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?

BogQueen

There is this box you can fit that emits a noise only kids can here. It's irritating to them but they don't know why.
I don't know if they're available to the general public though.

*hear

Parents:

Family one: mum only. Unsure if all have same dad. She 'can't' work. I hear her scream 'I wish you were never born' etc at them. Once I saw her in a loving embrace with the one in care until he touched her bum and she called him a sick perv and started shouting again. She teaches them anger and violence is wrong using... Wait for it... Anger and violence. I used to try and help her. She was stressed and needed a break but now they are all in school so she does get a rest.

Family 2: live in a street next to mine. Both parents work and seem reasonable. The dads car is literally stuck together with masking tape. Always makes me laugh. All their kids seem to be a few slices short of a full loaf.

Just remembered. DP had the name of the girls from family one and two scratched onto his bonnet. They are called Chelsea and it was done the night Chelsea played a big game. DP purchased his car with an arsenal tax disc holder. He doesn't blame them. I'm unsure.

Family three: apparently their mum used to live in my house. I doubt it knowing some of the history of the house but it may have been while it was still a council house in the 70s. Their mum has never met me but knows her daughters talk to me as I have given her something my work makes and her mum passed on a thank you. This girl has knocked on my door and asked to come in to stroke my dog before she knew I had DD/watch a film with DD. She only moved in a few weeks ago. I told her she shouldn't ask ppl this. She has no concept that it could be dangerous. Apparently her mum has 'a million' boyfriends. Her older brother is a shit.

Family four: the dad whose kid lifted the fence. Little boy asked my neighbour (over 60) if she could pull her trousers down so he could lick her fanny. Parents seem nice but two daughters are argumentative little shits who back chat everytime I say stop kicking the ball here. Little boy allegedly plays for Leicester city youth team and has to do 100 kick ups a day. He can't do this outside his own house. We are nowhere near Leicester.

Family five: at least three sets of adults in the house. Last time they were all out I counted ten kids. Discovered two more yesterday when one lent against he house. Parents don't speak English well. Drive beautiful bmws. One exactly the same as mine but newer and two 5 series that are old but incredible.

Gamer is that a joke?????

No it really exists.

There is a box, not sure if it only works on adolescents though (and suspect it can't be bought at Maplins).

Does it have a name I can google? This is crazy.

No it's true, a couple of the local shops around here use them to make the teenagers piss off

www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/security-equipment/mosquito-mk4-anti-loitering-device

The noise box is called "The Mosquito" the local primary school has one, it goes on at 4pm every night to keep the teenagers in the park next door away from their premises (low rooves) and getting in - it works.

My neighbour had one of those to get rid of cats drove my kids nuts as they could hear it and was on all night

it sounds awful

im not so patient op

i would be out there like a fishwife,or round the parents

i do understand that what i would do is not for everybody

So what have all the parents said about it?

They are all 8/9/10 years?

Playing classical music really pisses off anti-social people, too! I remember reading that somewhere.

I was about to thank you for that amazing bit of kit until I saw the price £474!!!

Still tho!

The last time I went round the mums of family one we had a massive argument, she started crying and we had a heart to heart. It helped for a while. One family said they'll talk to their kids but don't believe their kids are the problem. Others have said basically the same actually and I'm not sure where the girl who invites herself in lives.

A small few (3) are about 14/15

Everyone else is in primary school

Keep reporting to the council, to Safer Neighbourhoods and logging all incidents.

Short of planting poison ivy where they damage your property, I'm not sure what you can do, sorry OP :(

Is there anywhere nearby (not on your house) where you could get a basketball hoop put up? At least then they might hang around that with the ball some of the time.

Family four: the dad whose kid lifted the fence. Little boy asked my neighbour (over 60) if she could pull her trousers down so he could lick her fanny.

What the actual fuck!

Jfc, they all sound awful.

Grow gorse in tubs alongside your house?

If the mossie thing works that would be amazing for you!

Fucking hell it sounds like somewhere I used to live, are you in nottingham op

www.doctorgreenfingers.co.uk/Gardening_Records_Archives/Garden_security.html

Get prickly climbers growing up the side of your house. In a few really heavy troughs. You can make these really cheaply with long decking boards.

surely £474 would be a small price to pay for your sanity back?