Just had a police visit because.....
maidinscotland
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.........my 9 yr old son was playing 'ding dong ditch', known in my day as 'ring bang skoosh' but basically means ringing the doorbell (or knocking the door) and running away. They gave him a stern talking to about how their time could be best spent elsewhere while he looked terrified and I told him not to do it again but methinks the real timewaster here is the householder who called the police for what is an age old kids prank!
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It is annoying but calling the police does seem a bit heavy handed.
Perhaps neighbours just receive a torrent of abuse, and a few threats, from some parents instead these days.
Anyway, I don't think your neighbour was necessarily out of hand for calling the police. Are they old? lonely? vulnerable? are you sure this is the first time it's happened? or could it be that there's lots of anti social behaviour in the area, and this is the straw that broke the camels back? so to speak?
of course if you know you neighbours well, I would have expected them to have let you know first out of courtesy to give you an opportunity to stop it. If not they may have felt that the only option was to call the police.
Police should do this stuff more. Yeah it sounds a bit Victor Meldrew but it's only timewasting if we think nipping stuff in the bud is a bad idea.
TBH, I'd congratulate the cops involved for taking an interest in something which can be a real nuisance and, apparently, handling it quite sensibly.
Why is it that people seem to overlook the obvious issues in favour of more convoluted ones?
I'd suggest the OP focus on the fact that her offspring is acting like an arse rather than worrying about whether or not the neighbour's complaints are disproportionate or not.
Well the OP did say ...
Which, for me, would have been enough to stop a repeat performance.
The only certainty is that it wouldn't have happened if the child hadn't been acting stupid in the first place.
It all got back to my Mum who grounded me for a fortnight and I was banned from playing with the others who did it
I didn't think kids still did that one tbh. None of the kids round here do it.
We weren't really into it when I was wee. Can't remember the official name for it but locally it was called DInger Bell. Only because one of the neighbours - a mad, old drunk (he was great craic, mind) - was called Dinger Bell and we loved any excuse to gulder DINGER! DINGER BELL! (in broad Belfast accents. Boys, we were rough.) Anything involving doors, bells or doorbells was referred to as Dinger Bell round our way. He was a bit of legend.
Yes, there are always two sides to a story.
This is the kind of stuff an old style local bobby would have dealt with. Not sure its possible to be that "local" anymore.
ideally yes, but we live in a time when you don't know how someone will react if you complain. Take the woman who complained to a passenger on the tube he was being too noisy last week, and got a load of grief.
I find this amazing under the circumstances.... Cant get them when you want one can you?
Weird how there's so many different names for it!