You do that in the US, and they will shoot you.
Not if you run away fast enough.
Only if I have my pumped up kicks
Sure
Don’t have to run away out in the open in a straight line, you know.
SERPENTINE
That is what happens if you knock and don’t run away.
Imagine that you live in a suburb. Imagine it is 3am, you are sleeping with your family, and suddenly a very loud and forceful knocking on the door for 10 seconds. That happened to me, and the only reason I did not bring my gun when I was checking what is going on is because I do not have one. But at that moment I really wished I had.
Imagine that you live in a suburb. Imagine it is 3am, you are drunk and want to go home. You forgot/lost your keys somewhere so you knock on your door to wake up whoever you are living with. Unfortunately for you in your drunk stupor you knocked on the wrong door and are now dead because someone with 0 gun training was allowed to buy and use one, got scared and shot you because they were frightened.
The way I always see Americans speak about these late night incidents you’d think Europe would have collapsed from lack of guns in people’s homes…
That was not the case though. It were actual hooligans entertaining themselves. And being drunk is not an excuse for this behavior. Can’t hold the liquor do not drink.
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Happened once in 2011 and once in 2016. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock,_knock,_ginger#Legality
i used to do this with friends anyway
@911, yes this dude here!
I believe it’s 999 over there. Or did they update it to 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
Use email, it’s easier
Dear Sir/Madam.
Fire! Fire! Help me!
123 Carenden Road.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the Best.
I’ll just put this over here with the rest of the fire…
That will just get a barrage of bullets fired your way.
They also have an online chat which they try to direct you to for ‘non-emergency’ stuff.
Couple of years back, I went to vote in local council election and one candidate had stationed goons outside the voting centre trying to pressure people to change their votes. 50 fucking minutes I sat waiting to talk to someone, who then told me they didn’t know what offence had been committed (the offence is ‘undue influence’, no-one has ever been convicted because it’s usually sufficient for police to attend and move them on).
Snitches get stitches. According to GB customs, prepare to be knifed.
Oh why bother with giving them cuts to sew back together just break out the embroidery kit were giving em the most unpleasant tattoos made of string
Oi mate, call grandma ! We’re gonna frankenstein this fella.
ITS ALIVE IT DIDN’T KILL ITSELF
I grew up next to an RAF base in the UK, it had areas forbidden to civvies but also several large areas where the force staff with families would live. These areas were an absolute knock-door-run goldmine, long rows of houses with doors for knocking.
We were, undisputably, little shits. Knock-door-run was the least of the problems we caused for the ‘toy police’ (as we called the military police as they had no powers of arrest over civvies). We’d all line up in a row, knock 10 doors at once then leg it. You did NOT want to be the clumsy-footed teen knocking on the door at the back of the row! I had no idea we were breakin’ the lawwwww
You call it knock-door-run? What a dumb thing to call it. Brits always have weird names for things. In Canada we call it Nicky-nicky-nine-doors. Like normal people.
Haha. Now I think about it, it’s quite an unimaginative name. That’s how we rolled in our village, our favourite hangout spot was an old hole in the ground in the woods, surrounded by trees with a rope swing… affectionately known as ‘The Crater’.
It’s that sort of lack of imagination & aspiration that made me determined to leave!
Ding-dong-ditch here in the US as we typically rang the doorbell instead of knocking, but same concept.
Great Britain is the large island. Northern Ireland is also shaded red, meaning it’s the entire UK.
That explains why they had to come up with Theft and Shrubbery.
We do beg your pardon,
For we are in your garden!
Fuckin’ UK. Making everything they can possibly think of illegal since checks notes 12 July 927.
Oi mate, you got your complaining licence? Its illegal to complain about UK law without a permit.
You jest, but you weren’t there in 1986. Never has fish been handled so suspiciously, before or since. It’s the only country where I’ve ever felt safe from those pesky suspicious fish handlers.
Sam O’Nella Academy
Is there a time limit?
Are the people inside similarly required to answer the door within that time limit?
No to both. If you knock on a door in Britain, you must remain there indefinitely until the homeowner arrives. If the house is unoccupied, you have doomed yourself.
Yeah but only because it’s way more punk if it’s illegal 😎
A better question to ask, what’s not wrong with the British?
This calls for Neg’s Urban Sports - Knock and don’t run:
Guess they really don’t like someone knocking on doors over there.
Of course a country which puts their children in suits and sends them to boarding schools may have an issue with understanding what it means to have fun as a kid.
Or some kids really over did it in a politician house.
Right, yeah… kids, haha.
Question is: is it punishable?
I guess they don’t come from the school of hard knocks
KLINGELSTREICH!
Honestly I prefer when I answer the door and no one is there.
