Terrorised in our own home

Advising people to move is a huge step and its very easy thing to say off the cuff when you are not going through it yourself.

OP.

Deal with the guards first be forceful be ever present and push them hard. Bring the CCTV with you ask to speak to the Super. With all that done see how it pans out.


Moving should however be in the table. But as a last option.

listermint wrote: »

Advising people to move is a huge step and its very easy thing to say off the cuff when you are not going through it yourself.

OP.

Deal with the guards first be forceful be ever present and push them hard. Bring the CCTV with you ask to speak to the Super. With all that done see how it pans out.


Moving should however be in the table. But as a last option.

I moved myself to get away from a mentally unstable neighbor who was becoming more and more obnoxious and ended up stabbing a bloke who was in doing work for them after some crazy argument broke out.

It's easy to say to this person to do this, that and the other but when your there 24/7/365 wondering what will be next it's an awful position to be in. The person we moved away from is still there making people's lives a torture.

Sometimes there is no other option.

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From my reading of it they didnt have a car on a particular night, I dont yet see further evidence that they are not helping though.

But they need to be pressurised, it really is a case of those that shout the loudest.

Unfortunately the OP's story isn't an uncommon one

My late mother was similarly tortured in her own home by a bunch of "kids" like this for years, and our boys and girls in blue wanted nothing to do with it for the most part - in fact, when they got tired of the calls and complaints, they'd turn up at our door making threats to arrest my mother instead. As said above the neighbours either didn't want to get involved and make themselves a target as well, or were already involved in the abuse.

It all stemmed from the next door neighbours wanting what was the end house (ours) for themselves and the council denying them before we'd moved in. Of course, being antisocial scum they saw a single mother with two young kids as an easy target - except my mother was too damn stubborn to give in to that sort of crap (even though it made her life a misery and made an already serious disease worse from the stress).

As we later found out, because the family in question were also police informants, the local Garda station (a certain north Dublin one) did nothing about it, and the local scum kept it to a level just beneath them having to ("restricting" themselves to things like broken windows, damaged cars, vandalism, verbal abuse, stone-throwing, spitting, poisoned meat thrown over the back wall in an attempt to kill the dogs etc), and it was almost always perpetrated by the younger member of the family (and their friends) of course so as to further limit police involvement - these people are generally more aware of the law than anyone else

Mam went the 24x7 CCTV route (ultimately dozens and then hundreds of VHS cassettes), the logging of EVERY call to and visit by the Gardai (right down to recording shoulder numbers), lobbying local TDs, and the story even featured on an episode of Prime Time, but to no avail. Ultimately things only died down when the groups involved grew up and moved away, and some of the Gardai involved retired and were replaced with a younger crowd (this all went on for well over a decade)

I'm afraid my only advice to the OP is that if things don't settle down - or worse, escalate - move if you can... there's no talking to scum like that, and our "wonderful" police service will do nothing unless someone is actually badly hurt (through a combination of being under-resourced yes, but also unwillingness to do their jobs in such areas), but as I mentioned it's more likely that the crowd involved will just keep it to property damage, juvenile assault and intimidation to prevent that.

Murphy i sympathise with you completely. My family went through this and I can speak from experience. 5 years of terror,cars burned out,house petrol bombed on xmas night. I went from the speak to parents phase, through the whole gardi,cctv,report and chase up every incident phase. There was no difference no matter what I done.
I really wish I could give you a solution, a way to end this and go back to your normal life, all I can tell you is what worked for us. Run, run as fast and far as you can. Move house,move school and get your ass outta there. It seems extreme, it seems like giving in and letting them win, but it's the only way to regain your life.
We left it behind almost 12 years ago, but I still suffer from PTSD. Its not just a combat soldier who gets that, when your in danger for a sustained amount of time your whole mental health is effected, get out now while you have some sanity left.
There is nothing gardi can do to help, even if they wanted to. This crap won't end, it won't go away. These animals only respond to force, so either take them out of the area or take yourselves out.