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Dublin 8 parents - Do you know where your children are?

  • 01-09-2013 09:29PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    Hi,

    For the last 2 nights children have been slapping on my window and trying to kick my door in. They are around 10 years old give or take 2 years. I would have thought they would be at home at this time with it being Sunday and 9.20 pm.

    If you are living in the area and your children are not at home at the moment, please ask when they do arrive home where have they been and what they have been up to.

    Next weekend I'll be calling the guards as I've now become a target.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    I told you last night.....NO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭fermanagh_man


    Not only Dublin 8

    last night on O'Connell street @10.30pm kids that age loitering outside shop on bikes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Next weekend I'll be calling the guards as I've now become a target.

    Oh can we please have a recording of that conversation when you mention to the guards that the 10 year olds are targeting you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    I've never understood why you are not allowed clatter the sh1t out of kids that either throw stuff at your house repeatedly or slap the windows repeatedly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    wazky wrote: »
    Oh can we please have a recording of that conversation when you mention to the guards that the 10 year olds are targeting you?

    What would you do in that situation? Seriously.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    omahaid wrote: »
    What would you do in that situation? Seriously.

    Classical music (Chopin, Mozart) generally has a warding-off effect, as does an attitude of utter calm; they go away and find someone who gives them better feedback.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Why are you a target, can you not defend yourself against kids, serious question?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Wow...the amount of victim blaming in this thread.

    Be brave OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Bit silly to suggest that parents ask where their kids where. If they're scummy enough to act the way you've described, I'd imagine they'd have no qualms about lying about where they were.

    That said, do call the police if it continues. You shouldn't have to deal with that shíte.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    They are around 10 years old give or take 2 years.

    So they could be 8 year olds or 12 year olds??

    Couldn't you go out and tell them to fuck off?? - Serious question btw!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭fathead82


    have you an upstairs window directly over the door? a bucket of cold water tipped out onto them will sort them out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    Not only Dublin 8

    last night on O'Connell street @10.30pm kids that age loitering outside shop on bikes

    Generally that is what kids do loiter, they hang around places, more concerned with their social group, rather than seeing how they appear to others, it's called being a teenager and has being going on for ions. Mind you 10:30 is abit late.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Hide indoors and bitch about it on the internet!, that will help your situation leaps and bounds.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    I know im too late but still


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    Hi,

    For the last 2 nights children have been slapping on my window and trying to kick my door in. They are around 10 years old give or take 2 years. I would have thought they would be at home at this time with it being Sunday and 9.20 pm.

    If you are living in the area and your children are not at home at the moment, please ask when they do arrive home where have they been and what they have been up to.

    Next weekend I'll be calling the guards as I've now become a target.

    Have you tired talking to the 10 year olds, I'm sort of thinking though all they want is to be chased by you, that sort of thing is the highlight of a 10 year olds life. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,974 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Move to a house in the middle of countryside if you want silence. What did you expect when you decided to live in an urban area!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    I know where this is going...



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 500 ✭✭✭Seamus1964


    Little tip:
    To get rid off annoying crows that are picking at newly seeded fields you need to catch one and hang a crow upside down will prevent another crows pickin fields.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Not only Dublin 8

    last night on O'Connell street @10.30pm kids that age loitering outside shop on bikes
    Not......LOITERING :eek:


  • Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Classical music (Chopin, Mozart) generally has a warding-off effect, as does an attitude of utter calm; they go away and find someone who gives them better feedback.

    And if that doesnt work, what do you do then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    GalwayGuy2 wrote: »
    I know where this is going...


    I need to see that movie seriously:D.

    Anyhow back to kids slapping windows and kicking peoples doors at 9:30 at night, on the week end, after the summer holidays. If anything don't make a big deal about it, inside a 10 year olds head you are the demon, it's quite a difficult route for a child to go through (the difference between fantasy and reality) generally at the age of 10 is when we start to grasp it, Although I'm prity sure most peoples idea of reality can be a little strange, my point is at 10 your concept of reality starts to become concrete, or become a form you use for the rest of your life.

    What the hell am I talking about :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Gentrification fail.
    wazky wrote: »
    Oh can we please have a recording of that conversation when you mention to the guards that the 10 year olds are targeting you?

    To be honest, it's probably the only option if the parents don't care and you can't/won't kick the f+ck out of the kids.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    wazky wrote: »
    Oh can we please have a recording of that conversation when you mention to the guards that the 10 year olds are targeting you?

    What else can I do?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney



    Next weekend I'll be calling the guards as I've now become a target.

    Why wait till next week to call the guards?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    Please see suggestions above, to what else you can do?

    Talk to them, also think about what was important to you when you where their age.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    fathead82 wrote: »
    have you an upstairs window directly over the door? a bucket of cold water warm p!ss tipped out onto them will sort them out.

    FYP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    Why are you a target, can you not defend yourself against kids, serious question?

    Yesterday they were hanging outside the house for about 10 mins kicking the door every now and then. I didn't go out as I reckon they wanted a bit of a laugh.

    They then slapped the window and at that stage I felt action needed to be taken. I opened the door and started to talk to them. There was about 20 of them there. One of them said will I move them one and I said please yes. I closed the door and half a minute later they gave an almighty slap at the window which I was worried might break it and kicked the door open so I went out and cursed them out of it as they were running down the street.

    A few of the lads came back about an hour later and I could hear them coming. They kicked the door on the run and I gave chase for a couple of yards, I couldn't give more of a chase as I had two young children in the house sleeping and my wife was out.

    Tonight they came back and now they have smashed the side mirror of the car. I can't afford to fix it properly so its going to have to be a homemade glue job.

    So yes I can't start a fight against a group of 20 10 year olds. They'ed beat the **** out of me and that would leave the house open with two babies unprotected in it.

    And yes by them coming back tonight and smashing the side mirror off the car I feel I am being a target. Do you have any suggestions what I could have done or what I should do now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    So they could be 8 year olds or 12 year olds??

    Couldn't you go out and tell them to fuck off?? - Serious question btw!

    Done. It didn't work. Needless to say it made it worse.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭WhatNowForUs?


    fathead82 wrote: »
    have you an upstairs window directly over the door? a bucket of cold water tipped out onto them will sort them out.

    Apart from last night when I talked to them they don't hang around long enough.


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