Am I the Jerk for Pranking the Prankster who keeps ding-dong ditching my house?

Here's what happened.

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Due to job opportunities, we recently moved into a new neighborhood.

While most things were going fairly smoothly, we'd, at around 4 p.m.

hear a couple of knocks on our door, when we went to see who it was, to our surprise, there wasn't anybody there.

It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that we thought there could be the possibility

of someone ding-dong ditching us.

We just never thought of it, as it seemed everyone here was really relaxed, so ding-dong ditches

never crossed our minds.

As not to resort to any extreme measures, we put up a sign near the door, saying to please

not trouble the people inside by doing these silly pranks, which didn't work.

Since it didn't work, we resorted to asking people about it.

But all I got was it was some sort of tradition for the kids in the neighborhood

to do this to the people new in the area.

This kind of irked me, as Dingdong ditch is really annoying. So I set up a camera

inside our house to capture who was outside our door. After reviewing the footage multiple times I was able to confirm it was some brat who was a couple

meters away.

I went to speak to his parents, but they laughed it off, saying kids will be kids.

So I decided that I myself would do something about it. After three days

the kid came back but I was hiding behind an unlocked door with a large water bucket.

As soon as he knocked and turned I opened the door and splashed him with water.

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