'Finally, justice getting served!': Homeowner spends hundreds of dollars to find source of banging noise, catches entitled neighbor kid kicking house and running away

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Isabella Penn
Jul 12, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

As kids, many of us indulged in harmless pranks around the neighborhood—ding-dong-ditching, TP-ing, you name it. It was just part of growing up. Now as adults with our own homes, we've come to realize just how irritating these 'innocent' pranks can be. It's like karma has come full circle. However, one recent incident takes the cake in terms of annoyance factor. A particularly entitled kid has been repeatedly kicking his neighbor's house. Yes, kicking it. I'm not sure if this is the latest trend among kids today, but it's certainly a first for me. The homeowner endured months of mysterious banging noises, even going so far as to spend hundreds of dollars investigating the source. At first, she suspected it could be bad pipes. But as it turns out, the solution to her ongoing annoyance turned out to be surprisingly simple. With the camera in place, she caught the culprit red-handed—literally kicking her house.

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    r/pettyrevenge • 21 hr. ago srslymeowing I'm a 30 year old tattle tale TLDR; a kid kept kicking my house for months, and I finally caught him and told on him to his mother.
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    So my husband and I kept hearing a bang in the evening at random hours - between about 6-10 PM. It would wake us up sometime or get our dogs going crazy. We had no idea what it was. I even called out a plumber since we have had
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    some plumbing issues in the past and didn't know what else it could be. Finally - the ring camera caught something. A young boy - probably between 8-11 - was running up and kicking our house. Like HARD. This bang was so loud I
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    thought it was our trash cans knocking into the house or a bad plumbing issue. kid deciding to do But a karate kicks and out run my ring camera was not what I expected. Okay - so I decided to do a few things.
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    Put up a motion light - which I almost fell off a ladder doing and broke another light in the process. *between this and the plumber coming out - I'm in about $200 because of this
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    Second I wrote a note and taped it to the glass. He seemed tall enough to read. The note said: "To the child kicking our door: • we know who you are • we have you on camera every time • we told your parents • we will contact the police next time
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    Please stop scaring our dogs" I'm bluffing because I want him to stop. I cannot figure out his motive except to cause chaos in my household so I needed to try to scare him.
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    So last 2 weeks - nothing. I figured my note and light worked and the was scared. I took the note down last night. Then tonight - BANG. The loudest one . I go outside because yet. What the
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    I'm mad now. And I see a children's mermaid kickball in my front yard (I'm keeping it). The kicked it into my car. I see no kids. I'm so angry. I kick the ball into my fenced in backyard and go back inside.
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    About 30 mins goes by and I hear another bang! I look out the window and I see this little running down the street laughing. I am FURIOUS.
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    I'm about the size of Sydney Sweeney if she was also an Adam Sandler type woman. I'm wearing cute polka dot Victoria's Secret pjs and I just did my everything shower with an at home blowout. I'm in NO MOOD.
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    I push my husband out of the way and put on my running sneakers with no socks. I book it down the street and I stain run inside a see the little house. I run up the driveway and kindly question some younger girls (his
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    sisters?) to find out where his parents were. They said his mom was in the backyard. I went back there and told her straight up - your son has been kicking my house for 2 months, I have it on video,
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    he's scaring my dogs, ask him to stop. She said okay and thank you. I said thank you and left. As I walked home I see my husband running up to me because he didn't know where I went. I told him I handled it.
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    Then, as if on cue, I hear the loud whining of what sounded like a young boy between 8-11 finally getting justice SERVED! I've never met this kid in my life. I want
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    to know why. Why did he target us? Did I wrong him? Or was he just a random crazy kid? Sometimes life is chaos.
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    No-Recover6764 1d ago Edited 1d ago I had this with a neighbor's kid this year. He'd slam my door and hit the bell and run off. Always late at night. He did all sorts of me for weeks. One night he thought he was clever, just hiding behind my car. I grabbed him and shook him around shouting the do you think you're doing. He was scared senseless. Kids like that need to be shown they're not tough or smart. His dad did absolutely nothing. to
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    kmflushing ⚫1d ago No, you're an awesome 30 year old woman who handled yourself like a boss.
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    Odd-Phrase5808 • 23h ago Thank goodness the mother recognised that her kid was wrong here - so many parents would've turned on you and started yelling at you to leave their precious baby alone, that little Johnny would never do anything like that... Save the Ring videos though, just in case mother's wrath isn't enough to control the brat! Damage to your house and car - on camera - should be plenty to get the police involved if it comes to that.
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    SnoopyisCute • 1d ago Kudos! That's not tattling. That's trying to stop a kid from becoming an out-of-control adult. You probably weren't targeted and he's probably not crazy. A lot of kids do things just because they want to and they need adults to put up guard rails. If you take the cookies, don't forget his ball. ;-)
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    awalktojericho • 1d ago I have been a teacher for over 20 years. Some . The kicking might not kids are just little stop. Keep the cameras with a date stamp. Alert his parents with video evidence, and the next time get a trespass order. Call every time it is violated.
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