If your teen girls are roaming your neighborhood Saturday nights

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Anonymous wrote:What if a homeowner calls them out by name on a public Facebook (o similar) group and then colleges admissions officers and job recruiters can Google it? Isn't that reason enough that this is a really bad idea.

Imagine being that petty. How sad.

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DCUM is where I learned that some parents are so against telling their kids no they’d rather risk them getting shot than say that horrible word to their offspring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if a homeowner calls them out by name on a public Facebook (o similar) group and then colleges admissions officers and job recruiters can Google it? Isn't that reason enough that this is a really bad idea.

Imagine being that petty. How sad.

I wouldn’t do it but I’d be grateful to anyone petty enough to go there.

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Anonymous wrote:The kids who are getting shot are not ringing the doorbell and running away. They are pounding on the door, kicking the door, and sound like they are trying to break into the house. They are doing this in the dark and when many people are sleeping. The sleeping person wakes up to the sounds of someone trying to break into their house.

You don’t shoot someone running away from you, that is not justifiable in most cases.

I can see people shooting the person pounding on their door trying to break in through the door. I would call 911 and wait for the door to actually break, if I owned a gun, but I am sure that there are people who would say that is risky and just shoot through the door.

Better yet, tell your kid to not play DDD because it is annoying and you will punish them with whatever consequence if you find out they are playing DDD. If they do decide to play, ring the door bell once and run away. Don’t pound on the door and don’t do it after dark.While you are at it, tell them that mailbox baseball is a federal crime. I knew kids who ended up in federal court for mailbox baseball as a teen. Illegal to tamper with the mail.

This kid knocked a few times and was down the street by the time he was shot: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/us/houston-ding-dong-ditch-shooting-wwk

I bet there will be a ptsd defense. I really don’t think it’s overboard to tell your kids that they shouldn’t bang on people’s doors at night because there are a lot of mentally unstable people with guns in this country.

That’s why people shouldn’t have guns. That’s the problem. Not the kid.

As the child of a parent with military PTSD this isn’t a moral or judicial excuse.

Whether people should or shouldn’t have guns is pretty irrelevant - they do have guns. That’s not changing. Parent accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is where I learned that some parents are so against telling their kids no they’d rather risk them getting shot than say that horrible word to their offspring.

Yours kids aren’t perfect and neither are you. Honestly, your judgment means you’re uncomfortable with your parenting.

An adult shooting a laughing child half way down the block is the monster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids who are getting shot are not ringing the doorbell and running away. They are pounding on the door, kicking the door, and sound like they are trying to break into the house. They are doing this in the dark and when many people are sleeping. The sleeping person wakes up to the sounds of someone trying to break into their house.

You don’t shoot someone running away from you, that is not justifiable in most cases.

I can see people shooting the person pounding on their door trying to break in through the door. I would call 911 and wait for the door to actually break, if I owned a gun, but I am sure that there are people who would say that is risky and just shoot through the door.

Better yet, tell your kid to not play DDD because it is annoying and you will punish them with whatever consequence if you find out they are playing DDD. If they do decide to play, ring the door bell once and run away. Don’t pound on the door and don’t do it after dark.While you are at it, tell them that mailbox baseball is a federal crime. I knew kids who ended up in federal court for mailbox baseball as a teen. Illegal to tamper with the mail.

This kid knocked a few times and was down the street by the time he was shot: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/us/houston-ding-dong-ditch-shooting-wwk

I bet there will be a ptsd defense. I really don’t think it’s overboard to tell your kids that they shouldn’t bang on people’s doors at night because there are a lot of mentally unstable people with guns in this country.

Of course tell them not to. But it's not just homeowners legitimately afraid of break-ins doing this. And the kid would be just as dead if he'd been accidentally knocking on the wrong door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is where I learned that some parents are so against telling their kids no they’d rather risk them getting shot than say that horrible word to their offspring.

And we live in an area with lots of veterans with PTSD. It's not a good place to go banging on people's doors at night.

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Anonymous wrote:What if a homeowner calls them out by name on a public Facebook (o similar) group and then colleges admissions officers and job recruiters can Google it? Isn't that reason enough that this is a really bad idea.

Imagine being that petty. How sad.

Just tell your kid not to DDD. That is not a threat they are going to be worried about. The chances that someone will post their photo, someone will post their full name in the comments of a public post, it will stay there, the parents won’t successfully get it removed and a future employer will see it and not hire them are pretty rare. No, college admissions do not individually search every name.

It’s better to tell them other reasons not to do this. It scares people. It’s not nice. It can be dangerous if you run into the wrong person.