANBU. I'm sure they wouldn't be ignoring the issue if someone had broken one of their windows...

The father ibu. I hope you gave him the bill. I'd be tempted to go out and snowball him right back, just having fun, you know.

Actually it's criminal damage and I would call the police. It's why you pay tax.