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hypernova:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 27, 2008, 10:09:19 pm ---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?
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Got any statistics to back up your anecdotal story and personal experience?
Bored teenagers with inattentive and/or uncaring parents end up doing lots of things, running the gamut from mundane to the criminal.
Malenko:
I think hes being PC with "knicker knocking" we called it ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- knocking. Cant wait to see what the auto-censor does to that.
CCM:
--- Quote from: hypernova on August 22, 2011, 06:06:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 27, 2008, 10:09:19 pm ---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?
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Got any statistics to back up your anecdotal story and personal experience?
Bored teenagers with inattentive and/or uncaring parents end up doing lots of things, running the gamut from mundane to the criminal.
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umm, you do realize that the quote from paigeoliver was from 2008? I don't think paigeoliver even posts here anymore.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: SirPeale on April 29, 2008, 11:55:08 am ---
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on April 28, 2008, 07:10:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on April 28, 2008, 09:23:10 am ---I grew up calling it knicker knocking and had never even heard of the other version until I was 16 or so.
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I never heard that term. It sounds more like an alternative to pantsing.
Which is also very uncool to do to the elderly, on many levels.
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It was called "Ring and Run" where I lived. Don't know a "bad version".
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*raises hand*
"knicky, knicky, nine door" was what we called it.. :dunno i dunno why we called it that either...
hypernova:
--- Quote from: CCM on August 23, 2011, 10:48:12 am ---umm, you do realize that the quote from paigeoliver was from 2008? I don't think paigeoliver even posts here anymore.
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Negative. Totally didn't realize this was a resurrected thread. Still needed to be said though, just for general information and whatnot.
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