Antisocial behaviour - Result!

[ColinJ]

Young people these days. They're so juvenile.

We used to call it rat-a-tat-ginger in Coventry in the early 1960s.

Yes, very juvenile, but there is world of difference between our irritating light knocks on doors, and a teenager's full-bodied dropkick** nearly smashing a door!


** I hadn't spotted the footprint on my door but the police officer pointed it out to me. It is about 1.5 metres above the ground so definitely a determined dropkick rather than a mere tap and run!

 

[annedonnelly]

Knocky-door ginger in the north-east.

My dad used to talk of tying two door knockers together then knocking on one. When that was opened it would knock on next door and so on. I don't know if he ever did it. It may have been an urban myth.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I grew up in a house that was close to the centre of the village/town and the front door was about 3 feet from the pavement

It was quite common for the front door bell to ring in the evening and there be no-one there

I just got used to it

 

[ColinJ]

I just got used to it

It would take major doses of class A drugs or litres of vodka to get me used to having my door battered about 3 metres from my head!!

 

[blackrat]

A few months ago in a Florida city a girl and her 'gang' thought it amusing to ring door bells then run away, one time they did this an elderly man fired a shotgun and killed the girl in his driveway.

 

[diplodicus]

A few months ago in a Florida city a girl and her 'gang' thought it amusing to ring door bells then run away, one time they did this an elderly man fired a shotgun and killed the girl in his driveway.

This is the sort of thing that makes me think that America can be such a lovely place