WIBU to say something to these teenagers

[cricketqueen]

I live next to a secondary school, my street isn't a through road and is the opposite side of the school from the entrance but teenagers sometimes walk down it, climb over the wall to get to school, normally not an issue.
However this morning I'm guessing they had a trip of some sort, and at half 5 me and 2yr old dd were woken up by a group of lads yelling at each other etc. I shut our windows to muffle the noise but 20 minutes later there were more of them gathered on our road yelling at each other and I could hear them clearly through the window.
I went outside and found them feeding seagulls on our car, so I told them off. I said they shouldn't be shouting at that time and the car wasn't their property etc. They left with a lot of grumbling and hand gestures.
My dh says I should have just left it but I think I did the right thing, although I will admit dd has been ill and I was up half the night with her so my tolerance was lower than normal. So wibu?

speaking from experience you leave yourself open to retaliation by speaking to them.

I resorted to taking a pic with my phone and emailing it to the school with m,y complaint - but this was after years of kids entering my back garden, damaging my fencing, destroying my flowers in the front garden, teasing my dog, throwing rubbish over the fence, shouting abuse, damaging the car...

Not unreasonable at all. I would also email/phone the school with as much detail as possible so that the kids start connecting being rude to/around you with school/teachers.

I think my husband is worried about them retaliating, a couple of years ago someone tried to set up a local youth group in the school hall but it just led to kids playing knock a door run and shoving rubbish through our letterbox so I think he reckons they will start that again. If it happens again I will email the school, I have complained before to them about the littering and graffiti on our road.

Alert the head of the school. If it's a half-decent school, the head will be concerned and take appropriate action. My DCs' former secondary school always had a teacher at the school gate in the morning and afternoon . . . and the head knew the vast majority of the students by name (not bad for a school over over 1,000 pupils).

I'd have probably not said anything but just emailed the school .