A father offering his son to do work in compensation for damages the son did, perceived or otherwise, is old school parental justice. Politely decline, or enthusiastically accept and work his ass off.
It’s the guys right to press charges, but the police may also decline.
What my mother did to me when I egged somebodies house on Hollow’s eve was to take me to my scoutmaster who gave me three names of single elderly women near me and from then on for years I shoveled their snow and chipped the ice off their stairs for free. I became the darling of the neighborhood. I got invites to do yard work for pay, snow shoveling for pay, and then when I was older, A neighbor offered me a golf caddy job on weekends.
Much much sweeter than revenge.
how about if you egged the same house 30 times in 30 days before you got caught?.. ya really think chipping some ice off an old lady’s stairs would do it?. this wasn’t a little kid either
While your story is really good, and logical; but like I said, we have no way of knowing what the history is with this neighbor kid. Sometimes you just reach a limit .. and being nice and forgiving has run it’s course.