We had a problem with this for a while and it freaked my wife out cuz I traveled a lot.
So one night I am home and it happens. It’s dark out but I can see probably 5 boys roughly 12-15 years old down the street maybe 6 driveways away. I opened my garage, grabbed a hockey stick and sprinted towards them. It was pretty fucking funny because you could tell they were absolutely not expecting it.
They bolted into a neighbors back yard and hopped a fence and I could hear shear terror in their voices. I didn’t want to do anything other than scare the shit out of them. Mission accomplished. No more ding-dong-ditch. It may mean I am an old cranky ass, but to be honest, I laughed my ass of when I got back to my house… Kind of felt like the joke was on them…
[quote]Typhoon wrote:
Place a camera outside your door. If it doesn’t deter them, then you’ll at least know who they are (assuming they are from your neighborhood) and you can go tell their parents so they get an ass whooping. Or if the parents don’t discipline their kids, threaten them with an ass whooping yourself if they ever step foot on your property again.
Personally I would keep a Jason mask near by and a fake machete. When the fuckers would ring my bell I’d sprint out after them while maniacally laughing and screaming “my next victim is here.” That’ll show them.[/quote]
[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
We had a problem with this for a while and it freaked my wife out cuz I traveled a lot.
So one night I am home and it happens. It’s dark out but I can see probably 5 boys roughly 12-15 years old down the street maybe 6 driveways away. I opened my garage, grabbed a hockey stick and sprinted towards them. It was pretty fucking funny because you could tell they were absolutely not expecting it.
They bolted into a neighbors back yard and hopped a fence and I could hear shear terror in their voices. I didn’t want to do anything other than scare the shit out of them. Mission accomplished. No more ding-dong-ditch. It may mean I am an old cranky ass, but to be honest, I laughed my ass of when I got back to my house… Kind of felt like the joke was on them…[/quote]
I feel like there’s a not as low as you’d like it to be percent chance that you get shot just outright chasing the kids away with a weapon. I mean it’s probably really low, but I want my chances of being shot on any given day to be like, astronomically low, not just low.
[quote]Typhoon wrote:
Place a camera outside your door. If it doesn’t deter them, then you’ll at least know who they are (assuming they are from your neighborhood) and you can go tell their parents so they get an ass whooping. Or if the parents don’t discipline their kids, threaten them with an ass whooping yourself if they ever step foot on your property again.
Personally I would keep a Jason mask near by and a fake machete. When the fuckers would ring my bell I’d sprint out after them while maniacally laughing and screaming “my next victim is here.” That’ll show them.[/quote]
[quote]crazyj23 wrote:
What would you do if you had kids ringing the doorbell and running? I don’t want to hurt anyone because it is probably just kids but I’d like to come up with something better then jumping out of the bushes. Any suggestions?[/quote]
My dad was a coach and had a starters pistol. Kids were toilet papering our house one night and he threw open the door and let off all six shots. It was freaking awesome. Best part is it was another coach who had taken the kids over to tp the house.
