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KIDS THAT PLAY KNOCK A DOOR RUN AWAY

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  • 16011996 wrote:
    they should be shot. :o answered door 4 times tonight to see kids running down road. bloody little sods. where are there parents. they only look 6-8 yrs old.

    Maybe all the elderly miserable people like yourself should be shot instead so that the future generation doesn't turn out all miserable like you.

    You must have had a pretty boring childhood if you never played it yourself.

    You should look at the positive side that they are out and about and not like millions of other children sitting indoors playing on the computer or watching tv becoming FAT and unhealthy.
  • We used to call it knock down ginger as well...it was all just a laugh. I wouldn't care if the local kids did it to me but then I'm deaf so they're wasting their time! LOL!

    Better than them sitting on their backsides playing X-box if you ask me. OP needs to lighten up!
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  • This game has gone on for generations, I played it and so did my parents before me and probably my children do too:o Considering the things some kids get up to I think its pretty harmless - just be thankful they are not throwing bricks through your windows.

    The best advice I could give you is to just ignore them as the more annoyed you get the more fun it is :)
  • ailuro2
    ailuro2 Posts: 7,540 Forumite
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    clark1982 wrote:
    I played as a kid too. Just harmless fun. We called it chicken nelly. Not sure why! It was great fun and hilarious.

    chickanelly for us too, but I never played it, thought it was cruel and that it might be someone old behind the door, bless my little cotton socks:D
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  • lewt
    lewt Posts: 9,158 Forumite
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    Maybe all the elderly miserable people like yourself should be shot instead so that the future generation doesn't turn out all miserable like you.

    You must have had a pretty boring childhood if you never played it yourself.

    You should look at the positive side that they are out and about and not like millions of other children sitting indoors playing on the computer or watching tv becoming FAT and unhealthy.

    easy.. i'd kick off if kids did it to my door loads as i'm sure you would if you wanna test that give me your address and i'll send a few local tear aways round...:rolleyes:
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  • fwhorn
    fwhorn Posts: 269 Forumite
    ojexpress wrote:
    Ohhh yes
    innocent fun?
    I have students (dormally drunk) knocking my door sometimes several times a night between 2 and 5am (thanks to the late night drinking law) and then running off.

    Any ideas?


    Take your knocker off, stick a DRAWING PIN to your doorbell, cover it with DOG POO.

    When they come past at night and go for the knocker it wont be there, so they will try to ring the bell.

    What do you do when you PR!CK your finger?

    YOU PUT IT STRAIGHT IN YOUR MOUTH! TEE-HEE.
  • lil_me
    lil_me Posts: 13,186 Forumite
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    We get this sometimes. Usually if I've had to tell the kids off for something or kicked them out of the garden for fighting in the summer. I didn't do it as a child, especially after my friends brother got his face slashed with a knife by an annoyed man who thought he was knocking on his door, when it was actually his brother.

    fwhorn, ewwwww thats just icky lol
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  • Mandles
    Mandles Posts: 4,121 Forumite
    Oh kids that do this sort of stuff make me wild. I chased after one and had a right go as my little boy was really sick and ill and he woke him up.....i was mad! I live down a pretty good road as areas go and in the last 2 weeks have had egg on my car window (i had a note on my door saying please dont ring as baby asleep so little sods did this instead).Next i had a small ramp under my back wheel 2 days ago but i noticd before i got in car and an apple chucked in front garden.
    We all have done naughty stuff in the past im sure but we knew an adult could clip us around the ear or the police give us a good telling off but now they are untouchale and the law lets them do whatever they like and no one can touch them and they know it so heres to the future(what goes around comes around) and i can see kids being even worse when these little horrors are grown up and have there own homes and nice cars!
  • needaspirin
    needaspirin Posts: 1,208 Forumite
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    We used to push a drawing pin into the top of the window frame, tie black cotton to it, attach a black button about a foot down then continue the thread across the lawn and through the privet. We could sit on the other side of the privet and pull the thread to tap on the window. When our victim opened the curtains there was nothing to see.:rotfl:
  • gibby
    gibby Posts: 426 Forumite
    to get your own back

    Skelerton Mask, with an old jacket & trousers all sewn together
    then tie it like a puppet with fishing line and chuck it out an upstairs window
    to be near the step

    when the little !!!!!!s run up your path, pull on the line and it jumps up and scares the pants off them

    even better - add some speakers and a scream

    we did this one halloween and got a parent at the door complaining that his little thug had messed his trousers and wouldnt come out.
    he didnt know the little sod had been 5 times and almost knocked our door down

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