Posted on 05/26/2006 7:16:26 AM PDT by 54-46 Was My Number
Pinging the collective wisdom of Free Republic here . . .
The Issue
Punks are setting off "Bootleg Cracker" fireworks outside my home -slash- my neighbor's homes, beneath city-owned trees that line the sidewalk. These are the evil devices:
Now, they may not look like much in this picture, but they're about the size of a can of Pringles potato chips, and inside, they're stuffed with 200-250 firecrackers fused to go off within 2 to 3 seconds. So what you get is one big, elongated explosion, and since the city-owned trees are no more than 10 yards from our homes, what you get is one big, elongated explosion that sounds like it's coming from your living room.
And the little bastards are smart, too. Using cigarettes as delay devices, they place these things beneath the trees and are long gone when they go off. We've yet to catch someone in the act of leaving one behind . . . and since we can only rouse the cops to come to our neighborhood after one of these things goes off, there's nothing they can do to stop it from happening again.
It seems to happen between 1930-2100, intermittently, throughout the late spring, summer, and early fall. I would love to camo-up, hide out, and ambush these guys, but short of that,
I ask you, Freepers:
A couple of well-placed rattlesnakes usually are enough to get their FULL attention.
Ideally, you'd love to be able to convince them that you've served a lengthy prison term for manslaughter, and that rumor has it you keep severed human heads in your freezer. That isn't always easy, though -- and may result in some permanent damage to one's reputation. LOL.
True, but there's something particularly base and vile about human crap. Just knowing that someone went through the effort of using their own excrement as a weapon/deterrent goes a long way toward putting some real fear in people's minds over your mental stability.
Only if the ATF's budget needs a boost.
Obviously there are some new teenagers in your neighborhood. Wait until they start breaking in to your car or home! They'll get over it in a year or so, but that doesn't help matters. Another problem is parents who will not believe their little angles could do such mischief will verbally abuse you if you even suggest their involvement. I guarantee it is kids from your neighborhood.
The best suggestion so far.
Shotgun + Rocksalt (may) = jail time in some places.
You tag them with a paint ball gun there gonna be real easy to find.
I know what it's like to be a "young punk," and believe me -- the people we feared the most were the ones who never called the police.
I wasn't kidding. I am confident that it will work.
On second thought, it's a bad idea. The presumption that the perps are "home grown thugs" seriously diminishes the probability that they're cult members. I wouldn't advise anybody to lie to a federal official. However, the "home grown thugs" suspicion is consistent with neo-Nazis or skinheads; that probably would work as well.
Climb up in the tree with a big bucket of water and drop it on them when they come by. Summer trees should have lots of leaves to hide you and you can rig up all kinds of things. Put strings around that are attached to tin cans full of rocks, etc. Good luck...
Considering that these bombs can probably kill people, not to mention scaring the bejeezus out of entire neighborhoods, this is terrorism.
Be sure to have NRA decals on your windows and door.
If so,
The effect should be even funnier than this:
LOL!!!
Gee, the firecrakers must be a pain, all we have is gang-bangers spraying the neighborhood with 9mm fire.....
Good luck with the cameras, hopefully you'll get some good photos of the little SOBs.
This is a good idea. Also, perhaps get some motion sensored sprinklers that will go off when the kids move around on the lawn, or on your property.
Isn't that great? I had the same situation in my neighborhood.
Amazingly enough, soon after they all moved in the property theft around the area increased dramatically.
I caught one of the kids standing in my garage looking around one day. When I asked him what he was doing, he replied "just looking for someone to play with". He was a fairly young kid, so I didn't think too much of it at the time, so I just told him to stay out of my garage.
A few weeks later my garage door was busted in, my compound bow, a bunch of arrows, and a whole bunch of tools went missing.
My neighbors had bikes and tools stolen as well.
Oh, and they used the shack to put up their criminal buddies...after a while it appeared that 20+ people were crashing out there on a daily basis.
One time, I saw two of the "tenants" fighting right out in the middle of the road...they were actually KICKING each other because neither one of them would drop their beer to "Git 'er Done".
I'm not kidding.
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