What would you do if a neighborhood kid lobbed a rock at your home with a sling-shot?

I've told this kid numerous times to stay away from my home and property and stop harassing the boy I'm raising. He lobbed a rock at my house on Sunday and hit it. Yesterday he had a long stick and was after something in the tree in my house. Had gotten fed up and went out and told him to leave and never come back to my yard. His excuse was that the boy was staring out at him through his bedroom window (our home, our window, he has a right to watch out the window). Told him next time I'd call the police and let them talk to his mother.

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JustLikeGreta · F

Report him to the police.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@JustLikeGreta I gave him one warning and no more and told him I would call the police if he comes back here. Another boy thanked my kid for what I did yesterday, they came around the corner and his little sister offered me candy from a bag, lol.

JustLikeGreta · F

@cherokeepatti 🌹

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@JustLikeGreta You know I'm thinking that people don't want to have to call the police, everyone is having problems with this kid but no one wants to rock the boat. When he used the BB gun on that little neighbor girl the police should have been called for that incident, I sure would have. He could blind someone using it. And the same with the slingshot, not to mention property damage. People see stuff but they don't call and it's time we did. The mother is negligent by not checking up on him and he runs around all evening at least till dark and sometimes in the summer it's after 10 and he's on the next street. My grandpa lived in a small rural village and my mom & dad moved there (real estate real cheap because of so many vacant old frame homes)...my father was the village bully but no one called in on him and he ended up kidnapping a teenage boy and beating (torturing him) for hours and maiming him before releasing him. The kid stumbled out onto the road and someone picked him up and took him to the hospital. The sheriff came out the next day while we were at school and told him the family wasn't going to press charges (they were scared to death I imagine, and moved as soon as they could to California)...and the sheriff told him if he didn't leave the state that they would file charges, and gave him 5 days to pack up and leave. Everyone in the village was scared of him, I remember walking down the sidewalk and seeing people peek through the curtains and then draw them shut really quickly and wondering why they did that.

JustLikeGreta · F

@cherokeepatti
better to rock the boat, when a dangerous bully is terrorizing everyone.

My shed was broken into yesterday. But since I have no idea what was in it, it was junk from Mr. Ohara. I am not bothering to call the police. But for a neighborhood bully I would.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@JustLikeGreta Even if it was junk it should be reported because it was a break-in. Like I said if the shed got broken into there's a gas can in there and that kid could do a lot of damage with that one item alone. I don't trust this kid one bit and am now wondering about things since he's been in the back yard, not missing anything but wondering what exactly he is doing back there.