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To think kids should not be having a water fight at 9:20pm 😡

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Trialsmum · 05/08/2018 21:28

They don’t even live on our street, they live on the next one along but they are using their street, our street and the next street from us with our street being some sort of middle ground. They’re literally screaming and swearing (one lovely boy just shouted ‘fucking wankers’, they’re all smaller than ds who is 9...).

There are no children on our street other than ds who is away this week and a brand new baby across the road, there are however lots of old people at least one of whom has dementia and one who is in and out of hospital.

Dh has to be up to go to the team station at 4:45 so we were intending to have an early night. I know I should go and tell them to go away but they are not nice kids and there is a massive group of them. They run along side our car when we drive past staring and run in front of it, they stick their fingers up at ds as they go past him or swear at him so I don’t know what they might do if we anger them. We’ve never done anything to bother them so far and that’s how they act towards us!

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Trialsmum · 05/08/2018 21:29

Train not team 🙈

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MairyHole · 05/08/2018 21:34

They don't sound nice at all, but 9.30pm is not late to be creating noise so I don't think you can tell them to be quiet just because you want an early night.

kierenthecommunity · 05/08/2018 21:37

It’s the school holidays. Unbutton a bit.

(Although I would have gone out and asked who was shouting the swear words and if he kissed his mother with that mouth)

MyKingdomForBrie · 05/08/2018 21:39

I would have to move if I had a pack of kids swearing at my child in his own street.. I wouldn't want that kind of screaming and swearing outside my house at any time of day so I do feel for you. They'll go in when it's dark.

TresDesolee · 05/08/2018 21:39

Sounds a pain for your DH, i’d be cross if I were him. This weather puts a bit of a strain on neighbourly relations I think cos all the windows are open, everyone’s outdoors. I spent the early evening listening to next door’s young grandchildren moaning, crying and arguing a couple of feet away from my head while I was trying to read my book in the shade. Now my two (teenagers) are gaming and shouting/laughing - have just told them to close the windows. Roll on winter when we can all go months without hearing our neighbours!

That said, the rest of the behaviour you describe makes them sound like rude little scrotes.

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Trialsmum · 05/08/2018 21:47

I get that it’s the school holidays, there’s music and shouting coming from that street all the time in the day, but that’s fair enough. But I do think 9:30 is night time. Ds would be in bed if he was here and the baby across the road must be, I suspect at least some of the old people are too. Our street is lovely, small and usually quiet, but this summer the kids from the other street have taken over. My car has also been scratched twice at handlebar height when parked on the road which it sometimes needs to be ☹️. If they want to scream they should at least go and scream outside their own houses. It’s definitely not my job to go and tell them off for swearing, it’s their parents, they’re really little kids!

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TresDesolee · 05/08/2018 21:50

Can you ask the local PSO to come and have a word? If they’re really small, someone in police uniform might be enough to scare them away for good!

3rdrockfromthesun · 05/08/2018 21:51

I think 9.30pm is late regardless of whether it is the holidays. I think parents always forget that life still goes on with people having to work and get up early. Yeah it is nice children are out playing but 9.30 is late

MairyHole · 05/08/2018 21:52

9.30pm is late for children under 9 to be out, definitely. But if a neighbour were playing loud music at 9.30pm... that's not night time for most people.

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Trialsmum · 05/08/2018 21:54

@TresDesolee that’s not a bad idea, my BIL is a policeman, maybe he’d pop by if he’s out and about on duty next time!

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NorthernSpirit · 05/08/2018 21:54

Charming language from a less than 9 year old. And yes it’s too late. A child that age should be in bed. Just because it’s the holidays do the parents forget that people have to go to work etc or maybe don’t want to listen to their badly behaved children?!

formerbabe · 05/08/2018 21:56

I know I should go and tell them to go away but they are not nice kids

Why should you do this? Why can't your husband?

IceCreamFace · 05/08/2018 21:59

9:30pm is definitely too late for kids to be having a water fight out on the street, especially when it isn't even their own street. I don't care if it's the school holidays.

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Trialsmum · 05/08/2018 22:01

@formerbabe, I just said ‘I’ because I was writing the post, either of us ‘could’ have done.

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Trialsmum · 05/08/2018 22:02

Anyway, the pp who said they’d go in when it got dark was right, they’ve gone now, 2 hours after they started.

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Rebecca36 · 05/08/2018 22:14

I don't think children should be playing in the street at all, presumably they have back gardens. I'd have no objection to kids having a water fight in the garden, shrieking but not swearing.

youarenot · 05/08/2018 22:20

Lucky, I still have 5-8 year olds outside playing and using the most disgusting language! 2 of mine have been asleep 3 hours or so and the other almost about an hour - they keep him awake, even if i close windows (too hot tonight for that unfortunately)

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Trialsmum · 06/08/2018 10:32

Hope they went away eventually @youarenot. You have to wonder what some parents are thinking letting their kids stay out til that time?!

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