I live in an area with a lot of kids, and for some reason they've taken to playing in my garden. It's the only front garden in the street with a fence around it, and at least once a week there are kids playing in it. Some of them will leave if I ask them, but others refuse. One group of boys has started deliberately coming in, stamping on the flowers, bringing a dog in to do it's business and banging on the windows - but only when they know I'm home alone. They're not remotely scared of me, they laugh if I shout at them, and if I threaten to call the police they laugh because they know there's nothing the police will do. They laugh if I make violent threats because I'm a small woman, and I tend to get threatened with their older brothers, sisters, parents, etc.
The one time I did phone the police (they were banging on the windows while I was trying to breastfeed my baby) they ran away and I was scolded for wasting police time. Then the little bastards came back the same day and did it all over again.
They don't come in when my husband is home, but they know that he works full time. They run away when my dad threatens them, but I can hardly call him out of work every day of the week. I only know the parents of one of them, and when I spoke to the mum she seemed to think I was lying, but said she would talk to her son. Evidently she didn't, because he still comes in.
I feel pathetic, I'm being bullied in my own home by a group of kids, but I don't know what I can do to stop them. I can't do anything about the garden or fence, because I don't own the house. Any ideas? I can't get a dog, and guns are unfortunately not legal in this country.
Sorry that this is the wrong section, but there doesn't seem to be a section for ineffectual wimps
The one time I did phone the police (they were banging on the windows while I was trying to breastfeed my baby) they ran away and I was scolded for wasting police time. Then the little bastards came back the same day and did it all over again.
They don't come in when my husband is home, but they know that he works full time. They run away when my dad threatens them, but I can hardly call him out of work every day of the week. I only know the parents of one of them, and when I spoke to the mum she seemed to think I was lying, but said she would talk to her son. Evidently she didn't, because he still comes in.
I feel pathetic, I'm being bullied in my own home by a group of kids, but I don't know what I can do to stop them. I can't do anything about the garden or fence, because I don't own the house. Any ideas? I can't get a dog, and guns are unfortunately not legal in this country.
Sorry that this is the wrong section, but there doesn't seem to be a section for ineffectual wimps