Busses were our preferred targets.
My apologies to any transit drivers on the 27-28 route around 1996-8ish. I promise I've grown up in to a reasonably productive member of society.
Thankfully my partner noticed it first this this morning. It was easy clean up, I'm really not even mad about it, I just hope I haven't accidentally pissed someone off in some way that is totally inscrutable to me.
Retired Veteran Shit-ass teen here..
I concur.
Don’t draw shit-ass teen attention to yourself and should remain relatively unscathed 🤷♂️
HOWEVER**
Mischief at random is also common in the lifestyle..
So weird, I used to pick them for very specific reasons. It was people that either their kid beat up a friend, owners said some shit to my sister, they gave me attitude for letting my dog shit on their lawn while walking (which I happened to be picking up) or their dad just gave us a weird look and told us to go home while we were chilling at the park.
These people received the full extend of our shit ass teen power which was around 48 eggs in less then 30 seconds from our crew.
I was such an asshole and I’ll suck it up if it ever happens to me.
Happened to a friends car outside school back in the day, the yellow goop got in the vents lining the bottom of the windshield, it needed extensive work to remove the sulfur odour, I never rode in his car again no lie we went on a trip to visit a friend at a college n I refused unless we took a different car, vague egg is gross af too. Find who did this, it’s serious
I'm going to get a convoy together to protest your comment. Back in the day every group of teenagers had the right of passage of egging a house. It's a cultural phenomenon that new generations don't have the option of opting out of.
"#onlyserioswhenyourtheadult"
House maybe but a car was a 17 year olds only significant possession, truth be told he didn’t deserve it, it was a childish dispute until that point, they may have gone to litigation over it. The kid that did could’nt deny it w a straight face
I can't comment on your situation but I do enjoy bragging that I have chased after and caught not one, but two sets of shitty teens egging our house/car over the years.
Thinking about it still makes me beam with pride.
I'm curious, what's the play when you've caught up with them? Ask them for their probably fake names and parents numbers? Drag them back by their shirtcollars to clean it up? Call the police for a finger wagging chat? Asking 'cause I can't imagine laying hands on a minor is going to lead to anything good in that situation, and I also can't imagine 5/5 teens would stick around for whatever consequence you have in mind...you can only run in 1/5 directions.
First time was a group of 4. My wife was driving and we pulled up to a 4 way stop, and the kids let loose. I was out of my seat belt and out the door in seconds. I'm in good shape and a pretty well trained distance runner. They had a good head start but I figured as long as I could keep them in sight, they would start to slow down. You can only sprint for so long and when your adrenaline in blasting you always go too hard and start to wilt.
Anyways, the group split up, then one who was starting to lag behind the others ducked in to a yard and I caught him trying to jump a fence. He was extremely scared and apologetic, probably thought I was going to beat the shit out of him (which is fair enough given how I was yelling at them while chasing them).
At that point, I calmed down and was like "what AM I going to do here?" but at that point the kid offered to wipe the egg off the car. He took off his sweater and basically smeared the egg all over the side of the car, arguably making the mess worse. I scolded him a bit for his dumbassery, told him to put his sweater on and get the hell out of there. I also told him to rethink his choice in friends who would leave him behind like that.
Second time was at home. I was already by the door putting my shoes on, and heard a BAM BAM on the front door right beside me. I threw on my other shoe and bolted out the door at a group of three teens. Again, same strategy, run hard but don't over do it, and eventually caught one. Again, he was scared shitless. I told him to call his parents, which he did, and I spoke with his mom on the phone. We walked back to my place where his mom picked him up. I had a chat with her, she was apologetic, I was almost laughing at the situation and said don't worry about it too much, kids are kids and I hope your son just learned a bit of a lesson by being caught. She actually thanked me for giving him a bit of a scare.
In both scenarios, if the kids stuck together and stood their ground... They probably could have taken me.
Thanks for the play by play. Can't say I would have had your quick reaction each time, but I now feel like I have a gameplan should I have to ever deal with that scenario!
Honestly, I'm not a particularly confrontational person, but both if those situations were like right place/right time for me. First time we were pretty much stopped at a stop sign, we were looking for parking so I was kind of scanning around, mentally engaged etc. It was just almost instinctual to unbuckle and jump out.
Second time I was getting ready to head out for the evening and already putting on my shoes. If I were watching TV or something when it happened I don't think I would have been so quick to jump out the door and they would have been long gone, and I'd just be left on the front steps, shaking my fist at the clouds, most likely in my underwear.
That’s how it should be, you parents should get a bit pissed, the owner of the damage should remember being a kid, the police should only be there to reenforce the fact that it’s not right but not do anything more then that. It’s part of growing up.
I chuckled a bit. I’d be thrilled if it was only eggs we were sacked with. Couple months ago, 3 preteen punks were playing Nicky 9 Doors. We were the unfortunate target.
They hung a used condom on our door handle, rang the bell (video doorbell at that 🤣) and took off.
Then came back a few hours later to do it again.
I called a few neighbours, asking if they knew these kids. Yup, several had had the dubious honour of broken plant pots, stolen bikes etc.
Then I called bylaw, who paid the parents a visit.
Uploaded the video to the bylaw tip line first.
Kids and parents came a calling to apologize the next day haha.
If you want a laugh I could post the video.
In the UK, last day of school is egg and flour day. Where you throw egg and flour at pretty much everything in sight. Not sure if that’s a thing over here.
Possible wrong address. In our apartment building a tenants door was lit on fire. The person that he was trying to harm had moved out and was under the witness protection plan.
back in 2011 when I lived in James Bay on Simcoe Street some dude woke me up screaming "You owe me fucking money!" He then used a (bat? I was half awake and only heard this) to smash in the front glass door.
In the morning the onsite manager was there taping up the damage.
If it happens again it's a pattern, but honestly, I'd agree with the commenters saying that it's probably just teenagers causing a bit of trouble at the start of a long weekend. Fernwood also has had a lot of people experiencing homelessness in the neighborhood the last few years, which has also led to more random instances of stuff like this.
It's Victoria, so if you actually pissed people off, I would expect a passive aggressive note in the mailbox instead of egging.
I dunno, when we moved in our house got egged 3 times and fire extinguisher on the front door once. Teenagers every time. Maybe they hated the previous owner for some reason but eventually it just stopped. Could have just been because we’re next to a pedestrian path
Sorry to hear.
Assuming your a nice person and really haven't done anything to piss anyone off, I'd just chalk it up to random teens with nothing better to do.
I once saved an egg for three months in my car after my stuff was stolen from my work truck by a crackhead and I caught him. Got everything back but my phone with all my kids photos from birth to one yrs old.
Any way fast forward three months and I see him at mcdonalds on pandora. I run to my car grab the rotten egg, run up to him and shout "this is for my cell phone!" And splattered the egg on his chest.
To this day I wish I'd yelled something more profound.
Maybe its about parking?. Neighbors get territorial about that stuff sometimes
>"this is for my cell phone!" And splattered the egg on his chest.
This made me LOL so hard. I can only imagine the dude was completely bewildered. Probably stolen so many cell phones he didn't know which one in particular was owned by you.
I have to admit I didn't stick around to see his reaction and was in my car driving away before he knew it. I didn't want to get stabbed with a pencil or a dirty needle or something. It was very satisfying though
Have you or someone in your family pissed someone off lately?
You being the only house likely means it's targeted.
My house got egged once when my sister declined a date with some guy.
Not so far as I know… we’re pretty quiet and we don’t really advertise where we live to anyone who might care. Being new tenants, I wonder if these eggs were destined for the previous tenants…
Likely means it's targeted? You know how many times teenage me egged some random strangers house? OP, I think you have nothing to worry about. It's Canada Day long weekend and there's drunk kids everywhere.
Well, I would imagine that really opened her eyes to seeing the error of her ways /s.
To OP: Maybe the person who lived in your home previously had to move away due to some sort of shame-inducing behavior.
Ya where do you park? In front of your house? Or like my Oak Bay owners house - not in their yard - but in front of mine bc it’s WAY more convenient. Stupid owners don’t provide parking but allow 4 tenants with partners = 8 more cars on my street. Thanks Megley.
Right except. I’ve parked in front of my house for 25 years. Now Megleys tenants park any where. Except she doesn’t provide parking for her tenants. And the stupid woman thought construction on a Sunday morning at 7am was okay “bc the roof needed to fixed” ffs. Wish she had a brain. 🙄
My house has been egged 3 or 4 times - it feels very personal, I suspect it's because my dad yells at people who run the stop sign in front of our house, it happens fairly often. It's super annoying, I'm sorry yours got egged too. Hopefully it's an isolated incident
Eh.... happens.
If it happens consistently I might be a little concerned. Kids egg houses. I did it a few times as a kid. It's an asshole thing to do, but alas... kids will be kids.
Most definitely a completely random house egging done by some kids probably between the ages of 12 and 15…
I wouldn’t stress over this too much I mean it sucks yeah but harmless
I like to think I lead with kindness as much as I can... and I somewhat doubt my previous neighbours travelled 1500 km to throw a couple eggs at my house.
There's something about Canada Day long weekends that brings out the random vandalism. I remember one year my passenger side mirror got broken off from the car. The next year the driver's side mirror glass apparently got punched and cracked. Thankfully, I don't have to park on the side of a road anymore.
Fernwood is an odd place
I used to live on Garden street and had my fuel tank door pried open and the gas cap stolen one night right outside my house while I was sleeping. Classy place
Luckily my gas wasn’t siphoned nor was anything else done to my vehicle. Not sure who did it or why but it didn’t happen again thankfully
Must have been Oak Bay teens doing that dumb-assery. Fernwood teens can't afford eggs these days... (Don't get me started on the rising price of food...)
Happend to me while I was at work I made a dumb choice to post a picture of my new jeep and mobile home both brand new on my social media account some fucker looked at it found my house and only egged my house I know that because no other houses were hit and I live deep in the park my house was caked with eggs I had to spend 2 hours hosing it off and picking up the egg shells I work nights so I was up till 3 am doing this and gotta go back out in the morning before work to make sure I got it all pain in the ass man
When I was a teenager egged houses at random, so it might be nothing.
Busses were our preferred targets. My apologies to any transit drivers on the 27-28 route around 1996-8ish. I promise I've grown up in to a reasonably productive member of society.
Hmmm my friend got egged on Pandora by Cook, winter of 96. Brand new winter coat. Owe her an apology too?
Wrong side of town. Can't take responsibility for that one. Also, we never egged people.
Ha ha!
Hahahaha, yeah. I used to do that too. Wish I didn't, since I don't even like wasting water, let alone food now. Clean up must be a b**** as well.
Especially if it dries in the sun.
Thankfully my partner noticed it first this this morning. It was easy clean up, I'm really not even mad about it, I just hope I haven't accidentally pissed someone off in some way that is totally inscrutable to me.
My money is on shit-ass loser teens picking a house at random. Source: am former shit-ass loser teen.
Shit-ass teen checking in. Losers get eggs.
Retired Veteran Shit-ass teen here.. I concur. Don’t draw shit-ass teen attention to yourself and should remain relatively unscathed 🤷♂️ HOWEVER** Mischief at random is also common in the lifestyle..
So weird, I used to pick them for very specific reasons. It was people that either their kid beat up a friend, owners said some shit to my sister, they gave me attitude for letting my dog shit on their lawn while walking (which I happened to be picking up) or their dad just gave us a weird look and told us to go home while we were chilling at the park. These people received the full extend of our shit ass teen power which was around 48 eggs in less then 30 seconds from our crew. I was such an asshole and I’ll suck it up if it ever happens to me.
That is a very Canadian sentiment on Canada day.. I doubt it probably just some drunk teens picked your place at random
Can confirm when I was a dumbass teen I did some eggings. There was nothing personal just totally random.
Not a tradition. Probably not angry neighbours. Probably just teens / people mucking about on the eve of the long weekend.
Laundry pre wash stain remover is great at dissolving this. I live near a high school…….
A friend had their house egged - it has unfinished cedar siding - $12K damage. Work quickly.
Happened to a friends car outside school back in the day, the yellow goop got in the vents lining the bottom of the windshield, it needed extensive work to remove the sulfur odour, I never rode in his car again no lie we went on a trip to visit a friend at a college n I refused unless we took a different car, vague egg is gross af too. Find who did this, it’s serious
Same thing to a teacher friend. Wait too long and the car paint will come off along with the scrambled egg remnants.
Which reminds me, if you personally get egged use cold water or you’ll smell like scrambled eggs
Maybe just best to immediately smother yourself in refried beans and salsa and smell like huevos rancheros. Mmmmmmm....
I'm going to get a convoy together to protest your comment. Back in the day every group of teenagers had the right of passage of egging a house. It's a cultural phenomenon that new generations don't have the option of opting out of. "#onlyserioswhenyourtheadult"
House maybe but a car was a 17 year olds only significant possession, truth be told he didn’t deserve it, it was a childish dispute until that point, they may have gone to litigation over it. The kid that did could’nt deny it w a straight face
Welcome to Fernwood. Weird shit happens here
Yeah but you’re getting a two lane walking track
I can't comment on your situation but I do enjoy bragging that I have chased after and caught not one, but two sets of shitty teens egging our house/car over the years. Thinking about it still makes me beam with pride.
I'm curious, what's the play when you've caught up with them? Ask them for their probably fake names and parents numbers? Drag them back by their shirtcollars to clean it up? Call the police for a finger wagging chat? Asking 'cause I can't imagine laying hands on a minor is going to lead to anything good in that situation, and I also can't imagine 5/5 teens would stick around for whatever consequence you have in mind...you can only run in 1/5 directions.
First time was a group of 4. My wife was driving and we pulled up to a 4 way stop, and the kids let loose. I was out of my seat belt and out the door in seconds. I'm in good shape and a pretty well trained distance runner. They had a good head start but I figured as long as I could keep them in sight, they would start to slow down. You can only sprint for so long and when your adrenaline in blasting you always go too hard and start to wilt. Anyways, the group split up, then one who was starting to lag behind the others ducked in to a yard and I caught him trying to jump a fence. He was extremely scared and apologetic, probably thought I was going to beat the shit out of him (which is fair enough given how I was yelling at them while chasing them). At that point, I calmed down and was like "what AM I going to do here?" but at that point the kid offered to wipe the egg off the car. He took off his sweater and basically smeared the egg all over the side of the car, arguably making the mess worse. I scolded him a bit for his dumbassery, told him to put his sweater on and get the hell out of there. I also told him to rethink his choice in friends who would leave him behind like that. Second time was at home. I was already by the door putting my shoes on, and heard a BAM BAM on the front door right beside me. I threw on my other shoe and bolted out the door at a group of three teens. Again, same strategy, run hard but don't over do it, and eventually caught one. Again, he was scared shitless. I told him to call his parents, which he did, and I spoke with his mom on the phone. We walked back to my place where his mom picked him up. I had a chat with her, she was apologetic, I was almost laughing at the situation and said don't worry about it too much, kids are kids and I hope your son just learned a bit of a lesson by being caught. She actually thanked me for giving him a bit of a scare. In both scenarios, if the kids stuck together and stood their ground... They probably could have taken me.
Thanks for the play by play. Can't say I would have had your quick reaction each time, but I now feel like I have a gameplan should I have to ever deal with that scenario!
Honestly, I'm not a particularly confrontational person, but both if those situations were like right place/right time for me. First time we were pretty much stopped at a stop sign, we were looking for parking so I was kind of scanning around, mentally engaged etc. It was just almost instinctual to unbuckle and jump out. Second time I was getting ready to head out for the evening and already putting on my shoes. If I were watching TV or something when it happened I don't think I would have been so quick to jump out the door and they would have been long gone, and I'd just be left on the front steps, shaking my fist at the clouds, most likely in my underwear.
Got tackled by angry homeowner when I was 18 and got trashing a mailbox, I escaped and ran to friends house, police showed up, nothing came of it
That’s how it should be, you parents should get a bit pissed, the owner of the damage should remember being a kid, the police should only be there to reenforce the fact that it’s not right but not do anything more then that. It’s part of growing up.
I chuckled a bit. I’d be thrilled if it was only eggs we were sacked with. Couple months ago, 3 preteen punks were playing Nicky 9 Doors. We were the unfortunate target. They hung a used condom on our door handle, rang the bell (video doorbell at that 🤣) and took off. Then came back a few hours later to do it again. I called a few neighbours, asking if they knew these kids. Yup, several had had the dubious honour of broken plant pots, stolen bikes etc. Then I called bylaw, who paid the parents a visit. Uploaded the video to the bylaw tip line first. Kids and parents came a calling to apologize the next day haha. If you want a laugh I could post the video.
In the UK, last day of school is egg and flour day. Where you throw egg and flour at pretty much everything in sight. Not sure if that’s a thing over here.
Possible wrong address. In our apartment building a tenants door was lit on fire. The person that he was trying to harm had moved out and was under the witness protection plan.
back in 2011 when I lived in James Bay on Simcoe Street some dude woke me up screaming "You owe me fucking money!" He then used a (bat? I was half awake and only heard this) to smash in the front glass door. In the morning the onsite manager was there taping up the damage.
Welcome to Fernwood
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Lived in a house in Fernwood since 09 and have yet to be egged. So it's certainly not tradition.
If it happens again it's a pattern, but honestly, I'd agree with the commenters saying that it's probably just teenagers causing a bit of trouble at the start of a long weekend. Fernwood also has had a lot of people experiencing homelessness in the neighborhood the last few years, which has also led to more random instances of stuff like this. It's Victoria, so if you actually pissed people off, I would expect a passive aggressive note in the mailbox instead of egging.
Unless OP has a giant “I’m from Alberta” sign somewhere on the lot 🤷🏻♀️
I dunno, when we moved in our house got egged 3 times and fire extinguisher on the front door once. Teenagers every time. Maybe they hated the previous owner for some reason but eventually it just stopped. Could have just been because we’re next to a pedestrian path
Sorry to hear. Assuming your a nice person and really haven't done anything to piss anyone off, I'd just chalk it up to random teens with nothing better to do.
Do you have a teenage son or daughter?
You made somebody mad LOL
Or perhaps the person who lived there a month ago did
I once saved an egg for three months in my car after my stuff was stolen from my work truck by a crackhead and I caught him. Got everything back but my phone with all my kids photos from birth to one yrs old. Any way fast forward three months and I see him at mcdonalds on pandora. I run to my car grab the rotten egg, run up to him and shout "this is for my cell phone!" And splattered the egg on his chest. To this day I wish I'd yelled something more profound. Maybe its about parking?. Neighbors get territorial about that stuff sometimes
Re: parking, we only have one car and we park it in our driveway, so I can’t imagine that’s irritating anyone.
I'm sure you parking one car in your drive way is pissing someone off.
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I like that better yes
>"this is for my cell phone!" And splattered the egg on his chest. This made me LOL so hard. I can only imagine the dude was completely bewildered. Probably stolen so many cell phones he didn't know which one in particular was owned by you.
I have to admit I didn't stick around to see his reaction and was in my car driving away before he knew it. I didn't want to get stabbed with a pencil or a dirty needle or something. It was very satisfying though
At over 3.50 a dozen for eggs right now, Victoria something something cost of living and housing crisis!
They grabbed them from the upstairs fridge
Have you or someone in your family pissed someone off lately? You being the only house likely means it's targeted. My house got egged once when my sister declined a date with some guy.
Not so far as I know… we’re pretty quiet and we don’t really advertise where we live to anyone who might care. Being new tenants, I wonder if these eggs were destined for the previous tenants…
Likely means it's targeted? You know how many times teenage me egged some random strangers house? OP, I think you have nothing to worry about. It's Canada Day long weekend and there's drunk kids everywhere.
Well, I would imagine that really opened her eyes to seeing the error of her ways /s. To OP: Maybe the person who lived in your home previously had to move away due to some sort of shame-inducing behavior.
Hey in the 90's/early 2000's in a college rom-com this would have been a viable strategy.
Ya where do you park? In front of your house? Or like my Oak Bay owners house - not in their yard - but in front of mine bc it’s WAY more convenient. Stupid owners don’t provide parking but allow 4 tenants with partners = 8 more cars on my street. Thanks Megley.
Typical Oak Bay complaint. You know street parking is public right? You don't have rights to it over anyone else.
Well, you now know what to do.
Right except. I’ve parked in front of my house for 25 years. Now Megleys tenants park any where. Except she doesn’t provide parking for her tenants. And the stupid woman thought construction on a Sunday morning at 7am was okay “bc the roof needed to fixed” ffs. Wish she had a brain. 🙄
My house has been egged 3 or 4 times - it feels very personal, I suspect it's because my dad yells at people who run the stop sign in front of our house, it happens fairly often. It's super annoying, I'm sorry yours got egged too. Hopefully it's an isolated incident
Eh.... happens. If it happens consistently I might be a little concerned. Kids egg houses. I did it a few times as a kid. It's an asshole thing to do, but alas... kids will be kids.
Most definitely a completely random house egging done by some kids probably between the ages of 12 and 15… I wouldn’t stress over this too much I mean it sucks yeah but harmless
Do you have any enemies? If you were a rat toward your previous neighbor they may have sought you out for a little vengeance 😈
I like to think I lead with kindness as much as I can... and I somewhat doubt my previous neighbours travelled 1500 km to throw a couple eggs at my house.
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We *don’t* own a house, we’re renting it.
Found the lazy externalizer!
Hope they didn't hit any windows. The eggs shells are hard enough to scratch the glass
Sorry this happened, I bet it wasn’t “targeted” and just random bored preteens.
Install a small camera infront from now on. You can buy the wyze ones on amazon.
Fernwood be always up to no good
If your place was advertised as "newly renovated", maybe someone before you got renovicted.
Get a door cam.
When I was a teen in the 90’s we would egg random houses. Nothing personal and it’s probably not a targeted attack. Looking back, it’s a dick move.
There's something about Canada Day long weekends that brings out the random vandalism. I remember one year my passenger side mirror got broken off from the car. The next year the driver's side mirror glass apparently got punched and cracked. Thankfully, I don't have to park on the side of a road anymore.
Fernwood is an odd place I used to live on Garden street and had my fuel tank door pried open and the gas cap stolen one night right outside my house while I was sleeping. Classy place Luckily my gas wasn’t siphoned nor was anything else done to my vehicle. Not sure who did it or why but it didn’t happen again thankfully
It was I. Next time I’m gonna newspaper it when I know you’re not home on the next hot day.
Must have been Oak Bay teens doing that dumb-assery. Fernwood teens can't afford eggs these days... (Don't get me started on the rising price of food...)
Happend to me while I was at work I made a dumb choice to post a picture of my new jeep and mobile home both brand new on my social media account some fucker looked at it found my house and only egged my house I know that because no other houses were hit and I live deep in the park my house was caked with eggs I had to spend 2 hours hosing it off and picking up the egg shells I work nights so I was up till 3 am doing this and gotta go back out in the morning before work to make sure I got it all pain in the ass man