Ding dong ditching and cops brought home

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I guess they don't know how to play the game. You ring the doorbell and run away. No chance of getting shot.

Because the other (stranger) residents are just props for their entertainment. No matter how it might frighten or annoy them. Got it.

Door bell ringing is not scary

This has been gone over.

Yes. Just reminding you it’s not scary.

You are wrong. Go touch grass.

[Anonymous]

If your brat woke me up at 10 pm on a weeknight I'd hate your guts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harmless prank = nobody is harmed. Like the example of calling your friend's house in the afternoon and asking if their refrigerator is running. Or putting toilet paper around the tree of a girl you have a crush on.

Not harmless prank = somebody is harmed, even if that harm is just being briefly frightened or inconvenienced or woke up from sleep before a day of work. Now, to do one of these types of pranks on a complete stranger at 10pm- that's no longer funny.

I usually don't throw this word around, but if your definition of "harm" includes "being briefly frightened or inconvenienced or woke up from sleep before a day of work," you truly are a snowflake.

You know what? I don't care. Your "snowflake" 14 year old nearly grown man doesn't have the right to "briefly frighten" or "wake me up from sleep before work" just for his own amusement. Just, no. Full stop. Do better.

+1,000

+1. 14 year olds are too old to be this reckless, especially with all the chaos going on right now( Trayvon Martin, kid in a being shot and killed for mistakenly climbing into the wrong window etc).

I'd expect this from 10 year olds during the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

Or teach your “children” not to go pounding on strangers doors at night as part of a prank

[Anonymous]

I'm a guy, and I had a sleepover with a friend in 8th grade. At night we sneaked out to roam the neighborhood. My mom discovered we weren't there and called my friend's dad, who drove his car around and caught us. My friend got yelled at and taken home. It was all pretty harmless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a guy, and I had a sleepover with a friend in 8th grade. At night we sneaked out to roam the neighborhood. My mom discovered we weren't there and called my friend's dad, who drove his car around and caught us. My friend got yelled at and taken home. It was all pretty harmless.

Sounds harmless since you were just roaming and not approaching homes/ knocking on unknown doors/ etc. Harmless except to your probably terrified parents, but, at least it was only your own parents who were bothered and we all know this comes with the territory of parenting teens! Bothering other adults on purpose is where I draw the line. I expect a fair amount of being bothered myself, as the mom

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

Or teach your “children” not to go pounding on strangers doors at night as part of a prank

Mmmm. Not really an "or" situation. If neighbors are shooty, time to move!! How do I know they won't just come by and shoot me? Sounds like they are super-aggressive and trigger happy, if the cops are warning neighbors about them. I wonder if the cop knows something about the neighbor? Maybe they are a domestic abuser or a gun hoarder, or have other warning signs that they might be a mass shooter in the making?

Anyway, I'd be looking at real estate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

So you have no people with mental illness in your community? You have no vets with PTSD in your community?

It's amazing what people will say in order to let their young teenagers run around after 10 at night.

[Anonymous]

I never open my door unless I can see someone I know in the window

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

Or teach your “children” not to go pounding on strangers doors at night as part of a prank

Mmmm. Not really an "or" situation. If neighbors are shooty, time to move!! How do I know they won't just come by and shoot me? Sounds like they are super-aggressive and trigger happy, if the cops are warning neighbors about them. I wonder if the cop knows something about the neighbor? Maybe they are a domestic abuser or a gun hoarder, or have other warning signs that they might be a mass shooter in the making?

Anyway, I'd be looking at real estate.

Or the cop was being passive aggressive. Like when a busybody mom is like “I told your son Larlo to stop climbing the fence at the park because I wouldn’t want him to get hurt” when really she just wants him to stop breaking rules. I could see the cop using that method to try to keep the parent from being snippy and rude and defensive. “We were just WORRIED about this gang of teens banging on everyone’s doors at 10pm causing them to call the police. We just wouldn’t want THEM to get hurt!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

So you have no people with mental illness in your community? You have no vets with PTSD in your community?

It's amazing what people will say in order to let their young teenagers run around after 10 at night.

Not just run around (which, honestly , whatever- as a slightly older teen, 16, my curfew wasn’t until 11). But run around trespassing and scaring strangers in their homes. At best it’s rude and anti social behavior, and at worst it’s a stepping stone to scaring people in worse ways by actually breaking in or taking things further, or possibly getting hurt by a scared homeowner

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader had friends spend the night. They went out to the park down the street (very safe master planned community) around 10 and about 30 minutes later my doorbell rang and it was 2 cops and my kid and his friends. The cops let me know they got a call and found the kids walking. The kids admitted and were honest and kind of in shock. I couldn't believe they would be so stupid but I realize the collective wisdom of 6 8th grade boys is actually dumb and risky. The cops told them they were putting themselves in a lot of danger because people around here wouldn't hesitate to use a gun in a situation like that in this day and age. They were not wrong. The kids definitely learned their lesson.

How would you handle this with the other parents? One kid already told his mom. Others told me they want to be the ones to tell their parents in the morning, which I understand. I should follow up with a text to the parents later in the day to see if they have spoken with their kid, right? I would want to know and I don't want the parents to think I am not taking responsibility.

If my community was one where I believed that random neighbors would be likely to shoot my children, I'd move somewhere safer.

Bless your heart. You have no idea who your neighbors are nor do you control who moves in. Mental illness knows no limits nor does domestic violence. You may not see it but you live amidst it. Your only hope is to live on your own island where you're more likely to be able to control who comes/goes/stays. Moving to the wilderness is no guarantee of protection. Ted Kaczynski lived in a remote cabin in the Montana but he had to get supplies in a town. Eric Rudolph lived in the NC wilderness but was captured going to the store. Bad stuff happens everywhere.

[Anonymous]

What does “very safe master planned community” mean? You don’t live around DC I assume.

[Anonymous]

Wow. Seems like a lot of you don’t remember being this age! Most 8th graders are still pretty immature. I’m not saying it was a good plan or idea but they didn’t harm anyone.