UPDATED : Need Advice on neighborhood kids

[ROBsS4R]

We currently Park 1 Car outside since I have a boat and a Motorcycle and other random crap in the garage right now.

One day I came home and I caught some neighborhood kids with a sling shot picking up rocks next door to me. I asked them what they were doing and told them to not take the neighbor's rocks let alone use the sling shot here.

Well since then I have noticed rocks getting into my drive way and today I actually see a dent on my car which appears to be created using a rock.

Now the father of these kids is a ex police officer. I have no proof they actually did anything but it is likely they did or still doing it.

I am thinking of just cleaning up the garage and putting the car inside which will be tight fit with my Boat and Bike but I rather do than not have proof and speak to the father.

I am not sure if I want to go through the effort of setting up a video camera. Maybe I should so these little bastards get whats coming to them.

What really annoys me is that we take very good care of this Car and it has so many dents and dings on it from Hit and runs etc. You just cant have anything nice these days with out people shitting all over it 

Why are kids such A holes these days 

[Popeye the Sailor]

Camera. You can blame *every* ding in it on the kids. Once you have proof, go put a nice ding in your windshield, so you can make them buy you a nice, clear, new one too.


Stick it to the little SOB's.

[NAKID]

Camera. The cop, (unless he's had problems with the kids in the past) will likely stand up for his kids in the absence of CLEAR proof...

[red baron]

Invite the cop over for a beer and discuss it with him, likely to fix it himself before it becomes a problem.

He might not even know they have the slingshot.

[NAKID]

But who is gonna fix the current dents?

[teddy037.2]

rocking chair.

shotgun.

dang kids!







or, y'know... the camera.

[KnightofNi]

a shovel full of dirt and rocks flung at them might make them stop

or wait for them to do it and come charging out of the garage with something similarplant it in the ground and ask them sternly yet not overly loudly why they did it. when they try to run walk over to their house witht he tape from the afore mentioned camera set up and show their father.

[ducatiz]

Figure out where they shoot from.. Put a HUGE strip of double-stick tape there.  When you catch them, feed them to wild animals and take their clothes and put them on scarecrows with a sign that says "sic temper assholi!"

[lawbreaker]

Camera. The cop, (unless he's had problems with the kids in the past) will likely stand up for his kids in the absence of CLEAR proof...

The same could be said of any parent.....

I'm assuming youre getting damage that you didnt notice before you saw the kids and the slingshot.

Camera route is a good idea. Then talk to their parents 

[Mac_48]

you could always get a pellet gun, tell them that you know they are hitting your car with rocks and that if you see them again they will promptly get hit with pellets

[sno_duc]

A little off topic.
A shop I worked in, Nikiski Alaska.
Rob the shop helper is out back sand blasting parts. Comes inside to complain about neighborhood brats using him as BB gun target practice.
Lloyd and I go the long way around, catch the  little bastards in the act.
We drag them into the back of the shop, put their BB gun in vice of welding table, fire up TIG welder, weld end of barrel shut, and then hand it back to them.
On the way out we told them " No charge for fixing their BB gun "
Never heard  a word.

[ROBsS4R]

I cleaned my garage tonight to fit the Jeep, Boat and Motorcycle all in the garage at the same time.

Thats the quick fix till I can setup a camera if i even do that.

Now I need to fix the garage door opener. I don't mind opening the door manually but thats way to much manual work for my fiancee 

[He Man]

 

[Scottish]

 

+1 

[herm]

you could always get a pellet gun, tell them that you know they are hitting your car with rocks and that if you see them again they will promptly get hit with pellets

this has worked to keep the varmints away from my truck