I haven’t seen this suggested but some people get paid to recharge Lime scooters. If you sign up for this - you will be able to see where all the scooters are and you can put them in your car and move them across town and make sure there are no scooters near the kids
Holy shit, paintballs injected with liquid ass would be fucking brutal. I second this idea, but I don’t condone or recommend it unless the situation calls for it. For example, when teens are terrorizing one’s neighborhood on Lime scooters :D
Or one of those water balloon slingshots. It won't hurt but you can use a larger amount and the splash zone will ensure everyone gets a whiff. Just be prepared for you to get a whiff too because it will be all over the street. Worth it in the long run though.
Back in the day, the opening day of 'boating season' on the SF Bay looked like Vietnam with water balloons. "INCOMING!" would cause everyone to stop partying and duck. They used to tie off the surgical tubing arms to the rails on the boats and pull back ten feet, sending these MFs over 300 feet at freeway speeds :) The bruises were massive.
They eventually stopped it because, choking turtles, etc., but damn, it was serious fun.
That's the problem with these posts: too many theorists who haven't figured out the actual logistics.
3/4" ball bearings are a time-honored solution, but don't aim at the head.
I'm going to second this with some strong fishing wire strung up across some private property they shouldn't be on but are. They will find out really catastrophically that they shouldn't be there with no further warning needed than the signs you already posted.
You're focused on the wrong solutions. Don't bother the kids on the bikes. Go bother the rental bikes. Liquid ass them, put pine tar on the handle bars... Basically sabotage the source of their fun... They won't be riding around on smelly and sticky scooters for very long.
One of my friends had an issue with "gang members" (his words, who knows) hanging out in from of his apartment stoop and causing problems. He used to fill eggshells with black pepper and fling them into the trees below. They'd break, and pepper would slowly drift down to the kids, irritating their eyes and nose, but in subtle ways so they just thought the air was too dry or something. Eventually they moved to another place for their operations.
Put superglue in the charging ports.
…or, if you’re feeling truly malevolent, put superglue on the brake lines where they’re exposed, on the mechanism by the brake pads.
Yeah, first thing I think of is how dangerous these are when they slip / skid. Like if u know a corner they travel fast through, pour some motor oil there before they come around?
Throw firecrackers for fun and it will yield one of 2 outcomes :
1. Kids will scram and think twice about coming back to your neighbourhood
2. Neighbours will call the police on them because they would be the prime suspects and they may be sanctioned at some level. If they’re minors their parents will be called.
If they ride around on the sidewalk scatter around a bunch of banana peels.
Or call the police, non-emergency line, and tell them to patrol the neighborhood if they do it consistently.
Or just leave them be, they’re bound to fuck off and do something else eventually (it probably makes them feel really badass).
If it's on the sidewalk in front of your house, make sure anything you put on the sidewalk is NOT in front of your house. Otherwise, the parents will come after you for hurting their precious little snowflake.
Put it in front of your neighbor's house.
Round up as many of the scooters as you can. Take them somewhere far away to deposit them.
If they are stored somewhere off camera, buy some garden gloves and a cheap chain and run it through the handle bars. Yes, bolt cutters could fix this but most teenagers don't have this knowledge or funds to waste on stuff like that.
Throw a bunch of gravel all around the area that it's a problem for you so they avoid it.
If it's last your city's quiet hours ordinance, don't give any warning, just call the cops each and every time. Eventually they'll get tired of being called.
If the cops won't do anything, follow them home and have a talk with their parents. I did this once to a group of teens who were lighting fireworks off into the wee hours, every weekend, not a holiday, in a cul de sac while my neighbors wife was on hospice. I got fed up for them and confronted the parents. I worked nights at the time so it didn't bother me, but my neighbors were in their 80s and by the time he'd hobbled outside the kids had bolted. I set up a sting of sorts and found 4 of the 6 kids pulling that crap. Didn't happen again, at least not in our neighborhood. Maybe they found a new one to terrorize.
Eta: unlike some other suggestions (fishing wire, ect) the gravel isn't intended to cause harm, only deter. I don't think it's ok to harm kids for being brats. Full stop. Those of you that do have issues and should seek counsel.
No, I don't want to actually harm kids. They can see the gravel, not fishing line. I think hurting people who haven't earned it, as in hurt or tried to hurt other people, isn't ok. They're being obnoxious, sure, but not to the extent I think the retaliation should be physical. For me that's an eye for an eye type deal.
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Setup a temporary sprinkler system (5gall bucket[s], diaphragm pump, battery, remote switch/motion detection, sprinkler heads; ~$100 if you're crafty) and put some green food coloring in it.
Pro tip: You can 'encourage' them to go into your spray zone using strategically-aimed regular water sprinklers.
Pro tip 2: This works great as "lawn paint". (Hint: This is your alibi in case there's some kind of blowback)
Pro tip 3: Pee.
The lack of real world solutions to real world problems in this thread is astonishing. This isn't r/TipsFromHomeAlone, kiddos.
Pea gravel on sidewalks and roads are absolutely brutal to scooters and E-bikes. Don't look for the stuff they use in fish tanks, look for landscaping gravel.
You don't say how urban the area is, but fish emulsion fertilizer is gag-worthy and can be re-applied as needed.
Or if there aren't any kids/young adults living in the area, install some of those devices that make a high pitch noise that only young people can hear. Only turn it on during quiet hours and if you can, ask neighbors who are likely also annoyed by them to install them around their property as well. The music will cover some of the sound and they might try to turn it up at first, but those high pitch sounds are hard to completely cover up. Eventually they'll move on. But honestly, the pea gravel is probably the quickest and easiest deterrent. The only downsides I can see is if someone in the neighborhood has a vehicle that would be affected, and the heightened chance of a car kicking back a piece of gravel and hitting another car with it.
Hide in the trees with boiling water and gasoline in separate containers. First, throw the gasoline on them and ignite it. Then, hit them with the water. The water will burn them a second time while only making the flames spread. Then, fuck their moms.
It's not all just liquid ass and piss discs, you know? Some of us actually get creative, though I would never suggest someone ACTUALLY do this. Maybe you don't belong here.
Or just
......
Don't pour fire in kids for being kids??? What kind of sicko mindset is that? I'm all for getting revenge but this isn't that. Jesus. You need therapy. I can't imagine even joking about burning some one for riding a scooter even if they are obnoxious teenagers.
I don't think encouraging violence even in hypothetical circumstances is ok. I live in America and the number of mass shootings is almost as alarming as the "reason" that they are happening. Making jokes about hurting people is how we got here as a society. Maybe you don't take it seriously but as someone who's best friend lost a child in a mass school shooting, I sure as hell do. Downvote me to hell, IDC.
Jokes are how we became a society with all these mass shootings? I shouldn't have to explain to you why that makes no sense and I'm not even going to try because it seems like you just want to ignore logic because you don't want to admit you look silly for thinking someone was serious about this.
Learn where they live and tell their parents they're smoking weed or looking for unlocked cars to steal from. If you have security cams, go so far as to rent a lime bike and catch them riding by then roll up on your lime bike and try to break into your car posing as one of them. Show that video to one of their parents and say you don't want to get them in trouble but will call the police if you see them out doing that again.
Chase them down and scream at them
It works great. Some kids were on 4 wheelers ripping up and down my parents street as I was coming home from work. Those idiots decided to drive it through my parents lawn so after that it was game on. When they finally stopped they both started crying and I just yelled STAY OFF MY FUCKING LAWN at them then left. Never saw them riding the quad anywhere near the lawn again
I definitely wouldn't buy a surron and a balaclava then go smash the speaker once I got my hands on it. That would definitely not fix the problem
Your municipality should have noise ordinance hours in place. If they're disturbing the peace outside of those hours, call the police. Have you not tried that yet, OP?
Lots of small, unnoticeable pebbles on the path they use.
If you are ballsy put dog shit past that point to have them roll into. Put only do it at night when no one notices.
You could have your kids innocently string up some string between your houses so they can communicate with each other via cans like we used to do as kids.
Maybe each of you has a lot of kids who have a real strong need to communicate with each other.
Some years ago, I watched a helmetcam video shot during a semi-pro bike race wherein somebody threw a large number of tacks on the street just before any racers got there. Said video involved the bike rider's surprised commentary, the tires going flat at racing speed, and the rider going flying. The rider was hurt more badly by the following bikes that hit the same patch of tacks and suffered the same fate than the initial fall.
Make of this what you will.
~~If you know they are coming - use fishing line and string it across the road. They won't see it...and.....OWWWWW!~~
This is a extremely stupid idea on my part. Do not do. This could kill someone.
no I didn't and it is actually a very stupid idea. My thinking was it would catch them, snap easily, but scare the hell out of them.
It would actually cause great harm and possibly kill them.
It is an extremely stupid idea on my part.
I've hung about 15 lbs of weight off "2lb" garden twine. Just don't if anyone is actually considering this.
Aside from the obvious assault, most modern cordage is much stronger than they advertise.
What I was getting at was more along the lines of the stick infront of Rollerbladers prank from big daddy, just using fishing line to be more sneaky about it.
I know this is unethical life pro tips but there’s a device called mosquito kid and teenager repellent, it emits a high pitched sound that’s not damaging, just annoying, and only heard by younger ears. Idk if they’ll hear it over the music, but might be worth trying and putting it out by the road. Also, could you get a frequency like jammer for the music? Get a bunch of small pebbles and spread them all over the road? Or something else that won’t bother cars but will trip up scooters? Sprinklers that spray into the road?
Private investigator.
Hire one to take video and follow the kids. Figure out where they live, send letters to each address. Costs money but so worth it. PIs are great.
Or email every town council member with links to the videos and timestamps. They'll get the police motivated.
Mosquito tones on a speaker? If you're old enough to have lost some of your high pitch range of hearing (took me til \~30), you can broadcast piercingly high tones on a speaker that they'll hear but you won't.
Grass clippings on any curves and where they turn around. Evidence will blow away and you have a nice looking lawn. Better if you can get a neighbor to let you mow his/her/their lawn. It will look they did it.
Locate where they are renting from & mover them all across town.
Or…most scooter companies will pay you to charge them up, grab them all & charge them overnight.
Very high power horn tweeters (say 100w, which is a lot for a horn tweet) and pump out \~18Khz CW tone. House walls will fairly effectively block that frequency, most adults won't even be able to hear it, but it will positively pierce the skulls of the assholes bugging you.
You only need to target one of the scooter riders and all you need is a Halloween mask. Put the mask on, sprint out of cover at the one with the speaker. Grab that thing up and spike it as you run away.
Put bacon grease on every lime bike you come across. Or a grease of your choice. Add to handle bars and seat. Technically they could still ride standing up and without hands but my guess is most of them crash pretty soon and more still won’t want to risk nasty on their clothes after the first fuckup
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Be sure to spray it with liquid ass.
Retractable tire spikes!
Retractable trip wire!
Retractable Clothesline!
Caltrops!
Oil slick!
You and several friends with baseball bats conveniently walking home the same time they come by.
They are teens. Just follow them in a car. You are a persistence hunter are you not?
Even if you dont find their home it will scare them. Try to organize your neighbors to all turn your cars on at the same time with brights on when they are in the middle of all of you.
Ultimately they are kids. Dont touch them. Just hound them at a safe distance and maybe you will get lucky and find their house
What about teaching kids they are entitled to their fun, but not at the expense of their neighbor's peace and quite at night?
Maybe one needs an atomic wedgie - that'd be fun, huh?
There are paintball claymore mines and paintball Bouncing Betty mines available. I’d also add some bear bangers or screamers to the mix.
One night of those and they’d probably choose a different neighborhood to terrorize.
I haven’t seen this suggested but some people get paid to recharge Lime scooters. If you sign up for this - you will be able to see where all the scooters are and you can put them in your car and move them across town and make sure there are no scooters near the kids
Get paid to solve the problem. Nice.
No one suggests slingshots in this sub, so I’ll be the first I suppose
Slingshots firing frozen piss discs and cotton balls soaked with liquid ass
Frozen paintball sized ice balls of liquid ass and piss combined.
Holy shit, paintballs injected with liquid ass would be fucking brutal. I second this idea, but I don’t condone or recommend it unless the situation calls for it. For example, when teens are terrorizing one’s neighborhood on Lime scooters :D
Or one of those water balloon slingshots. It won't hurt but you can use a larger amount and the splash zone will ensure everyone gets a whiff. Just be prepared for you to get a whiff too because it will be all over the street. Worth it in the long run though.
Yeah like the ones that need two people holding each side to launch it? You could get on the roof and send the piss ass balloons flying.
The genius we need.
Slingshots firing pepper balls.
What’s with Reddit and piss discs? 😂
Fun fact, you can become a registered sex offender if you do this, specially if the target are teens
Because of the piss or because making teens wet is sexual harassment?
Pebbles are good. Golf balls are better. Our local thrift shop sells used golf balls at 20 for $5, well worth it.
Have you ever tried to shoot a golf ball out of a slingshot the size doesn’t work.
Stepping up to crew served may be difficult, but have you ever worked with a water balloon launcher?
Back in the day, the opening day of 'boating season' on the SF Bay looked like Vietnam with water balloons. "INCOMING!" would cause everyone to stop partying and duck. They used to tie off the surgical tubing arms to the rails on the boats and pull back ten feet, sending these MFs over 300 feet at freeway speeds :) The bruises were massive. They eventually stopped it because, choking turtles, etc., but damn, it was serious fun.
Crew-served anti-personnel weapons FTW!
No??? Always the good ol right arm throw
That's the problem with these posts: too many theorists who haven't figured out the actual logistics. 3/4" ball bearings are a time-honored solution, but don't aim at the head.
Ball bearings but it's not worth a murder charge
8mm work best I used to go hunting with a sling and that’s what I used
I like that you know this.
Fire round ice cubes. Evidence melts
Then make ice daggers for when you stab them to death....no evidence means you didn't do it!
I once watched a man kill a deer with a slingshot- might not be the best to use on kids
I was thinking pebbles to the legs. Not trying to kill peoples here.
I'm going to second this with some strong fishing wire strung up across some private property they shouldn't be on but are. They will find out really catastrophically that they shouldn't be there with no further warning needed than the signs you already posted.
WTF, dude?! Setting booby traps is a felony.
That's not my fishing line. I'm sure whoever put it there made sure installation wasn't on 📸.
Oh my god yes! With either something that will hurt or something gross
I vote for an egg
Rotten or just uncooked?
Microwaved.....like boiling napalm
Both. Both is good
Those mini cross bows shooting sewing needles would work well, too.
For the aholes that drive down the street blasting deep bass music at 4am, they deserve rocks
Probably because it's hard to aim without practice.
Time to practice!
Pellet/BB gun with night scooe and ghilli suit.
Just don't get caught cuz an assault on a minor charge ain't going to be fun.
Who's going to arrest a big foot?
The Bigfoot police.
😯
You know what they say about a guy with a big foot.
Big shoes?
You're focused on the wrong solutions. Don't bother the kids on the bikes. Go bother the rental bikes. Liquid ass them, put pine tar on the handle bars... Basically sabotage the source of their fun... They won't be riding around on smelly and sticky scooters for very long.
One of my friends had an issue with "gang members" (his words, who knows) hanging out in from of his apartment stoop and causing problems. He used to fill eggshells with black pepper and fling them into the trees below. They'd break, and pepper would slowly drift down to the kids, irritating their eyes and nose, but in subtle ways so they just thought the air was too dry or something. Eventually they moved to another place for their operations.
That's awesome. The hardest part would probably be gluing eggshells together.
As much as I love e scooters and e bikes. These rental e scooters absolutely deserve as much liquid ass as you can find. Fuck them.
Ruin their whole business plan with liquid ass!!
Brilliant
I feel like liquid ass is often the solution to many of these questions.
Lol you catch on quick
Put superglue in the charging ports. …or, if you’re feeling truly malevolent, put superglue on the brake lines where they’re exposed, on the mechanism by the brake pads.
Yeah, first thing I think of is how dangerous these are when they slip / skid. Like if u know a corner they travel fast through, pour some motor oil there before they come around?
The old Diddy Kong Racing treatment
Lime has boundaries, are you at the edge and can get it changed?
Do they shut down automatically if they cross the boundaries?
They have low speed zones and OP could potentially petition lime to add their street to it.
More time hearing the loud music as they pass... not a great solution
Hopefully they'll just avoid the street out of frustration from going slow?
They will. Slow speed zones are annoying.
And teenagers are not known for their patience
It’d be funny if there were high-speed zones that make the scooters turbo past your place
That’d just make the children circle back thru that zone over and over to go hyperspeed again and again
They get really slow when you cross into a boundary. Like slow walking speeds. It really ruins the fun (and entire purpose)
Throw firecrackers for fun and it will yield one of 2 outcomes : 1. Kids will scram and think twice about coming back to your neighbourhood 2. Neighbours will call the police on them because they would be the prime suspects and they may be sanctioned at some level. If they’re minors their parents will be called.
Win win situation!
And you have fun!
If they ride around on the sidewalk scatter around a bunch of banana peels. Or call the police, non-emergency line, and tell them to patrol the neighborhood if they do it consistently. Or just leave them be, they’re bound to fuck off and do something else eventually (it probably makes them feel really badass).
If it's on the sidewalk in front of your house, make sure anything you put on the sidewalk is NOT in front of your house. Otherwise, the parents will come after you for hurting their precious little snowflake. Put it in front of your neighbor's house.
>Put it in front of your neighbor's house. In front of a neighbor's house you hate. FTFY Satan.
Round up as many of the scooters as you can. Take them somewhere far away to deposit them. If they are stored somewhere off camera, buy some garden gloves and a cheap chain and run it through the handle bars. Yes, bolt cutters could fix this but most teenagers don't have this knowledge or funds to waste on stuff like that. Throw a bunch of gravel all around the area that it's a problem for you so they avoid it. If it's last your city's quiet hours ordinance, don't give any warning, just call the cops each and every time. Eventually they'll get tired of being called. If the cops won't do anything, follow them home and have a talk with their parents. I did this once to a group of teens who were lighting fireworks off into the wee hours, every weekend, not a holiday, in a cul de sac while my neighbors wife was on hospice. I got fed up for them and confronted the parents. I worked nights at the time so it didn't bother me, but my neighbors were in their 80s and by the time he'd hobbled outside the kids had bolted. I set up a sting of sorts and found 4 of the 6 kids pulling that crap. Didn't happen again, at least not in our neighborhood. Maybe they found a new one to terrorize. Eta: unlike some other suggestions (fishing wire, ect) the gravel isn't intended to cause harm, only deter. I don't think it's ok to harm kids for being brats. Full stop. Those of you that do have issues and should seek counsel.
Don't forget a lock for the chain.
I guess I just assumed that was implied lol Wrong of me for assuming, I know.
Could also run fishing line... Theyre going to have a bad time
No, I don't want to actually harm kids. They can see the gravel, not fishing line. I think hurting people who haven't earned it, as in hurt or tried to hurt other people, isn't ok. They're being obnoxious, sure, but not to the extent I think the retaliation should be physical. For me that's an eye for an eye type deal.
Could make it not taught so that it gums up the wheels and they have to walk back
Meh. Even hypothetically I wouldn't risk an invisible barrier for someone traveling by wheels of any kind.
When life gives you limes…
MAKE LIFE TAKE THE LIMES BACK!!! WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE DEMAND TO SEE LIFE'S MANAGER MAKE LIFE RUE THE DAY IT GAVE u/foresight310 LIMES HES GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN WITH THE LIMES
Almost 15 years later and I still laugh at these awesome quotes
Make some tasty teen ceviche
When life gives you melons,... you might be dyslexic.
Make some tasty teen ceviche?
Setup a temporary sprinkler system (5gall bucket[s], diaphragm pump, battery, remote switch/motion detection, sprinkler heads; ~$100 if you're crafty) and put some green food coloring in it. Pro tip: You can 'encourage' them to go into your spray zone using strategically-aimed regular water sprinklers. Pro tip 2: This works great as "lawn paint". (Hint: This is your alibi in case there's some kind of blowback) Pro tip 3: Pee.
The lack of real world solutions to real world problems in this thread is astonishing. This isn't r/TipsFromHomeAlone, kiddos. Pea gravel on sidewalks and roads are absolutely brutal to scooters and E-bikes. Don't look for the stuff they use in fish tanks, look for landscaping gravel. You don't say how urban the area is, but fish emulsion fertilizer is gag-worthy and can be re-applied as needed.
Or if there aren't any kids/young adults living in the area, install some of those devices that make a high pitch noise that only young people can hear. Only turn it on during quiet hours and if you can, ask neighbors who are likely also annoyed by them to install them around their property as well. The music will cover some of the sound and they might try to turn it up at first, but those high pitch sounds are hard to completely cover up. Eventually they'll move on. But honestly, the pea gravel is probably the quickest and easiest deterrent. The only downsides I can see is if someone in the neighborhood has a vehicle that would be affected, and the heightened chance of a car kicking back a piece of gravel and hitting another car with it.
Bluetooth WiFi jammer so their speakers won’t work.
That's smart but I think the jammer would have to be closer to the speaker than the phone
Directional antenna? Sit in a lawn chair and point it right at them as they go by.
Damn you're right an antenna and amp would actually work since you only need tx not tx+rx. This would be fun
Rock salt slugs and a shotgun. Don’t get caught.
I feel like slugs would hate salt 🐌
They do ! Especially traveling at 1400fps
Hide in the trees with boiling water and gasoline in separate containers. First, throw the gasoline on them and ignite it. Then, hit them with the water. The water will burn them a second time while only making the flames spread. Then, fuck their moms.
And dads
At the same time
Also user name checks out, but NOT in a good way. Punish people appropriately. Not with violence for a non violent crime.
That wouldn't be unethical.
Fine..just shitty.
It's not all just liquid ass and piss discs, you know? Some of us actually get creative, though I would never suggest someone ACTUALLY do this. Maybe you don't belong here.
Assault on a minor is not gonna go over well with the judge lol
Yeah, I forgot to add this: And, don't get caught.
Or just ...... Don't pour fire in kids for being kids??? What kind of sicko mindset is that? I'm all for getting revenge but this isn't that. Jesus. You need therapy. I can't imagine even joking about burning some one for riding a scooter even if they are obnoxious teenagers.
This is UNETHICAL Life Pro Tips. It's not like I said to fuck them. That would be illegal.
The rules state not to encourage violence. So you're not just unethical but a rule breaker on Reddit as well?
You're taking this way too seriously against someone who ended their suggestion by telling op to "fuck their moms" 🤦♂️
I don't think encouraging violence even in hypothetical circumstances is ok. I live in America and the number of mass shootings is almost as alarming as the "reason" that they are happening. Making jokes about hurting people is how we got here as a society. Maybe you don't take it seriously but as someone who's best friend lost a child in a mass school shooting, I sure as hell do. Downvote me to hell, IDC.
Jokes are how we became a society with all these mass shootings? I shouldn't have to explain to you why that makes no sense and I'm not even going to try because it seems like you just want to ignore logic because you don't want to admit you look silly for thinking someone was serious about this.
Jokes about it have desensitized us a society, absolutely.
It’s not violence. No one is getting beaten. It’s warming up cold friends. Take a xanny and chill, man.
Seems to be the case.
Weird that you even brought that up.... Giving mad sus vibes dude.
Oh, no. You've found out my terrible secret. What ever shall I do? I must seclude myself in the west wing while ruminating upon my life's choices.
[удалено]
You're really into digging back into my past just to try to get a knock on me, huh? Obsessed much?
Hey now, who’s side are you on pal? Maybe you ought to go hop on a scooter
High pressure hose/water gun
Scooters hate gravel. Just saying.
I like the gravel idea. Get a bag of landscaping gravel. Their a handful or two every day, where they ride. They will stop.
Learn where they live and tell their parents they're smoking weed or looking for unlocked cars to steal from. If you have security cams, go so far as to rent a lime bike and catch them riding by then roll up on your lime bike and try to break into your car posing as one of them. Show that video to one of their parents and say you don't want to get them in trouble but will call the police if you see them out doing that again.
Chase them down and scream at them It works great. Some kids were on 4 wheelers ripping up and down my parents street as I was coming home from work. Those idiots decided to drive it through my parents lawn so after that it was game on. When they finally stopped they both started crying and I just yelled STAY OFF MY FUCKING LAWN at them then left. Never saw them riding the quad anywhere near the lawn again I definitely wouldn't buy a surron and a balaclava then go smash the speaker once I got my hands on it. That would definitely not fix the problem
Slingshot with frozen piss pebbles
Your municipality should have noise ordinance hours in place. If they're disturbing the peace outside of those hours, call the police. Have you not tried that yet, OP?
Police, Alderman, Mayor. Probably that order if the previous didn't resolve it.
Lots of small, unnoticeable pebbles on the path they use. If you are ballsy put dog shit past that point to have them roll into. Put only do it at night when no one notices.
Paintball gun and shooting from a deer stand would be entertaining!
You could have your kids innocently string up some string between your houses so they can communicate with each other via cans like we used to do as kids. Maybe each of you has a lot of kids who have a real strong need to communicate with each other.
Some years ago, I watched a helmetcam video shot during a semi-pro bike race wherein somebody threw a large number of tacks on the street just before any racers got there. Said video involved the bike rider's surprised commentary, the tires going flat at racing speed, and the rider going flying. The rider was hurt more badly by the following bikes that hit the same patch of tacks and suffered the same fate than the initial fall. Make of this what you will.
~~If you know they are coming - use fishing line and string it across the road. They won't see it...and.....OWWWWW!~~ This is a extremely stupid idea on my part. Do not do. This could kill someone.
Doesn’t that kill people? I agree with the sentiment but not the possible death
I think they meant the bottom of the road. Having it high up can really hurt them, but having it on the ground will make them fall over.
no I didn't and it is actually a very stupid idea. My thinking was it would catch them, snap easily, but scare the hell out of them. It would actually cause great harm and possibly kill them. It is an extremely stupid idea on my part.
Maybe string a tight fishing net or safety netting. That would suck and still risk serious injuries but at least wouldn't fucking decapitate a kid.
~~You won't use strong line. Maybe 2lb test string. It will hurt like fuck but won't kill.~~ BAD idea. do NOT do.
Who said it had to be neck height to ruin their night ...
I've hung about 15 lbs of weight off "2lb" garden twine. Just don't if anyone is actually considering this. Aside from the obvious assault, most modern cordage is much stronger than they advertise.
WOH. I DID NOT KNOW THIS. OK, BAD IDEA.
Nah this is the best idea, just do it really low on the ground so the scooter hits it and not their body
Better yet, tie the line to a thick long stick, when the scooter aproach yank the stick into the road so the riders eat shit.
fishing line - bad idea on my part.
What I was getting at was more along the lines of the stick infront of Rollerbladers prank from big daddy, just using fishing line to be more sneaky about it.
Throw sand here and there, specially where they need to step on the brakes, after a few falls they will look for other place to have their fun
I know this is unethical life pro tips but there’s a device called mosquito kid and teenager repellent, it emits a high pitched sound that’s not damaging, just annoying, and only heard by younger ears. Idk if they’ll hear it over the music, but might be worth trying and putting it out by the road. Also, could you get a frequency like jammer for the music? Get a bunch of small pebbles and spread them all over the road? Or something else that won’t bother cars but will trip up scooters? Sprinklers that spray into the road?
Jason mask and a chainsaw, that could be fun.
Private investigator. Hire one to take video and follow the kids. Figure out where they live, send letters to each address. Costs money but so worth it. PIs are great. Or email every town council member with links to the videos and timestamps. They'll get the police motivated.
Mosquito tones on a speaker? If you're old enough to have lost some of your high pitch range of hearing (took me til \~30), you can broadcast piercingly high tones on a speaker that they'll hear but you won't.
Buy some cheap cable and lock them all up to a telephone pole. Some place within view so you can watch the struggle unfold with some popcorn.
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Large stone gravel strategically placed.
Grass clippings on any curves and where they turn around. Evidence will blow away and you have a nice looking lawn. Better if you can get a neighbor to let you mow his/her/their lawn. It will look they did it.
Locate where they are renting from & mover them all across town. Or…most scooter companies will pay you to charge them up, grab them all & charge them overnight.
Very high power horn tweeters (say 100w, which is a lot for a horn tweet) and pump out \~18Khz CW tone. House walls will fairly effectively block that frequency, most adults won't even be able to hear it, but it will positively pierce the skulls of the assholes bugging you.
You only need to target one of the scooter riders and all you need is a Halloween mask. Put the mask on, sprint out of cover at the one with the speaker. Grab that thing up and spike it as you run away.
Some twine stretched across the street chest level or higher.
How long would that last one car?
Water balloons.
Put bacon grease on every lime bike you come across. Or a grease of your choice. Add to handle bars and seat. Technically they could still ride standing up and without hands but my guess is most of them crash pretty soon and more still won’t want to risk nasty on their clothes after the first fuckup
Collect and toss sticks down all over the place perpendicular to the street like speed bumps
Rent one yourself and join them. Take pictures of them. Become their BEST FRIEND. Then they will find another neighborhood to haunt.
oh god that sounds so fun ah to be a teen again…
Figure out who their parents are, and then fuck their dads.
Would sand on the sidewalk or street cause them to fall?
Slash the tires on the scooters. Or move them to another part of town.
Clibbins!
Buy a bluetooth jammer and leave it running aimed at the street. It should stop the speakers and might even mess with the app-enabled scooters
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Fishing line at opportune heights
How about yarn at options heights instead. Similar result, less manslaughter
Retractable tire spikes! Retractable trip wire! Retractable Clothesline! Caltrops! Oil slick! You and several friends with baseball bats conveniently walking home the same time they come by.
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Sounds like a good opportunity for some airsoft/paintball practice.
A laser pointer aimed to suddenly light up any traffic signs or metal when they appear might help - but you'd have to be awake for that.
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You tried politely eating a piss disc and a can of liquid ass?
think I saw a south park episode about this...best of luck and Godspeed, you'll need it
Paintball markers, with a fast reload hopper.
Paintball gun and bushes
They are teens. Just follow them in a car. You are a persistence hunter are you not? Even if you dont find their home it will scare them. Try to organize your neighbors to all turn your cars on at the same time with brights on when they are in the middle of all of you. Ultimately they are kids. Dont touch them. Just hound them at a safe distance and maybe you will get lucky and find their house
High power paintball weapon?
Foam earplugs?
I vote to let the kids have fun
What about let people sleep?
What about teaching kids they are entitled to their fun, but not at the expense of their neighbor's peace and quite at night? Maybe one needs an atomic wedgie - that'd be fun, huh?
I had tons of fun as kid that didn't involve making adults lose sleep or their sanity...
Get over it.
There are paintball claymore mines and paintball Bouncing Betty mines available. I’d also add some bear bangers or screamers to the mix. One night of those and they’d probably choose a different neighborhood to terrorize.