Neighbourhood kids are swines

[McBear]

Think I need the hard hitting AIBU to tell me if I am being unreasonable.

So... We moved into a house three years ago in December. Since then, we have had to put up with...

• little shits kicking their football against the house constantly. All we hear is boom, boom and even if we put the tv on really loud, it is still in the background. The tv is mounted to this wall and shakes every time it gets hit.

• constant congregation between the end wall of my house and the council garages.

• DPs windscreen smashed

• my car had one kid (who is now in care but his 4 siblings aren't) run on the bonnet and roof of my car then roly poly off the boot. Scratched it while doing so. Both mine and DPs car have terrible bodywork because of them.

• one boys dad lifted up the fence panel into my back garden, let his son in to collect a ball and dropped it again. We have now paid 235 quid for all new fence panels and bolted them in so they can no longer do this.

• the front section of several bricks has fallen off/disintegrated because of constant ball kicks against it.

• my sky and virgin media wires have been pulled away from the wall by them.

• we had to pay for a fence around our front garden as they kept putting their fingers through my letterbox to tease my dog. He's a Rottweiler. He likes fingers

• there is currently a tennis racket belonging to one of them on the roof of my conservatory. We and he are lucky it didn't smash.

• last night one thug like little shit was leaning against my house. I asked him politely if he could not lean against my house. (I can't ask one group to not go anywhere near my house but accept another one leaning against it so out of fairness) he took the piss out of me and said 'that's jokes man'. He also had a cap placed on his head rather than fitted to his head. A small gust of wind would have blown it off. I told him he should just have respect.

• they've taken to climbing on the council garages opposite my house and have ripped off all the guttering meaning one wall now appears to have substantial damp.

• if I ask them to move they say ok but are back ten minutes later.

• they throw balls at my car out of spite.

-they say hello and are generally polite but also swear like navvys.

• they're almost all below the criminal age of responsibility.

• the police apparently can't put up a now ball games sign up as they can't police it and so can't put a sign up saying they will. Other streets a stones throw away have these signs.

Am I a miserable cow or would this piss you off?

How would you deal with it?

It would piss me off. Sounds like a job for your local 'safer neighbourhood team' or pcso.

Did you buy your house or rent?

I would move. I am so sorry

Local pcso or neighbourhood officer. We had similar problems. Log EVERYTHING - dates, times, descriptions. You have to turn into a bit of an irritating squeaky wheel
I kept reporting stuff, then one night lost the plot, got really angry and emailed every record over to them. It was pages upon pages. Life is a lot more peaceful now

Sounds a bit shit.. but what is 'leaning against my house'... how was that a problem?

i would also move if possible teach the Rotti to snarl etc at the annoying kids

The whole family sound like a nightmare. Can you move?

teach the Rotti to snarl etc at the annoying kids

"He also had a cap placed on his head rather than fitted to his head. A small gust of wind would have blown it off."

On this alone YANBU.

You will get the lentil knitters of Mumsnet coming on telling you to engage with them/invite them in for baked goods.

Stay solid, sistah.

Call your PCSO, safer neighbourhood team, log all incidents and report them.
Under no circumstances allow or teach your dog to snarl at these children. With recent changes to the laws governing dog ownership if he is 'felt' to be a menace or threatening in any way you could be in trouble.

I feel for you. We had problems with kids in this street for years. Luckily they've grown up and fucked off.

YANBU. Sounds awful.
But as Cedric says, you will get the oh-so-liberal posters coming on advising you to befriend the little darlings, possibly even invite them to come and live with you.

You'll probably also get flamed for calling them little shits even though that's quite clearly what they are

Yay. I thought I was just getting old and hateful of everyone. may still be true

Yeah he wasn't causing a problem leaning on the wall but I've spent the last three years telling all the other kids not to go near my house so felt it was unfair to not ask him the same respect. There's a council wall he can lean on opposite anyway

It's five families. There are 5 kids in one house (4 now one in care) 3 in another, 4 I'm the other and there's a Romanian family across the road that I can't work out how many kids actually live there. They are more guilty by association and haven't done anything bad so don't really count.

It's bloody owned isn't it so we can't just up and leave. We have both improved our credit rating massively but the house still needs work AND we can't afford more of a mortgage due to our massive Childcare bills

When we first moved in, I was a bit lentily and tried all that shit. They're just plain evil... E.V.I.L

So many times I wanted to move from here because the kids on here were vile. You have my sympathy x

It's funny though as there is one family who feels they are far better than everyone else (they really aren't) and make it clear. Their youngest son plays with them sometimes and he just looks down on everyone. Even me. His nose is permanently turned up. He gets it from his mum. His dads pretty nice.

Re the dog, Rotts are natural guard dogs so he's there barking at the door before I can react. When the neighbour let his son under the fence out biggest comment was how could you do that when you know the dog could be lose in there.

Could you grow something thorny/bushy up the side of your house that makes kicking a ball against it/leaning on it a lot less fun.

I've seen those hats. It transcends the balancer to new levels of gobshitedness. For that alone I'd have called the police.

YY TSSDNCOP! If you cover the wall with spiky trellis with a lot of nails and sharp wire ends sticking out even if the little buggers trash the cheap climbers you plant at the bottom the wall will still be useless for bouncing purposes!

It's all this gangster walk/stupid hats/fam, safe, wagwan/trousers not covering arse shit that I can't stand.

We are not in the mean streets of Brooklyn etc.

We've grown a thorny bush around the front garden behind the fence but can't do anything at the side of the house. It's block paving.

Why don't you give up work and open a youth centre for them?
Eh? Eh?

YANBU. I'm stressed just reading that. Hopefully you'll get good practical advice from people who've been through this.

Yes you could OP. Grow them in low troughs. Stuff like that grows like stink.

Or a row of conifers in tubs.

You have all my sympathy OP and if you can move house, do. I lived in a place where I had a window broken almost every single day for two years. Couldn't sell my house as how do you sell a house with broken windows?

Council can put up a no ball games sign for you :) maybe speak to local housing as to the anti social behaviour going on and maybe cctv forthe cars ?

God they sound bloody awful. We had hideous neighbours for a while and I ended up sleep deprived and incredibly stressed out. You are handling it better than I would. There is good advice on here re logging it all but I don't expect that things will move quickly. Where are the useless parents?