Punishment ideas please!

[Shifty]

I came home from holiday and went to ride my bike. It was on my stand and locked in my garage. As I went to ride it I found
My new peddles £100 on left was badly scuffed.
My left bar end badly scuffed.
My rear wheel spindle lever badly scuffed
My saddle badly scuffed.

My teen son sneaked our on it for a run and crashed it pratting about. He fessed when I confronted him with the indisputable evidence!
I have used wet and dried the scuffs and painted you can’t notice Them and the saddle edge plastic was filed and the same and you can’t notice. Peddle is scuffed still!
please provide me with a suitable punishment and the most inventive punishment you can come up with I will use! And post the evidence !!!
LITTLE SOD 16 yrs old

 

[Doomanic]

Take off and nuke him from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

 

[Rusty]

Long ago I would have said make the little shgit wear a dress to school - but sadly that is not punishment these days.
To punish him I think all you can do is take away his phone/tablet/pc and make him go netless for a week. Of course, he will call Child Welfare on you and you will be pillorised for cruel and unusual punishment, but you will have got your point across.

Then again, you could always take the cost of new parts out of his allowance.

 

[apac]

Be proud that he fessed up and told the truth. Anyway, he was probably riding it as it was intended, and not like an old man....like his dad ;-)

 

[Shifty]

Be proud that he fessed up and told the truth. Anyway, he was probably riding it as it was intended, and not like an old man....like his dad ;-)

I love it! Yea you’re right on the riding, But he only fessed whilst I was gripping him by his throat and swearing through clenched teeth???

 

[Beekeeper]

Just say the word and I shall summon my bees ? ??. Your bike will never be touched again

 

[118]

Be thankful he didn't take out your H2 instead..

Lots of wet winter rides to be had soon, with the added bonus, that you won't have to pay him a fiver a ride, to clean it.

Top job, well done son

 

[apac]

I love it! Yea you’re right on the riding, But he only fessed whilst I was gripping him by his throat and swearing through clenched teeth???

Haah, a Homer and Bart Simpson moment.
Just put a lock on the bike from now on and make sure you always hide your car keys from him!

 

[Shifty]

Just say the word and I shall summon my bees ? ??. Your bike will never be touched again

your bees are much more obedient than my hive full!!! Now that’s an idea!!

 

[Pdoz]

This is to certify that at a date of my fathers choice , I will forgive him for whatever he has done

signed

bike stealing son

 

[steve_sordy]

Make him go riding with you, at least twice.

 

[Shifty]

Be thankful he didn't take out your H2 instead..

Lots of wet winter rides to be had soon, with the added bonus, that you won't have to pay him a fiver a ride, to clean it.

Top job, well done son

i think you’re right on the free cleans! He’s not daft enough to play with the H2... if the bike didn’t kill him his dad would have if he so much as glanced at it for a ride!!!!

 

[Shifty]

Make him go riding with you, at least twice.

the shame of riding with dad ??

 

[Zimmerframe]

I think a session with "Scottish lowland assisted velo excursions" would really sort him out .. very reputable, I think they're on the internet.

 

[Pdoz]

I think a session with "Scottish lowland assisted velo excursions" would really sort him out .. very reputable, I think they're on the internet.

but use his porn device when you're looking them up

 

[Zimmerframe]

his porn device

Is that like a teflon coated tablet ? Or a teflon coated tablet with a built in stand ?

 

[R120]

Go to your bike, depress dropper post, and remove saddle

Go get young offender in question, and ask him to straddle the bike whilst holding the bars as you need help repairing it.

Activate dropper lever.

Lesson learnt

 

[Pabs]

Does he own his own bike?

If so you could play the long game, make the brakes draggy, hide lead weights inside it and see how long until he notices

You could also ride alongside singing the praises of e bikes up hills depending how far you wanna take it.

 

[Zimmerframe]

My new peddles £100 on left was badly scuffed.
My left bar end badly scuffed.
My rear wheel spindle lever badly scuffed
My saddle badly scuffed.

In a couple of weeks time when you find you're going to be a grandfather, none of it will seem to matter really ..

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

To discipline my kids (they're both grownups and left home now), I used to threaten them verbally - "if you you ever do that again, I'm gonna buy myself something nice and totally undeserved!!" I use a loud and angry voice and watch the confused looks on their faces as they struggle to process the oxymoron.

The initial shock makes them remember the gravity of their offence, but then when the humour kicks in they realise that we're still friends. Make sure you do this in front of their mother... to justify when you collect the spoils of their misbehaviour.

There is a downside... you get nothing if they start behaving like responsible adults.

 

[MitchF]

The lad is 16 , many of us would have done same ?, play the very enjoyable long game.Over the years he’ll bring friends around, he’ll have girlfriends , there will be many occasions where you can embarrass him.??
It’s a given, he just doesn’t realise it yet, it’s character building ??
He’s actually done you a favour, the first scuffs are the worst scuffs, everything after that is battle scars

 

[Rusty]

He’s not daft enough to play with the H2... if the bike didn’t kill him his dad would have if he so much as glanced at it for a ride!!!!

I was daft enough to take my brothers H2 for a ride when I was 14. Dropped it at the end of the street and thought FARK, he is gonna kill me. Then his race sponsor called by the evening to take it to the workshop and repair the damage from a race crash he had the previous Sunday.
I didn't notice it was it was on the off side from the side door and I didn't look too hard. Was only 2 of them in the country at the time so I was really thinking I was dead.
Then again, I tried to start his RT1 a year or so earlier and broke my leg when it kicked back.

 

[CjP]

When I done the same thing to my brothers bmx when I was 12 I got a good old fashioned beating. Never stole the bike again and now we ride together!

I’m all in for justified “child abuse”

 

[Wiltshire Warrior]

Wait until he passes his driving test and does the same to your car - then remember - who is going to look after you when you are an old OAP?

 

[highpeakrider]

So I assume you were a saint and never did anything as a kid?
You don’t do anything he’s just doing what kids do......
By now he knows your unhappy that’s enough.....

 

[Russell]

Buy yourself a new one and give him your old bike.

 

[Zimmerframe]

So I assume you were a saint and never did anything as a kid?
You don’t do anything he’s just doing what kids do......
By now he knows your unhappy that’s enough.....

Shifty's real name is Simon Templar ..

I think you'll find it was meant in jest ! He doesn't have the kid caged at home waiting for us moron's to help him educate his son.

 

[118]

He doesn't have the kid caged at home waiting for us moron's to help him

How do we know this isn't the case?

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

How about... “you scratch my bike, I scratch your phone?”

 

[MitchF]

How do we know this isn't the case?

Fare point Zimmer?
Shifty hasn’t denied it yet ??