I woke up this mornign to find I had one tree in my yard wrapped. "One tree! Come on you can do better than that", I thought. So as I am leaving for work I see another alarming sign. There is an empty egg carton on the edge of my property. I was running late so I did not have time to investigate. When I got home this evening I looked around and saw no eggs on the house so I just figured it was an odd coincidence with it being trash day and all. So I am out cleaning the One tree and my neighbor comes out. She is around 20 and was going to work. She asked if that was the only tree they got and then we discussed whether her house(she lives with parents) or mine was the target. I figured it was me because I work with teen aged kids and that was just the sort of thing they would try to get me with. She leaves and some old guy comes riding by on his bike. He says "I see they got you, but the neighbor got it worse." I had no idea what he meant until he had me turn around. All over the top of the house is busted egss. I hadn't even noticed them until he pointed it out. Evidently the dumbasses couldn't figure out the tree wasn't on the same property as the house. I finish my clean up and go inside and phone the neighbor to leave a message for the parents. The ghuy calls me back and tells me that he got egg on the front door and porch and didn't even know it was on top of the house. they also toothpasted the windshields of all their cars. He called the cops but I am not sure if they ever came out. This type of thing just pisses me off. I'll admit I tp'd houses when I was young, many times. I even wrapped some peoples house with their own tp. But I would never have egged anyone. That is distructive and can really cause some damage. I hope the cops find the punks responsible but I highly doubt they will.
The worst thing I did as a kid was knock on someone's door then ran away. Some kid down the street did that to me a few weeks ago. I walked all the way down to the street and found him hiding behind in my floor bed around the side of the house. I asked him: "did you just knock on my door?". He said no but "i just saw this kid who did and he ran off". lol
I will never understand the purpose of TP'ing a house. My friends did it all the time in jr. high and high school. I always thought it was r****ded and still do. Just a waste of time for the TP'er and the house owner.
I had a neighbor who liked to key my car. Police didn't care about that. I imagine they'd hang up on me if I tried to make a report of my house being egged. I don't understand people's lack of respect of other people's property, either. It pisses me off, as well.
To them yes, but the guy on the bike noticed the eggs because the same thing happened to him around a year ago. We think the reason that they only got one tree was because my son woke up to go to the bathroom and my wife turned a couple of lights on, on that side of the house. She thought she heard some commotion outside but figured it was an animal.
when i own my house...i will definately buy a rifle to scare the hell outta anybody who: a) eggs/tp's my house b) disrespects my daughter (if i have one) c) messes with the car.
What kind of work are you doing with the kids? I mean usually you don't let them know where you live if you're a teacher or a tutor. IF these are trouble kids you work with I don't understand why they know where you live in the first place. Best thing if this worries you. Get yourself a serveillance camera. But the worst thing to do is to fight back because they know where you live and thats not good. Well at least it's eggs and not something like throwing rocks at the windows. THis should pass hopefully.
this is what immature kids do, nothing you can do about it unless you catch them, then its all on your court, you own them
I would never call the police on such matter. If it starts happening like every month or every second week, ok. But not if it is like a first incident. Thats a waste of tax money. For about 90% it was just some kids, pranking around. Of course I would curse around like a b*stard while cleaning up the mess, but hey, this would be the revenge (karma) for the stuff I did as a kid. Like Kaiser Soze said. Catch them inflagranti and force them to eat 50 eggs.
I remember hearing a story about a guy who was joyriding with his buddy throwing eggs at cars. I don't know how they ended up hitting a cop's car. They probably were stoned and/or wasted. He turned on his lights and siren and started to follow them to pull them over. They made some quick turns, pulled into a driveway, turned off the ignition, and ducked down. The cop drove past them. They thought they were in the clear. The next day the guy was driving home from school when the cop recognized the car and pulled him over. The cop just warned him since he couldn't prove that was the exact car and the guy wasn't going to confess.
First off I don't live in Houston. The kids I work with aren't "trouble" kids. I don't think they did it because of the eggs. I was not the target. They know wher I live because I live in the neighborhood with a lot of them. I'm really not worried about it because of see above.
There were some kids that were doing the ring and run to my in laws in a neighborhood in NW Houston. The kids were picking on them because they were old and couldn't do much to stop them. It started with ring and run and when nothing happened they did more. Then they saw this little old lady looking out at them frightened to death and they kept stepping it up. The problem was my wife and I lived in Austin at the time. They called us and said that there were "these guys dressed all in white that were yelling at them from the front lawn". So we picture this: My wife is FREAKING out. She told them to call the police but by that time they were gone. Next, time we were visiting it happened again. In-laws start yelling "they're back!" I look out the window and it is a bunch of 13 or 14 year olds!!! I wait for them to ring the doorbell and BAM! I'm out the door after them. I catch them easily and shove them down to the street as I run past each one. I keep running after the one that rang the bell, the one they are all following. I finally catch him and knock him to the ground. I get right up in his face and tell him that if I had a gun he could have been killed. Stupid kids.
Just get a sign that says, "This property has video survelience cameras". and fyi, most probably know this, the best way to get TP out is to spray it with the hose.
