To some level, “kids will be kids,” but many parents don’t realize that their darling munchkins carved by miracles might just be screaming monsters on an aircraft kicking the back of everyone else’s seat… Nobody wishes to yell at the neighborhood kids to get off of the yard every time their ball travels three inches into the lawn, but children should be taught to respect the property of others. In this story a new neighbour wanted to know whether or not they were wrong to prank the neighborhood prankster, people jumped in to aid. Read the entire story and let us know what are your views on this.
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Due to job opportunities, we recently moved into a new neighbourhood. While most things were going fairly smoothly, we’d at around 4pm hear a couple of knocks on our door, when we went to see who it was, to our surprise there wasn’t anybody there. It was only until a couple weeks later that we thought there could be the possibility of someone doing ding dong ditch. We just never thought of it as everyone here seemed really relaxed, so ding dong ditch never crossed our minds.
As to not resort to any extreme measures, we put up a sign near the door saying to “please not trouble the people inside by doing these silly pranks”, which didn’t work. Since it didn’t work, we resorted to asking people about it, but all i got was that it was some sort of tradition for kids in the neighbourhood to do this to the new people in the area.
This kind of irked me as ding dong ditch is really annoying so i set up a camera inside our house to capture who was outside our door.
After reviewing the footage multiple times i was able to confirm it was some brat who was a couple metres away. I went to speak to his parents but they laughed it off saying kids will be kids, so i decided that I’d myself do something about it. After 3 days the kid came back, but i was hiding behind an unlocked door with a large water bucket. As soon as he knocked and turned i opened the door and splashed him with water.
I thought that was that but, the kids parents came not even 10 mins later, demanding as to why i soaked their kid in water, i tried to justify my reasoning but to no avail.
Im conflicted/feel like an AH as i myself used a petty way of getting that kid to stop annoying us. I would love to hear your opinions on this as well.
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