...To be able to enjoy a walk in the evening

[Ripeberry]

In our Cul-de Sac there is a big house at the entrance and there are 5 kids aged between 9 and 16yrs old.
They have an enormous trampoline in the front garden and sometimes there can be up to 15 kids there of all ages from 5yrs to 18yrs.
Just really annoys me that if we walk past that house (which we have to pass to go anywhere) we are met with a barrage of abuse and foul language and sometimes the parents can be sitting there on the steps watching it all and saying nothing!
In this warm weather it is so annoying not being able to walk anywhere, even driving they like to stand out in the road and dare you to go past them.
Have any of you got problems like this and how do you deal with it?
I'm fed up of being a prisoner in my own home.
AB

why does it bother you? tell the kids to wash their mouths out and say good evening to the parents.

what would happen if you just ignored them

Just worried that if i ignored them they would get even nastier but then i suppose if they hit me or anything i could call the police.
Just more worried at what i would do to them to be honest. They are all just morons.
AB

i'd just ignore them. they sound awful but don't let them stop you going out in the evening.

I know how you feel we have a similar problem, where i live there are 5 private house at the end we live at and at the other end there are about 10 housing association properties.

The HA house nearest us is rented by a mechanic who runs his own business and we have had a lot of probelms with him parking cars every where half blocking the entrance to our houses.

He used to stand at the back of the car he would be working on with his arms crossed as if daring you, i would just drive at him and into our drive.

The housing ass must have insisted that he finds somewhere else to work as this probelm as now gone.

As for the children they ride their bikes etc up and down from one end to the other shouting at each other, this dosen't
bother me during the day as it quite and at least they are playing somewhere safe, and i ignore for the most part. But after 7pm (when dd has gone to bed) i don't see why i should have to listen to them and quite often tell them to go and play outside their own house, to be told their parents don't want to hear them screaming and shouting. After me telling them to go generally they stop playing outside our house.

I think it best to ignore for the main part.

isnt this classed as anti social behaviour? I would possibly try having a word with the parents if they ignore it report them a word from a community police officer would probably sort it.