Ding dong ditching and cops brought home

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not getting the impression that anyone thinks it’s OK.

There just seems to be a disagreement on the level of “badness” it is and the consequences it warrants.

Read again. There are multiple ridiculous posters screeching “it’s normal!” “They’re just having fun!” “Prude!”

Asinine.

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Anonymous wrote:All this prank call stuff made me think back to my day. We totally prank called people. But it was during the day, and it was usually people we knew. And it was like, obviously a prank like “is your refrigerator running?” nonsense.

But once my mom got a call and it was a male voice asking how her husband was doing “after that terrible accident”. My mom was like what?? And the person laughed and hung up. My mom spent time calling my dads work, eventually pulling him out of a meeting (this is all pre cell phone) to make sure he was ok. She was in tears.

There are pranks and there are pranks. Seven year olds knocking on a door at 2pm and then giggling and running off, that you can see through your window, to someone they know like a friends mom, ok. Fine. Fourteen year olds to unknown houses , in a pack, in the middle of the night ? No. And don’t pretend you don’t see the difference between these two “pranks”.

I see the difference: a seven year old wouldn't do that. A 14 year old would. It's normal, age-appropriate behavior.

Sorry but trying to frighten strangers sleeping in their homes at nighttime with a gang of your friends isn’t normal age appropriate behavior.

They were asleep at 10 pm? At 2 am I would be pissed, but come on, at 10 pm they were watching TV. No doubt they went to the door, saw no one was there, looked at their camera footage and thought, "We've been pranked." Not that big of a deal for a normal person.

My spouse goes to sleep at 9-10 PM. I have health issues and sleep all kind of weird hours. I'd be pissed. I wold not think its funny to be pranked. When we had young kids, I'd be more pissed if they were waken up. It is a huge deal. Have some consideration. I'd turn in the camera footage to the police.

Oh my God. I'm dying at the image of you presenting a USB with kids tplaying ring and run to the cops. Their laughing faces would warm me for years.

You are why kids are having so many issues. Lousy parenting.

Why do you have so many issues. At some point U need to stop blaming your parents.

Go do your summer reading, teenager. School’s almost back.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Well this homeowner won in the end: https://wallmine.com/people/20010/plew-daniel-p-van

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Anonymous wrote:All this prank call stuff made me think back to my day. We totally prank called people. But it was during the day, and it was usually people we knew. And it was like, obviously a prank like “is your refrigerator running?” nonsense.

But once my mom got a call and it was a male voice asking how her husband was doing “after that terrible accident”. My mom was like what?? And the person laughed and hung up. My mom spent time calling my dads work, eventually pulling him out of a meeting (this is all pre cell phone) to make sure he was ok. She was in tears.

There are pranks and there are pranks. Seven year olds knocking on a door at 2pm and then giggling and running off, that you can see through your window, to someone they know like a friends mom, ok. Fine. Fourteen year olds to unknown houses , in a pack, in the middle of the night ? No. And don’t pretend you don’t see the difference between these two “pranks”.

I see the difference: a seven year old wouldn't do that. A 14 year old would. It's normal, age-appropriate behavior.

Sorry but trying to frighten strangers sleeping in their homes at nighttime with a gang of your friends isn’t normal age appropriate behavior.

They were asleep at 10 pm? At 2 am I would be pissed, but come on, at 10 pm they were watching TV. No doubt they went to the door, saw no one was there, looked at their camera footage and thought, "We've been pranked." Not that big of a deal for a normal person.

Yes, plenty of people get up for work extremely early and are in bed before 10. Kids, including young kids who are murder for exhausted parents to get to sleep, are asleep. Enough with the stupid excuses. Boyswillbeboys, amirite?

+1 And it's not ok at any time of day. A kid ding dong ditched me at 2 p.m. when my todddler was asleep and I was pissed because it woke my kid up. I cut him some slack because it was the afternoon when any salesman could have rang the doorbell, plus COVID times and kids were bored, but at 10 p.m. you better believe I would take out my Ring doorbell footage and send it around the neighborhood and see whose kids thought this was their idea of fun.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

I'm not seeing to where those charges led to anything though. And the takeaway is still that this is harmless? This man had both his front AND his back doors pounded on at 10pm so he ran out there to see what was going on while his kids slept inside, ended up confronting the teenager and tackling him as he tried to escape, and then called the police while not letting him leave. Sounds like the homeowner was traumatized and irate, and the teenager got more than he bargained for. I want the "harmless prank" poster to come back here hah

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

So the criminal justice system believes ding dong ditch is harmless and a violent response from a home owner is illegal.

Wow! The system did work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

So the criminal justice system believes ding dong ditch is harmless and a violent response from a home owner is illegal.

Wow! The system did work.

"Harmless"? I see many people being harmed as a result of that teenager's decision.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

the only harm was at the hands of the ridiculous homeowner, running after the ditchers in his underwear. Who runs after someone in their underwear then claims he was afraid of them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this prank call stuff made me think back to my day. We totally prank called people. But it was during the day, and it was usually people we knew. And it was like, obviously a prank like “is your refrigerator running?” nonsense.

But once my mom got a call and it was a male voice asking how her husband was doing “after that terrible accident”. My mom was like what?? And the person laughed and hung up. My mom spent time calling my dads work, eventually pulling him out of a meeting (this is all pre cell phone) to make sure he was ok. She was in tears.

There are pranks and there are pranks. Seven year olds knocking on a door at 2pm and then giggling and running off, that you can see through your window, to someone they know like a friends mom, ok. Fine. Fourteen year olds to unknown houses , in a pack, in the middle of the night ? No. And don’t pretend you don’t see the difference between these two “pranks”.

I see the difference: a seven year old wouldn't do that. A 14 year old would. It's normal, age-appropriate behavior.

Sorry but trying to frighten strangers sleeping in their homes at nighttime with a gang of your friends isn’t normal age appropriate behavior.

They were asleep at 10 pm? At 2 am I would be pissed, but come on, at 10 pm they were watching TV. No doubt they went to the door, saw no one was there, looked at their camera footage and thought, "We've been pranked." Not that big of a deal for a normal person.

My spouse goes to sleep at 9-10 PM. I have health issues and sleep all kind of weird hours. I'd be pissed. I wold not think its funny to be pranked. When we had young kids, I'd be more pissed if they were waken up. It is a huge deal. Have some consideration. I'd turn in the camera footage to the police.

Oh my God. I'm dying at the image of you presenting a USB with kids tplaying ring and run to the cops. Their laughing faces would warm me for years.

You are why kids are having so many issues. Lousy parenting.

Why do you have so many issues. At some point U need to stop blaming your parents.

Go do your summer reading, teenager. School’s almost back.

Okay, your therapist told you not to stop your Zoloft just because you “feel normal” back on the pills girl.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

So the criminal justice system believes ding dong ditch is harmless and a violent response from a home owner is illegal.

Wow! The system did work.

Actually no, a quick google search tells you that ding dong ditching IS, in fact , illegal.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/#:~:text=The%20simple%20answer%20is%20Yes,ditchers%20may%20face%20if%20arrested.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

I'm not seeing to where those charges led to anything though. And the takeaway is still that this is harmless? This man had both his front AND his back doors pounded on at 10pm so he ran out there to see what was going on while his kids slept inside, ended up confronting the teenager and tackling him as he tried to escape, and then called the police while not letting him leave. Sounds like the homeowner was traumatized and irate, and the teenager got more than he bargained for. I want the "harmless prank" poster to come back here hah

It was a harmless prank gone wrong because the homeowner was a nut.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

So the criminal justice system believes ding dong ditch is harmless and a violent response from a home owner is illegal.

Wow! The system did work.

"Harmless"? I see many people being harmed as a result of that teenager's decision.

Post something what’re a homeowner was harmed by a ding dong ditch.

[Anonymous]

https://www.pumphreylawfirm.com/blog/is-ding-dong-ditching-as-harmless-as-pranksters-think/

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s crazy that the police brought them home. I don’t think this is nearly the big deal people are making it out to be, other than going to the park at 10 was a dumb idea.

This. It's overzealous policing. Police stopped and picked up kids for walking around? That's ridiculous. What law was broken? Even the ding dong ditch - someone called the cops? Because of . . . why exactly?

That said, even though it was an overreaction, because the police were involved you need to let the other parents know immediately.

And where do you live, OP, that people would open fire because of this?

As an aside, the kids obviously are white, because otherwise we'd be reading about this in the paper, and a few of them would be dead.

Totally agree with everything here. We did far worse things in middle and high school and we all turned out to be well functioning and law abiding adults.
Is ding, dong, ditch a crime in some jurisdictions?

Also, remind your kids that a lot of people have Ring doorbells so they are likely going to get caught.

Yes. Probably not in OP’s since the kids weren’t charged, but it is illegal in some areas.

What is the crime, exactly?

Since your Google is apparently broke, here, let me help you.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ding-dong-ditch-leads-to-charges-for-homeowner/

Yes what a harmless prank! Amirite? No harm to anyone! Just little kids being silly!

So the criminal justice system believes ding dong ditch is harmless and a violent response from a home owner is illegal.

Wow! The system did work.

Actually no, a quick google search tells you that ding dong ditching IS, in fact , illegal.

https://www.guidelinelaw.com/is-ding-dong-ditching-illegal/#:~:text=The%20simple%20answer%20is%20Yes,ditchers%20may%20face%20if%20arrested.

So is 36 mph in a 35 yet it is harmless.