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my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.

When you say shooting potatoes, do you mean whole ones?

There is no option, go over and complain to the parents?

That's what I'd do :)

Shoot potato at them, not their house.

Hose them :) It definately gets the message across ;)

Yell at them, and then have a word with their parents.

Shoot potato at them, not their house.
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When you say shooting potatoes, do you mean whole ones?
yep, their gun shoots them about 3 feet and pretty slow, the potato hits and remains intact

our gun shoots them up to 25 feet and fast enough that when it hits, it uh......isn't a potato anymore, it's more like smush.

There is no option, go over and complain to the parents?

That's what I'd do :)

no, the parents are stupid and violent, last time I went to talk to them the dad answered the door with his gun.

Shoot potato at them, not their house.

good idea! ..........

Hit them with a sack of potatoes.

Throw eggs at their faces.

Hit them with a sack of potatoes.

Take the potatoes out of the sack, put the kid in. Go to FedEx and have the sack shipped to the neighbours :D

Find some rather mean way to show you don't like what there doing and if that doesn't work , think of a sadistic way to get your own back or as said fire potatoes at them OR hit them with a sack of potatoes.

Load your potato gun with eggs.

Fire.


In seriousness, just call the cops.

my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.

Tell them politely to knock it off. If necessary threten to call the cops. You certainly don't want a potato going through your window, right? Make them stop but try not to make enemies while doing it.

How old are they?

if they are below 12 shoot them with your potato gun. if older then 12 shoot them with your air rifle.

Tell them politely to knock it off. If necessary threten to call the cops. You certainly don't want a potato going through your window, right? Make them stop but try not to make enemies while doing it.

That's bad advice.

I say burn their house down. Show them you are not to be trifled with.

Tell them politely to knock it off. If necessary threten to call the cops. You certainly don't want a potato going through your window, right? Make them stop but try not to make enemies while doing it.

QFT

Diplomacy first :)

but If they give you the bird and a f**k off then let the cops deal with it.

That's bad advice.

I say burn their house down. Show them you are not to be trifled with.
Bad advice on NSG? <something about bears and forests here>

That's bad advice.

I say burn their house down. Show them you are not to be trifled with.

Dude, they're still awake. If you're going to burn the house down do it while they're asleep. Less chance that they'll get out in time that way.

are they hitting your house?

all you have to do is to collect up the potatoes as they come into your yard. pretty soon they will run out.

its the middle of the day, they cant hurt your house with a potato that goes 3 feet. let them have their fun.

Or if anything else failed you can always try this:

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team

Or if anything else failed you can always try this:

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team

:sniper: :sniper: :mp5: :sniper: :sniper: :mp5: :mp5: :sniper:


First good use for gun smilies.:D

are they hitting your house?

all you have to do is to collect up the potatoes as they come into your yard. pretty soon they will run out.

its the middle of the day, they cant hurt your house with a potato that goes 3 feet. let them have their fun.

they are now shooting them at my dog :mad: I let him in but he is going crazy barking because they are polluting his yard.

First good use for gun smilies.:D

Potato gun smilies? ;)

Potato gun smilies? ;)
yes, though we aren't helping Smunkee:p

they are now shooting them at my dog :mad: I let him in but he is going crazy barking because they are polluting his yard.

Pffft you must have a weak dog. if some kids were shooting my dog with potatoes he would eat the kids.

Or if anything else failed you can always try this:

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team

Bad thing about the A-Team is they're lousy shots. I mean they expend hundreds of rounds of ammo and hit nothing but air.

Presumably they'll run out of potatoes soon enough. Just collect them and make a nice meal.

Bad thing about the A-Team is they're lousy shots. I mean they expend hundreds of rounds of ammo and hit nothing but air.
But then they fight and did they ever lost?:p

Or if anything else failed you can always try this:

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team

That was the best kid's show ever! I learned that you can have an all out battle with automatic weapons and nobody will get hurt. I also learned that you can build a watermellon-launching tank with a tractor, a couple of 55 gallon drums and an arc welder.

Bad thing about the A-Team is they're lousy shots. I mean they expend hundreds of rounds of ammo and hit nothing but air.

McGuyver any better?

Or what about CSI:NSG? Maybe we can send some people to the crime scene (Smunkees house) to investigate what happened :D

Pffft you must have a weak dog. if some kids were shooting my dog with potatoes he would eat the kids.

he is a therapy dog, he has been specifically trained not to eat kids.

he is just mad because he keeps his yard a specific way and he doesn't like it messy.

Morally, and quite probably legally, you can't personally do anything to them. From a legal standpoint it's best if you do absolutly nothing to agravate them.

I'd say if it's safe to do so, go out there and ask them nicely.
If they simply leg it then you tried. (nice if you can have this taped at the time)

If they come back carry on (make more tape) and you know their parents, call them or go round there.

If they come back again then there's nothing you can do beyond ask the Police to have a word. By this stage it probably constitutes harrasment.

If they've broken anything then it's possibly criminal damage
If they've hit the dog then there might be cruelty to animals angle.

I hope you don't end up having to play hardball though :(

they arent hurting anything. when dad finds out that they have "given" all their potatoes to the neighbors, the kids will get a whoopin'.

dont call the cops unless they start doing something actually destructive.

no, the parents are stupid and violent, last time I went to talk to them the dad answered the door with his gun.

...whoa! I live in arkansas, people are supposed to do that kind of thing here, not wherever you live...haha. are they damaging the property, or is it just annoying? frankly my first thought when I heard the initial query was "...are the potatos still edible?" I'm really quite fond of hash browns...and mashed potatos, and scallopped potatos, baked potatos, steak fries...erm, I digress - I would not suggest escalating the situation by bringing in your potato gun...particularly not of the "adults" of the family are as moody and violent as to answer the door with *real* guns. firing back at the kids will just make them thing it's more fun.:rolleyes: ignore it unless they start breaking things or hurting people, at which point I'd call the cops and explain that you have rather high-strung neighbors and talking to the parents isn't going to do anything about the kids.

I hope you don't end up having to play hardball though :(

Throw a hard ball at them.

my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.

Call the police, they might be charged for disturbing the peace. The parents must be real dickheads!:sniper:

...whoa! I live in arkansas, people are supposed to do that kind of thing here, not wherever you live...haha. are they damaging the property, or is it just annoying? frankly my first thought when I heard the initial query was "...are the potatos still edible?" I'm really quite fond of hash browns...and mashed potatos, and scallopped potatos, baked potatos, steak fries...erm, I digress - I would not suggest escalating the situation by bringing in your potato gun...particularly not of the "adults" of the family are as moody and violent as to answer the door with *real* guns. firing back at the kids will just make them thing it's more fun.:rolleyes: ignore it unless they start breaking things or hurting people, at which point I'd call the cops and explain that you have rather high-strung neighbors and talking to the parents isn't going to do anything about the kids.
Meh, I live in New Jersey and have had a shotgun pointed at me as I walked up a guy's driveway to ask if I could use his phone to get my car towed out of some sand I'd gotten stuck in. Of course it was in the pine barrens, the inbred backwoods of New Jesey.

they are now shooting them at my dog :mad: I let him in but he is going crazy barking because they are polluting his yard.

Declare war on the neighbors! They have gone TOO FAR!

Meh, I live in New Jersey and have had a shotgun pointed at me as I walked up a guy's driveway to ask if I could use his phone to get my car towed out of some sand I'd gotten stuck in. Of course it was in the pine barrens, the inbred backwoods of New Jesey.

*chuckles* I was born and raised in pennsylvania and my city of choice is new york...I must say this fits right in with my opinion of new jersey...there was a facebook group I saw that said something along the lines of "nuke jersey, give PA a beach!" ...that's extreme, but yeah, it has to be one of the last places I would want to live, though I've actually met plenty of nice people from there. the pine barrens, from what I've heard, are kind of fucked up. weird-ass ghost stories from there.

Throw draino bombs at them. Or can you launch dog poo with the potato gun?

I think you should also continue adding to the mouse population of their house (I'm assuming same neighbors). If different, I'm sure these neighbors could use some woodland creatures as well.

You could also pumpkin their house.

they have run out of potatoes and started shooting glass ornaments into my yard........

I called the neighbor and when he answered the phone he said "are you a cop?" and I said "no" and he said "well, then I am too high to talk right now" and hung up on me

not a good idea for you
but by now i would have blown up the letter box

Want to borrow the Poo Cannon? :)

If the father's mentally unhinged enough that he answers the door with a gun, I'd be wanting a paper trail on him in case this just turns out to be the beginning of a pattern of harrassment. Call the cops.

they have run out of potatoes and started shooting glass ornaments into my yard........

I called the neighbor and when he answered the phone he said "are you a cop?" and I said "no" and he said "well, then I am too high to talk right now" and hung up on me

Yeah, that's the signal that you should call the police.

Yeah, that's the signal that you should call the police.

already did.

you know why they hate me right? because back in January when the whole freaking city was on fire they were shooting of fireworks in the yard and I called the cops on them, you know so they wouldn't start another wildfire.

my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.
Who is the moron that invented "the potato gun"???

I say pull your Glock on them.

already did.

you know why they hate me right? because back in January when the whole freaking city was on fire they were shooting of fireworks in the yard and I called the cops on them, you know so they wouldn't start another wildfire.

what dum ass, good for you

my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.

/me loans Smunkeeville a 20+ bps paintball marker :mp5:




Seriously, I'd call the cops and make a formal complaint. You should not have to deal with that. At best, they're harrassing you and littering your yard. At worst, it's criminal mischief on the part of the kids, and contributing to the delinquency of minors (in the case of the parents). You might also want to mention the conversation you had with the father to the officer that you speak to (especially the part about him being high).

Got a paintball gu..... damn someone beat me to it.

Tell the kids their dad is baked out of his gourd and won't notice if they're gone. Who knows, maybe that's what keeps em around the house.

Eat the potatoes and be happy.

Order 100 pizzas to their house.

my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.

A couple years back my brothers and I made a potato gun out of PVC plumbing, a stun gun, a pure oxygen tank, a car's fuel injector, a basic stamp, and a laptop computer. We programmed the software ourselves to control the fuel and oxygen injection through the laptop so the power of each shot could be adjusted. The bore was only 1 1/2 inches but it could fire a potato several hundred feet and it sounded like a mortor... Eventually we started wrapping chairlegs with duct tape to fit the barrel and shot holes through one of our car doors.

Good times... Good times. :D

Inform their parents, and tell the kids that what they're doing is wrong. Simple as that, no need for confrontation, no need for lawsuits, no need for arrestment:D.

A couple years back my brothers and I made a potato gun out of PVC plumbing, a stun gun, a pure oxygen tank, a car's fuel injector, a basic stamp, and a laptop computer. We programmed the software ourselves to control the fuel and oxygen injection through the laptop so the power of each shot could be adjusted. The bore was only 1 1/2 inches but it could fire a potato several hundred feet and it sounded like a mortor... Eventually we started wrapping chairlegs with duct tape to fit the barrel and shot holes through one of our car doors.

Good times... Good times. :D

mine is uh........more ghetto than that, we just made one like this (http://www.alioth.net/flying/PVille99/SpudGunShakesEarth.jpg) for science.

the thing's i got up to when i was a kid, i would in up in jail today

mine is uh........more ghetto than that, we just made one like this (http://www.alioth.net/flying/PVille99/SpudGunShakesEarth.jpg) for science.

Yeah, that is pretty much what our earlier models looked like. The one hooked up to the laptop was more of a "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if..." kinda deal. It was still awesome! :D

If you take action by your own hands, either by throwing potatoes at their house or by smacking some respect into them, you'll be giving their parents an excuse to stand on their side against you. Call the cops and let them deal with it, it's not your responsability to educate other people's kids.

Invite LG to stay with you for the weekend. Not only would he deal with the neighbours, I bet he'd be a great babysitter.

my neighbors (of infamy) have 7 children who are all apparently home today (probably holiday break) and are using a potato gun to shoot potatoes at my house.

now I like potato guns, we have two, but them shooting potatoes at my house is starting to get annoying.

answer the poll and tell me why.

I assume you are against cannibalism as a response, so I'd say the more orthodox (and boring) approach of calling in the feds is your best bet.

Call in anonymously, give their address and tell the switchboard there's a weird chemical smell coming from the kitchen... then set up a cam, and link us to the YouTube footage of the DEA kicking in their door.

I assume you are against cannibalism as a response, so I'd say the more orthodox (and boring) approach of calling in the feds is your best bet.

Call in anonymously, give their address and tell the switchboard there's a weird chemical smell coming from the kitchen... then set up a cam, and link us to the YouTube footage of the DEA kicking in their door.

to late :( the cops came and picked up the dad on a drug warrant and took the kids into custody.

Return fire.

to late :( the cops came and picked up the dad on a drug warrant and took the kids into custody.
seriously? you live in a police state.

to late :( the cops came and picked up the dad on a drug warrant and took the kids into custody.

Be happy, now not only do you not have your house being bombarded by potatoes, the kids next door are being looked after by someone who's not high as a kite.




Presumably.

to late :( the cops came and picked up the dad on a drug warrant and took the kids into custody.

That's scary... life has an unpleasant tendency to mirror parody. :(

seriously? you live in a police state.

Why do you call the area where Smunkeeville lives a police state? Because they enforce the laws of the town/city/state? Because they arrested a man that was suspected of commiting a crime? Because they took the kids into protective custody, for their own welfare?

If you think that's indicative of a police state, then I feel sorry for you. I can only imagine how bad it must be to live where you do (what, with all the non-enforcement of laws and all).

Shoot ketchup at them

Why do you call the area where Smunkeeville lives a police state? Because they enforce the laws of the town/city/state? Because they arrested a man that was suspected of commiting a crime? Because they took the kids into protective custody, for their own welfare?

If you think that's indicative of a police state, then I feel sorry for you. I can only imagine how bad it must be to live where you do (what, with all the non-enforcement of laws and all).

that is well said
i would say with a gun near by

Call the police, as per the fact that if you start shooting potatos at their house, they might call the police, and you'd be royally screwed, and we don't want Smunkee to be royally screwed, do we? No, absolutely not.

Call the police, as per the fact that if you start shooting potatos at their house, they might call the police, and you'd be royally screwed, and we don't want Smunkee to be royally screwed, do we? No, absolutely not.

:eek: what would NSG be like with out Smunkee
*goes off crying*

Calling the cops was the wise thing to do from the sound of it.
The kids sound like littles s**ts, but you can understand where they get thier behaviour from eh?

At least you it was sorted, some places, the cops have no time for this type of thing.