If your teen girls are roaming your neighborhood Saturday nights

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg, the other night, they hit my door so hard, it was loud! They ran away so fast, my ring didn't catch anything 😔 but we got new lights just in case...
We are worried it was the real bad guys!
You never know, I hope they don't come back.

Get some Xanax….for real.

[Anonymous]

You can say gun control all you want but there's no way to change the culture. The reality is we have a lot of armed men with a particular fetish, and a serious itch to scratch when it comes to the idea of using em

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can say gun control all you want but there's no way to change the culture. The reality is we have a lot of armed men with a particular fetish, and a serious itch to scratch when it comes to the idea of using em

Women own guns too - everyone sucks here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ding dong ditch was and will always be fun and every generation will do it and it will bother 10% of the people and the other 90% will be like “ah I remember those days”

When remote controls first came out for Comcast, my friends and I used to go to windows and turn off their TV’s. Good times

And I grew up in New Jersey. Mischief Night would send DCUM and Next Door into another dimension. LOL

This isn’t New Jersey. If you tried this is my neighborhood you’d be shot and killed.

And the shooter would be in prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a difference between ding dong ditch when I was a kid, at like 4 PM, when it was light out and people were awake. You didn’t go to the houses with babies or people we knew were sick. Today, neighbors are reporting kids pounding on doors at 3 AM, waking people up and scaring them.

I played ding dong ditch as a kid but it was pretty harmless. The stuff happening today, all to video tape and put on tik toc, is harassment. We have had the police called with ring footage handed over to them. No one has been arrested but there should not be a need to call the police because a group of tik toc junkies thinks it is fun to scare the crap out of people in the middle of the night.

And yes, kids are getting shot while doing this.

We had a band of tweens playing old school ding, dong, ditch in our neighborhood for a week. The only reason it was annoying was because we had an elderly dog that struggled to stand up that would try and jump up to bark at them. I called the parents of the kids, we knew who they were, and asked them to tell their kids to take us off their rotation because of the dog. It stopped at our house. Otherwise, I would have rolled my eyes at the game. And yes, I had a neighbor call my parents when I played the game. I got a stern talking to.

You tell this story and see only kids as the problem? I hear it and see an entire that community that is sick. Sick as in entitled, self-centered, lacking in everything from community to care to elders to respect.

Kids getting shot playing ding dong ditch. You’re right. It’s the kids that are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ding dong ditch — add “dead”.

New York Times (gift article):

Boy Shot During ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ Prank in Texas Has Died

The police in Houston detained a person after an 11-year-old boy was shot on Saturday night, officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/houston-boy-shot-ding-dong-ditch.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.vc3u.EWImB_6vBcYp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Note that it happened just before 11pm, not the middle of the day like in more innocent times. Not saying that any 11 yo deserves to be shot, simply that this is an unreasonable hour for an innocent prank. 11 is way too young to be out at night with a pack of unsupervised kids. Parenting failure.

He will be charged with murder so I would say it’s the home owner’s failure. You don’t shoot a kid in the back no matter what he did. But knocking on a door?

Gun control please

Failed parenting if your elementary school aged kid is roaming the neighborhood after dark. Not something a teenager should necessarily be doing either, but it is developmentally and socially more acceptable in our culture. You better believe these parents' parenting skills will also be going on trial. Defense attorney going to have a field day with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ding dong ditch — add “dead”.

New York Times (gift article):

Boy Shot During ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ Prank in Texas Has Died

The police in Houston detained a person after an 11-year-old boy was shot on Saturday night, officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/houston-boy-shot-ding-dong-ditch.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.vc3u.EWImB_6vBcYp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Note that it happened just before 11pm, not the middle of the day like in more innocent times. Not saying that any 11 yo deserves to be shot, simply that this is an unreasonable hour for an innocent prank. 11 is way too young to be out at night with a pack of unsupervised kids. Parenting failure.

He will be charged with murder so I would say it’s the home owner’s failure. You don’t shoot a kid in the back no matter what he did. But knocking on a door?

Gun control please

Failed parenting if your elementary school aged kid is roaming the neighborhood after dark. Not something a teenager should necessarily be doing either, but it is developmentally and socially more acceptable in our culture. You better believe these parents' parenting skills will also be going on trial. Defense attorney going to have a field day with that.

You’re mentally ill to think a parent will be put in trial for someone else murdering their child. This is one sick, as in mentally ill, society to think this.

[Anonymous]

11 year old boy shot dead.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/11-year-houston-boy-shot-door-knocking-prank/story?id=125141773

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ding dong ditch — add “dead”.

New York Times (gift article):

Boy Shot During ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ Prank in Texas Has Died

The police in Houston detained a person after an 11-year-old boy was shot on Saturday night, officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/houston-boy-shot-ding-dong-ditch.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.vc3u.EWImB_6vBcYp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Note that it happened just before 11pm, not the middle of the day like in more innocent times. Not saying that any 11 yo deserves to be shot, simply that this is an unreasonable hour for an innocent prank. 11 is way too young to be out at night with a pack of unsupervised kids. Parenting failure.

He will be charged with murder so I would say it’s the home owner’s failure. You don’t shoot a kid in the back no matter what he did. But knocking on a door?

Gun control please

Failed parenting if your elementary school aged kid is roaming the neighborhood after dark. Not something a teenager should necessarily be doing either, but it is developmentally and socially more acceptable in our culture. You better believe these parents' parenting skills will also be going on trial. Defense attorney going to have a field day with that.

You’re mentally ill to think a parent will be put in trial for someone else murdering their child. This is one sick, as in mentally ill, society to think this.

You're mentally envelopmentally delayed if you don't know what a "defense attorney" is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11 year old boy shot dead.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/11-year-houston-boy-shot-door-knocking-prank/story?id=125141773

This! It may be a "prank", but it can get out of hand quickly

[Anonymous]

There's a fantastic song about this from 20 years or so ago. "Geese of Beverley Road" by the National.

Yes, it's stupid. But youth is fleeting, and there's something magical about this that speaks to teens (and tweens). Just try to enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11 year old boy shot dead.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/11-year-houston-boy-shot-door-knocking-prank/story?id=125141773

This! It may be a "prank", but it can get out of hand quickly

Hey, love, we'll get away with it
We'll run like we're awesome, totally genius

Great album to boot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11 year old boy shot dead.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/11-year-houston-boy-shot-door-knocking-prank/story?id=125141773

This! It may be a "prank", but it can get out of hand quickly

Hey, love, we'll get away with it
We'll run like we're awesome, totally genius

Great album to boot.

You're a weirdo and a terrible parent.

[Anonymous]

Parents who encourage this are just trashy. Menacing behavior that might wake up kids/people who need to get up early/the elderly is not fun or funny.

I did not do this as a kid. I grew up in the district.

[Anonymous]

I don't think parents are encouraging DDD, I think many of us remember playing it as kids. Yes, the neighbor might rat us out and our parents would lecture us but it wasn't that big a deal. We also were not likely doing this late at night and we were not banging on doors like we are trying to bang them down. We rang a doorbell and ran away. We were not kicking the doors and slamming the doors.

The biggest difference is that more people are willing to shot someone and when your kid is pounding on someones door at midnight, they are at risk of getting hurt or killed because someone might take that as a serious threat to their home.

Are the people who are shooting the people running away in the right? No. Best way to avoid that? Tell your kid not to play DDD late at night and not to be pounding on the door like you are trying to break in. And yes, the idiots shooting people for this should not be shooting people but, again, the best way to prevent yourself from getting shot playing DDD is to not do it. Or not do it in such a way that you sound threatening and not just annoying.