Car and house egged...

[baughany]

I am assuming the three young lads that my wife discovered smoking in the bushes behind our garden on Tuesday evening and that I told to move on were the ones who decided they'd return at 2 this morning and throw half a dozen eggs at the cars and the house...

I didn't wake quick enough to give chase - maybe luckily, who knows.

I now have a six year old who won't go to bed as he's worried they'll return and do the same.

Little darlings. I will find out who / where they are though. Is it wrong to want to exact some revenge?!

[Conian]

throw some milk n flour at their house
then 1 night, you can all have pancakes together

[Pothole]

Your 6 year old's overreaction (and clever excuse) is hardly their fault.

Do nothing, they'll get bored and move on when the next 'old fart' gives them a hard time about something else.

[baughany]

Good point on the excuse, in fact I'm now in the doghouse for being heartless and making him go up...although, I do take issue with that a bit, they intended to intimidate and they have, so it is their fault really isn't it.

Still bloody annoying though. They got asked politely to move on the other evening, I now wish I'd gone with my first idea of just aiming the hose over the fence.

Pancakes, good idea, thanks.

Now where did I put that can of Red Bull?

Edited by baughany on Sunday 4th July 20:49

[Pothole]

FFS, perhaps you could teach him that the eggs they are likely to be able to get hold of are always going to lose in a fight with walls, cars and windows. WTF is he 'worried' about?

Who are you in the dog house with?

[baughany]

I think the wife thought I could have shown more sympathy. Hence I'm not flavour of the day.

I do understand what you're saying, as an adult, but he got scared by being woken in the early hours by people throwing things at his house, he's six, it's never happened to him before, and I suppose my wife's response to it upset him too.

Happens a lot your way then?

Edited by baughany on Sunday 4th July 22:23

[Pothole]

I wasn't but my Dad would have had no truck with any nonsense I started about something like that.

Not my place to tell you how to raise your child, though. Carry on.

[baughany]

Too slow on the edit.

I shouldn't have posted that, sorry. Not a good day!

[Pothole]

Not to worry. I wasn't born double hard, but I am pretty thick-skinned

[baughany]

Good.

Probably shouldn't have posted at all but I suppose I was hoping a local would post names and addresses of the notorious Thrapston egg throwers so I could nuke them from orbit.

[Pothole]

roflcopters, I'm in Kettering!

[baughany]

We practically know each other then!

I can count you in for the vigilante posse, I take it?

[Pothole]

I'm there!!!

[baughany]

No need to bring eggs, the perps don't know who they're dealing with, we have two hens so the ammo is free :-)

[Pothole]

Sounds good mate.

[baughany]

I'll put the girls on overtime and put C4 in their feed then, that'll learn the little swines.

[djdestiny]

How is the paint on the car? I had eggs thrown at mine years ago during one of Thrapston's old infamous egg-fests one Haloween and it left marks in the laquer!

[baughany]

I hesitate to say "luckily" but they threw the egg at the rear windscreen, thus sparing the paint. I'd read the horror stories about eggshell damage on here before, so was dreading what I'd find.

How long ago was this Halloween thing? Can't seem to remember it.

Anyway I've regained my sense of perspective on this, can't be bothered to worry about it.

[cpas]

Probably find that they are not st scared that you'll know who they are if they come back so won't bother. also, being kids, probably didn't think it would do any damage - just playing a prank. If they had meant any harm, they would have done more than throw eggs!!

[baughany]

It's annoying but no-one's hurt and anyway, what more can I do.

Apart from buy a paintball gun and wait for them to come back.