Kids using our garage door as a football goal...

[Martyboy84]

Parents don't really care as they are just kids... Don't want to go to the police but I'm running out of ideas.

Over the course of around 18 months the wee b*sdtards have managed to snap off 4 solar panels which I use to power my garage lighting. Lights run from inside the garage, out little drilled holes and the little panels sit outside the front of the garage at the top corners....

These kept getting hit with a ball and being broken. To stop this happening (or at least try) my latest replacement was placed on the roof, with the cable running around the guttering to stop any excess cable hanging down..... Well, final straw the wee f*ckers managed to hit the guttering so often that too came flying off, ripping my cable in half, leaving me with 1 working light.....

Garage door is covered in marks and the paint around the sides if coming off...

Realistically am I allowed to cover the panels and immediate area with some form of anti ball defence? Spikes, flame thrower, solar machine gun sentry?

There are 8 garages, 4 on either side facing each other, my and the lad who parks at his garage are not to happy, his car has been ruined with these balls, it is actually mental. We can't park down there as the car would be ruined in half a day.

Any tips on what I can do? Neighbour has spoken with the parent(s) and has resorted to kicking the balls away, but they just buy new ones. I am not 100% sure what parents to speak to as there seems to be a few families.


http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/images/products/th... <--- example of the lights I use.

FYI I use the garage as a gym and it is an external garage, so no electricity supply.

Shall I just go and freeze some sausages?

Please excuse my erratic typing.

[73mark]

afix a plywood board with nails in it to the garage door

[Vaud]

73mark said:

afix a plywood board with nails in it to the garage door

I would avoid nails, too sharp. But anything with bluntish ends should keep the H&S bods happy and still burst a football.

[daniel1920]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_st29mlQwU

[Mafffew]

Baseball bat to the skull should do the trick, make sure you swing through though. Once the first is down, begin to round on the others, they should run away.

[Vroom101]

1) Buy white paint

2) Paint outline of a goal on the farthest door from yours

Failing that you might want to workout in just your underwear, whilst 'forgetting' to shut the garage door. They'll soon leave

[Devil2575]

Everytime they play football out there go out and pop the ball. They will get sick and eventually move on.

[paintman]

You've suffered repeated instances of damage to your property & the other chap with the car has sustained damage to it. Time for you both to either take the matter up with the Police as Criminal Damage (or whatever it comes under in Scotland) or just carry on putting up with it.

[dalzo]

Repeatedly put the parents windows in with a football, see how they like it.

[g7jhp]

Put some carpet spike or pigeon spikes on the woodwork.

[Disco You]

https://www.gov.uk/asbo

[jonny996]

if it does not disturb neighbours set up an old stereo playing some bad 50's music. Bad tunes will drive them away.

[andburg]

cover the door in anti vandal grease, every time they or the ball touch it they'll get covered in it!

[t4thomas]

Sorted...

Anti Loitering Device

[pembo]

I guess that after being hit by a ball so much your garage probably needs a fresh lick of paint:
http://www.diy.com/departments/fortress-black-glos...

No one wants to kick a sticky ball and the parents might get proactive when their clothes are wrecked.

[Martyboy84]

Vroom101 said:

1) Buy white paint

2) Paint outline of a goal on the farthest door from yours

Failing that you might want to workout in just your underwear, whilst 'forgetting' to shut the garage door. They'll soon leave

Edited by Martyboy84 on Wednesday 13th May 19:52

[Martyboy84]

Thanks all. I'll try the kantona tackle and take it from there. Pesky kids!!

[DaveH23]

Have you tried talking to the kids.

When I was a yoof if an adult asked us to move on for whatever reason we did.

You may be suprised, not all kids these days are knife weilding maniacs the press make them out to be.

[Martyboy84]

Sadly I have yes. Several times. They say ok. Thw the literary when I'm out of site you hear the ball battering the doors/gutters. So I counted my current light collection. 4 lights, 3 solar panels. 3 broken solar panels.. I don't think I can get 4 replacement panels so I'll need 4 full sets. Least I have spare lights...

[killsta]

DaveH23 said:

You may be suprised, not all kids these days are knife weilding maniacs the press make them out to be.

Does not compute.