mooperman
Distinguished Member
so a bit of advice really....
moved into our house in May of this year - no neighbour run ins or anything like that.
It seems though, in the past couple of nights, that a gang of kids have taken to egging our house for no apparant reason, i'm pretty sure its to get the dog to kick off as my car has been entirely untouched, but frankly its making the wife a little nervous as sometimes i work late and meet the lads on the odd weekend so she doesnt really want to be alone with this happening.
We had it on sunday night and again tonight (but not last night - all home watching the walking dead perhaps?).
So the question is, aside from reporting it to the police and local council, what other measures do you suggest...
so far we've (or plan to)...
rang the 101 non-emergency line both times and reported it - police advised us that its just that time of year but have supplied a crime number for both.
reported it to council on their anti-social behaviour line.
Will be ringing landlord tomorrow to get a security light installed as the front of ours is basically pitch black with no proper lighting (open driveway next to a small park type area - not really been an issue through summer but now dark nights are drawing in).
As it stands they only appear to be targetting our house but i dont really wanna go poking around the neighbours with a torch
...any other suggestions - they always scarper before i can even reach the door after the first egg lands as a result, so far, ive only seen the little 'people' running away, all early to mid teens and on bikes.
cheers
moved into our house in May of this year - no neighbour run ins or anything like that.
It seems though, in the past couple of nights, that a gang of kids have taken to egging our house for no apparant reason, i'm pretty sure its to get the dog to kick off as my car has been entirely untouched, but frankly its making the wife a little nervous as sometimes i work late and meet the lads on the odd weekend so she doesnt really want to be alone with this happening.
We had it on sunday night and again tonight (but not last night - all home watching the walking dead perhaps?).
So the question is, aside from reporting it to the police and local council, what other measures do you suggest...
so far we've (or plan to)...
rang the 101 non-emergency line both times and reported it - police advised us that its just that time of year but have supplied a crime number for both.
reported it to council on their anti-social behaviour line.
Will be ringing landlord tomorrow to get a security light installed as the front of ours is basically pitch black with no proper lighting (open driveway next to a small park type area - not really been an issue through summer but now dark nights are drawing in).
As it stands they only appear to be targetting our house but i dont really wanna go poking around the neighbours with a torch
...any other suggestions - they always scarper before i can even reach the door after the first egg lands as a result, so far, ive only seen the little 'people' running away, all early to mid teens and on bikes.
cheers