Neighbor Kids Have Harassed Their Family for Over 2 Years — Now They’re Threatening to Call the Parents and Police
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What would you do if a couple neighbor kids kept coming over to your house and harassing you? They do all kinds of different crazy things just to annoy you. Would you try to ignore them, tell their parents, or call the police?
In this story, one family is dealing with this exact situation, and it has been going on for over two years! I’m honestly surprised they didn’t talk to the kids’ parents a long time ago, but the problems have only gotten worse.
Now, they’re wondering if it’s better to talk to the kids’ parents or call the police.
Keep reading for all the details.
WIBTA For Calling The Police on The Neighborhood Kids/Their Parents
I (23F) and my family (mom and sisters) have been being harassed and overall being targeted by two boys in the neighborhood (approx. 9-11 yrs) for the past couple years.
It began after my younger sister (13F) stopped talking to one of the boys on their walk to school and at school.
We assumed that he and his friend would stop after a couple weeks but it’s been over two years at this point.
This is really awful behavior!
It’s just been annoying most of the time, throwing garbage in our yard, running through the yard to scare our cats sitting in the windows, blasting music towards our house, etc..
Last year, the two boys began running up to our door and body slamming and kicking the door once a day for two weeks.
We asked them politely to stop as it could damage the door/door frame and said that if they did it again we would talk to their parents.
They stopped messing with us altogether for a couple months after that then the usual shenanigans resumed minus the kicking/body slamming the door.
It’s gotten even worse.
However within the last couple months (starting when school ended for the summer), the kids have begun throwing milk cartons from the local lunch in the park program at our house and/or opening the cartons and pouring them in the yard near the door.
They’ve also been leaving a speaker near open windows and blasting random sounds and music at all hours of the day and night and tapping on the windows during the day.
Over the weekend, the boys printed out “WANTED” signs with a picture of one of them on it and taped them to each of our windows and both the front and back doors.
We took them all down but kept one as evidence of what happened.
Why are these kids even awake in the middle of the night?
Then last night around 1:30 am, they were out throwing things towards the house, hitting the street signs with metal poles and blasting music and weird sounds towards the open windows.
We’d assumed they had stopped after a while of them finally being quiet, however one of the boys came up to my open window, face on the screen, and whispered menacingly “you’re on the FBI watchlist”.
It obviously scared the heck out of me and I said “wth dude, leave and don’t do it again”.
Then the other boy did the same exact thing at my window.
Her mom warned the boys.
I got up and asked my younger sister if they’d also done it to her, she had her window closed so we assumed they didn’t try talking, but she said she heard tapping on her window.
My mom went outside to see where they were or if they were still in the yard and saw them sneaking back to under my window again.
My mom told them if she caught them doing it again that we would call the police and make a report.
Here’s what they plan to do.
We also will be talking to their parents later today when they get home.
Ideally, we don’t want to call the police, but I honestly don’t think they’d stop even after talking with the parents.
I think the police telling them to stop might scare them off enough to where they stop bothering us entirely though.
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They definitely need to tell the kids’ parents. It almost sounds like the parents are neglecting them or aren’t home if they’re running wild like this and running around the neighborhood in the middle of the night. Talking to the police would be the next step if talking the parents doesn’t work.
Let’s see what Reddit suggests.
This person offers some advice.
Another person thinks they need to contact a lawyer.
The kids’ behavior really is not okay.
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Another person thinks calling the police isn’t good enough.
It really does make you wonder about the parents if the kids are running around the neighborhood harassing the neighbors even in the middle of the night.
I’d probably still give the neighbors the benefit of the doubt and try contacting the parents first. If that doesn’t go well or doesn’t help, they definitely need to loop in the police or CPS depending on what happens.
This has gone on way too long!
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