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How do you get little kids to stop playing knock a door run?

now the weather is warmer the neighbours kids and a couple of there friends are out and they keep knocking on my front door then running away...its doing my head in and they are very cheeky when i tell them to stop knocking... i do have children of my own but they dont play with them kids...plus the kids mother dont listen to what ive got to say....so what can i do to make them stop.


    




phillipsone0one2000
just ignore it. if they dont get a response, they wont do it any more. they get the excitment from the response you get with you coming out of your house all flustered..That's what the game is to them. if there is no response, one of them will finally go "this is stupid", and they will either stop, or go bug someone else.
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what you could do, is stick a pin into your doorbell at night, so the button intaferes with the two wires, so, when they touch the door bell, they get shocked :)


Ray T
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If the mother is not going to listen, do something like throw water on the kids. It sounds drastic but hopefully it will get the point across.


lovingclementine
Ambush them. Wait until they come up to the door and open it before they knock - if you make eye contact with them they'll never hit your door again.


A nice squirt from the garden hose wouldn't hurt either!


Just Me
ignore them or call the cops. If you stop going to the door they will get bored with it and stop.


Bandaloop Doctor
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tell them you called the cops on them.
or wait in a bush and wait until they go to ring it and pop out at them.


Catfish_Woman154
Water balloons!!!! Works for me.


Tomaltchach
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pull a gun on them


Ayato Kamina
have two to three rabid dogs stand by to ambush them and scared the hell out of them. hope it works serves them right...hehe


Sweet Pea
Turn the b*tches into the local police. If that doesn't work, do what they have been doing to you to their mothers until they punish their children.


Weppy
i would sit outside for awhile... or you could try not answering it for awhile.. or better yet sit outside with your hose!


patticharron
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The kids do it to get a rise out of you and it sounds like it's working.

All behavior is intended to elicit a response. If there is no response, the behavior will eventually be extinguished.

In other words, ignore the little buggers. Try your very best to find it amusing. It's a game, and if you don't play, it won't be any fun.

Enlist your kids too to ignore the knocking and the kids completely. I mean completely. Anything else will just raise the ante.

It will take a little effort on your part, but it will stop.

I think this is the only option you have as their mother sounds like a piece of work.


LAALAAALAAAAA
Just dont fall for their tricks, if you go out and tell them to stop theyd find it more thrilling to do it again.
But if you have no reaction to the knocking theyll slowy get tired and find someone elses house.

YETTT, unless you wanna do it the hard way you go tell your kids to go knock on their doors, break their windows, and also run away !


Mr. Goodhi
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Get a big dog..


Jarrod B
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if they continue to knock constantly just stand there, when they do it again quickly open the door and rev them. either that or if you can instally one of those eye things so see whos outside without opening the door. when they knock look, if noone is there, dont open if its them dont open. they will give up


NewArtist
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Force (Verbally, never physically)! Shout if you must but make them fell awkward. Tell them what will happen if they do it again. If that doesn't work talk to there moms with assertiveness tell them what you want or else. If that doesn't work, get some water balloons (lol).


Q Continuum
Tell them you will call the police and press trespassing charges if they do it again (and follow through if they do it again).


ywroseoftx
Need to scare them. It will take time to get it right but set a trap that will scare the "poop" out of them. If you could just open the door and yell right before the knock or jump from behind a bush. Might try tying the dog near the door, if the dog is a barker. Good luck.


radiohead2050
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Sit on your front porch with a gun. Call the police and tell them you want to press charges for harassment. Take your front door off. I think any of those would work.


Perfidy
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Wait at your window above the door with a bucket full of water at the ready then when you hear them knock throw bricks at them, maybe set a lion or two loose on them.

or

Maybe you could interfere with your door in some way like loosen the hinges on the door so a fly could knock the door down and then when they knock they will knock the door off and sh*t themselves and never come back.


TMB
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Get a sensor light. Put up a "dummy camera" to detour their behavior. Or put a real one like in your window, keep the porch light on and take the evidence to your local police station.


subwm4bush
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Waterboard them!


CWs Wifey
if they do it once, look outside baffled, like you dont know whats going on, then wait by the door for the second round, when they knock, open the door as quick as you can and squirt them down with liquid dish soap ;-)


thughes12
Do nothing. When kids knock on doors, they only do the houses that they know will react in some way. Going after them will only make it worse. If you dont do anything they will go find another house to tourture.


lizzydontmess
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Get a gun and watch for them and when they come pretend to shoot them and run after them and yell too that will work trust me.
Or just call the police after you caught them.


Geo
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I know it's a pain in the @ss Scar, but kids will be kids. I used to do this when I was younger,
we called it ''Chap door- run away ''
The thing is, if my mum or dad told me to stop, then I stopped it. Kids nowadays are getting away with far too much, they have no respect for older people. even if an adult told me to stop doing something, I'd listen. In this day-in-age, your now even allowed to hit your kids. I got my @ss smacked loads of times when I was being bad. But I deserved it every time, I could be a little b@st@rd when I was growing up. I still love my mum and dad very much and getting hit didn't affect me the way society makes out. I didn't hate them for it, they were just showing me right from wrong, If you do something bad then there has to be a consequence. It didn't make me grow up violent or anything.

Kids get away with far too much now. If their parents can control their kids then as they grow up the parents will have a lot of problems with them. You need to teach kids respect. My mum done all the smacking, but my dad only had to shout at me and I'd burst into tears. Idiots breed more idiots, and the good people are few and fart between.


vdv_desantnik
go and play it at their house yourself and every time the mother comes to the doorr say 'now you know how annoying it is' or else get a big dog and keep it on a lead in the garden


bert
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MMMMMMMMMMMMM! I suppose that you were a little angel then !


Aberdeen Tyke
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I had this when i lived in Manchester. A bucket of piss thrown at the kids whilst knocking works wonders............


Windy
Hook up some electrical wires so when they ring the doorbell, they'll get electrocuted.
Smear dog **** over the doorbell or throw it at them. Open the door naked.
Squirt water on them from your mouth.
Squirt red water on them and say it's blood.
Dress up like Scream.
Hold some body parts up and smear ketchup over yourself. Scream really loud and scary.


ant l
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throw them ice that wat i did





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