Kids are stupid
When we were about 12, my brother and I used to play tennis on the road outside my mate's house.

His neighbour was a really annoying little ankle-biter who used to want us to play with him on his trike all the time - and who used to regularly get in the way of the tennis.

One day, when he was in the middle of the tennis court/road and we wanted to move him we resorted to a Wayne's World-esque, "CAAAAR".

He responded sensibly and got off the road.

Surprisingly this continued to work for a long time after the initial phantom-car never materialised. Eventually though he, like the Borg, adapted and was once again impeding the tennis.

What happened next was, I have to say, a stroke of evil-genius.

I told him that there was a monster coming for him.

Man-alive, did he flip out.

I told him that he would need to a) move into his garden for safety, and b) wildly flail his arms to fight off the beast.

This kept him off the tennis court for long enough to play out our grand slam through our occasional re-enforcement that he was winning the fight, but there were still more monsters.

Picture the scene, three 12 year olds playing tennis whilst a wee nipper flails around in his garden bawling his eyes out, whilst we struggle to contain ourselves.

And I guess it looked exactly as bad as it was to his Mum when she bollocked us for it.
(Her Ghost zomegle.com, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 12:07, Reply)