Scooters!!

bowden769

I live in an end terrace house, down the side of my house is an alleyway / foothpath at both ends there is a 'no cycling' sign. The alley way is quite thin. I dont get many bikes down it, infact i dont think i have seen one been riden down there in the two years i have lived in the house,

Any way the reason for this post is since my time in the house i have noticed a rise in kids riding their scooters with solid wheels down the alley way - now the sound rumbles though the house even when one goes down let alone 5 or 6, and its not as if its early evening i mean sometimes its 10 11 o'clock at even later on the weekends

My question is is there any thing i can do about it or should i put up with it ....

cooldad

Scrooge bah humbug.
Better riding their scooters than pinching your car radio to buy crack.

Like all the 'No Ball Games' signs on all the flats these days. Seems wrong to me.

When I was a lad.....

bowden769

i see what ur saying still annoying tho

cooldad

Damn right, noisy annoying little brats. I get grumpy easily, but I do feel a bit sorry for kids these days.
Every second person is a pervert, they get moaned at for sitting on Playstation all day, moaned at for playing outside.
I think it would make me wear a hoodie and riot.

Gazlar

just stand in the alley in your pants? they will soon stop using that particular passage

YeehaaMcgee

Gazlar wrote:

just stand in the alley in your pants? they will soon stop using that particular passage

And if they don't, your luck's in.

veronese68

My house is on a corner and you're right. They are noisy as f@c#. Not much you can do unless you carpet the alleyway.
With respect to what Cooldad says I think he has a very good point. The old guy that lives next door has all sorts of tales of when they were kids. A football would break a window at least once a week, there'd be running battles between our road and the next one. He thinks kids today are much better behaved than eleventy hundred years ago.

Majski

bowden769 wrote:

I live in an end terrace house, down the side of my house is an alleyway / foothpath at both ends there is a 'no cycling' sign. The alley way is quite thin. I dont get many bikes down it, infact i dont think i have seen one been riden down there in the two years i have lived in the house,

Any way the reason for this post is since my time in the house i have noticed a rise in kids riding their scooters with solid wheels down the alley way - now the sound rumbles though the house even when one goes down let alone 5 or 6, and its not as if its early evening i mean sometimes its 10 11 o'clock at even later on the weekends

My question is is there any thing i can do about it or should i put up with it ....

OMG not 10 o'clock!

brooksie50

They are kids playing,we all did it, be thankful their not playing rat-@-tat on your front door!

mrmonkfinger

Kids, scooters, 10pm? Is this even a proper moan?

I used to live next door to a bunch of clowns who thought 3am on a work night was an agreeable time to power up their stadium sized soundsystem and nip outside to the back garden for a jolly large toke on a giant spliff accompanied by a barking dog.

I would have killed to have your "problem" of kids on scooters.

jndb72

mrmonkfinger wrote:

Kids, scooters, 10pm? Is this even a proper moan?

I used to live next door to a bunch of clowns who thought 3am on a work night was an agreeable time to power up their stadium sized soundsystem and nip outside to the back garden for a jolly large toke on a giant spliff accompanied by a barking dog.

I would have killed to have your "problem" of kids on scooters.

The sound system I could cope with, barking dogs on the other hand...is there anything more annoying?

There used to be one in our street, he's not there anymore, wonder what happened to it

mrmonkfinger

jndb72 wrote:

The sound system I could cope with, barking dogs on the other hand...is there anything more annoying?

crabs

Giraffoto

jndb72 wrote:

barking dogs on the other hand...is there anything more annoying?

Wait until the owners are out and have left the dog on its own in the house. Push a bar of ex-lax chocolate through the letter box. Put up with a small amount of added noise when they come home. Don't expect to hear from the dog again. . .

mrmonkfinger

Giraffoto wrote:

Wait until the owners are out and have left the dog on its own in the house. Push a bar of ex-lax chocolate through the letter box. Put up with a small amount of added noise when they come home. Don't expect to hear from the dog again. . .

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs - they can't process it and it causes heart attacks.


Although I appreciate the original intent of your idea.

YeehaaMcgee

mrmonkfinger wrote:

Giraffoto wrote:

Wait until the owners are out and have left the dog on its own in the house. Push a bar of ex-lax chocolate through the letter box. Put up with a small amount of added noise when they come home. Don't expect to hear from the dog again. . .

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs - they can't process it and it causes heart attacks.


Although I appreciate the original intent of your idea.

Dead dog? I'd call that a double win.

Plenty of people give a bit of chocolate to their dogs though.

Giraffoto

mrmonkfinger wrote:

Giraffoto wrote:

Wait until the owners are out and have left the dog on its own in the house. Push a bar of ex-lax chocolate through the letter box. Put up with a small amount of added noise when they come home. Don't expect to hear from the dog again. . .

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs - they can't process it and it causes heart attacks.


Although I appreciate the original intent of your idea.

The combination of ex-lax and a canine heart attack would at least give the neighbours the consolation of saying that their dog went out like Elvis. I'm sure I read somewhere that about the most lethal thing to a dog (while being harmless to most other creatures) is raisins, although this may be an urban legend.

rgliniany

Grapes are toxic to dogs...... makes them depressed and sick..... our beagle got into the grapes one day... ate a few (we didnt know the toxicity thing then) and the day after.... she was all mopey and distant... then just dropped.... a panic run to the vet accompanied by her barfing on my feet in the car.... wearing Flip flops (lovely :roll: ) ..... and she was given an ok to come home... not a fun thing!!

Giraffoto

So chocolate raisins are the thing to avoid if you're a dog then. Their loss, I can eat them all day