Issues with the neighbors kid....

[Renegade XJ]

I'm hoping somebody can help me out with this or maybe somebody has experance with this. I live on a corner house, there is a 4 way stop at my intersection. There is not much traffic here because it's a neiborhood street but there are lots of kids who play outside in this area. Well my neighbor's kid just started driving about a year ago. They live about. 4 or 5 homes down from me and every day I see that damn kid hauling ass up and down the street and he runs the stop sign every time. He doesn't even bother to slow down a bit. Just huals ass around it (he has to turn left to leave his house) and its a blind corner. It's only a matter of time until he plows into a car, person or kid. Not to mention there is a school 1 block down the street so we have a lot of elementary kids on foot durning the week.

I tried talking to his parents and they only speak Spanish so they didn't understand anything I said. Any ideas? I'd hate to do it but at this point in willing to call law enforcement but I'm not sure they can do anything about it.

 

[GrimmJeeper]

If its at the same time every day call the cops and see if they will put a car there. A big fat ticket will make him think twice about it. Or video tape him blowing the corner and take it with you when you go talk to the cops.

 

[Vanimal]

scare the crap out of him. follow him into his driveway and go apeshit (verbaly).
or write a letter to the parents in spanish and hand it to them. just write it in english, i'm sure someone can translate it for you.

 

[souske]

Have you tried talking to the kid yourself?
Law enforcement could post a car there, an ticket would likely break that habit.

Could always rig up a dummy launcher

 

[jumpnjeep]

Sounds like the only way to handle it at this point is calling the cops. If you tried to talk to the parents already, unless you have a friend who can translate for you. In a situation like this you have to think of the safety of the kids first, and being a friendly nieghbor second.

We have a tire shop at the corner of my street and we get a bunch of jackass punk little honda wanna be racers hot rodding up the street all the time "breaking in there new rubber", we yell at them but it doesn't really help. I have actually stepped out in the street before to make them slow down, and I am seriously thinking of freezing some paintballs for my guns to make a better Impression! Lol.

We call the cops all the time and every once in a while, we get lucky and they catch some of them. In your case tho it is probably the best idea to let the cops handle it.

 

[BigSteve]

I would say you have 2 options. Be nice and take time out of a few of your days and video tape him blowing through the stop sign and show his parents. Not much to translate there. Or call the cops tell them he does it everyday and there is a school right down the street. He is doing this while kids are walking to school and you don't want to see someone get hit. Whether or not they will actually do something about it is another question. But to be honest I have a really bad feeling that the only way this is going to change is either he gets a ticket or hits someone, be it another car or a person. Lets face it mom and dad yelling at a teenager....probably not going to do much. We have all been young and not saying what he is doing is okay because its obviously not, but how many of you have blown off your parents when you were young.

 

[5150caz]

If he is racing up and down the street he lives on then his parents either have no controll or he doesn't care what they say. Would you race around when your parents where close by? If you have kids pretend you are out playing basketball, soccer, whatever with them and when he comes racing up the street kick the ball out in front of his car, keep doing it untill he gets the point. Skateboards also work, and if he gives you any crap, then really let him know what you think about him.

 

[Overdriven]

Had the same issue in Texas. I was out doing some work in my driveway one day with a sledge hammer. Heard him coming and I met him in the road with the sledge hammer in my hand. (forgot I was still holding the sledge hammer I was so mad). I'm not sure he understood what I said but as a guy standing in the street with a sledge hammer in my hand screaming at the top of my lungs..... I never saw the guy come through that intersection again. He took the back way to his house.

Guess the sight of a crazy guy, pissed off, with a sledge hammer in his hands was enough to change his driving habits.

 

[rockclimber]

The only solution.

 

[BigSteve]

Burn down his Geo Metro?

 

[rockclimber]

Burn down his Geo Metro?

for you

 

[chasdb]

Sticky situation. If he is a good kid who drives poorly you could "talk" him into driving safer. If he is a pos and has pos of shit friends they may retaliate on your family or property when he gets a ticket. Video showing actions, license plate, date and time and deliver video to police station.

Had a neighbor's 2/3 year old kid get hit down the street by an off duty LE offficer- who is also a neighbor in his POV. Kid rolled out of driveway into street on his bike, vision blocked by parked car. Bad deal for everyone.

 

[BigSteve]

Is this how you handle all your problems!

 

[Paul Airhart]

You could write Your concerns in a word processor, copy & paste into a free on-line translator, print it out and give it to the Parents. The Mexican American Parents I know would not stand for that from their kids.

 

[xcm]

Everyone was the cocky kid at some point... and i would say give him some slack if he was ONLY speeding... but that whole running stop lights shit, thats shits gotta go...

Id go further to say, if some good samaratan called the cops on him, he'd deserve it...
This aint 'oh you went 5 over the speed limit'... this is protecting the neighborhood, and your own kids (if youve got em).

It'd also be 100% cool, and justified in my mind, to grab a sledgehammer, and do what was mentioned above... just dont burn anything down.

 

[Vanimal]

when i was a dumb young youth, i sped through my neighborhood (well not as bad as this guy probably thought since i had glasspacks on my truck and it sounded faster than it was). a guy followed me into my driveway and when he got out of the car he was putting his gun into it's holster. proceeded to verbally rip me a new one. he was a cop that lived down the road. i never sped through that neighborhood again

 

[crazyjim]

We had this exact same thing happen in our neighborhood when I was growing up. Some kid had a crossfire and would whip it around a blind 90* corner that was on a narrow street, and blocked by shrubs. SEVERAL times he almost hit people, but was able to luck out.

I had awesome neighbors throughout my entire block growing up, mostly old school principles driven blue collar people who didn't put up with shit like that. Several of them had talked to him, asked him nicely to slow down, some not so nicely. He would slow down for a few days, then back to his normal driving style. Finally, once day it came to an end. I was at a neighbors house, hanging out with him. He took one of his kids balls when he saw him coming around the corner, and hucked it into the street as he came around the turn... Dude in the crossfire FREAKED and ended up in a barbwire fence.

So you know... there may be something there you might want to try...

 

[Original_MudButt]

......when he comes racing up the street kick the ball out in front of his car....

You have no idea how effective this is until you have done it....

We had a guy used to race his rice rocket up and down the street every day... The first time I rolled a volley ball in the street as he was approaching 60 mph, he hit the brakes so hard the bike started swapping ends then high sided him.

I walked by to get the ball and apologized... I couldn't tell who was in worse shape him or the bike..... He didn't do it any more.....

 

[CaliXJ]

I have a had the same problem with these young kids and rice burners around here. Lots of kids playing in the neighborhood mine included. I have confronted them when i see them. Not to the point of yelling in there face but on a cival note. (I live here to and don't need my cars vandalized.) Then one day this one kids car shows up on a flat bed. TOTALED! Hhahahahaha no more racing up and down the street.. So there are a couple differtent ways to approch this. Scare the liven shit out of this guy and wait for your house to have a burning bag of dog doo on the door step. Talk with him/parents about it, or remain anonymous with Ricky Racer and involve the police. Either way it it needs to be address befor one someone in the neighborhood falls victim to his stupidity. Thats all i have.

 

[rockclimber]

Is this how you handle all your problems!

its worked out well so far...

... just dont burn anything down.

pussy.