To have wanted to punch these teenagers

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Walking home down a alleyway group of about 6 aged between 14 and 15 years old thought it was funny to throw stones at me twice. I turned around and just shook my head wwyd.

Little buggers where laughing

I’d have done, and felt, the same as you.

I would have lost my shit at them but I understand why you wouldn’t want to confront them.

That's a pretty common reaction to teenagers I think.

Hopefully someone will see them who knows their parents and tells them. I'd be mortified to know my child was behaving like that. I'd do my nut!

Maybe I'd even call the police to tell them? I mean what if they do that to someone elderly and hurts them?

It's just not nice is it bullying members of the public.

I just don't wanna get involved with them I really can't be done with that type of shit I mean if I call the police it may aggravate them and the police won't give 2 hoots.

If your safety is at stake then just removing yourself to safety is the most important thing - but yes, I would feel as you do.

You could have tried getting your phone out as if to phone the police - but it is easy to think of these things after the event. Do you have some sort of alarm on your phone?

Not quite the same but I did once sound off in a big way at a group of teenage boys from the local private cathedral school - they were mimicking the accent of an east European Big Issue seller. I told them their parents would be bloody ashamed of them - amongst other more colourful things!

Really infuriating, OP. And I bet they are just the sort to scream 'Paedophile' to anyone who so much as looks at them, never mind throwing a stone back! (Not advocating that by the way!)

It's a no-win situation - some teenagers just live for the opportunity to annoy people and you just have to hope they'll grow out of it.

I had some (younger) teenagers throw sticks at me from a bridge once. I had been forewarned by a fellow jogger who just gone under the bridge. I was not in a particularly good mood and not really inclined to put up with this behaviour. So when they throw a stick at my head I picked it up and hurled (fairly hard) a couple back at them - they were shocked I retaliated. Admittedly I could get away as they were stuck on a bridge.

Could be good to throw them back

I had a teenager driving irresponsibility around our social club car park and very nearly ran into my two children. Even though there was a gang of them, most on bikes I absolutely lost my nut. Never been so angry in my life and acted so out of control shouting at him. He immediately turned into a small child and had no idea how to handle the situation or what to say, he just kept saying sorry and his mates ran away laughing. I was upset after that I had upset him, but it also made me realise that they are probably not as intimidating as they seem if faced with a real adult situation.

I'm not suggesting you should have done that by the way. I'd have reacted exactly as you did to that, unless they had thrown the stones at my kids. Then I imagine I'd have picked up a concrete slab and lobbed it at their faces Al la the Hulk!

Username if my children had of been involved then I most certainly would have gave them what's for.

I would have filmed them and put it on local facebook