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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should be made to go apologize in person to the people whose doors they knocked on, that sort of personal accountability will make them think twice before messing with other people again. And let's call it what it is -- messing with other people. Messing with their sleep, their peace and quiet, maybe their peace of mind. Some people here clearly think it's okay to do that, that it's not a big deal. I personally think it's sending the wrong message to anyone, and especially boys, that they can do that and it's okay.

This is probably colored by my own experience. We had a night of ding-dong-ditchers of a group of teen boys in my old neighborhood and it escalated to where they were not only pounding violently on people's front doors, they were jumping on cars up and down the street at 2 a.m. My DH and I woke up terrified that someone was trying to break in. He grabbed a ballbat when he went to the door, and multiple neighbors on the street would have answered the door with guns. The boys caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage to vehicles, including to my DH's vehicle.

We found out later that ONE boy of the group, when he saw how things were going sideways, left to go home and not participate. I sometimes think about the amount of guts that took and hope I could raise my kids to be like that boy. The rest of them got picked up by the police and identities confirmed w/ various doorbell cameras. They had to go through the court system and pay at least some restitution to the people.

We had another incident in our old neighborhood where someone's kid was roaming at night, crawled into someone else's house through a dog door and set their place on fire.

You never know what your kid might get up to when they are roaming at night with no adult supervision, but you can bet that, being teenagers, they will egg each other on and dare each other to do things that they know they wouldn't get away with if they were with their parents.

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Please stop Karen[/quote]

Seriously. They...rang a doorbell.[/quote]

I firmly believe this is one troll making it into a big deal with repeated posts.  No one cares about ding dong ditch.

When my kids are teens in middle school, if this is the most trouble they get in, I would be proud.  So many are vaping, failing out of school, depressed introverts inside all day looking at screens, and the extra "fun" kids drinking, smoking weed and having sex.  Gotta love the two pregnant 8th graders in our future middle school.

And every last one of us was outside playing jailbreak and kick the can until 10pm on weekends - then stayed up all night for sleepovers.  And yes, a few ding dong ditches and ahh, mischief night was always a blast too.

So let the troll keep trolling.  [/quote]

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