Annoying litte gits

googler

Install an outdoor music system and play Wagnerian opera, Stockhausen or Philip Glass at them whenever they turn up.

They'll go away.

googler

Play it LOUD.

calmspirit

our local shop started playing classical music outside a couple of years ago.....no teenagers hang out there at all now........a non violent solution.......

I remember building a small brick wall with the top layer of bricks set sort of diagonally to make a 'spikey' wall in my previous house to prevent the local youths sitting on it.....they still sat on it ...must have been SO uncomfortable but they perservered bless them! I was so relieved the day I moved from there!!

50plusabit

Not an easy problem. I have lived in this situation, kids using my side wall as a football goal,used to hate weekends and school holidays. Then the house the other side of me (goal no 2) built an extension, and they had to find a bigger space.
When my kids were smaller, there was an miserable guy across the road and they deliberately wound him up, because he bit every time.
When I was a kid, we used to catch a bus to school and the house that it stood in front, the woman there used to come out of the house everyday and tell us to be quiet, as we used to sing at the top of our voices.

Willsnarf1983

i've taken the tact of parking my car in front of the hedge as well as my neighbours who are doing the same in preventing it being used to play football. Working so far!

smileypigface

My house is in a single row in a cul de sac with an 8 foot wall directly across from it - all paved - there is a large grassed open area a 2 minute walk away in the same development - on the edge of this area is an enclosed play area with slides, swings etc and in the green area is a proper basket ball hoop - with loads of space for other ball games.

A group of about 20 kids have recently decided they prefer the front of my row of houses to play ball games on instead of the grassy area. They particularly seem to enjoy bouncing their football off the "no ball games" sign that is fixed to the wall opposite my house.

Another favourite game is to climb up on the wall and shout obscenities and spit at the residents in the sheltered housing the other side of the wall - while they are on the wall they like to grab hold of the lamp posts and give them a good shaking.

All obviously perfectly excellent and acceptable passtimes/hobbies ... I don't think so.

I was putting my dog in my car the other evening while this was going on - she was very frightened by their shouting and the noise of the ball - so she let out a couple of barks - the delightful youths started immitating her high pitched 'yipping' - so I looked over at them and said that she was making the noise because she was terrified of their shouting and the ball hitting the wall over and over .... their response ...... to kick their ball at my car - delightful.

Makes you so proud doesn't it.

poppysarah

If you experience nuisance you should be able to ask for increased patrols by police and pcso. Just them turning up every so often will help relieve the nuisance.

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

Lokolo wrote: »

They're outside playing football.

Would you rather have this or them stir up trouble?

Let them have their fun, stop being a whiney *****, its a bush GET OVER IT.

When I was younger I could only go to the green across the road as other parks were too far away to play without parents, one bloke who lived on the green came out and stabbed out football. We then ****ed him off even more by purposly kicking the football at his house until he said sorry. He eventually did and gave us £10 to go and get a new football. We never disturbed him again.

oh dear little thugs

sporedude

I say let them play their game, Would you rather have a football being kicked around than bricks and stones going through all your windows?

hotpot1000

I say why shouldnt you be able to enjoy the peace and quiet most everyone else on here has?
Why are so many people telling you to just put up with your hedge being wrecked?
We should all respect each other -the kids should have been brought up to know that their behaviour would annoy you and therefore desist.
If you had advised them strongly enough of the error of their ways then they wouldnt still be a problem to you.

I would be doing the loud operatic music if they ignored requests for them to leave or joining in and hogging the ball till they get fed up.
Good luck in re-educating them.