Drunk little bastards

[placidfemme]

Sam and I live next door to a church, which has a larg-ish carpark which for the most part at night is covered in darkness.

In the 2 years that we have lived there, there have been numerous incidents of drunk teens partying away in the carpark after 10pm. Normally this is just a pain in the ass because they make shitloads of noise, blast thier car stereos at high volumes (from inside all you can hear is BOOM BOOM BOOM) and loud drunken conversations. Not a problem, turn the radio on and go back to sleep.

But recently it has started to get worse and I've noticed that its the same group of teens coming back time and again. Fights have started a few times and you can see them throwing punches at each other, throwing bottles all over the church cark park and spraying graffiti on the church walls... again not our problem and not too much of an issue to get to sleep afterwards.

But since the New Year this group has returned and are showing up pretty much every second night, the difference being that they have now started to come into our garden, making shitloads of noise right outside our bedroom window, they have also taken to destroying our solar lights by kicking them around the garden like a ball, so far we've lost over 10 solar lights and have decided not to replace them as they obviously attract these wankers.

Last night it happened again and they destroyed our last two remaining solar lights, they were jumping around on our deck. I got up and turned on the outside light and they ran away back into the church car park, I turned the light off and went back to bed and within minutes I could hear them out by our back door, so I got up again and turned on the back door light and again they ran off...

I fell asleep listening to them fighting with another group of youngsters, woke up this morning and my bike cover had been removed from my bike (there was no damage to the bike and no indication that they had even tried to steal it or anything) and I found my bike cover out by the back door, also our bin that was out by the back door was right out in the middle of the church carpark with out rubbish bag torn open and rubbish all over the church carpark.

There isn't much we can do to stop them coming into our garden as the hedge that runs down the side where the carpark is has about 1m of free space between the ground and where the leaves start.

It was recently suggested to put fishing line around the hedge/tree trunks, so at night when they try to run under it they get tripped/caught up in it, however this wouldn't help too much after some thought because there is a pathway further down the hedge where they can just walk through, also the drive way has no gate so there are various ways they can access our property.

I also don't think its wise for either Sam or myself to go outside and confront them seeing as they outnumber us, they obviously have no concerns about physically fighting people and they're always drunk.

Any suggestions of how to deal with this situation?

[MOTOXXX]

ummmmmm call the cops?

[Pumba]

Id like to say call the cops and let them sort it out, but the question is would they even bother turning up

[Whynot]

It was recently suggested to put fishing line around the hedge/tree trunks, so at night when they try to run under it they get tripped/caught up in it

Try the fishing line but forget to take the hooks off

[Donor]

Any suggestions of how to deal with this situation?

Party at your place?

A large presence of heavy set KB members should give them the idea they're upsetting someone with bigger friends than them...

[judecatmad]

BB gun perhaps?

[imdying]

Operator: '111 Emergency, which service please'

You: 'There's a group of teens with what appears to be a gun outside my window'

Hillarity ensues

Alternatively, host a KB part, and beat the little fuckers to death with bats.

[Patrick]

Party at your place?

A large presence of heavy set KB members should give them the idea they're upsetting someone with bigger friends than them...

WOT 'E SED....

[placidfemme]

I've thought about calling the cops... but as was mentioned... would they bother turning up?

Because what could I say "Some drunk kids keep coming into our garden and destroying our solar lights... come sort it out"

And also... if that was the case they would know that the cops had been called and obviously why and it wouldn't be hard to guess who called them... so that could just provoke them to come back the next night and do worse shit... if you know what I mean...

[RantyDave]

Any suggestions of how to deal with this situation?

Call the police. Won't make any difference, but when you do get round to braining one of the little cunts at least you can say you tried.

Call the police and suggest some ripe ground for drink drivers.

Capture one and drag it round to it's parents house. Explain about the solar light things. Don't forget to multiply price of solar light things by 10 and divide by however much the little darling will get paid for working at maccas.

Have a nasty accident with the deck not being quite as strong as you thought it might be.

Video them and stick it up on YouTube. Use car registration numbers as tags as well as the location of the church.

Talk to whoever runs the church and see what they feel like doing. Extra points if you can get them to suggest something a good Christian should not really be suggesting.

Dave

[yungatart]

If you go with the cop option, be aware that unless you can "see" weapons or are in fear of your life or fear for someone else's life they won't turn up. Of course, they have weapons and have been making threats....haven't they?
Good luck!

[Patrick]

Id like to say call the cops and let them sort it out, but the question is would they even bother turning up

If you don't call the cops, they sure won't turn up...

Invite em along... you might be pleasantly surprised... a good way to get quotas from the learner/restricted breaches, WOF and Regos, liqour breaches, EBAs and disorder/fighting lockups just to name a few.

[Patrick]

I've thought about calling the cops... but as was mentioned... would they bother turning up?

Because what could I say "Some drunk kids keep coming into our garden and destroying our solar lights... come sort it out"

When you put it like that, yep... they won't come.

Talk it up. Make it sound interesting. They will come.

[Swoop]

They like dark places.

You could think about putting up a security light hooked up to a very bright light.

Edit: Very easily done if you already have the light wired in, outside. Cost about $20-

[Ixion]

Well, it's a bit more than that. "There's all these drunken men fighting , and now they're on our deck and trying to break in. There's only us two women here and I'm really frightened." I think that would warrant a Priority 1.