Neighbor Upset With Noisy Kids Allegedly Sent Family Note to Say "The Children Look Delicious"

[kpete]

The family posted about the letter to a neighborhood group on Facebook:

To the individual who sent this letter...The answer is NO! NO you may not have my children in any way, shape, or form. And beyond anything physical you may NOT rob them of the security and comfort they feel. The trust they have in other people, or the joy they experience on a daily basis because of who they are. You DO NOT have the right to try to steal this from them by sending an anonymous letter trying to rip their world apart. I will NOT let that happen. What you MAY do, since you were so formal in your letter to ask, is you MAY turn yourself into the police, or you MAY seek help for your sexual and/or homicidal urges. Either way, the children of this community are off limits.

http://gawker.com/neighbor-upset-with-noisy-kids-allegedly-sent-family-t-1737953193

[BlueJazz]

1. One of the few things in life that I've ever been ashamed of was being a young child.

[JackInGreen]

2. ...so I'm a bad person

I thought it was hilarious.
bias wins out, years ago managing a retail shipping store I had a 6 year old uncontrolled by their parent, the parent unwilling to do anything but offer a 'isn't that cute?' Smile and continued with her transaction while the wee one toppled boxes and overturned envelope racks. While my subordinate attended mom I got the child's attention and advised them quietly (in my best Karloff ) that if they didn't stop at once and clean up their mess that I would eat them. 20 or so minutes later, tyke still locked to mom's leg, my floor righted, they left my store. No regrets.

[redstateblues]

7. Me too, and I'll bet it worked!! LOL

[JackInGreen]

8. Pretty sure it ensured a deep seated terror

Of Alan moore lookin' mail box store clerks...
we were a terrible, terrible lot.

[1939]

10. I always liked the store signs that said

"Unattended children will be kept and sold as slaves"

"Unattended children will be cut up for bait" (in a fishing tackle shop)

[smirkymonkey]

20. I love those signs too!

Obviously I am not a big fan of unruly children. A little humor gets the point across without being too offensive. If you have a sense of humor, that is.

[hifiguy]

15. So did I.

[Lizzie Poppet]

3. So this woman is nice enough to give the parents advance notice...

...so they can start the marinating early (for best flavor!), and they flip their shit on social media? Geez...some people!

[JackInGreen]

5. Maybe they needed a recipe included

Or an offer for a family BBQ?

[randome]

4. To be fair, the neighbor may have been suffering from lack of sleep.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[eissa]

6. Oy, I hate to say this, but I sympathize with the letter writer

My daily personal torture of living next door to the Demon Children is chronicled on my FB page. It's my only outlet where I can share the day-to-day shenanigans of the screeching psychopaths. Things like flinging dirty diapers over the fence, non-stop screaming by the girl child in a voice that I can only describe as a thousand cats in heat being dragged by an ice-cream truck, and the monstrous boy child who seems to find anything to bang on as early in the morning as he can. Sitting outside in the Summer is simply impossible due to the noise. We were out there one evening trying our best to put a positive spin on things -- "they're children, it's ok, it's what kids do" -- and then we heard the girl scream and cry for her mom "Connor peed on me!!" UGH!

[IVoteDFL]

9. Parents need to chill

Doesn't anyone else have a scary neighbor story from their childhood? I sure do. It's more fun to be scared off than yelled at anyway. We would pretend that the grumpier neighbors were witches that ate kids and tip toe past their houses for fun.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Carrie Pernula was arrested Friday

Carrie Pernula was arrested Friday and may face charges of gross misdemeanor terroristic threats and stalking,

Good...


That is creepy and would freak me out if it were my kids.

[eissa]

12. She was arrested

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This is exactly why we don't complain about the noisy children next door, or pretty much about anything our neighbors do. Just suck it up and accept the nuisance lest you end up being beaten down on social media, or in jail.

[Oneironaut]

13. So that's where Hannibal Lector went.

Politely decline any invitations to "Have you for dinner." It's a trick.

[hifiguy]

14. Wanna retaliate against noisy kids?

Get a big-ass drumset - not Neal Peart-sized but maybe Ginger Baker-sized. Set up in yard on a sunny day.

Blast loud hard rock or metal out your windows and pound the living bejesus out of the drum kit along with the music.

Not dangerous, not threatening, but a good way to make the point. And responding to any complaints by the parents with a "Now you know what I have to put up with, every day!" gains extra points.

[Xithras]

16. Lol. She should do what one of my neighbors did.

Up the street from me, one of my neighbors has a house with a large front lawn that connects with the neighbors lawn. After almost a year of the new neighbors kids leaving toys in his lawn, digging holes in his lawn, and being generally annoying, he cut a flower bed down the property line and planted thorny rosebushes in it. When even THAT didn't work (the neighbor was furious about the "danger" the rosebushes put his children in, and the bushes kept mysteriously dying), the old guy mounted an HD security camera on his house and started live streaming the video on Uvlog. The video camera recorded not only his entire front yard, but also the neighbors.

While he originally only set it up so that he could watch it himself (to try and catch the neighbor killing his rosebushes), he soon noticed that other people were watching it too. On a whim, he told the neighbors wife one day. She was mad that he was broadcasting her yard over the Internet, and asked who was watching it. His answer? "I don't know, it's a wide open high definition broadcast of a bunch of little kids playing in their kiddie pool and on their slip and slide. I have no idea who would want to watch that."

A whole bunch of screaming and three police calls later, it was established that it's not a crime to broadcast your neighbors front yard over the Internet, but it IS a crime to try and climb onto your neighbors roof to break his video camera. The children now play in the back yard...and the yards are STILL being broadcast over the Internet.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. Wow

[Xithras]

19. Unconventional, but effective.

FWIW, most of the neighborhood supports the guy with the camera. The family next door annoys just about everyone.

[Eleanors38]

18. I prefer two "12 speakers, playing the Dicks and DKs in their general direction.