To be p'eed off

[Andysgirl15]

I'll try and make this as short as possible.

Anyway for the last 6/7 month me and OH have had groups of teenagers hanging outside our property every night and I mean every night. I wouldn't mind usually but there are anything from 6-20 of them and they are really noisy. We live in a maisonette which is accessed by outside steps which are quite 'hidden' but they are also at the side of a shop which the teenagers love as they can climb onto the roof of it. They sit there smoking, taking drugs, ahem having Sex, drinking, plotting to beat people up and the list goes on. My DD bedroom backs onto the steps and she's only 2 but she likes to stand on her bed and look out the window which is where I'm assuming she picked up spitting from, watching them. She's learnt swear words from them and I know she can hear them as me and DP can. I've tried being nasty and nice, honestly the last time I was nice they threw eggs at my windows, they threw a full can of pop at my door 2 seconds after I shut it and at the time I was 39 weeks pregnant with DS, they have even thrown glass bottles at my windows.

I really am at my wits end, I called the council and fuck all was done, police the same. All the council did was install a camera about 2 football field sizes away from my house like that is going to catch anything, I've applied to move but was put in the lowest band so I'm stuck here for years. Me and OH work hard to provide a decent life for our children and we have to put up with this. I feel really intimidated, I won't go out without DP and DD can't play in the garden as I'm frightened they will throw something that could seriously injure her. There must be something else i can do??? Legally or by myself

I really need some insight here

Yes, need them to move on. Try classical music - something somber or operatic. It apparently works very well. Mahler or Chopin might do the trick. Or just go and explain about your little one trying to sleep and ask them to move?

I'd get a water pistol and squirt them every time they are doing something they shouldn't

My grandad did this with a water hose when some were terrorising my nan and was actually warned by the police that he could have been arrested if the teens pressed charges

I guess I was technically a " tearaway teen" or whatever you wanna call it, the fact was I was just hanging around with my friends on the street they lived on about 5-6 of us there were two parks, one right next to a busy main road and another was full of young children. We would just talk and have a laugh and the boys play "football" which was essentially kicking the ball to each other, no drinking, no drugs etc but the community support officers still came or police and took names on a little form or something, strangely it was generally only the boys who got theirs taken. No idea what that was for. I don't really understand if they came to "deal" with us why you aren't getting help.

One other thing to consider if you were gonna video them, if they are teens and having sex would that not land you in trouble them being under 18?

I live if your in school and causing trouble outside of school and your found out you are immediately expelled

Where do people dream this shit up?

Yup, no school expels a child automatically for getting in trouble outside school. Or at least not if they want to obey the law.

If they are genuinely causing trouble to you ie harrassing you, throwing things you, trying to hurt you etc then I'd personally go to the police and tell them and make a huge deal out of it. Exaggerate. Tell them they're threatening you etc. If they're just being annoying then you could put smelly stuff out where they are - do it often enough & they'll soon leave you alone. My aunt's favourite trick at her council house was cooking with fermented fish whenever the idiots ganged up outside and eventually they left.