A gang of teenagers sitting on my wall - AIBU

[Thesearepearls]

A lovely Sunday afternoon. I live opposite a reservoir and sometimes (quite often) the reservoir carpark gets full so they all park outside my house.

This isn't a problem. I don't mind - the reservoir is lovely and everyone should be able to enjoy walking around it.

It's just today there was a gang of teenagers. Sitting on my wall - which I am peculiarly fond of given that I built the thing with the builders - lumping great big pieces of stone. It's not like they were doing any harm to the wall. It's just that I felt my space was invaded.

They were loud obnoxious sweary and drinky. After an hour of this I decided they'd taken up residence. So i went to ask them to go away. I told them they were loud obnoxious sweary and drinky and to bugger off because I didn't like hearing their voices.

I have turned into a cross between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Clarkson haven't I? But seriously I really didn't like hearing their shouting. To be fair to them, they went more or less straight away. They left a couple of empty cans which I tidied away. They really were not that bad. I could have put up with it. Except I really didn't want to.

I'd hate that, I'd have probably taken the woosy way of watering my garden badly!

You need to spread some particularly smelly compost or something on the flower bed right next to the wall.

Chicken manure and fish-based fertiliser is particularly suitable

i did have the hosepipe on (no hosepipe ban here and the lawn was looking thirsty) and I could have moved it a fraction. Just a fraction.

Now I am worried that I have antagonised a teenage gang of some sorts but they weren't at all like that. A teenage gang would have laughed in my face rather than look a bit embarrassed and shuffle off.

Get cheapo water sprinkler (Amazon not garden centre rip off priced one). Place near Wall & as soon as you get 'visitors' turn on for 2mins. (hosepipe ban not kicked in yet to my knowledge)

Nah, you are fine. Good they went straight away. They were thoughtless.

IME you get an instinct for who is going to give you problems, and who is just a bunch of lairy friends who have forgotten their manners for a while.

I have teen boys and I really hope they wouldn't be thoughtless like this, but if they were I'd like an adult to tell them clearly but not aggressively. I do that if it feels safe to do so.

TBH I've had more mouth from girls than boys ('old bitch' was a highlight)

Your wall, your property, your rules. You don't have to let anyone sit there you don't want to be there. End of. Well done you for telling them to bugger off

I’ve got a fence so I avoid this but if they could it would annoy me. It would wind my dogs up too. I’d probably let them out in the front garden and hope they moved before they realised the idiots would just roll over for a belly rub

A gang? Were they sporting gang tats or bandanas? Or do you mean a group of teenagers?

:) I have a dog too and he went straight into "I AM THE DEFENDER" mode aka barking constantly. Clearly if any one of the teenagers had actually opened the gate and walked in, the dog would have instantly rolled over to have his tummy tickled.

I do actually love seeing this mock indignation turn into instant "Well how are you, welcome to the house, I know where all the nice things are, shall I show you the catshit?"

They were just thoughtless. You tolerated them for a while, then, when you asked them to move, they did.
All good.

See what you should have done is worn your shortest shorts, a pair of ugly boots, and skimpiest top, put a baseball cap on backwards and gone out to join them using your very best middle class voice:

"Yo! Where's it happening man! Like where's the vibe? Whose like holding the dope sisters and brothers? Let's get some cool tunes vibing bitches and like go with the flow.....chill time kids"

They would have run a mile.......as to be honest would I.

Gang - informal - "A group of people, especially young people, who regularly associate together"

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Is have asked them to bugger off sooner 😂 that'd really piss me off to have ppl sitting on my property! X

ROFL at viques getting down with the kids solution

You're fine, you handled it exactly right and the teens also sound decent enough.

The hosepipe jokes always crank up on threads like this. They're as predictable as rain on a bank holiday.

You did exactly right though. The teens won't hold anything against you.

viques

"Gang" is quite a loaded term when used in conjunction with teenagers though, isn't it?

Blast them with radio 3 or possibly 4

Sorry just to clarify my use of the word "gang". I meant gang in the sense of group not in the sense of drugs/mad stuff. Clearly the group in question might be into drugs/mad stuff but given that they shuffled off directly I'd given them a bollocking I suspect they are not hard core :)

opera sung very badly

My dear departed relative decided that the best way to deal with the yoofs sitting on his garden wall was to wave an air rifle at them from his front door. They soon scarpered!

Viques

I would’ve played classical music full blast

I had a group of kids sitting on my wall recently, annoyed me a bit as they watched me reverse on to my drive and didn't scarper, so were clearly "staking their claim" to that spot. I told them in my best worried mum voice "ooh I wouldn't sit there if I were you, the foxes piss on it at night, it will smell something terrible on your clothes." They couldn't move fast enough after that and haven't been back.

Loud classical music is the best way to clear anywhere of teenagers. Wagner works well.