I came home to find various pieces of trash like concrete bricks, rocks, boards with nails in them, littered around in my backyard and in my pool
Most likely, it was the kids behind us, ya know, from trajectory and whatnot(fake scientist)
i gots no proof, so is there anything i can do?
Call the police. They can talk to the neighbors, see if it’s happening to anyone else and narrow down the culprits (perhaps a neighbor saw it happening). If you have a good feeling as to who it was exactly. Let the police know this is well. If it’s just young kids (say under 12 or so), police showing up at the door and asking if they know anything will probably be enough to get them to knock it off.
mmk, that sounds reasonable, though im not sure what the parentals mgiht say about getting the police involved(im 17)
they mostly want me to stakeout the backyard and try to snap pics if i can
You’re a Ninja. Sneak into their room while they’re sleeping with all the bricks, etc., without waking them. Leave them on their dresser and in their closet. It won’t happen again.
ETA: Try talking to the parents before you call the cops, IMHO.
Release the hounds
Open the floodgates, start heating the oil, is the trebuchet locked and loaded?
Clearly, if they’ve mastered the boards-with-nails-in-them system of weaponry, then they are unstoppable.
Well I’d personally talk to the neighbors’ parents before calling the cops. But you are right having the cops show up does put the fear of god in the wee ones (heck, me too).
I had a kid who threw things.
It was just an activity he liked to do and it lasted a couple of years, say from 4-8. It seems to be some kind of developmental activity for some kiddos. I took mine ot the river a lot so he could throw rocks into the water.
When I knew he threw things into the neighbors yard, I went over and cleaned the mess up. Fortunately, she is a nice and patient grandma type.
I’d let the parents know so they can tell the kids to cut it out. Then if it is still a problem you can figure out what to do next.
Go to the local dog pound and get the body of a recently euthanized dog. Take it home and smack the body in the head with one of the boards with nails in it so that it is embedded. Cut up a chili and rub your fingers in your eyes. Go visit the neighbours with “Blossom’s” lifeless little corpse and ask them if they know how this could have happened, after all she was just playing in the backyard…
Well there you go, problem solved.
Talk to the parents of neighbors. Kids do stuff that even vigilant parents don’t catch. Ignore an occasional item if it shows up. Lastly call the cops to report the thrown debris, if it continues.
Let’s combine some of these ideas. I say sneak into the bedroom and leave the dog corpse. They’ll figure it out.
Who gives a shit about what the parents think? Maybe it would wake them up and let them know what their kids are doing.
I think he was referring to his own parents.
I recently saw a commercial on the Tv for a webcam/motionsensor/alert device.
Basically you set up a webcam, the program watches for movement and it emails your cell phone with the image with things start to move.
D’oh! :smack:
Honestly, though, I’m sure your parents are way pissed about the entire thing.
Orb does this, among lots of other features. I don’t know if it’s what you saw advertised, as I’ve never seen Orb mentioned on TV. The good thing about Orb is it’s free. I use it to stream music and videos to my laptop or cellphone when I’m away from home, and I can stream live video from my webcam to make sure the cat’s doing okay when we’re both gone.
Is there a bear in that trebuchet?
But they won’t stop there.
They’ll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!
Treehouse of Horror II