Yes indeed we have one in our neighborhood too.

You've been incredibly patient -- no doubt about that.

In our case, the father was still involved with the child so I had an easier time getting his attention than the mother's. The mother was just unwilling to discipline her child and that was the root of these issues.

I ended up sharing Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life with the father -- specifically Rule#5 "Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them."

We came to an understanding. My wife and I were taking a zero tolerance stance at our place, no exceptions. If the kid broke a rule, mouthed off, etc he was banished - not for the day but for the rest of the week. His dad agreed to start paying attention at home and punishing the child if he got in trouble with us. He also started coaching/encouraging his wife on discipline.

It took a month or so for the new reality to sink in, but the kid finally shaped up and everyone starting playing together again.

Kid needs to learn there are consequences of breaking the rules, and that people are paying attention. If the parents don't instill that pronto, they are going to earn a very challenging adolescence.

The kid seems like the sort that, when/if he's banished, that would escalate the mischief rather than changing his ways. Hope that doesn't happen, but if I had to banish the little miscreant, I'd be looking at night vision cameras.

Don’t F with my boxers! At all!

Got a whole extended family of meth heads next door. Joy and rapture, I get to share a driveway with them, as they live behind me. Got constant vehicle traffic at all hours. Very aggressive dogs running loose that get replaced as soon as I dispose of them. All the fun. Kids are, of course, just like their parents.

^^^Report the place as a drug house. Traffic all hours of the day and night is a dead giveaway. Relative reported one in her subdivision of half million dollar houses a few years ago. Police set up on the place for a couple months then took them down. Fixed the problem.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Call Child Protective Services (CPS) on the parents and say that abuse is suspected. That’ll make the parents day.

Doing that would make the caller a complete and utter asshole. Worse than anything the kid do short of committing felonies. It is generally a crime to make false reports to CPS. While I am not a big fan of most CPS agencies (and I deal with them often), they are universally overworked, and don't have time to deal with real problems, never mind with calls made for vengeful reasons.

If this was a joke it isn't funny. If it was meant seriously, it is reprehensible.

The way to deal with this kid is to exclude him. Maybe he'll never learn, or maybe the shunning will cause him to re-examine his behavior.

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Agree completely. Folks that let their kids run wild are problematic. While they cannot handle parenting they are often experts in retaliation. In section 8 housing people get shot or knifed over such things.

sorry, you have been more than fair. If anyone was bothering my dog, they would never be allowed back.

He sounds like he’s acting out because he’s not getting enough discipline at home, does he even have a father?

We just had a family move in 3 doors up with a friggen’ pit bull

It barks and barks and barks all day long. I’m thinking the neighbors will tire of this soon enough and it will be gone hopefully.

They don’t even have a fenced in yard. This animal better not even THINK about going near my children because I WILL shoot it without a second thought if I think they’re being threatened.

When I was a teenager there was a little shit around 10 who was adopted from the favelas. He cursed everybody in the neighborhood. One day my buddy found him playing the piano in his house and when he asked what the hell he was doing the kid told him to fuck off and walked out of the house. The kid got mad that another kid wouldn’t let him borrow a Nintendo game so he put the garden hose through the mail slot in the front door and let it run. Little shit started throwing rocks and me and my friends when we were tossing a football around in the street. We told him to knock it off and he told us to fuck ourselves and threw some more rocks. I threw on back and hit him between the eyes. That ended that problem. After I went away to college the kid took his parents car and ping ponged up the street hitting every car on both sides of the street. He was a menace and is surely in prison or more likely dead.

Your house your rules. Exclude the kid for being a dick. Let mom know why. Second chance sure. More than that and you’re a saint.

Yes and I issued a ban on my property. I told the parents if that kid steps a foot on my property I'm calling the PD. I've had enough. Once my surveillance cameras went up the little fucker no longer steps on my property.

Since you can’t lay a hand on him like Jimmy said give him a good soaking with the hose. If his parents don’t like it that’s tough.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
^^^Report the place as a drug house. Traffic all hours of the day and night is a dead giveaway. Relative reported one in her subdivision of half million dollar houses a few years ago. Police set up on the place for a couple months then took them down. Fixed the problem.

Done. Multiple times. Nothing has happened. Another of many reasons I'm now a retired deputy.

The kid sounds either severely ADHD or a sociopath.