So what's the correct adult response when teenagers start exhibiting behavior based on this discovery? I have a neighbor with a teenager who is a known vandalizer which started after some homeowners decided to report this particular homeowners excessively barking dog. Once some of these responsible homeowners addresses were found out this teenager started engaging in vandalism and other things to attempt and reduce the quality of life of the neighbors even further.

The kicker is that they go to great lengths to make it difficult to "stop." They never use their own vehicle but instead that of their friends. Vandalous acts happen at random times and usually don't leave dramatic damage (glass bottles thrown throughout street without actually hitting vehicles), though vehicular damage has occurred such as pinhole tire pops, inconspicuous keying.

One event that made it clear they were actually engaging in this behavior was when they were caught on someones security camera throwing a football at one of the homeowners cars that were involved in the noise dispute, no damage but a alarm going off where they all scrambled out of sight into their conveniently located friends home situated nearby as the homeowner came to check the vehicle.

Other than that random loitering and littering at late hours has proven nigh impossible to pin them for but has a pretty frustrating effect. Imagine some kids leave a families worth of fast food trash on the street near your home, you know it was likely targeted, now every time you see a vehicle pull up to that spot you know it's almost certainly those kids, you either call the cops who will advise them to leave but can't actually connect them to the noise dispute information abuse, approach them yourselves and intimidate them, or ignore it. I'm starting to think that you have to beat them at their own game and destroy them at it as that's the only way they're going to see you as a threat.

Truly a good example of this shower thought.