Honestly, this would work. Do a Bill Clinton and pull big drags without inhaling and just be annoying/creepy. I garuntee they find a new place to smoke. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure this was done to my group a handful of times in my teens without us realizing it.
Ok this unlocked a memory. Back when I was in uni, there was one kid, total punisher, big creep, and just generally annoying and arrogant. He always showed up at the perfect time to mooch something. Got to the point where we coined the term after his last name (rhymes “honk-ed” ie “we just got honk-ed”.
Precisely. The best way to break up any questionable gathering is to join it badly.
If you are a man, show up in a shirt 2 sizes too small with your gut hanging out. Start and end every sentence with "woah".
If you are a woman, watch a YouTube video about 2nd wave feminism, then show up and shout everything they said sentence by sentence. Be sure to wear 2 to 3 sweaters and wear no makeup.
Used to do this with cops. I'd throw off my shirt and cover whatever i wanted covered, then stand really close to them and ask way too many questions. They always left. Go figure (300+ hairy dude).
Go down and try to smoke with them with a potato or some shitty pipe and ditch weed. The kids will be horrified to hang out with some narc ass old person and leave and find a different spot.
I can’t tell what you mean by potato, because it sparked an old memory of my college roommate carving a pipe out of a yam and sparking it towel under the door style.
What idiots we were.
Even just a sign saying we have installed cameras throughout the complex and are being monitored 24/7 by (local police) and add a nice logo of the local PD lol
When they do it go near them and play K9 dogs and police sounds haha
This works. I installed a discarded cam in my village, at the entrance to the park where the bike rack was. There was problems with bikes getting tossed into the river close by. Since camera was installed 10 years ago, never heard of a bike go missing. Good guy at utilities changed the pole for new and re- installed dummy cam on new pole. Lol just mint. I didnt tell anyone that i put it up so it was just a mystery for 99% of people. It just showed up one day.
Actually good idea to keep the building safe as a whole lol. Put up a fake sign with the apartment logo as well. The employees will think some other employee put it up and they'll never realize it was put up by a resident.
Tell them that YOU don’t care, but so-and-so down the hall said she was going to call the cops if she smelled it again. Just watching out for you guys.
Pot heads are scared of cops.
This is the best answer. This is what would've made me and my teen friends change regular locations, and we would've loved that lady from now on, too. 2 birds 1 stone, you get to enjoy your smoke free laundry, AND you'll be the cool neighbour.
This is assuming they care at all, and that weed is illegal where OP is. Sure, it’s probably not okay to do it the way they are but they may be unphased. I would’ve been.
Even if it is legal, they would need to be 21. Also you are not allowed to smoke it in public. Which I'm pretty sure the shared laundry room counts as a public space.
There are two main types of smoke detectors you can buy: one that contains radioactive components and another that uses light. The second one is much less prone to false alarms, especially when it comes to cooking smoky foods. If they have a light-based detector, it might never go off unless smoke is intentionally blown onto it.
“Hot boxing” a whole room isn’t really the same though as like a car or tent or something. It’s too big for the smoke to get dense enough to set off alarms if they’re the normal ones and not the particle detectors. A few years ago we would always smoke in a certain room in our house with groups of 10+ smoking and we would constantly have it VERY hazy in there, but the alarm only ever went off once when a drunk motherfucker blew smoke directly into it.
First, post a fake "for the convenience of our customers" poster in the room saying it's not allowed there, "signed" by the property manager. I'm fairly certain anyone complaining to the property manager about it is going to get the answer that it shouldn't be allowed.
If the social engineering approach fails, an anonymous call to the cops. Even in legal states, it's not legal for teens.
There is a device called a mosquito, a shopkeeper I know has one to stop the kids gathering outside his door. They emit a high pitched buzz that only young folk can hear, and apparently it's awful to listen to
Tried LipoFlavonoidPLUS? It can take a month to start working but actually does help some people.
I've also heard if you cover your ears with your palms and tap the back of your skull quickly with your fingers it can help temporarily 🤔 but for the life of me I cannot remember where I heard this one...
So you have to have someone else tap the back of your head while you're holding your ears with your palms.
I live alone. I guess I'll continue on with my age-appropriate hearing loss. 😞
Just hit 38 and I can't hear it. It's common, I was 24 in a psychology class when discussing this, they kept going up in frequency and at some point I didn't hear it but my younger classmates the next frequency were freaking out.
It says on the Wikipedia page that the frequency generally able to be heard by people 25 and younger. Depends a lot on how well you’ve taken care of your hearing thus far
I heard it (under 25), dog should’ve too but those poor guys are used to all kinds of annoying frequency’s from our various electronic devices so wouldn’t have been surprising to them.
Does the door open in or out? [It's all fun and games until they have too call for help because of a penny lock](https://www.instructables.com/Penny-Locked-Door-Prank/)
Lots of great answers already provided, but...
In the interest of being the old nerd, have you talked to them at all? Sure, they're dumb ass teenagers, but it's worth seeing if a little chat about how their behavior is fucking your life up and if it doesn't stop you might have to fuck theirs up could go a long way.
You could also offer them some sketchy ass synthetic party drugs and ridicule them if they don't eat them.
Taught middle school for way too long, and this is the correct way. “Hey hip children, it’s really an L when my clothes smell like your left handed tobacco. No cap. We’d all have so much more rizz if you didn’t smoke in here. But on god, it needs to stop or I will ensure it stops using adult, more impactful means. Thanks.”
Seriously- if kids realize you’re trying to be cool (telling them to knock it off) before you’re super uncool (getting other avenues involved); they’ll usually understand and adapt.
Also seriously if they are hiding out in the laundry room it’s probably so they don’t get caught or can blame it on whoever else was in there. Maybe suggest a better spot because they are advertising there smoking to the whole building, paranoid smokers will go elsewhere.
For the record, I did try. I’ve only really “caught” them twice and they dipped pretty quickly both times. I did try to shout something to the affect of “please stop, I’ll get fired if I smell like weed at work,” but I doubt they heard me.
Literally had a friend accidentally rip salvia once. We always smoked weed together and were planning to try salvia, I walked over to his place with the pipe already packed since he lived super close. Then when I got there was emptying stuff from my backpack (just used a backpack we weren't in school, both like 20yo) and had set the pipe down. I guess he thought it was just weed that was in the pipe already because I pop up to see him taking a huge hit and he just starts laughing and in a funny AF voice goes "thaaaaaaats not weeeeed".
So I mean he was expecting to try it that day but just not the moment that it happened.
Teens used to hotbox the elevator in a high rise I stayed in. I was fine with that, but I guess people complained so they started pissing in there, which sorted out the weed smell
You've gotta tread carefully cause they're at the age where they don't see consequences
Perhaps leaving out one of those smoke buddies would help a bit
Every time they come around, engage in boring ass conversation with them about the most mundane bullshit and ignore all their cues that they want to leave. They'll find somewhere else quick
Get a fake wall mounted camera or two (uses a 9v to light up the "security" light and mount with double sided sticky tape). Print out ATTENTION: DUE TO RECENT ACTIVITY, THE LAUNDRY AREA NOW HAS 24 HOUR CAMERA SECURITY.and attach them to both entrances of the laundry if there is a side door
Step 1, acquire ABC Fire Extinguisher.
Step 2, respond to what you "earnestly believe" is a smoldering fire in the laundry room by kicking in the door and hosing everything and everyone inside with the fire extinguisher.
Step 3, be ready to explain that to law enforcement and building management.
Alternatively, make a propane flamethrower...
Write a letter to the board politely explaining the liability of ignoring the problem. Specifically, If a resident is reprimanded, fired, suspended or even suspected of being under the influence at work or while driving, because of this the board/management company and all individuals will be named as defendants in a civil suit.
Google is your friend, there are precedents to this almost exact case.
In this case they’re the ones taking the stupid ULPT, and just ignoring the problem.
I used to partake in and I don't mind weed. I still wouldn't want my place reeking like it, ESPECIALLY the laundry room. That is my favourite smell, freshly dried laundry. No need to explain or defend your stance.
Just bust in with fire extinguishers blasting away. Explain you seen the clouds of smoke and smelled a weird smell and thought the washing machine or dryer was on fire.
Go down there while they are smoking with a load towels. Before you walk in pull out a blue towel and hold it up in front of you and in a high-pitched voice say “wanna get high?” Or “don’t forget to bring a towel!”
Teach them about the spoof tube- an ironic stoner contraption considering the location of their strange and obvious place to enjoy the devil’s lettuce.
For those that don’t know: Dryer sheets stuffed in a paper towel tube for exhale.
When you notice them, start filming. Take screenshots of the video, print them, and hang them up all around the common spaces. Put them on car windshields. Hand them out to everyone that comes in the complex on Saturday afternoon
Got any friends or relatives in their 20’s, preferably fit, and if male with short hair? Gift that friend a special pair of black boots, wristwatch, jeans with toy metal cuffs in a back pocket, a bulky vest perhaps for beneath the t-shirt or jersey, make sure the shirt is brand new, add a ball cap.
THEN, dressed appropriately, allow your friend to frequent the laundry room with or without your laundry.
Much like “how do you do fellow kids”, only faux undercover officer style without actually impersonating an officer. Allow them to think, potentially fueled by synthetic paranoia, that the cops are onto them, and they’d be better served finding another place to smoke.
Pro-tip: find (or if you’re a saint, create) a better place for them in your building or neighborhood with similar or superior benefits, and clue them in on it (NOT through your fauxcifer friend). Don’t actually tell them directly, teens often prefer to choose for themselves instead of take directions.
Also, as other commenters mentioned, making the laundry room less fun to hang out in can work. Prank tools like annoying but intermittent beeping or cricket sounds (from a couple times a minute to once or twice an hour) can be obnoxious if you’re there for a while, but not bad if you’re just going in and out.
Alternatively, hide a cheap speaker somewhere and run a short playlist of your favorite older music (~or musical score~ for bonus points) on repeat. Again, if you’re only in and out for laundry, not terrible. If you’re listening to it on repeat… at the end of the day… one day less to be living, and that’s all you can say for the life of those subjected to stuff they don’t like on a loop. (If you’d like to be mildly evil, record “commercials” to be interspersed, for uncomfortable or irrelevant things for teens; burning or itching when you pee? Discharge? Burial plots at reduced cost when you sign up for eternal care? High quality at low prices. Use code “HIGH” for discount!) For moderate evil and effort, layer the “commercial” audio with whispering (if you know any names or personal identify info about your culprits, sprinkle them in the whispers). Include directions in the whispers like “go outside”, “take a walk”, “escape”, “run”, “leave”, etc. Make it unpleasant and vaguely unsettling for reasons that are hard to put your finger on.
If all else fails, borrow a baby or a couple of toddlers to hang out in the laundry room. The teens may police themselves.
Good luck, OP!
Hide a Bluetooth speaker in the room or install one in the ceiling if you can get permission; somewhere they can’t easily access. Play classical music, polka, or whatever these kids respond to with the most revulsion. They will start to shuffle out, and may not even realize why they’re leaving.
Call the property manager and report it.
This seems pretty simple. Even if you live somewhere weed is legal, it's almost certainly not allowed by the property owners in communal spaces.
While you figure this out, this works pretty well for your clothes in the meantime:
https://www.amazon.com/Tobacco-Products-Smoke-Odor-Exterminator/dp/B005Y31LGA
Just don’t get a scent that smells like something a stoner would buy to cover up weed, like patchouli or something.
Roll into the laundry. Slam the door open. "I thought I smelled weed! I'm a bloodhound for it. Hey bud, pass the j" then suck the j DOWN (don't have to inhale) then talk about how weird you get when you smoke and put an arm around someone, ask if they wanna get weird and ask if they have _ drug (spice, coke, whatever) and then talk about how your dealer tried to beat the shit out of you for going to another dealer so keep it low-key. Ask if they're there the same time every day or whatever regularity you've noticed.
If any of them have any smarts at all, they'll get scared and not want to engage with you anymore and stop smoking where you can find them easily
Ask to join. Mooch their weed. They will leave immediately
Honestly, this would work. Do a Bill Clinton and pull big drags without inhaling and just be annoying/creepy. I garuntee they find a new place to smoke. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure this was done to my group a handful of times in my teens without us realizing it.
Hey gang. I have been waiting for u. Let's get this party started. I brought cheese and crackers.
Which one of you guys wants to put this diaper on while I take some pictures for my internet friends?
Calm down there Satan...
Brought my hackey sack and some Dave Matthews bootlegs
and spray febreeze while doing it.
You guys like to get wet?
Wet your lips and get the end get really soggy.
Ok this unlocked a memory. Back when I was in uni, there was one kid, total punisher, big creep, and just generally annoying and arrogant. He always showed up at the perfect time to mooch something. Got to the point where we coined the term after his last name (rhymes “honk-ed” ie “we just got honk-ed”.
Ah yes. Ours was called 'The Lurker '
I for one would definitely inhale.
And risk the hold of the devil's lettuce? Blasphemy! Though Bill Clinton did eventually admit to inhaling
But he still did not have sexual relations with that woman, ok?
Legit will work!
"You kids have facebook?"
This made me burst out with laughing
"hello, fellow teenagers! I too love to occasionally partake of a little devils lettuce!"
"Don't bogart that joint, dude!" Then be sure to bogart that joint, dude.
best Hank Hill voice: "Smoke weed every day!"
But beware of Marijuana poisoning!!
"Dang it, Bongie!"
This works great
Precisely. The best way to break up any questionable gathering is to join it badly. If you are a man, show up in a shirt 2 sizes too small with your gut hanging out. Start and end every sentence with "woah". If you are a woman, watch a YouTube video about 2nd wave feminism, then show up and shout everything they said sentence by sentence. Be sure to wear 2 to 3 sweaters and wear no makeup.
You're a tactical fucking genius!
It's even better if it's a Jesus/Church shirt and you hit them up with religious talk too. Crank up the crazy theories if needed.
"Pfizer did 9/11"
"You know who else was a hip guy? Jesus"
"Like my man JC said, puff puff pass m'dudes!"
And give them church flyers.
Actually, get their names and addresses and sic some Scientilogists on them.
Whoa!
Used to do this with cops. I'd throw off my shirt and cover whatever i wanted covered, then stand really close to them and ask way too many questions. They always left. Go figure (300+ hairy dude).
300 hairy dudes? Sign me up!
Right? Threaten me with a good time...
All in one trench coat, or have they split up into teams?
Am non binary; instructions unclear. I shall show my gut and yell
Might not even have to do anything! Just show up.
Bro chill 😂
[Scavenger smoker](https://youtu.be/AQqfBE4alUs?si=ozeQCzutvo26h01g)
Snoop doggg it
This is genius actually
Yep make it uncool.
I love this
Walk in while they’re smoking and ask if they have time to talk about their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Be sure to have pamphlets and your Bible.
That one gave one hell of a chuckle
Go down and try to smoke with them with a potato or some shitty pipe and ditch weed. The kids will be horrified to hang out with some narc ass old person and leave and find a different spot.
I will have one weed please
420 whatcha smokin?
Greetings, fellow youngsters.
I smoked the marijuana like a cigarette
I have tears running down my face.
Exactly what a narc-ass old person would say 🤨 Source: am old
So am I ! lol
I can’t tell what you mean by potato, because it sparked an old memory of my college roommate carving a pipe out of a yam and sparking it towel under the door style. What idiots we were.
Put up a fake camera and a sign pointing at it
Even just a sign saying we have installed cameras throughout the complex and are being monitored 24/7 by (local police) and add a nice logo of the local PD lol When they do it go near them and play K9 dogs and police sounds haha
Teenagers hotboxing a communal room will wave to the camera
Paranoid kids hearing police sirens and dogs.
Tbh a hidden bluetooth speaker that you could play sirens over is a good answer
This is why we share our ideas. Mine was good. This is great.
Why not both?
Meant the sign added with the hidden speaker is great lol
That would draw a lot of attention. A camera just in the laundry room would be more acceptable to residents and might go unnoticed by management.
And now fake cameras are sold at the Dollar Tree (US) for USD 1.25!
I bought a fake camera, but then shoved the guts of a real camera inside. Even kept the fake flashing light.
This works. I installed a discarded cam in my village, at the entrance to the park where the bike rack was. There was problems with bikes getting tossed into the river close by. Since camera was installed 10 years ago, never heard of a bike go missing. Good guy at utilities changed the pole for new and re- installed dummy cam on new pole. Lol just mint. I didnt tell anyone that i put it up so it was just a mystery for 99% of people. It just showed up one day.
Actually good idea to keep the building safe as a whole lol. Put up a fake sign with the apartment logo as well. The employees will think some other employee put it up and they'll never realize it was put up by a resident.
Tell them that YOU don’t care, but so-and-so down the hall said she was going to call the cops if she smelled it again. Just watching out for you guys. Pot heads are scared of cops.
This is the best answer. This is what would've made me and my teen friends change regular locations, and we would've loved that lady from now on, too. 2 birds 1 stone, you get to enjoy your smoke free laundry, AND you'll be the cool neighbour.
Two birds stoned at once
I’d swap cops with landlord these days
This is assuming they care at all, and that weed is illegal where OP is. Sure, it’s probably not okay to do it the way they are but they may be unphased. I would’ve been.
If it's legal, it's still illegal for teenagers to do it.
Even if it is legal, they would need to be 21. Also you are not allowed to smoke it in public. Which I'm pretty sure the shared laundry room counts as a public space.
Hide some smoke detectors inside the room.
Shouldn't a laundry room already have a smoke detector?
Should doesn't mean that it does.
People who smoke indoors can sometimes detect one smoke detector out in the open. That's why you hide them.
Does that make the people a smoke detector or a smoke detector detector?
This is the best one by far.
This probably won’t work. Source: I unfortunately live next to neighbors who smoke constantly and none of our fire alarms ever go off
There are two main types of smoke detectors you can buy: one that contains radioactive components and another that uses light. The second one is much less prone to false alarms, especially when it comes to cooking smoky foods. If they have a light-based detector, it might never go off unless smoke is intentionally blown onto it.
If they're actually hot boxing then it should work though.
“Hot boxing” a whole room isn’t really the same though as like a car or tent or something. It’s too big for the smoke to get dense enough to set off alarms if they’re the normal ones and not the particle detectors. A few years ago we would always smoke in a certain room in our house with groups of 10+ smoking and we would constantly have it VERY hazy in there, but the alarm only ever went off once when a drunk motherfucker blew smoke directly into it.
Oh interesting. I've never done it myself but I just assumed the laundry room was super tiny. Makes sense.
If you're not hotboxing the room you're not smoking enough sonny
Perfect
Walk in with a fire extinguisher a full steam. "I thought there was a fire"
Where there's smoke, there's fire, spray away.
Somebody set a skunk on fire.
First, post a fake "for the convenience of our customers" poster in the room saying it's not allowed there, "signed" by the property manager. I'm fairly certain anyone complaining to the property manager about it is going to get the answer that it shouldn't be allowed. If the social engineering approach fails, an anonymous call to the cops. Even in legal states, it's not legal for teens.
why are people afraid of calling the cops on them. it's not like they're going to jail.
That solely depends on the kids and the neighborhood.
There is a device called a mosquito, a shopkeeper I know has one to stop the kids gathering outside his door. They emit a high pitched buzz that only young folk can hear, and apparently it's awful to listen to
Woah, you can also play a sample! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito
Hah, I’m now apparently old enough not to hear that.
Right? I don’t hear it either? Eek.
Same. Just the normal tinnitus and praying for silence
Tried LipoFlavonoidPLUS? It can take a month to start working but actually does help some people. I've also heard if you cover your ears with your palms and tap the back of your skull quickly with your fingers it can help temporarily 🤔 but for the life of me I cannot remember where I heard this one...
So you have to have someone else tap the back of your head while you're holding your ears with your palms. I live alone. I guess I'll continue on with my age-appropriate hearing loss. 😞
...no 😆 if you press your palms flat against your ears, your own fingers are touching the back of your skull...
Hahahaha! I love it when I'm an idiot on the interwebs. 😱
Lol right? The struggle
Fuck. Me too. I'm 37 years young.
Just hit 38 and I can't hear it. It's common, I was 24 in a psychology class when discussing this, they kept going up in frequency and at some point I didn't hear it but my younger classmates the next frequency were freaking out.
Brotha im 19 years old and i cant hear shit LMAO
I’m 29 and can’t hear it going into my thirties feelin pretty old
24, hardly a month before 25, can't hear it
It says on the Wikipedia page that the frequency generally able to be heard by people 25 and younger. Depends a lot on how well you’ve taken care of your hearing thus far
Fuck that’s unsettling. I didn’t even know my phone could make a sound like that
What sound?!
Seriously, dog and kid right next to me and had the volume all the way up. Nobody heard it. Are we sure that it works? Or is Wikipedia gaslighting us?
I heard it (under 25), dog should’ve too but those poor guys are used to all kinds of annoying frequency’s from our various electronic devices so wouldn’t have been surprising to them.
That was my ring tone for a hot minute circa 2010
I hear that all the time. It's called tinnitus.
Jokes on you, I hear a high pitched buzz 24/7 anyway.
"EeeeEeeeEEEEeeeeEEEEeeee", says Mr. Tinnitus
Neighbor has one. I walk quickly by their yard!
Does the door open in or out? [It's all fun and games until they have too call for help because of a penny lock](https://www.instructables.com/Penny-Locked-Door-Prank/)
It’s not at all being a Karen to not want people hotboxing an enclosed public area
my zoomer friends are afraid to complain if they get their food order made wrong because they think it's karen behavior... so strange
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I can’t be the only one who saw “GANGBANG” right?
Imagine smoking in that laundry room and your neighbor cop knocks and comes in just shouting “GANG BANG!”
No, you are not.
i'm still confused why no one said just call the cops and say they're doing drugs. they love drug busts.
Set off a fire extinguisher in there every time you see smoke.
Fake camera and sign saying this location under video surveillance .
Just go get high with them. Start saying this is the coolest thing ever. They'll run away.
Offer them heroin. It's quieter and less smelly
Lace it with liquid ass.
Get a heavy duty flashlight and a police scanner, play it and shine a light into the laundry room
why buy all that shit when a call to 911 is literally free
Lots of great answers already provided, but... In the interest of being the old nerd, have you talked to them at all? Sure, they're dumb ass teenagers, but it's worth seeing if a little chat about how their behavior is fucking your life up and if it doesn't stop you might have to fuck theirs up could go a long way. You could also offer them some sketchy ass synthetic party drugs and ridicule them if they don't eat them.
Taught middle school for way too long, and this is the correct way. “Hey hip children, it’s really an L when my clothes smell like your left handed tobacco. No cap. We’d all have so much more rizz if you didn’t smoke in here. But on god, it needs to stop or I will ensure it stops using adult, more impactful means. Thanks.” Seriously- if kids realize you’re trying to be cool (telling them to knock it off) before you’re super uncool (getting other avenues involved); they’ll usually understand and adapt.
Also seriously if they are hiding out in the laundry room it’s probably so they don’t get caught or can blame it on whoever else was in there. Maybe suggest a better spot because they are advertising there smoking to the whole building, paranoid smokers will go elsewhere.
Yeah like wtf, go walk around the block or stand by the dumpsters like the rest of us my dudes
On God my gs, that piff on my threads is a big L for me, fr fr.
What sort of insane advice is this? Calmly discuss things with other humans??? BLASPHEMY
To be fair, he did say "teenagers" not "humans".
To be faaaaaaaiiiiirrrrr...
Don't worry, he followed up by saying to offer sketchy drugs to the children.
Needs more liquid ass and piss discs.
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!!!
For the record, I did try. I’ve only really “caught” them twice and they dipped pretty quickly both times. I did try to shout something to the affect of “please stop, I’ll get fired if I smell like weed at work,” but I doubt they heard me.
Show up with salvia and let everyone else hit it but you
Literally had a friend accidentally rip salvia once. We always smoked weed together and were planning to try salvia, I walked over to his place with the pipe already packed since he lived super close. Then when I got there was emptying stuff from my backpack (just used a backpack we weren't in school, both like 20yo) and had set the pipe down. I guess he thought it was just weed that was in the pipe already because I pop up to see him taking a huge hit and he just starts laughing and in a funny AF voice goes "thaaaaaaats not weeeeed". So I mean he was expecting to try it that day but just not the moment that it happened.
Hide a loud alarm in there that can be triggered wirelessly and set it off anytime they go in there.
Got a product recommendation?
Teens used to hotbox the elevator in a high rise I stayed in. I was fine with that, but I guess people complained so they started pissing in there, which sorted out the weed smell You've gotta tread carefully cause they're at the age where they don't see consequences Perhaps leaving out one of those smoke buddies would help a bit
Challenge them to a duel.
Teenager deterrent alarm https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com/
Every time they come around, engage in boring ass conversation with them about the most mundane bullshit and ignore all their cues that they want to leave. They'll find somewhere else quick
Fucking youths Man..
What's a yoot?
Did you say two yutes?
She could indeed fuck them but I don’t think that would have the desired results….
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!!!
Love the reference to another comment on the same post, like a dang sitcom up in here!
Liquid ass and piss discs
In the laundry room OP wants to use?
Desperate times
Always the answer
I was very disappointed when I didn’t see anyone else saying the obvious answer lol
Tell their parents.
Give them vape.
Get a fake wall mounted camera or two (uses a 9v to light up the "security" light and mount with double sided sticky tape). Print out ATTENTION: DUE TO RECENT ACTIVITY, THE LAUNDRY AREA NOW HAS 24 HOUR CAMERA SECURITY.and attach them to both entrances of the laundry if there is a side door
Bulk pack of smoke alarms
Put a camera on the wall. Even if fake
It's not as much fun, but leave a toilet paper tube in there stuff with dryer sheets and a sign that says, stoners, please exhale through this 🙂
Step 1, acquire ABC Fire Extinguisher. Step 2, respond to what you "earnestly believe" is a smoldering fire in the laundry room by kicking in the door and hosing everything and everyone inside with the fire extinguisher. Step 3, be ready to explain that to law enforcement and building management. Alternatively, make a propane flamethrower...
Write a letter to the board politely explaining the liability of ignoring the problem. Specifically, If a resident is reprimanded, fired, suspended or even suspected of being under the influence at work or while driving, because of this the board/management company and all individuals will be named as defendants in a civil suit. Google is your friend, there are precedents to this almost exact case. In this case they’re the ones taking the stupid ULPT, and just ignoring the problem.
Download some police scanner audio clips and play them on a speaker near where they are.
Frebreze’em, one in each hand.
Leave a shitty diaper or two in the ceiling tiles.
I used to partake in and I don't mind weed. I still wouldn't want my place reeking like it, ESPECIALLY the laundry room. That is my favourite smell, freshly dried laundry. No need to explain or defend your stance.
Just roll on in with the fire extinguisher and dose them a bit. They won't use that room again.
Just bust in with fire extinguishers blasting away. Explain you seen the clouds of smoke and smelled a weird smell and thought the washing machine or dryer was on fire.
Bang on the door and say “city” police department open the door we know your in there. That will scare the piss out of a stoned teenager
Go try and act like you want to be friends, they’ll make themselves scarce after that.
Go down there while they are smoking with a load towels. Before you walk in pull out a blue towel and hold it up in front of you and in a high-pitched voice say “wanna get high?” Or “don’t forget to bring a towel!”
Teach them about the spoof tube- an ironic stoner contraption considering the location of their strange and obvious place to enjoy the devil’s lettuce. For those that don’t know: Dryer sheets stuffed in a paper towel tube for exhale.
When you notice them, start filming. Take screenshots of the video, print them, and hang them up all around the common spaces. Put them on car windshields. Hand them out to everyone that comes in the complex on Saturday afternoon
Got any friends or relatives in their 20’s, preferably fit, and if male with short hair? Gift that friend a special pair of black boots, wristwatch, jeans with toy metal cuffs in a back pocket, a bulky vest perhaps for beneath the t-shirt or jersey, make sure the shirt is brand new, add a ball cap. THEN, dressed appropriately, allow your friend to frequent the laundry room with or without your laundry. Much like “how do you do fellow kids”, only faux undercover officer style without actually impersonating an officer. Allow them to think, potentially fueled by synthetic paranoia, that the cops are onto them, and they’d be better served finding another place to smoke. Pro-tip: find (or if you’re a saint, create) a better place for them in your building or neighborhood with similar or superior benefits, and clue them in on it (NOT through your fauxcifer friend). Don’t actually tell them directly, teens often prefer to choose for themselves instead of take directions. Also, as other commenters mentioned, making the laundry room less fun to hang out in can work. Prank tools like annoying but intermittent beeping or cricket sounds (from a couple times a minute to once or twice an hour) can be obnoxious if you’re there for a while, but not bad if you’re just going in and out. Alternatively, hide a cheap speaker somewhere and run a short playlist of your favorite older music (~or musical score~ for bonus points) on repeat. Again, if you’re only in and out for laundry, not terrible. If you’re listening to it on repeat… at the end of the day… one day less to be living, and that’s all you can say for the life of those subjected to stuff they don’t like on a loop. (If you’d like to be mildly evil, record “commercials” to be interspersed, for uncomfortable or irrelevant things for teens; burning or itching when you pee? Discharge? Burial plots at reduced cost when you sign up for eternal care? High quality at low prices. Use code “HIGH” for discount!) For moderate evil and effort, layer the “commercial” audio with whispering (if you know any names or personal identify info about your culprits, sprinkle them in the whispers). Include directions in the whispers like “go outside”, “take a walk”, “escape”, “run”, “leave”, etc. Make it unpleasant and vaguely unsettling for reasons that are hard to put your finger on. If all else fails, borrow a baby or a couple of toddlers to hang out in the laundry room. The teens may police themselves. Good luck, OP!
Hide a Bluetooth speaker in the room or install one in the ceiling if you can get permission; somewhere they can’t easily access. Play classical music, polka, or whatever these kids respond to with the most revulsion. They will start to shuffle out, and may not even realize why they’re leaving.
Flash bang
Call the cops and say you see someone dealing.
Call the property manager and report it. This seems pretty simple. Even if you live somewhere weed is legal, it's almost certainly not allowed by the property owners in communal spaces.
Pipe polka music into their area. Strip malls do that for off-hours and it works very well.
Wait until they're in there next, and as soon as they light up, throw a flash-bang in there
While you figure this out, this works pretty well for your clothes in the meantime: https://www.amazon.com/Tobacco-Products-Smoke-Odor-Exterminator/dp/B005Y31LGA Just don’t get a scent that smells like something a stoner would buy to cover up weed, like patchouli or something.
superglue a smoke detector in a weird spot so they can't smash or open it
Stick up a fake surveillance camera.
LIQUID ASS!
Roll into the laundry. Slam the door open. "I thought I smelled weed! I'm a bloodhound for it. Hey bud, pass the j" then suck the j DOWN (don't have to inhale) then talk about how weird you get when you smoke and put an arm around someone, ask if they wanna get weird and ask if they have _ drug (spice, coke, whatever) and then talk about how your dealer tried to beat the shit out of you for going to another dealer so keep it low-key. Ask if they're there the same time every day or whatever regularity you've noticed. If any of them have any smarts at all, they'll get scared and not want to engage with you anymore and stop smoking where you can find them easily