Well, From all the posts I see everyone wants some type of revenge. So, Here is exactly what you do.
I sit out with a hose and sprayer on. When they get into the yard you give them a good soaking.
Of course, Now a days you have things like paint ball guns you can use.
If your not into that sort of thing then ask the police to park a car in the area or patrol it heavily during this holiday.
Send the cleanup bill to the parents of whoever you or the police catch.
Many years ago, Florida abandoned the "concealed weapon" term and used "plain site" later. If the Po Po could see the gun on the seat, or _plain view_ it was not a Felony for concealment.
In reality you could walk around with a side arm, but was not allowed to display or carry a rifle/shotgun in the pickup back window while in the city limits of Miami. Or government buildings for a side arm.
I support any law that says I DON'T have to"retreat to the wall", before I'm allowed to fire... That's just Oren.
-- Oren
"My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
You'd have to be a fool to believe a castle law would give you a right to pull a weapon out for toilet papering.
sit in the yard with a 12 ga. shotgun.
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Shooting someone toilet papering is not protected. It's murder or attempted murder.
Do you want to prove it? Do you feel lucky?
Not hardly- I got papered this year, and am middle aged, live alone, and have ZERO interaction with the local teenage population. 3 other houses in this small subdivision also got papered, apparently at random. Curiously, none of the every-third-house dogs apparently started barking, and they bark at everyone, even people that walk by every damn day. (Guess they have an 'off duty' window in the wee hours or something...) I suspect the papering is just a teenage bonding ritual.
aem sends...
Black 1/8" parachute cord hung in strategic places has always been a favorite of mine. About twelve to eighteen inches above the ground, and fixed to two immovable objects on both ends. Or tied to stands of pipes or barrels in such an order as to cause noise and pain. Of course, done on private property. YOURS. It works wonders when camping and having people cut through your camp site. Plausible deniability there.
Steve
Motion activated sprinklers?
If you can get them, rig a 9v. battery to some steel wool and a M80 or agricultural firecrackers you can get at gun shows. A small trip wire causes the battery to tip, make contact, ignite the fuse, and a loud pop usually gets the attention of everyone within a block. May even get a call in of shots fired by a paranoid neighbor.
Vandals are opportunists, and avoid known resistors.
Steve
When we were young, about 5 of us were camping out at the dead end in a neighborhood subdivision.
Believe it or not, we were innocent. A house in the subdivision was rolled. The cops came to where we were camping and we were naturally accused of the "crime"
It turned out that a neighbor to the house that was rolled woke up because her huge dog was barking. She saw the people that did it and she could tell the cops it wasn't us. I don't know if they caught the people that did it, but I was sure glad she was around.
I think shooting someone for rolling your yard would be a little excessive. I do think shooting someone over a lawnmower could serve as a good deterrent.
If you can't beat them then join them...
Just make sure they have a soft place to land, like grass, when they do their face plant. Trip wires that just make noise as the cord breaks are one thing- trip wires (or neck wires) that cause injury are likely to involve civil and criminal liability. Yes, even on private property, if not in an enclosed area. Law and case law recognizes that LITTLE kids, livestock, etc, wander at times and have to be retrieved, and that others (say, a cop chasing the kid vandalizing a neighbor's house) may be injured by your booby traps. If you want a perimeter wire, I recommend fishing line attached to tin cans full of ball bearings, balanced on a rock. It'll make a racket, but nobody will get hurt. And it is a lot cheaper than parachute cord.
(In the apartments I used to live in, I had to make a double 18" tall fence of twine, too wide to step through or across, to keep the damn ducks from coming on to my porch to steal birdseed. I didn't care about the birdseed, but when ducks eat, they also shit.)
aem sends...
But then, you'd have a much worse problem: A dog.
I notice there are quite a few responses here to the question of "Teenagers pulling pranks".
Seems to be a lot of "first hand" knowledge here about this topic! Note that I was a "perfect" angel and never would have done such a thing :-)
snipped-for-privacy@mucks.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
"murder" is the WRONGFUL killing of a person.
snipped-for-privacy@mucks.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
suppose they are just spray-painting your garage door with KKK garbage? (and you happen to be black)
Or maybe torching a cross in your yard?
nick hull wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@dialupusa.usenetserver.com:
IMO,any time a person gets a restraining order against another person,they should be able to get a "loaner" handgun from the police,maybe from the confiscated guns they melt down or toss in the ocean. (along with a temporary carry permit and the usual training.)
Wow. TP'ing trees is one thing but graffiti is quite another. Your local gendarme needs to be patrolling more. You and your neighbors may want to 'talk' to the authorities. Or patrol it yourself for a time. This kind of thing rarely goes on for long, especially once the brats know they're being watched.
And, apparently, not when the government does it. That makes the word "murder" less meaningful than it should be.
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