Dealing with neighbourhood cats?

[Papa_Complex]

Ripping them a new ass? Damned close to it, the fourth time i went out into the back yard, on the same night. Their parents have obviously told them to just keep doing what they're doing, based on my 'conversations' with them. "I work 10 hours a day and don't have time, to watch my kids." "They're kids and they'll play wherever they want to." "The property manager told us to have them play there, instead of in the parking lot."

When I was a kid if we hit someone's window, we ran like shit, whether we broke the window or not. Now they don't give a damn, and it's the parents' fault for being parents, in name only.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Have you tried ripping the kids a new ass and deflating their ball? Don't need to destroy it, just get an inflator needle and squeeze the air out of it and tell them little bastards that next time you'll set it on fire...

Or, pay kids from another neighborhood $5 each, to bounce soccer balls off those people's windows.

I would start making it incredibly uncomfortable for those kids. Or, better, the parents. CPS

[defector]

Play soccer with them one day, and boot one right between the eyes of one of the little fuckers. Bet they stop then.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by defector

Play soccer with them one day, and boot one right between the eyes of one of the little fuckers. Bet they stop then.

I went the plausible deniability route, instead. I went out back, when they kicked the ball back there, and whipped it past one of the prime instigators. He face-planted, when he reached out to try and catch it. I would never hit a kid

[Trip]

I would say take their ball next time it comes on your patio, but then they would probably steal your bike.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

I would say take their ball next time it comes on your patio, but then they would probably steal your bike.

I don't want to be *that* neighbour, no matter how bad they are.

One of them got pissed off, at his father, and flattened all four tires on his car. His father just laughed at it.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I don't want to be *that* neighbour, no matter how bad they are.

One of them got pissed off, at his father, and flattened all four tires on his car. His father just laughed at it.

Yeah, you usually never get anything resolved by telling on people or things like taking the ball away. That's why you need to be the fucking nuts neighbor no one wants to fuck with cause they are scared you are going to go on a shooting rampage.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

Yeah, you usually never get anything resolved by telling on people or things like taking the ball away. That's why you need to be the fucking nuts neighbor no one wants to fuck with cause they are scared you are going to go on a shooting rampage.

I'm thinking of having an end of summer BBQ and inviting maybe a dozen motorcycle riding friends. The more Harleys, the better.

[defector]

You could always get a cat and train it to shit on the soccer ball.

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

We have a relatively small courtyard and they play soccer in it. My patio is off the end of one of their goals, when they do. I don't have a fence, on my patio, and they frequently hammer the ball off my back door, and windows. I also keep my bike back there. It was hit, more than once. It wouldn't have been safe in my parking spot, either, because they play soccer there too.

This isn't an entire neighbourhood of kids, it's the kids from 4 houses. From just those four houses, there are something like 16 kids. Their parents don't give a damn and don't watch them. One of the parents is actually a soccer coach, who got pissed off when they were bouncing a ball off his unit's wall, but it's OK for them top screw with me. Tried talking to the parents and, rather than apologies, got lip in response. In fact the night after the talk, the kids were out there until after midnight, playing soccer. Went to the property management company and they issued an order via letter, that has been completely ignored. The area is signed, by the property management, as "no playing of athletic games." There's a soccer pitch and two baseball diamonds at the school, across the street from us. They're almost always empty.

Open carry isn't a possibility up here, even on your own property. Too bad, because my Civil War replica hawgleg is a pretty impressive size.

I'm likely going to have to put up a fence up, but I shouldn't have to. I've got a Shelter Logic shed that I use for winter storage, of my lawn furniture and barbeque, that I put up early in order to protect my bike and back door in the meanwhile. That helps, somewhat, but yesterday they hammered the soccer ball off my back windows several times again.

I'm not the only one, who is having problems with these kids. It's at least half the neighbourhood, who are tired of the kids from just 4 units controlling the place. One mother hasn't even been able to let her kids out, all summer, because they get mercilessly picked on in their own yard.

Do something equally as aggravating. When the kids decide to "put one over on me" and play right on the property line while yelling and screaming, I start the leaf blower and stand in one spot with it howling. I make sure they know I'm not blowing leaves.

When the neighbour across the street used to sit on his front porch beating a drum repeatedly just to make noise, I'd take out the dirtbike. Point the exhaust at his house and fire it up. When he'd go back in the house, I'd shut off the bike and put it away.

One time he went in and cranked the music after one of our encounters, so I took my buddy's bike out of the shed. Parked it next to mine and fired it up. He had two 450 MX bikes thumping his way, and the problem went away.

You don't HAVE to be childish. But, it really is the best solution some time.