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O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
oo wrote: Hi I know people on these groups are full of ideas and are very resourceful. I have been looking for a solution to my problem on the net. Basically youths won't stop sitting on my garden wall, despite my repeated requests and threats they continue to sit there. Basically they are noisy and wil eventually weaken the structure of the wall. I was wondering if any of you have any practical solutions? (apart from barb wire, glass on the wall or using a baseball bat on their knees etc lol) I would appreciate sensible and legal solutions... Oh yeah and theres no point moaning to their parents or police - thats useless. Any advice appreciated as its driving me nuts, having to constantly chase the brats. lol Thanks. Trellis? Cheers Jason -- Check out my ebay auctions for Passifora caerulea and edulis seeds http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....sort=3&rows=50 |
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O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
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=PrOzAk=- writes I'm not trying to scare you, just make you realise what kids are like. It all depends on your area and how bad these kids are, some teens know the law and don't have any respect for their parents, these kids are pretty much uncontrolable (don't get them mad). What a peculiar state society, in general, has got itself into :(( In the old days a word to their parents would have been enough to end the whole affair. In the even older days, they would have been working so hard that they wouldn't even have had time to sit on walls!!!!! In the even older, older days, they would have been parents by this time and trying to bring up their own youngsters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
In article , Les Wilson
writes Walk out there with a pump-action shotgun loaded with blanks, But don't forget to buy the license first or you will be inside before you can blink your eyes!!!!! -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
In article t, Caliban
writes Would you please tell your friends that my friends keep guns next to their windows to address such threats upon their life and property? Unfortunately, in this country, if *you* protect *your* property *you*, not the criminal, end up in prison :(( -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
In message , Jane Ransom
writes In article , - =PrOzAk=- writes I'm not trying to scare you, just make you realise what kids are like. It all depends on your area and how bad these kids are, some teens know the law and don't have any respect for their parents, these kids are pretty much uncontrolable (don't get them mad). What a peculiar state society, in general, has got itself into :(( In the old days a word to their parents would have been enough to end the whole affair. Around here a word to their parents becomes the start of a whole new drama. They invariably don't listen and echo the threats of their offspring. -- dave @ stejonda |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
In message , beanykermit
writes respect! for the police ROFL! just be patient, when you age a little you'll understand -- dave @ stejonda |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
I think this is the best idea by far (see below). No cost and no stress. Ask
them if they had a good day at school and then tell them that you spent the day train spotting. Also ask them if they would like to see your huge collection of train photos. They will be off running :) Clara xxx Tosh wrote in message ... oo spoke thusly: Hi I know people on these groups are full of ideas and are very resourceful. I have been looking for a solution to my problem on the net. Basically youths won't stop sitting on my garden wall, despite my repeated requests and threats they continue to sit there. Basically they are noisy and wil eventually weaken the structure of the wall. I was wondering if any of you have any practical solutions? (apart from barb wire, glass on the wall or using a baseball bat on their knees etc lol) I would appreciate sensible and legal solutions... Oh yeah and theres no point moaning to their parents or police - thats useless. Any advice appreciated as its driving me nuts, having to constantly chase the brats. lol Go out and sit with them and talk to them about basket weaving train spotting or stamp collecting , they'll think you're a nutter and keep away :) |
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O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
"JD" wrote in message . com...
Bill Seurer wrote in message ... Dave C. wrote: Sprinklers with a remote control in the house. Just a timer would do, doesn't need to be remote control. -Dave Get one of those motion activated ones. Like this one: http://www.smarthome.com/6120.html Now that's a keeper! Absolutely perfect for the householder who wants to get his windows smashed. If it really isn't bearable to have your wall sat on -- and if they were nice kids, I think I'd quite like it; but we must assume these aren't nice ones -- why not just make the wall a bit taller? Or replace it with a well-anchored iron fence with harmless but uncomfortable prongs? That way nobody breaks any laws, the young find somewhere else to hang out, and you get your peace and quiet back. Did somebody suggest pyracantha? They look nice, and you'd need an ironclad bum to sit on it. Maybe plant them through chicken wire, peg down the wire and bury it to make them harder to uproot. Whatever you do, I'd say wind down any reaction you make: they'll love any chance to wind you up. I was quite shocked, but shouldn't have been surprised, when my 21-year-old son told me how he and a friend used, as kids, to make a practice of cycling across the grass outside one house in the village simply because the owner's reaction had been entertainingly hostile a couple of times when they'd done it by accident. So let's consider psychological warfare. I wonder what would happen if whenever they showed up you went out and joined them sitting on the wall with your mug of tea, and told them all about when you were their age in excruciating detail, preferably with much repetition, and maybe a few asides about the state of your health. It would then be your turn to enjoy a wind-up, and they'd probably avoid your place ever after. Mike. |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
It has just came to me in a flash of light - why don't you get some compost
[really smelly stuff] and lay it along the inside of the wall [along the ground] ... once they come near the wall they will smell the compost and bugger off elsewhere, this may be smelly for a couple ofdays maybe even weeks but should defo do the trick Kolonel Kurtz |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in message ... On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:35:17 +0100, oo wrote: This is the sort of attitude from an adult that has caused this lack of respect for other peoples property. When will society wake up and tell these "liberal" parents that their little darlings are brats and they need to keep them in chech. In my teen years I would have had a clip round the ear and that would have been that, the threat of telling my father, or worse still, my Grandmother would have had me shaking in my boots. Society needs to take back the initiative here and get our laws changed so that we don't have the cases we read about like the Martin case et al. tony "Weaken the wall"? It would have to be a pretty flimsy wall for a few young derrieres to "weaken" it. Let me ask a critical question: are they ~~really~~ weakening the wall -- or is it that their sitting there simply annoys you? It seems to me that it's important for you to look in the mirror and sort out your own motives before trying to do something about this. If perchance the real issue is simple annoyance ("it's *my* wall they're sitting on!"), then among the reasonable remedies is "learning to put up with something you don't like and can't do much about." OTOH, if the wall really is that flimsy, then you better have it taken down and reconstructed before it falls apart and injures someone. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
"ameijers" wrote in message ... "Paul Bines" wrote in message ... Paint your wall top with that black sticky gunk they use to keep pigeons off ledges. Or, one better, put fake bird muck on the top of the wall - you could probably make some fake stuff (anyone got any recipes?) Au Res., Paul Why make life hard? Just spread a kilo of bird seed once a week or so, and the birds will keep the wall well decorated with the real stuff. No kid knowingly sits in bird shit. This is about as near to a perfect solution you will get. What a wonderful thought! Exchanging a bunch of louts for a flock of birds and, in the fullness of time, a marvellous collection of lichens. Franz |
O/T people sitting on garden wall. advice needed
"Brandon" wrote in message ... "oo" wrote in message ... snip Basically youths won't stop sitting on my garden wall, despite my repeated requests and threats they continue to sit there. Basically they are noisy and wil eventually weaken the structure of the wall. I was wondering if any of you have any practical solutions? (apart from barb wire, glass on the wall or using a baseball bat on their knees etc lol) I would appreciate sensible and legal solutions... snip I recently visited a Victorian School Museum and one of the things they did was have brass studs embedded into the hand rail on staircases to discourage pupils from sliding down them, why not buy large brass studs, most DIY stores have them or something similar and either superglue them or drill and cement them into the brickwork of the wall. This is probably your safest bet legally, anything that will harm or damage them or their property would make you liable, an innocent bystander may temporarily sit on your wall to tie their shoelace etc and be faced with their clothes being damaged or themselves being injured. There are plenty of cases of burglars successfully suing residents of houses that they have broken into because of measures that the residents have taken to stop them being burgled that has resulted in the burglar being injured. There have been a large number of interesting suggestions, all of which, with one exception, will unfortunately lead to trouble of one kind or another. The ones which come closer than ten miles of the law can be rejected immediately, unless one is a gambler. The vast majority of the others make it clear to the louts that something is actively planned against them. The brats I know will almost certainly plan an act of revenge. The only plan which will work is one in which the yobbos don' realise that they are being plotted against. Only one of the suggested plans, namely that of "ameijers" fulfils this requirement: Feed birds regularly on the wall at times when the brats are somewhere else, in order to get the wall covered here and there in bird droppings. It will turn out that the birds are more persistent than the children. Franz |
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