School kids vandalising house

Nicki

Was just putting my feet up for a few minutes before the school run, when there was an enormous crash, and 3 school kids had thrown a rock through our front window! Was at the window in seconds so was able to give the police a good description of them, so hopefully they'll get picked up. I had only a few minutes before put my 16 month old down in his cot for a nap, up to that point he and his friend of the same age had been playing in that room all morning, so really lucky neither of the kids got cut by the flying glass. This is the second time this has happened to us since we moved into this house 3 years ago. Had no problems in the old house which was just opposite a school :mad:

Just a rant really!

skylight

I do feel for you. We are having a similar problem with rocks but later at night; just the same time as the shops shut and they need to be on their way home to Mummy....

However, since putting up a CCTV sign in the ground floor window and a dummy camera at the window in the bedroom we haven't had another problem. (Fingers crossed!)


Perhaps you should make a complaint to the school too? Tell them whats happened and that you have notfified the police.

RAS

Do talk to the school. They may be very defensive, or they may be able to identify the little heathens.

And I agree with the camera thing but, please set up a web-cam or similiar and record it. Once they realise that it is fake, they will do it again and again.

Nicki

Unfortunately I live in Central London and there are at least 4 secondary schools these kids could have been from, so reporting to the school isn't an option. The police were at my door in less than 10 minutes though and were off to do a drive round to look for them. One of the kids was wearing a very distinctive fluorescent coloured jacket, so if they are still outdoors, they'll be spotted from miles off!

RAS

So talk to all four schools, as they may well recognise that jacket?

Nicki

Maybe. Though each of the schools have rolls of about 2000, so it might be a bit of a long shot. That's the trouble with living in a densely populated area. I might though fire off an email to each of the 4 heads to see if anything comes of it. Will go and do the school run and have a ponder.

Plans_all_plans

Get in touch with all 4 schools: do you remember the uniform? Ask the neighbours if they know which school has the uniform and get in touch with the Head. This behaviour is shocking, I'd have hit the roof! Did you go outside and shout at them? I did when lads used to deliberately kick a football at my car and they've stopped now.

dizziblonde

I had to ring the local (incredibly well-regarded, top of league tables, parental fist fight to get in) school about similar the other day with kids using the gravel in front of people's houses for lobbing at their mates in streets full of car windows and house windows. Was just the act of a typical teenager acting first and thinking second - a quick word in their ears from a tutor or whatever would have reminded them that the stones could have hit passers by (me and the dog!) or car windows with repair bills and the like and they'd more than likely have stopped because they weren't being "bad" kids - just a bunch of teenagers mucking around and not thinking (would have been quite an intimidating situation for someone less confident to be walking close by though).

They weren't interested at all. So next time I see it happening - it's haul the whole debacle in front of the local cop-shop and make a massive kerfuffle out of something that makes the school look even worse really. Oh well, the school's loss - I gave them the chance.

Nicki

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

Get in touch with all 4 schools: do you remember the uniform? Ask the neighbours if they know which school has the uniform and get in touch with the Head. This behaviour is shocking, I'd have hit the roof! Did you go outside and shout at them? I did when lads used to deliberately kick a football at my car and they've stopped now.

They had non uniform coats over black trousers. I think all the
local schools have black trousers as part of their uniform. I did run to the front door, and by this point they were running away up the road. Had it not been for baby asleep upstairs i'd have been after them, though my chances of catching them at 40+ vs 13/14 with a head start would have been non existent :rotfl:

I am still fuming, but I guess it's lucky none of the kids got hurt (mine that is, couldn't care less if they did!) and it's just the inconvenience factor of having to get a new pane of glass fitted now. We have a friendly builder who won't charge us a lot to do it, but it's still a nuisance.

LJM

if you dont try you wont know contact all the schools and give them the same discription you gave the police, and get the camera put up, some one really could have got hurt

pimento

If the schools won't help, call the local paper. That'll concentrate the head teachers' minds.