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Payback on the Knick-Knack

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  • #32
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭deise08


    Is it just your door they're knocking on?


  • #33
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    A 12V battery isn't going to do much unless they lick your knocker.


  • #34
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Digy123 wrote: »
    So over the last few days three lads have been knick knacking our house,they do it about 10-20 times a night they always start around 3-4 o' clock,they dont seem to be bothered by the fact that we don't open the door. We have a new baby staying in the house tonight and I expect them to try do it tonight.....so I have set a little trap ;)

    I have flooded the steps outside the door and after a bit of fiddleing I managed to rig an old truck battery to the door knocker,its a bit cruel I know but it should sort them out,A friend did the same prank to me a year or so ago,let me tell you,I will be ringing the door bell from now on....

    Did you get them yet?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #35
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Who (OP aside) calls it a knick-knack?

    T'was always a knick-knock to me & my band of youthful rascals.

    You don't mean The Young Rascals, do you? You must be getting on a bit:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgozdtsh_g


  • #36
    Howard Juneau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    It's always been called knock a dolly in the country, but I used to wait with a bucket of water & the door unlatched.
    Someone would go to knock at the door & they would push it in with the force of the knock, I'd shout get out you bastards & chuck the bucket of water over them.....those were fun days.....I miss my 30's :)


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  • #37
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Sounds a bit complicated.

    Patience, crouching and a baseball bat offers a far cheaper and reliable return.


  • #38
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Blast them with battery acid.

    We called it Tap the Rap.


  • #39
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    OP, give us an update or we'll all knick knack your bloody house.


  • #40
    rolliepoley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    The knick knacks must be having a kit-kat.


  • #41
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    I smell a lawsuit from little Lorcan's daddy

    You mean Lorco.

    God but that sounds incredibly posh.


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  • #42
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Knick Knock was the only name I have ever heard for this up to this point.


  • #43
    rolliepoley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Knick knack, did it not come from the song.?

    Knick knack paddywhack.


    :confused:


  • #44
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    OP is MIA. Wonder if he tested the battery by touching the lead to his tongue?


  • #45
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Knick knack knocking on heaven's door, hey, hey hey now.


  • #46
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭deise08


    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    OP is MIA. Wonder if he tested the battery by touching the lead to his tongue?

    Ha ha ha :)


  • #47
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    My fiancé calls them dingers. What a gobsh*te.


  • #48
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Used to call it "knock knock gingerbread" ....
    Best to thing was flat doorbells and simply walking away. (especially if someone is running near by at the same time. People would always scream out the window at the runner XD...)


  • #49
    diograis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    I had to google what knick knacking was :/


  • #50
    mfergus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭mfergus


    Hmmm. No update from op.

    He probably didn't get bail on the ole manslaughter charge....


  • #51
    falan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    Knockadoorun and garden hopping were two of my favourite pastimes when i was a nipper:)


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  • #52
    4th horsemen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭4th horsemen


    falan wrote: »
    Knockadoorun and garden hopping were two of my favourite pastimes when i was a nipper:)

    Ah yeah Garden hopping in peoples back gardens from one end to the other trying to make it over the wall a.s.a.p. while mad neighbours were trying to catch ya, memories :)


  • #53
    Digy123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 846 ✭✭✭Digy123


    Well,I rolled out of bed this morning and went to let the dog into the garden but I completely forgot about the trap on the way back in and gave my self a nasty jolt. Im going to go over the CCTV now and I will post a video if anything good is there :)


  • #54
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Digy123 wrote: »
    Well,I rolled out of bed this morning and went to let the dog into the garden but I completely forgot about the trap on the way back in and gave my self a nasty jolt. Im going to go over the CCTV now and I will post a video if anything good is there :)

    Show us you shocking yourself :D


  • #55
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Was called ding dong ditch where I grew up in the US. Ring the bell and ditch.


  • #56
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    4th horsemen wrote: »
    Ah yeah Garden hopping in peoples back gardens from one end to the other trying to make it over the wall a.s.a.p. while mad neighbours were trying to catch ya, memories :)

    We used to call it hedge hopping.

    We also used to go 'scrumping' which was nicking apples and pears off trees in gardens.

    From the common scummy end of town the delinquent youths used to go 'lining', which was to pinch clothes off peoples lines.


  • #57
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    Always called it knick-knocking in Roscommon.

    Friends who grew up in London called it 'knock down ginger'! Even worse than knockadolly imo.


  • #58
    lkionm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭lkionm


    Digy123 wrote: »
    Well,I rolled out of bed this morning and went to let the dog into the garden but I completely forgot about the trap on the way back in and gave my self a nasty jolt. Im going to go over the CCTV now and I will post a video if anything good is there :)

    Come on, up load it


  • #59
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Digy123 wrote: »
    Well,I rolled out of bed this morning and went to let the dog into the garden but I completely forgot about the trap on the way back in and gave my self a nasty jolt. Im going to go over the CCTV now and I will post a video if anything good is there :)

    Nah, this doesn't make sense. If you've watched Home Alone you'd know the dynamics of what you posted are all wrong.


  • #60
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    SaulGoode9 wrote: »
    Always called it knick-knocking in Roscommon.

    Friends who grew up in London called it 'knock down ginger'! Even worse than knockadolly imo.

    It's from Gingerbread Man, Run!

    How is that worse than dolly? Whats the dolly from? 0o
    __
    Also remember calling Knock Knock Run(very imaginative :cool: :P ) back in England.


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  • #61
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    mfergus wrote: »
    Hmmm. No update from op.

    He probably didn't get bail on the ole manslaughter charge....

    Yeah I heard he forgot his Granny was coming yesterday to see the new baby. Knock bang sizzle, she may have been hot when she was younger but now she's smokin'.


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