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Suggestions for Catching Ding Dong Ditch Teen
shmokes:
If you have the money (pretty cheap these days) I'd recommend the camera option. You can get wireless video cameras dirt cheap these days. Unlike what other people have suggested, I recommend NOT putting it in plain sight. Maybe the camera will deter the kid, maybe it won't. Maybe he'll just start doing something else annoying instead, like screen screeching the window or something. Give him a challenge and he'll outsmart it. Covertly take his picture and he's done for. You show his parents the proof, tell them you'll call the cops if you get one more phone call or late night knocker, and it's over.
Jdurg:
A bit of Uranyl Nitrate powder on your doorbell. Then, using a Geiger Counter, you can see if the perpetraitor had touched your doorbell. (as his hand would be above background levels in terms of radioactivity). Of course, Uranyl Nitrate is incredibly chemically toxic, not to mention radioactive, so it might not be too good of an idea. :p ;D
paigeoliver:
Also, I doubt the phone call person and door knocker are the same person and I doubt EITHER one of them is the TEENAGER next door (by the way, am I the only one here who knew ding dong ditch by a much less politically correct term).
Knocking and running is a grade school prank. I remember lots of kids doing it in grade school, and I think I even did it myself once. However no one was doing that by the time I was a teenager, it is just such a lame prank.
That makes me clear the teenager in question based on the fact that a teenager doesn't fit the psychological profile of who would do something like that. (My guess would be a boy of about 11, he is probably skinny, as fat kids can't run away reliably. Anyone on the street fit that description?) In fact, it is probably a trio of boys around that age (boys tend to get in trouble in groups of three).
As for the phone calling, that is the domain of 13-15 year old boys, although I severely doubt they would target (or even have) the telephone number of their elderly neighbor. Why hang up on grandma jones when you could hang up on Samantha from homeroom? Is there any talking with these phone calls or are they just hangups or beeping?
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 27, 2008, 10:09:19 pm ---(by the way, am I the only one here who knew ding dong ditch by a much less politically correct term).
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No. You refer to the alliterative version?
quarterback:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on April 28, 2008, 08:20:10 am ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 27, 2008, 10:09:19 pm ---(by the way, am I the only one here who knew ding dong ditch by a much less politically correct term).
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No. You refer to the alliterative version?
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Ding Dong Ditch isn't alliterative?