Posted on 07/02/2010 1:52:25 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
Please forgive the partial vanity, but we are having a situation in our neighborhood which is growing troublesome. I wonder if other Freepers are experiencing the same thing.
As school lets out, there is always an uptick in petty mischief-- kids moving or rearranging lawn ornaments, banging on your door in the wee hours of the morning and running off and other such annoyances.
But this year seems to be especially bad because part-time jobs are few and kids have too much time on their hands.
We've had our door beat on multiple times per night lately, as have other neighbors. Another had an expensive lawn decoration stolen (not just moved as was the previous case), another had a window broken in their entrance door during another bang and run incident.
We're all getting fed up. Most of us are armed, some of us are military veterans.
It is a generally nice middle to lower middle class neighborhood, good school district and little of these type of problems in the past.
The cops come out and are sympathetic, take reports but say there is nothing they can do except step up patrols unless the perps are caught in the act.
Some of us have the idea of a curfew where the wayward youths would be fined just for being out after 10 p.m. or whatever we decide is a reasonable hour. I am leaning toward supporting our neighbors in getting such a measure passed as it would provide an automatic incentive (revenue) for enforcement. I can't think of anything else which might work under the circumstances.
Most of the neighborhood works and we don't have time to hide in the bushes with a shotgun or any other such solution.
I really don't understand the motivation of punks to do this sort of thing and, maybe if we could, we could come up with a better solution to curtail it.
Hook up an eyeball camera to your computer point it at your entryt way and record the punks.
Blow your top, and they keep coming. Ignore them - many stop. Kill them, they all stop (but then that creates other issues).
When I lived in NH one of my neighbors was being bothered like that. One night he went outside with a shotgun and fired off three rounds into the air, which brought everyone out running to see what happened. He was yelling “I CAUGHT THEM TOUCHING MY STUFF, THEY WERE RUNNING BUT I THINK I WINGED ONE.” and basically acting like a nutter. They stayed away after that.
if open carry is legal where you are, have as many people as possible carry while doing outside chores. gardening, mowing, weeding, washing the car.. whatever.
i make a visible display of owning guns, and the couple years we had hooligans, no one messed with my house or vehicles- altho they got just about everyone else on the block.
Video surveillance?
Motion detecting infrared cameras have come down significantly in price.
Hook it up to a PC or a VCR. Someone will recognize the hooligans. Once you’ve caught a few, make a very public example and the shenanigans will likely end.
I am sure must be annoying, but some uf us are dodging bullets and road rage and druggies on every corner and would love to go back to something this simple. Prehaps the Local church would be interested in starting a program for these kids before they graduate up to other problems. Mrs. easternsky
And then call their mothers at work.
20 lb. test fishing line trip wire, old car battery, 500 pack of Black Cats.
After they change underwear, the misguided youths will likely pick another place for the next misadventure.
BFLR .....BTTT !
Perhaps the neighborhood darlings can observe you sitting on the front porch cleaning your shotgun?
Remove anything that can be thrown through your windows.....
I know it’s pathetic but it must be done till they find another neighborhood to torment.
How about neighborhood watch. Men with large flashlights patrolling the streets in pairs for a couple of hours each night.
It’s legal to shoot firearems on your property in our neck of the woods.
There’s lots of plinking at cans during this time of the year.
We don’t have a problem with hooliganism.
Where do you live?
Gotta agree but include public beatings.
We saw an immediate uptick in burglary and
vandalism when the school year ended. Not
much available in the summer jobs market.
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
Everyone on this road has a practice range in the back yard. No problems here. The punks hang out around the snowbird subdivisions north of here, Big city refugees are easy prey.
Stealth 12 guage,1 round packed with coarse salt, give em about a 30 yard lead, and aim low, around their feet.
One application, they will leave the whole neighborhood alone.
Shotgun loaded with rock salt.
Neighborhood Watch.
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