Kids keep knocking on our door

[gordan]

Hi kids keep knocking on our door and running. It’s happened a few times in the last few weeks. Not only that but someone three food in our recycling can bin and before that half eaten food. We called the council who said we should call the police. Last night at 10 pm some kids knocked and ran. It’s really annoying and irritating. I called 101 and told them it has happened a few times. The police said it’s not enough to go to the neighbourhood police team. Are there any grants or charity where we can put covert cctv to catch the kids. We had outdoor knocked several times last year but we didn’t call the police and then it stopped. WE just feel so helpless.

Anyway you can add a motion detector on your door or a ring door bell so you can record them?

Get your own camera. I think it’s a bit mad to ask if the council will provide, above and beyond!

Wow I really feel for you but the council won’t have grants available for you to use cctv to catch someone ringing your doorbell!

Kids like playing chap door & run, it's annoying but not much you can do. Don't react or let them know you are bothered or you'll be targeted big style.

I would have thought the main thing is to not answer. And turn off the door bell.

Unless you have a dog which barks I would ignore. And if I had a dog I would turn up volume on tele so it doesn't hear. It's a summer prank of light evenings I think so shouldn't go on too long.

Well you aren’t helpless.

Either do nothing. Ignore it all completely, and bore them to death in which case they will stop.

Or catch them either by recording them with cctv or with your phone by standing unseen somewhere. Or the old Skool method or hiding in a bush and scaring them off. Which might make it more fun for them. Depends how scary you are!

Really? Children have been playing it for years, my grandmother did it in the 1930s. It's a game , annoying but that is all. Certainly doesn't require police intervention unless you have a massive drip feed

Stop answering, if you don't open the door and look around they will just get bored of knocking your door. They are looking to get you up out of yoour chair and looking outside for a laugh.

Just stop opening the door. It will soon get boring for them. Do you have a spyhole to look through so you can check if there's someone actually at the door?

Check and see if they have a mobile set up recording from across the road. I was watching from an upstairs window last week and some teens were across the road from my house and kept looking at it, then I saw them set up a mobile phone on the pavement to record and they knocked on our door, ran round the corner for a while then came back for the phone to see if they’d filmed anything. As id seen them I didn’t go to the door. If you look on YouTube quite a lot of kids doing this and uploading the videos.

The kids up the street did it to me last week. I was actually in my bedroom so quickly got up to look out the window to see who it was (usually chuggers) and saw the lad leg it up the road, obviously I didn't answer. He came back a few mins later and said to his friends "did she even open the door?" When they said no he kinda flopped down on the kerb all dejectedly. Never did it again. I know how annoying it is as they did it more often last year and it makes my dog bark, if I knew they were going to do it (they're never quiet about it) I'd stand at the door and open it straight away letting my dog out. (Harmless but it gives them a shock) It's fun to see the bluster for a reason why they're in the garden

Put up one of those fake cameras. It doesn't warrant full on CCTV.

Why on earth would a charity provide CCTV for knock a door run???

Cctv grant...?

someone threw food in our recycling can bin and before that half eaten food

And? Put it somewhere inaccessible if you don’t want this to happen, otherwise you have to accept it. It’s a better alternative than it being dropped on the pavement.

Just ignore them, they get bored and don't bother again.

knock back ? This is what dh did when kids kept knocking on our door.

You could put a fake cctv camera in your window if you can't afford a real one 💁🏻‍♀️. A small black box of some kind.

Hi I live with my elderly parents in their house atm. Five years ago we had our door kicked in at 3 am. Then it happened a month later at nine pm. It happened a few times. We had our car window bricked in. The police only came that first time. Then they wouldn’t come. We asked councillor who said that we should live with it. No one else has been targeted like this. We then got the mp but all that happened was the police visited us. And since then kids on and off knock on our door. Once again it’s no one else getting this treatment by the kids. It causes my parents anxiety and I have depression. So the answer is that it’s not simple door knock and run for us. That’s why I asked if any charity can help on behalf of my parents.

is there a window above the door? lurking with a bucket of dirty water would be quite satisfying...

you dont need charity help. you need the police to have a word with the bastards who have bred these little bastards.

We called it chickymelly

Put a sign up saying 'smile, you're on cctv'
That will probably stop it.
They'll grown bored soon and grow and discover diamond white in the park.

The police says they can’t do anything unless we have cctv . The police on non emergency line said if you get cctv and look at whose doing it then you can chat to the parents. Didn’t seem to understand parents are elderly and I have back problems. No wonder country is going down the toilet

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I don't think young kids could kick in the door. The previous incidents were horrible but I would say the door knockers now are a different bunch as a different generation.
If they are only knocking now you have to learn to ignore.
If they are smashing up your car and smashing your door in you can go to the papers which might get something done but it sounds as if that is in the past and you need not to dwell on it although I can imagine your parents being anxious about it. Any chance of a house move?

If your door is weak enough to be reoeatedly kicked in, if nothing else you need a stronger door.