An old war veteran neighbour of mine is being harrassed by kids with soft air guns on a daily basis because he's a little eccentric and I really feel for him as do others. The kid's parents refuse to discipline and some even find the situation amusing! What can be done about this legally?
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Call the police. A firearms team will be sent and police turning up with real guns will scare the **** out of them. They will not be hurt however. The police are too highly trained for that.
They will also be seriously punished because even carrying an imitation airsoft weapon in public is an offense unless you are transporting it to a skirmish in a locked case. In any case, its basically illegal for it to be shown in public and the fact that it is just an airsoft weapon will not affect the sentence these kids get. It will be the same as if they were carrying real weapons.
The parents will also be in trouble for allowing this and allowing any under 17 to use the weapon in such a way.
It will solve the situation very rapidly.
RIGHT, call the police and say you have seen kids waving guns about the next time you see them. I guarantee armed police will turn up and if they are even vaguely gun shaped they will be locked up.
If they still dont turn up then write to your local chief constable and say that if nothing is done then you will be going to the local and national media with the story of their incompetance and you will be making a complaint to the IPCC.
And if nothing is done then go up to the kids and snap their guns. Get all the residents to support you and just do it. Thats just me though.
Give this vertran a gun and let him show them how it was done in his day
Call the cops and have the kids taken to jail. If they do not do their job tell them your calling the news and having the local news show this on nightly news. Also tape that is going on so when it goes to court the judge can see what happened.
Call the police.
contact your local police station. they will most certainly sort this out. . you cannot have kids running around shooting bb guns. they might have someones eye out
Actually it would help if someone other than the eccentric old man called. Police get tired of hearing repeat complainers and whiners. They become immune to them and ignore them. If someone other than the man would call it would help immensely.
And I would suggest someone call the child welfare authorities. Small children should not be playing with weapons, bb guns or not. It is a form of parental neglect. They would actually do more than the police would to control the situation anyway.
Future top gun is right. Trust me I know people who have been messing on with BB guns and had armed police appear from nowhere and arrest them.
Since they are abusing an elderly gentleman, why have you not called Social Services.? If they can get a bite on the situation they will even prosecute the parents of these little brats. Get a vdo cam to show the law what is happening. Then arm your neighbors. If the whole group makes a stand then you know the parents will call the cop0s. This will be self-serving and you get the satisfaction of putting the red as# to the little brats also!! Fight fire with fire. As soon as they know how it feels then they will at least hesitate. Trust me getting shot HURTS LIKE HELL!! Even by a BB gun.
Future top gun is correct. This situation can be resolved very quickly. It does not matter what the police say because if it is handled properly they will have to deal with it. If proper police reports are filed they themselves will get in trouble if it is pushed up to the next level.... say state police if it's a rural area.
Most Airsoft guns look like real guns. Even if they didn't or if it was a Super Soaker it is assault or attempted assault. It does not matter if the guy is somewhat odd or not as it is what it is. The guy is an old veteran? He will win in court bigtime. Who deserves to wonder about if they walk outside of their house someone will be shooting something at them? Nobody.
The police are obligated to take a police report even if they don't see real grounds for it. You said you and others are concerned. You get him and go yourself and file a police report. They have to.
If there is any damage what so ever? Even a little ding? Take pictures of it. When they get busted for it this will become handy. A mark on a fence, siding, the car or whatever can be big bucks because most times you can sue bigtime as redoing one little part can look odd.
The parents will look bad regardless. People have complained and they chose to not err on the side of not getting sued. They think it funny and if this is going on they are endangering their children. If this all gets going social services can get involved. Most parents would just take them away as somewhere, somehow this could cost a whole bunch of money and time. An adult informed them of this situation?
The parents could potentially owe $50,000 dollars if they are not carefull. And good for you for thinking to help this person.
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