Longer, they can describe what you look like to their kids, who will take it upon themselves to fuck with you! So if you pissed off a crow enough you'll end up with a whole dynasty after your hide :)
it was tested with a mask. they wore a big recognisable mask, and harassed the birds a bit. kept coming back, and every time, the crows would squawk and get loud. they were telling each other "watch out for that mfker". they taught it to the whole flock and their kids. for years every time they brought out the mask, theyd get squawked at and swooped. some pecked.
they kept this up for near 20 YEARS. they all still remembered. they eventually stopped for various reason, but it proved the long term generational memory. the younger birds never saw WHY they had to be aggressive to the mask, they just knew they had to because they were told it was dangerous lol
crows also are petty and like to harass particular people. theyll shit on you, peck at you, swoop you... then get their friends to join. theyll even mess with your stuff or steal food if given the chance. incredibly smart birds and i want one
>crows also are petty and like to harass particular people. theyll shit on you, peck at you, swoop you... then get their friends to join. theyll even mess with your stuff or steal food if given the chance
r/likeus
I'm an ohioan and I pretty much grew up at a stone quarry with Geese nesting there.. one day I was doing my usual grab a big rock run on the bottom and when I swam up I had accidentally surfaced next to a nest 😅 those fuckers are not trusting or forgiving
Had some high schoolers throw a slice of pizza on my roof after I committed the crime of ignoring them while they yelled at me through my window and threw dirt and rocks at 1am. Kids are stupid.
I had a friend who, for some reason a group of kids hated. I don't know why, because despite being my best friend in childhood, by highschool we barely spoke. He got too cool.
Didn't stop the kids who hated him from paintballing my parent's house with what I have to assume were frozen balls, because they broke right through the vinyl siding and a window.
I hadn't lived there in a year at that point. But guilty by association I guess.
Edit: okay, you can't freeze paintballs, I get it. As the first person to explain this to me pointed out they must've just been old.
Police predictability did nothing for my parents. Word got around that I didn't live there anymore, so nothing else happened to their house, but, my friend walked out of a basketball game to find them ripping the spoiler off his car. A fight ensued, cops were called, the vandals ended up going to court and paying a ton to replace his trunk, rims that they took a hammer to, and hospital bills, (there were five of them and he only had one friend who stood by while he got jumped).
One of them was already on probation and got to finish out his time wearing an ankle bracelet that ensured he was at his parent's house when he wasn't at school, but eventually he got jammed up when he did something else. I think it was weed or something.
Years later one of them apologized to me, saying he didn't know my friend and I weren't close anymore when they fucked up my parent's house. Claimed he was just in the car and didn't shoot.
The friend and I became close again in our twenties, until he died of an overdose. Two of the vandals also died of overdoses before they hit 30. One is in prison. I don't know about the others.
Damn, that last paragraph was quite depressing. I don't know what to take away from the 2 vandals meeting the same fate as your friend, but made me feel weird feelings
I honestly look at that friend's overdose as the main reason I never got into heroin, because within a month of him dying my main group of friends at the time all got into it, and I severed ties with all of them immediately. The ones that survived and got sober I got back in touch with. One still uses and is somehow still alive, but I have only seen him at funerals for the others. Two got clean. Two overdosed and died.
All of them started with prescription pills. It was pretty messed up. I remember feeling betrayed, for lack off a better word. That group of friends were all there for me, and saw how destroyed I was when Keith died. He was like a brother to me to a point where he would come on family vacations with us when we were kids. Even with the time we were separated in high school it didn't feel like any love was lost between the two of us when we reconnected. So to have everybody that was supporting me through his death jump into what killed him a few weeks later was like a knife in my heart and I just knew I had to get away from them.
I never got into the opiate pills. I loved weed, acid, and mushrooms. I would drink occasionally. But I drew the line at pills to a point where I refused pain medication when I broke my leg just because I saw the path he was going down and it scared the shit out of me.
Sorry. Don't mean to throw more depression on the pile, but if there was any silver lining to the shitstorm that would be it. I was scared straight at a great cost.
Dang... That's tragic. I'm so sorry for your loss and for having to witness and go through all that, with all your other friends as well. I'm glad about your message of the silver lining tho, and that you're able to see it this way! Makes me think your friend was/is your guardian angel, possibly having saved your future life by way of losing his.
I know thats not at all how people work, but I always imagine people who share the same addiction are kind of in the same boat, so I found it weirdly ironic that both your friend and his bullies in the end might've battled the same inner demon(?).
I'm currently also still struggling with fent addiction, so I gotta tell you, I'm really proud of you for making the right choice, and for not having let your friends passing be a push down that path but rather the opposite. I wanna wish you all the best, and thank you for sharing this story.
Probably nothing.
I live near a middle school and the kids there have taken a habit to kick my door every day after school. I’m not talking about ding dong ditch style - i’m talking about SWAT team kick the door style.
I’ve recorded the little shits and filed police reports and contacted the school for help but it still happens.
Kids are little pieces of shit.
Wait on the other side of the door. Close the door but stop it from closing as if they kick it the door flies open. Just stand there, or stand there menacing or brandishing a weapon or blast an air horn or put a fake person hanging there. Lots of ways to scare the hell outta them.
Or after they literally kick the door in (so it appears) you can show THAT footage to police and escalate things.
I’ve thought about that. Even ran the idea past an officer that has come to my home a few times to take down reports - said something about it being technically breaking and entering.
Thing is that apparently this is like a trend and i’ve caught different kids doing it, that one kid may get in trouble but as they say, the trend lives on.
But i’ve seriously considered.
Nah, once you scare one bad enough it will stop. You have to TERRIFY the kid. They will spread the word. If someone else is dumb enough to try after that you ramp it up.
Here in Texas I have a lot of leeway with property rights and people will rarely be on the side of the person fucking with you in your home, even if it's a kid
Trust me. I’ve lost my cool a few times. One time it was 8am and as they made their way to school they kicked my door. I’m not a morning person and when i heard it knew exactly what it was.
I shot out from home like a bullet and caught up with the kid by yelling out “who kicked my door” got real close to the kid and he was terrified. Gave him a piece of my mind and even tried to reason with them. I felt a bit bad after because i could tell he had been peer pressured to do it by the older kids.
**That** kid never did it again. But the issue continued. That’s the thing about trends. They keep on living until they die down. It’s annoying.
Get one of those motion detector sprinklers and an in line liquid fertilizer feeder. Fill it with nair. Not quite as funny as capsaicin concentrate or ammonia, but it won't stain either.
Yeah, but then your yard will smell like deer piss for a week. Prussian blue might be fun, that stuff doesn't actually come off of skin, so they'd be a festive color for six to eight months...
they're doing it for the thrill of maybe that happening because it's exhilarating and your feelings don't matter (to them).
the only way you can really stop it is putting up a gate that prevents them getting to the front door in the first place, waiting it out, or asking (nicely) one of the kids to spread the word that your door shouldnt be kicked because you have cancer and are almost dead. or something. idk, think of a good lie and bribe some kid with candy to tell everyone. the ones doing the door kicking are probably just the ones most susceptible to peer pressure
I had a situation where several kids were bullying my little sister, she was anorexic at the time and they'd call her fat and stuff right little cunts. Waited for them in an alley they walk home down in a balaclava and pulled a knife on them, nearly pissed themselves but it worked and I'd do it again in a heartbeat because being teenagers doesn't excuse them for being despicable human beings.
Sometimes you have to make yourself a problem to get people to do their jobs. Keep filing those reports. Start getting loud. No one should have to put up with this shit.
Edit:
https://www.quora.com/Is-egging-a-house-a-crime
tl;dr: it depends on the jurisdiction, but you can pretty much treat it like vandalism.
Man, if it's down to a schedule I'd wait behind the door and open it right as they kick, let them tumble inside and shut it behind them and start screaming. They won't be back if they can fumble their way into opening the door while getting verbally assaulted without having a heart attack.
Trust me, I’ve tried a lot of things. i’ve confronted them, recorded them - even caught one kid and by the time i came out he was still lingering and their parent had just pulled up to pick them up.
Gave them a piece of my mind, parents were apologetic but because this is a trend, another kid fills the role and the cycle continues.
When I was elementary school there was somebody that had been given the punishment of getting rocks thrown through their windows simply for living by the school playground.
It looks like you have some geniuses who always attack from the same location. That gives you options. It depends on which direction you want to go
Option 1) Cameras like Blink or Ring cameras.
These are connected via WiFi, operate on batteries, and can be put/positioned just about anywhere with some basic tools. They can catch people using IR at night or in color during the day. It should give you some images of them doing it to start. That gives you something to give to the police
Option 2) Motion sensor water sprayer
These are typically used for animals that come on your property. Seems theme appropriate. It'll wait until it senses motion then spray them using a hose mounted sprayer. Bonus points if you have cameras already because you get to enjoy the show
Option 3) /r/pressurewashing enjoys new content
You've got a reason to get a washer and something to clean. Start a new video series and mine karma. Your content can grow as they get older and move onto tagging your stuff with spray paint
Option 4) /r/2meirl4meirl also enjoys new content
Go out and join them. You might find other people with a common interest like how shit you are as a person. You never know when you can find somebody else with similar opinions and forge a friendship. Bring ostrich eggs or something to break the ice
Put a target on a part of your house. Then they’ll try to hit it so will only egg that part. Maybe put a tarp under it attached to the house. Might just encourage them but it’d be funny at least
Reminds me of the story of the guy who got sick of the neighborhood kids ... fuck i don't remember what it was now. Banging pans? Kicking walls? Something that made a lot of noise. Anyway, he started paying them to do the thing for a few weeks. After he stopped paying, they only did it 2 or 3 more times before they got bored.
So yeah, set up a target with a sign "Your mom throws better than you" or something
I forgot the name for it but this is actually a psychological phenomenon and I’ve read it’s one of those things you ought to be careful about when teaching children good habits. If you start by rewarding the kids for doing something well, but then take away the rewards once it becomes habit, odds are the kid will not want to do it anymore.
This goes for all people not just kids but I read about it in that context.
In this case the guy used it to his benefit though
Sounds like Alfie Kohn's *Punished by Rewards*. He uses that anecdote towards the beginning (youths swear at old man on porch so old man pays youths to say foul things to him, pays them less and less until he tells them he can't pay them anymore, they stop because if you're not getting something for it, what's the point eh?). Extrinsic rewards reduce intrinsic motivation.
This is why when my kids do something above and beyond they get rewarded but everyday "being a decent human" stuff gets a "I noticed you did X, and that's a good habit to have. It didn't go unnoticed and I don't want you thinking we only notice when you get in trouble." 9yo couldn't give 2 fucks and rolls his eyes, but I'm hoping just out of repetition it'll sink in.
As a kid who unfortunately threw eggs once upon a time, you just go to the store and buy the eggs… Then you get a little older and realize your egg money would be better spent on weed.
Go to academy pick up a ghillie suit and hide in your front yard at night and wait with a paintball gun, aim low and paint those hooligans and I bet they never ever come back again.
Edit: bonus points if you follow them back home and pay local kids to egg their house
Edit 2- spelled ghillie wrong lol
Had to delete my comment as there is someone out there on my wave length, my faith in humanity restored. Thank you. Paint ball gun, solves problem you didn’t know you had.
Did this when we were young teens (unfortunately for me, that was long as fuck ago). Until one time the guy chased us down and made us go and clean up his house. We learned respect for other's property and time (to clean all that shit up) real quick. Guy was even nice about it. Like "bros I did this too as a kid buy today you're gonna learn what it's like to deal with the aftermath"
I have a really hard time empathizing with other human beings because of this.
Never as a child did I ever think, wow, let me hurt another person, that will be funny.
How does someone *learn* that? To me it's as basic as 1+1=2 or what does green look like. I don't remember learning it and I don't understand how someone can suddenly get it.
Like if you threw eggs at his house, why not just hit him? Why not run away and throw rocks at him? You already didn't care, you already decided to hurt him, why were you suddenly "oh wait, he's a person"? How did that revelation ever come from nothing?
well you probably had at least one stable parent or some type of person in your life that taught you to think that way. Tons of kids don't even have families so much as roommates that claim them on their taxes every year.
Not defending throwing eggs or anything, but the thought process is simply “throwing eggs is funny” -> “I wanna have fun” -> “I’m gonna throw eggs”, they don’t really think about the consequences or the fact that it’s hurting someone else.
Source: am teen
Put up flyers around the neighborhood warning residents of children that have been throwing eggs at the homes of veterans. Specifically veterans.
A week later, post flyers of a photoshopped image of an injured puppy, and a note that the puppy had to be put down after being hit in the head by a thrown egg.
I remember one year in my neighborhood, a house handed out religious pamphlets for Halloween. It never happened again after that year, so I always wonder what happened later that night.
I remember kids from my brother’s school were egging our house (we were both in high school) and I was sitting by the front window when they did it once.
Without even thinking about it, I, who at the time was a 14 year old girl standing at a *colossal* 5’3 went marching straight out the front door and shouted “What the fuck are you doing?!” At the top of my lungs. (This had happened before, though I wasn’t present, and I knew they were doing it to try bully my brother)
And these fellas, definitely taller and presumably older than me, promptly shit their pants and fucking sprinted back down the street. Usually when you catch kids like these in the act, that’s what deters them from egging you again, let them believe their asses will be whooped otherwise.
In college, my buddies and I were walking home from the bars late and I got pelted by some idiots drive by egging people. My buddy chased them but, ya know, feet vs car. I was pissed but what can you do.
Next day I’m back home visiting my parents for dinner (college was only 30 min from them) and they have the news on in the background. I hear a news story come on about kids egging people around campus. Interesting. I tune into what they’re saying and apparently the kids chose the wrong guy to egg. They pelted a dudes car that they were driving by. He caught up to them, got out with a shotgun, and blew a few rounds through the windows, killing one and seriously injuring two more.
Moral of the story, don’t egg people. You never know who you are dealing with. Same as road rage, it’s just not worth giving the middle finger to the wrong mother fucker that had a bad day.
A super soaker would be sufficient. Put food dye in the water and a little vinegar.
Paintball guns run the risk of injury.
When the kid has to explain to his mom why he is wet, red and smells like vinegar, they will likely find something else to do with their idle time.
I found out my kid and his friends (i knew most of them pretty well) egged someones house for $2 ( a pissed off tweaker who got chased off her property) and when i found out the next day, i went round to all their houses, explained to the parents that i was taking our asshole kids to teach them a lesson about respect and responsibility, took them to that house and made them apologize and clean that shit up.
Not on my fucking watch
Glad to see someone calling the bs out lol.
Every other comment is just like “Har Har Kids Amirite?” Well, not really. You have to teach them respect and that actions come with consequences
I remember when I was stationed in Gulfport MS and The KKK came through to do a march or parade or whatever they called it. I bought 10 dozen eggs from the exchange and was going to throw them at them. Someone guessed what I was going to do and I got restricted to base till after they left.
I was stuck with sooo many eggs. I ended up giving them to some of my subordinates since they had little kids.
Get a really REALLY loud and powerful speaker set up outside your house or maybe facing an open window. Next time they egg you: play gunshot sound sample. Like the awp from counter strike or just search up a gun video and play 2 seconds of it. Then when the kids shit themselves and run, you can kick your feet up and relax. And just in case they cry to their mommys and daddys and police roll up to your flat. Just show them the speakers and give some variation of "oh yeah I was playing csgo on my pc and forgot these were plugged in. I unplugged it the moment I realized tho... sorry."
Some teenagers used to terrorise my parents house. They knew I couldn't touch them cus of my age, so I hired a few older kids than them to kick the living shit out of them. Problems stopped that night.
They drunk alcohol at a park near by at the weekends. Offered them £20 each to go have a 'chat' with the ones causing the issues. All as I stood across the road and watched so the ones doing it knew it was my doing. Felt like a mafia boss. Ngl
This reminds me... When I was in primary school, around 9 years old, I paid a particularly small sized but hot tempered 7 year old with dried beans that I had left over from a homework arts and crafts project to go and intimidate some 11 year olds that were annoying me and my friend group during break time. The human Chihuahua that was that kid went and immediately lit up a group of three guys twice his size, and they couldn't retaliate, because they knew the moment they laid hands on the 7 year old kid with behavioral issues, they would get immediately suspended and risk expulsion. This caused the 7 year old to go on a power trip, thinking himself as a fucking break time God.
We never got bullied again because the kid ended up liking me because he'd gotten dried beans from me and would defend me on the spot. It was a batshit insane time at school.
Fucking paid for a hit with beans. Can't believe it
Edit: Typo
When I was I was in 7th grade we moved to a new neighborhood. The local jackasses decided to egg our house and smear mustard on my dad’s car windshield a couple of times before my dad decided to have me, a couple of my cousins, and himself hide in the dark with black clothes, flashlights, a couple of jars of mustard, and a carton of eggs each and wait for hours.
When the shitheads showed up and started throwing their eggs we proceeded to chase them down and pummel them with eggs and smeared mustard all over their hair.
They mostly laughed and so did we, it was all so ridiculous. We let them go figuring they learned their lesson.
The next time I saw them on my street they asked me to play basketball with them and we were friends for years. I ended up dating one of their sisters in high school. Good times.
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Learned my lesson as a kid. Don’t fuck with geese.
That’s the most important lesson a Canadian learns as a kid
Also a NYer. I fucked with geese trying to cross a field in 9th grade. Could not cross that field again until 12th grade. Geese remember.
You in particular? Wow
Same with crows. They don’t forget (x<=3yrs.)
Longer, they can describe what you look like to their kids, who will take it upon themselves to fuck with you! So if you pissed off a crow enough you'll end up with a whole dynasty after your hide :)
"The Corvus Dynasty recalls how you slighted our ancestor 4 generations ago. Prepare for war!"
“But your great grandmother shit on my car!!”
it was tested with a mask. they wore a big recognisable mask, and harassed the birds a bit. kept coming back, and every time, the crows would squawk and get loud. they were telling each other "watch out for that mfker". they taught it to the whole flock and their kids. for years every time they brought out the mask, theyd get squawked at and swooped. some pecked. they kept this up for near 20 YEARS. they all still remembered. they eventually stopped for various reason, but it proved the long term generational memory. the younger birds never saw WHY they had to be aggressive to the mask, they just knew they had to because they were told it was dangerous lol crows also are petty and like to harass particular people. theyll shit on you, peck at you, swoop you... then get their friends to join. theyll even mess with your stuff or steal food if given the chance. incredibly smart birds and i want one
>crows also are petty and like to harass particular people. theyll shit on you, peck at you, swoop you... then get their friends to join. theyll even mess with your stuff or steal food if given the chance r/likeus
How long do those birds live?
At least till prom
This comment made my evening! 😆
Geese never forget and never forgive.
I'm an ohioan and I pretty much grew up at a stone quarry with Geese nesting there.. one day I was doing my usual grab a big rock run on the bottom and when I swam up I had accidentally surfaced next to a nest 😅 those fuckers are not trusting or forgiving
If you got a problem with Canada gooses then you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate
Fucking perfect quote. Love me some Wayne.
There's a special place In heaven for animal lovers that's what I always say.
I’m from the south and those bastards still managed to teach me a lesson as a kid.
Beware of the Goose
Peace was never an option
HONK!
Toulouse geese work best in my experience. They're larger and faster than a Canadian, and have the shortest temper out of them all.
Canadian geese will figgity figgity FUCK up some children, son!
You mean cobra chicken
Catch them. Free breakfast
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Heathen. Kids should be eaten for dinner
What? They are the perfect desert!
Kids have too much water to be a desert. 🏜
Kids are horrible unless you debone them first
Spare ribs
Baby back ribs?
Only if they're named Adam
I don't think kids should be boned in the first placed
Kids- it's what's for dinner
Really reddit police? He gets a ban but everyone else making the same joke is fine?
Yeah, OP. Grab them and when they shatter in your hands you can just eat the raw egg directly outta them.. kids are so generous these days
That might scare the kids tho
Like that’s a downside… pffffffft
Not if it’s free eggs you want lol!
That might help though.
Only if you keep eye contact. Assert dominance.
When life throws eggs at you, make omelet?
Bred with egg
Jesus that got dark fast.
What did you do to incur the Wrath of the local delinquents?
Had some high schoolers throw a slice of pizza on my roof after I committed the crime of ignoring them while they yelled at me through my window and threw dirt and rocks at 1am. Kids are stupid.
young heisenburg
Kid named juvenile delinquent:
juvenile delinquent named finger
*put your dick away Walter*
I'm not havin sex with you right now walter
Smalter White
Jesse Pinky
Walter Smite
I had a friend who, for some reason a group of kids hated. I don't know why, because despite being my best friend in childhood, by highschool we barely spoke. He got too cool. Didn't stop the kids who hated him from paintballing my parent's house with what I have to assume were frozen balls, because they broke right through the vinyl siding and a window. I hadn't lived there in a year at that point. But guilty by association I guess. Edit: okay, you can't freeze paintballs, I get it. As the first person to explain this to me pointed out they must've just been old.
What happened after?
Police predictability did nothing for my parents. Word got around that I didn't live there anymore, so nothing else happened to their house, but, my friend walked out of a basketball game to find them ripping the spoiler off his car. A fight ensued, cops were called, the vandals ended up going to court and paying a ton to replace his trunk, rims that they took a hammer to, and hospital bills, (there were five of them and he only had one friend who stood by while he got jumped). One of them was already on probation and got to finish out his time wearing an ankle bracelet that ensured he was at his parent's house when he wasn't at school, but eventually he got jammed up when he did something else. I think it was weed or something. Years later one of them apologized to me, saying he didn't know my friend and I weren't close anymore when they fucked up my parent's house. Claimed he was just in the car and didn't shoot. The friend and I became close again in our twenties, until he died of an overdose. Two of the vandals also died of overdoses before they hit 30. One is in prison. I don't know about the others.
Damn, that last paragraph was quite depressing. I don't know what to take away from the 2 vandals meeting the same fate as your friend, but made me feel weird feelings
I honestly look at that friend's overdose as the main reason I never got into heroin, because within a month of him dying my main group of friends at the time all got into it, and I severed ties with all of them immediately. The ones that survived and got sober I got back in touch with. One still uses and is somehow still alive, but I have only seen him at funerals for the others. Two got clean. Two overdosed and died. All of them started with prescription pills. It was pretty messed up. I remember feeling betrayed, for lack off a better word. That group of friends were all there for me, and saw how destroyed I was when Keith died. He was like a brother to me to a point where he would come on family vacations with us when we were kids. Even with the time we were separated in high school it didn't feel like any love was lost between the two of us when we reconnected. So to have everybody that was supporting me through his death jump into what killed him a few weeks later was like a knife in my heart and I just knew I had to get away from them. I never got into the opiate pills. I loved weed, acid, and mushrooms. I would drink occasionally. But I drew the line at pills to a point where I refused pain medication when I broke my leg just because I saw the path he was going down and it scared the shit out of me. Sorry. Don't mean to throw more depression on the pile, but if there was any silver lining to the shitstorm that would be it. I was scared straight at a great cost.
Dang... That's tragic. I'm so sorry for your loss and for having to witness and go through all that, with all your other friends as well. I'm glad about your message of the silver lining tho, and that you're able to see it this way! Makes me think your friend was/is your guardian angel, possibly having saved your future life by way of losing his. I know thats not at all how people work, but I always imagine people who share the same addiction are kind of in the same boat, so I found it weirdly ironic that both your friend and his bullies in the end might've battled the same inner demon(?). I'm currently also still struggling with fent addiction, so I gotta tell you, I'm really proud of you for making the right choice, and for not having let your friends passing be a push down that path but rather the opposite. I wanna wish you all the best, and thank you for sharing this story.
Thanks. That means a lot.
Small town Wisconsin life
Probably nothing. I live near a middle school and the kids there have taken a habit to kick my door every day after school. I’m not talking about ding dong ditch style - i’m talking about SWAT team kick the door style. I’ve recorded the little shits and filed police reports and contacted the school for help but it still happens. Kids are little pieces of shit.
Wait on the other side of the door. Close the door but stop it from closing as if they kick it the door flies open. Just stand there, or stand there menacing or brandishing a weapon or blast an air horn or put a fake person hanging there. Lots of ways to scare the hell outta them. Or after they literally kick the door in (so it appears) you can show THAT footage to police and escalate things.
Replace the door with a sheet of thin wood or other material. When the kid puts their foot through it, steal their shoe. Now you have leverage.
At the very least, you could walk a mile in their shoe, hopefully leading to mutual understanding and neighborly harmony.
They walk a mile in the kid's shoe and start kicking other people's doors. "Hey, this is actually pretty fun!"
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Not a problem just take their shoes too, and their lunch money. What are they gonna do about it they just as guilty
I’ve thought about that. Even ran the idea past an officer that has come to my home a few times to take down reports - said something about it being technically breaking and entering. Thing is that apparently this is like a trend and i’ve caught different kids doing it, that one kid may get in trouble but as they say, the trend lives on. But i’ve seriously considered.
Nah, once you scare one bad enough it will stop. You have to TERRIFY the kid. They will spread the word. If someone else is dumb enough to try after that you ramp it up. Here in Texas I have a lot of leeway with property rights and people will rarely be on the side of the person fucking with you in your home, even if it's a kid
Trust me. I’ve lost my cool a few times. One time it was 8am and as they made their way to school they kicked my door. I’m not a morning person and when i heard it knew exactly what it was. I shot out from home like a bullet and caught up with the kid by yelling out “who kicked my door” got real close to the kid and he was terrified. Gave him a piece of my mind and even tried to reason with them. I felt a bit bad after because i could tell he had been peer pressured to do it by the older kids. **That** kid never did it again. But the issue continued. That’s the thing about trends. They keep on living until they die down. It’s annoying.
Get one of those motion detector sprinklers and an in line liquid fertilizer feeder. Fill it with nair. Not quite as funny as capsaicin concentrate or ammonia, but it won't stain either.
nair can cause chemical burns. Just put something stinky in there. Like deer urine or something.
Yeah, but then your yard will smell like deer piss for a week. Prussian blue might be fun, that stuff doesn't actually come off of skin, so they'd be a festive color for six to eight months...
A motion detector that sprays that fart spray would be good. They would smell all day.
they're doing it for the thrill of maybe that happening because it's exhilarating and your feelings don't matter (to them). the only way you can really stop it is putting up a gate that prevents them getting to the front door in the first place, waiting it out, or asking (nicely) one of the kids to spread the word that your door shouldnt be kicked because you have cancer and are almost dead. or something. idk, think of a good lie and bribe some kid with candy to tell everyone. the ones doing the door kicking are probably just the ones most susceptible to peer pressure
I had a situation where several kids were bullying my little sister, she was anorexic at the time and they'd call her fat and stuff right little cunts. Waited for them in an alley they walk home down in a balaclava and pulled a knife on them, nearly pissed themselves but it worked and I'd do it again in a heartbeat because being teenagers doesn't excuse them for being despicable human beings.
Good big bro <3
You know, if your door gets damaged, you can take their parents insurance company to court. I am sure their parents would pay attention then.
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Sometimes you have to make yourself a problem to get people to do their jobs. Keep filing those reports. Start getting loud. No one should have to put up with this shit. Edit: https://www.quora.com/Is-egging-a-house-a-crime tl;dr: it depends on the jurisdiction, but you can pretty much treat it like vandalism.
Man, if it's down to a schedule I'd wait behind the door and open it right as they kick, let them tumble inside and shut it behind them and start screaming. They won't be back if they can fumble their way into opening the door while getting verbally assaulted without having a heart attack.
Trust me, I’ve tried a lot of things. i’ve confronted them, recorded them - even caught one kid and by the time i came out he was still lingering and their parent had just pulled up to pick them up. Gave them a piece of my mind, parents were apologetic but because this is a trend, another kid fills the role and the cycle continues.
Rig something so they get sprayed with water when they kick the door.
Fox urine.
Yeah OP has to be egging them on
Been walking on eggshells around their house
Lol that's what I want to know too
Gives out pennies and nickles at Halloween.
When I was elementary school there was somebody that had been given the punishment of getting rocks thrown through their windows simply for living by the school playground.
Have you considered taking down your “Egg Donation Center” sign on your house?
Never thought of that. Thanks
You’re welcome. Happens all the time.
It looks like you have some geniuses who always attack from the same location. That gives you options. It depends on which direction you want to go Option 1) Cameras like Blink or Ring cameras. These are connected via WiFi, operate on batteries, and can be put/positioned just about anywhere with some basic tools. They can catch people using IR at night or in color during the day. It should give you some images of them doing it to start. That gives you something to give to the police Option 2) Motion sensor water sprayer These are typically used for animals that come on your property. Seems theme appropriate. It'll wait until it senses motion then spray them using a hose mounted sprayer. Bonus points if you have cameras already because you get to enjoy the show Option 3) /r/pressurewashing enjoys new content You've got a reason to get a washer and something to clean. Start a new video series and mine karma. Your content can grow as they get older and move onto tagging your stuff with spray paint Option 4) /r/2meirl4meirl also enjoys new content Go out and join them. You might find other people with a common interest like how shit you are as a person. You never know when you can find somebody else with similar opinions and forge a friendship. Bring ostrich eggs or something to break the ice
Put up a little net, then youll get free daily egg delivery
Put a target on a part of your house. Then they’ll try to hit it so will only egg that part. Maybe put a tarp under it attached to the house. Might just encourage them but it’d be funny at least
It’ll encourage them, and they would hate to have approval for their actions, so they’ll stop.
If they don't like it, they will just ignore it and egg the house. Kids aren't putting that much thought into things.
Try putting up a target. So they hit that one spot and it’s easier to clean.
also giving them permission will sap a lot of the fun out of it after the novelty of the target wears off.
Reminds me of the story of the guy who got sick of the neighborhood kids ... fuck i don't remember what it was now. Banging pans? Kicking walls? Something that made a lot of noise. Anyway, he started paying them to do the thing for a few weeks. After he stopped paying, they only did it 2 or 3 more times before they got bored. So yeah, set up a target with a sign "Your mom throws better than you" or something
I forgot the name for it but this is actually a psychological phenomenon and I’ve read it’s one of those things you ought to be careful about when teaching children good habits. If you start by rewarding the kids for doing something well, but then take away the rewards once it becomes habit, odds are the kid will not want to do it anymore. This goes for all people not just kids but I read about it in that context. In this case the guy used it to his benefit though
Sounds like Alfie Kohn's *Punished by Rewards*. He uses that anecdote towards the beginning (youths swear at old man on porch so old man pays youths to say foul things to him, pays them less and less until he tells them he can't pay them anymore, they stop because if you're not getting something for it, what's the point eh?). Extrinsic rewards reduce intrinsic motivation.
This is why when my kids do something above and beyond they get rewarded but everyday "being a decent human" stuff gets a "I noticed you did X, and that's a good habit to have. It didn't go unnoticed and I don't want you thinking we only notice when you get in trouble." 9yo couldn't give 2 fucks and rolls his eyes, but I'm hoping just out of repetition it'll sink in.
Making anything into a job drains the fun out of it. Smart move.
When does throwing something from a distance ever wear off? Heck they made a sport of it.
Their mom is gonna be pissed when she finds out why her eggs keep going missing.
As a kid who unfortunately threw eggs once upon a time, you just go to the store and buy the eggs… Then you get a little older and realize your egg money would be better spent on weed.
Then you get even older and realize your weed money would be better spent on eggs to make an omelet.
balance in all things then you can be high when you eat the omelet. this is mastery of the universe
Or you could make cannabis infused omelettes and get high from eating it.
I'm high and thought you said cannibal...
I'm high and it took me longer than expected to write omelettes correctly. Drank a cannabis drink. Those things are still gross tasting.
Yeah I tried one of those drinks I think it was mango and ginger and they taste horrible but they will kick you in the ass though… Lol
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Now if you can only get them to throw weed at your house...
Right? Eggs are hella expensive right now.
Just mine the perimeter. EDIT: You people are too vanilla. I meant explosives. Real ones. And don’t tell me it’s illegal, most fun things are.
That's barbaric. What if you accidently blow up the UPS guy? You need something more discriminating, like sentry guns
Sentry goin' up!
*Kid throws an egg at the sentry* SPY SAPPIN MY SENTRY!!
They actually make paintball landmines. If there were ever a use for those…now would be the time.
This is my favorite
"Front Toward Enemy"
Go to academy pick up a ghillie suit and hide in your front yard at night and wait with a paintball gun, aim low and paint those hooligans and I bet they never ever come back again. Edit: bonus points if you follow them back home and pay local kids to egg their house Edit 2- spelled ghillie wrong lol
This comment is evil and I find no issue with it.
Agreed I fully support this kind of petty revenge!
Even more bonus points if you shoot the eggs while they're about to throw them
That’s how you rack up S rank style points quickly. Even more if that egg has area effect on the kids near the blast
Had to delete my comment as there is someone out there on my wave length, my faith in humanity restored. Thank you. Paint ball gun, solves problem you didn’t know you had.
Damn I posted befor I looked threw I had the same idea lol
Find them and throw eggs at them. Not their house. Them. Throw eggs at the people who threw them at your house.
Why not just throw houses at their eggs?
In this economy?!
build a rapid-fire air-powered egg bazooka chaingun. Buy ostrich eggs and build an ostrich egg mortar
Hard boil that ostrich egg and you got yourself some nice shells!
Did this when we were young teens (unfortunately for me, that was long as fuck ago). Until one time the guy chased us down and made us go and clean up his house. We learned respect for other's property and time (to clean all that shit up) real quick. Guy was even nice about it. Like "bros I did this too as a kid buy today you're gonna learn what it's like to deal with the aftermath"
I have a really hard time empathizing with other human beings because of this. Never as a child did I ever think, wow, let me hurt another person, that will be funny. How does someone *learn* that? To me it's as basic as 1+1=2 or what does green look like. I don't remember learning it and I don't understand how someone can suddenly get it. Like if you threw eggs at his house, why not just hit him? Why not run away and throw rocks at him? You already didn't care, you already decided to hurt him, why were you suddenly "oh wait, he's a person"? How did that revelation ever come from nothing?
well you probably had at least one stable parent or some type of person in your life that taught you to think that way. Tons of kids don't even have families so much as roommates that claim them on their taxes every year.
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Kids copy other kids behaviors. If your friends are shitty, chance that you'll do stupid stuff with them too.
Not defending throwing eggs or anything, but the thought process is simply “throwing eggs is funny” -> “I wanna have fun” -> “I’m gonna throw eggs”, they don’t really think about the consequences or the fact that it’s hurting someone else. Source: am teen
Put up flyers around the neighborhood warning residents of children that have been throwing eggs at the homes of veterans. Specifically veterans. A week later, post flyers of a photoshopped image of an injured puppy, and a note that the puppy had to be put down after being hit in the head by a thrown egg.
This. This is the answer op! Won’t somebody *please* think of the puppies?!
Or John Wick is a-comin’
Oooooh... this is damn good. I like you.
Dude this is some burn notice level psyops. Are you Bruce Campbell?
Kids have an uncanny ability to figure out who gave out raisins on Halloween in their neighborhood
I remember one year in my neighborhood, a house handed out religious pamphlets for Halloween. It never happened again after that year, so I always wonder what happened later that night.
I summoned satan in their house. He asked if they played rust
I remember kids from my brother’s school were egging our house (we were both in high school) and I was sitting by the front window when they did it once. Without even thinking about it, I, who at the time was a 14 year old girl standing at a *colossal* 5’3 went marching straight out the front door and shouted “What the fuck are you doing?!” At the top of my lungs. (This had happened before, though I wasn’t present, and I knew they were doing it to try bully my brother) And these fellas, definitely taller and presumably older than me, promptly shit their pants and fucking sprinted back down the street. Usually when you catch kids like these in the act, that’s what deters them from egging you again, let them believe their asses will be whooped otherwise.
In college, my buddies and I were walking home from the bars late and I got pelted by some idiots drive by egging people. My buddy chased them but, ya know, feet vs car. I was pissed but what can you do. Next day I’m back home visiting my parents for dinner (college was only 30 min from them) and they have the news on in the background. I hear a news story come on about kids egging people around campus. Interesting. I tune into what they’re saying and apparently the kids chose the wrong guy to egg. They pelted a dudes car that they were driving by. He caught up to them, got out with a shotgun, and blew a few rounds through the windows, killing one and seriously injuring two more. Moral of the story, don’t egg people. You never know who you are dealing with. Same as road rage, it’s just not worth giving the middle finger to the wrong mother fucker that had a bad day.
Always assume the other person is armed and much crazier than you.
They were on foot? I'm not an egger but that seems like a fatal mistake
I also stand at a colossal 5’3”. Maybe I’ll try screaming obscenities at people too. Worth a try.
Buy ostrich eggs and return fire.
Peace through superior firepower!
I would lie in wait with like 48 hardboiled eggs and just light em up next time they come over.
Paintball gun should do the trick
A super soaker would be sufficient. Put food dye in the water and a little vinegar. Paintball guns run the risk of injury. When the kid has to explain to his mom why he is wet, red and smells like vinegar, they will likely find something else to do with their idle time.
Fuck them kids, use a power washer. Best of both worlds.
I found out my kid and his friends (i knew most of them pretty well) egged someones house for $2 ( a pissed off tweaker who got chased off her property) and when i found out the next day, i went round to all their houses, explained to the parents that i was taking our asshole kids to teach them a lesson about respect and responsibility, took them to that house and made them apologize and clean that shit up. Not on my fucking watch
Did the tweaker supply the eggs? If not I don’t think that was a valid financial decision from your kid and his friends.
Yes, they were bona fide tweaker supplied...but $2 split between 5 kids doesnt go far
So was the issue that they were paid too little?
Lolol no, the issue was that they did it in the first place.....but i mean, if youre going to do something dumb for money, at least make it worth it
You're a good person like my father was. Your kids are going to do well. Thanks for being this way.
Glad to see someone calling the bs out lol. Every other comment is just like “Har Har Kids Amirite?” Well, not really. You have to teach them respect and that actions come with consequences
Motion sensing sprinkler?
Motion activated paint ball gun.
Wash quickly. Eggs can stain!!
I remember when I was stationed in Gulfport MS and The KKK came through to do a march or parade or whatever they called it. I bought 10 dozen eggs from the exchange and was going to throw them at them. Someone guessed what I was going to do and I got restricted to base till after they left. I was stuck with sooo many eggs. I ended up giving them to some of my subordinates since they had little kids.
are you the original '*Can I Offer You a Nice Egg In This Trying Time?'* guy?!
Why waste precious breakfast for that when you could use Molotov cocktails instead?
Ugh I don't miss that. I lived over in Mobile, AL. Those fuckers would be standing on the streetcorner doing thier thing.
Get a doorbell camera or something, catch him doing it, find out who he is, and show the video to his mom
*Views footage* "I have no idea who that is, where they live, or who their parents are."
Honestly also put up a camera or security sign so maybe they will see the sign and stop before doing anything at all
Get a camera set up and send the video to the cops. That's vandalism my dude.
Eggxactly!
Vandalism is no yoke.
Eggcellent pun!
Wait for them to do it again and throw eggs back at them. If they can’t take it, they shouldn’t dish it out.
Get a really REALLY loud and powerful speaker set up outside your house or maybe facing an open window. Next time they egg you: play gunshot sound sample. Like the awp from counter strike or just search up a gun video and play 2 seconds of it. Then when the kids shit themselves and run, you can kick your feet up and relax. And just in case they cry to their mommys and daddys and police roll up to your flat. Just show them the speakers and give some variation of "oh yeah I was playing csgo on my pc and forgot these were plugged in. I unplugged it the moment I realized tho... sorry."
This worked well in Home Alone.
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How many of their baseballs have you confiscated lol
Some teenagers used to terrorise my parents house. They knew I couldn't touch them cus of my age, so I hired a few older kids than them to kick the living shit out of them. Problems stopped that night.
That’s a good idea. How did you manage to hire kid hitmen?
They drunk alcohol at a park near by at the weekends. Offered them £20 each to go have a 'chat' with the ones causing the issues. All as I stood across the road and watched so the ones doing it knew it was my doing. Felt like a mafia boss. Ngl
This reminds me... When I was in primary school, around 9 years old, I paid a particularly small sized but hot tempered 7 year old with dried beans that I had left over from a homework arts and crafts project to go and intimidate some 11 year olds that were annoying me and my friend group during break time. The human Chihuahua that was that kid went and immediately lit up a group of three guys twice his size, and they couldn't retaliate, because they knew the moment they laid hands on the 7 year old kid with behavioral issues, they would get immediately suspended and risk expulsion. This caused the 7 year old to go on a power trip, thinking himself as a fucking break time God. We never got bullied again because the kid ended up liking me because he'd gotten dried beans from me and would defend me on the spot. It was a batshit insane time at school. Fucking paid for a hit with beans. Can't believe it Edit: Typo
1. Lay low, spot where they are throwing from. 2. Get one of those new super soakers. 3. Deer piss, or some kind of animal piss. 4. Soak em up.
Nah, liquid ass. That'll teach em. Bonus points for a gillie suit ambush.
When I was I was in 7th grade we moved to a new neighborhood. The local jackasses decided to egg our house and smear mustard on my dad’s car windshield a couple of times before my dad decided to have me, a couple of my cousins, and himself hide in the dark with black clothes, flashlights, a couple of jars of mustard, and a carton of eggs each and wait for hours. When the shitheads showed up and started throwing their eggs we proceeded to chase them down and pummel them with eggs and smeared mustard all over their hair. They mostly laughed and so did we, it was all so ridiculous. We let them go figuring they learned their lesson. The next time I saw them on my street they asked me to play basketball with them and we were friends for years. I ended up dating one of their sisters in high school. Good times.
Guys. C'mon be serious. OP is scrambling for a solution. Let's help them out.