Ding Dong Ditch - John Albanos

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A classic childhood prank takes a terrifying turn in Naples, Florida, when 51-year-old John P. Albanos allegedly responds to a "ding-dong ditch" by chasing a group of children in his car. Jamie and John break down the Collier County Sheriff's Office report, detailing how an innocent bit of mischief escalated into an alleged vehicular assault.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation
0:04.8	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:14.7	What can I get for you?
0:16.7	Yeah, I've really been wanting to watch some pranks.
0:19.8	So do you have any i don't know neighborhood kids
0:22.5	causing a ruckus around somebody's house pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime
0:28.3	welcome to true crime to go i am john here with jamie you keep your ruckus over on your side of the neighborhood
0:38.5	and leave my house in my yard alone, man. This is a how-to ding-dong ditch for my kids to come
0:44.3	over to your house and do that. That's actually not true. I don't know why I'm on a kick of
0:49.3	people that are invading the homes of others, but this is uh i don't know this is a weird one
0:57.5	and uh one i hope i'm never involved in on either side of yeah this is another road rage
1:03.8	incident after an incident so let's get into it so this happens this happened rather on july
1:09.4	11th 2025 so just a couple of weeks ago.
1:12.3	Same day as our road rage incident, actually.
1:14.5	Yeah, it must have been something in the air that day.
1:16.7	Full moon.
1:17.4	When a quiet neighborhood in Naples, Florida, there's a group of children.
1:21.5	They were riding scooters and they went around ringing doorbells and running away.
1:26.3	The classic ding-dong ditch prank, innocent mischief, or at least they thought that
1:31.6	would be the case, but one of the homes they targeted belonged to a 51-year-old named
1:36.5	John Albanyos, who started, you know, this is one of those situations where this is a simple prank that would spiral into a disaster.
1:48.8	If you live under a rock, ding-dong ditches, you ring somebody's doorbell and you disappear.
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