Knock, knock, ginger

Last updated

Knock, knock, ginger (also known as ding, dong, ditch and ring and run in the United States) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England, or possibly the earlier Cornish traditional holiday of Nickanan Night. The game is played by children in many cultures. It involves knocking on the front door (or ringing the doorbell) of a victim, then running away before the door can be answered. [1]

Contents

The name knock, knock, ginger, “knock down ginger” or knocky door ginger, used in parts of Southern England, is attested at least as early as 1867, in an English poem found in the "Childhood in Poetry" collection:

Ginger, Ginger broke a winder
Hit the winda – crack!
The baker came out to give 'im a clout
And landed on his back. [2]

Name variations

The game in various forms is known by different names geographically, including the following:

Europe

North America

Oceania

Africa

South America

Asia

Legality

Victims of this prank are not likely to call the police, but if they decide to, the prankster can face charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace. In England and Wales, trespassing is a civil matter rather than a criminal one, and the police will not compile a case for a victim. However, under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, it is a criminal offence to "wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant, by pulling or ringing any door bell, or knocking at any door" punishable with up to 14 days' imprisonment. [31] [32] In Scotland, although the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 establishes universal access rights, the so-called "right to roam" is only permitted where the privacy of others is respected. Such errant behaviour could be regarded as the Scottish common law criminal offence of "malicious mischief".[ disputed – discuss ]

On 13 June 2011, Michael Bishop, a 56-year-old man, shot at a group of children playing ding dong ditch at his house in Louisville, Kentucky. A 12-year-old boy was hit in the back with a shotgun blast and was taken to Kosair Children's Hospital "with what police call non-life-threatening injuries". The shooter was charged with attempted murder. [19] On 8 December 2015, his final day in office, outgoing Kentucky governor Steve Beshear issued 197 pardons, [33] including a pardon for Bishop. [34]

A 14-year-old Oklahoma teenager, Cole Peyton, was shot in the back and arm while playing "ding dong ditch" in the early hours of New Year's Day of 2016. [35] [36]

Dean Taylor, a 63-year-old coach and former San Francisco Police Department officer, was arrested following an incident involving an 11-year-old boy who rang his doorbell in San Rafael, California on 12 February 2021. After two boys rang his door and ran, Taylor chased the boys in a vehicle, cut off one of the youths and emerged from the car. Then he allegedly grabbed one 11-year-old boy by the neck, pushed him to the ground and forced him into his vehicle. He drove the terrified boy around the block, and allegedly told the boy that he would "put a bullet in his head" if the prank happened again. He dropped the boy off near Point San Pedro Road and Loch Lomond Drive, and police were called. Taylor faces felony charges including kidnapping, making criminal threats, false imprisonment, battery and child endangerment. [37]

A California man, Anurag Chandra, 42, faces several murder charges for his role in the Temescal Canyon Road crash on 24 January 2020. After one of the boys had been dared, all six teenagers drove to a nearby home on Mojeska Summit Road in Corona, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The boy rang the doorbell and returned to the 2002 Prius that they were riding in, and the group took off. Chandra, who lives at the home, chased after them in his 2019 Infiniti Q50. His car rammed into the back of the Prius, causing it to veer off the road and into a tree. Daniel Hawkins, Jacob Ivascu and Drake Ruiz, all 16-year-old passengers, were killed in the crash. The 18-year-old driver and two other boys, ages 13 and 14, were injured but survived. [38] In 2023, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [39]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mischief Night</span> Informal holiday practiced mainly in areas of the British Isles and English-speaking North America

Mischief Night is an informal holiday on which children, teenagers and adults engage in jokes, pranks, vandalism, or parties. It is known by a variety of names including Devil's Night, Gate Night, Goosey Night, Moving Night, Cabbage Night, Mystery Night and Mat Night.

<i>The Pacifier</i> 2005 film by Adam Shankman

The Pacifier is a 2005 American family action comedy film directed by Adam Shankman, written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant and stars Vin Diesel. After a failed rescue mission, Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is assigned as babysitter to the dead man's family.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ding Dong Bell</span> English language nursery rhyme

"Ding Dong Bell" or "Ding Dong Dell" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12853.

<i>Sassy Girl Chun-hyang</i> South Korean television series

Sassy Girl Chun-hyang is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Han Chae-young in the title role, along with Jae Hee, Uhm Tae-woong and Park Si-eun. It aired from January 3 to March 1, 2005, on KBS2's Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 time slot for 17 episodes.

<i>Dennis the Menace</i> (1993 film) 1993 film by Nick Castle

Dennis the Menace is a 1993 American family comedy film based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip of the same name, directed by Nick Castle, written and coproduced by John Hughes and distributed by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment label.

<i>Darna Zaroori Hai</i> 2006 Indian film

Darna Zaroori Hai is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language anthology horror film produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is a sequel to Darna Mana Hai. It stars a host of Bollywood actors including Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Riteish Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu, Randeep Hooda, Arjun Rampal, Mallika Sherawat, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav and more. The film was archived at the New York Institute of Technology, as part of the film course.

In the United States, a no-knock warrant is a warrant issued by a judge that allows law enforcement to enter a property without immediate prior notification of the residents, such as by knocking or ringing a doorbell. In most cases, law enforcement will identify themselves just before they forcefully enter the property. It is issued under the belief that any evidence they hope to find may be destroyed between the time that police identify themselves and the time they secure the area, or in the event where there is a large perceived threat to officer safety during the execution of the warrant.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Knocker-up</span> Historical profession

A knocker-up or knocker-upper was a member of a profession in the Netherlands, Britain, Ireland, and some other countries that started during, and lasted well into, the Industrial Revolution, when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable. A knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. By the 1940s and 1950s, this profession had more or less entirely died out, although it still continued in some pockets of industrial England until the early 1970s.

Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the languages of the world. The following is a list of some conventional examples:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kansas City Police Department</span> Law enforcement agency in Kansas City, Missouri

The Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Kansas City, Missouri. Jackson County 16th Circuit Court Circuit Court Judge Jen Phillips swore in Stacey Graves as the 46th chief of police of the KCPD on December 15, 2022. Graves, who served as head of the KCPD's Deputy Chief of the Patrol Bureau, became the city's 46th police chief on December 15, 2022.

Star King is a South Korean television show which first aired on January 13, 2007 on the SBS network. Star King was the first TV show in Korea to run both online and on television simultaneously. The last episode of "Star King" aired on August 9, 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Killing of Yoshihiro Hattori</span> 1992 shooting in Louisiana, US

Yoshihiro Hattori was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs fatally shot Hattori, erroneously thinking that he was trespassing with criminal intent. The killing and Peairs' trials received worldwide attention, initiating discussion about race relations and attitudes toward Asians in the United States.

The Blue Yonder is a 1985 American science fiction adventure film directed by Mark Rosman and starring Peter Coyote, Huckleberry Fox, Art Carney, Dennis Lipscomb, and Joe Flood. It was written by Mark Rosman and produced by Alan Shapiro and Annette Handley. The film is also known as Time Flyer. The film's premise is about Jonathan Knicks, an 11-year-old boy who travels back in time from 1985 to 1927 via a time machine built by family friend Henry Coogan from the theoretical blueprints of Jonathan's own grandfather. There Jonathan meets his less than illustrious grandfather, Max, and must desperately find a way to prevent Max's fatal attempt at a solo trans-Atlantic flight and invariably change the course of history in the process. Max had perished trying to beat Charles Lindbergh in being the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ae-ran Kim</span> South Korean writer (born 1980)

Ae-ran Kim is a South Korean writer.

"Ring Ding Dong" is a song recorded by South Korean boy band Shinee as the lead single for their third extended play, 2009, Year of Us. It was released on October 14, 2009 through SM Entertainment. Penned by Yoo Young-jin, "Ring Ding Dong" is known for its repetitive, catchy hook.

<i>Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned</i> 2016 South Korean film

Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned is a 2016 South Korean fantasy film written and directed by Um Tae-hwa and starring Gang Dong-won and Shin Eun-soo. This is the second feature film by Um Tae-hwa. The idea of the film was strongly influenced by the sinking of MV Sewol which occurred in 2014. Um explained that after the Sewol disaster, the government tried to hide the truth, and therefore he decided to shoot a film where the main theme of which is a search for truth.

Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong is an animated children's television series created by Mike Geiger. The series follows Winston Steinburger, a 12-year-old boy and his pet cat named Dudley as they go on intergalactic adventures with their alien friends, foes and oddball encounters across the worlds.

<i>More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids</i> Book full of short stories by Jamie Rix

More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is a 2001 children's horror short-story collection from Scholastic UK by British author Jamie Rix and is the fourth book in the Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids book series. It was the first book to be written after the Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids cartoon adaptation by ITV, which aired on CITV. It was also the last book in the original book series before it was retooled in 2007 as Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!, and is the book with the most stories at twenty, whereas the first and second had fifteen, the third had sixteen, and the rest that would later follow had six.

The shooting of Ralph Yarl was on April 13, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri. The 16-year-old African American teenager was shot twice after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house while dispatched to pick up his twin brothers.

References

  1. ↑ Opie, Iona Archibald; Opie, Peter (2001). The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. New York Review of Books. ISBN   9780940322691 . Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  2. ↑ John MacKay Shaw (1967). Childhood in Poetry. ISBN   9780810304796 . Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Origins of: Knock down ginger". 25 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Hull Daily Mail". 3 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Kevin Brennan MP".
  6. ↑ "Prank". January 2019.
  7. ↑ Silke Weber (18 August 2021). "Warum macht der Klingelstreich Kindern so viel Freude?". Zeit Online. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  8. ↑ Belletje trekken, Retrieved 2015-11-02
  9. ↑ ""Knock and nash" nuisance". Cwherald.com. 29 February 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Black, Claire. "Interview: Sue Lawrence, home cook". The Scotsman . Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  11. ↑ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Chickie-mellie n. comb".
  12. ↑ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Chap v.1". www.dsl.ac.uk.
  13. ↑ Williams, Craig. "Article: Remembering Two Man Hunt, Chappy and the other games Glasgow kids played on the streets, Glasgow Live" . Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  14. ↑ Ltd, Not Panicking. "h2g2 - Knocking on Doors - a How-to Guide - Edited Entry".
  15. ↑ "This 82-year-old Dublin granny was almost caught rapid doing a knick-knack".
  16. ↑ "Cherry-knocking turns to theft of OAPs' doorbells". Gloucestershire Echo. 5 June 2012. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  17. ↑ Country Doctor. Constable & Robinson Ltd. 7 February 2013. ISBN   9781472107992 . Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  18. ↑ "Hljóp uppi ungling sem var að gera dyraat".
  19. 1 2 Daniel Kemp (14 June 2011). "Police: Boy Playing Ding-Dong Ditch Shot in Back". Wlky.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  20. ↑ Aimee Ortiz (24 January 2020). "'Doorbell Ditch' Prank Led to Crash That Killed 3 Teens, Officials Say". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  21. ↑ Chris O'Connell (23 August 2023). "Delaware state trooper accused of assault; teen hospitalized with serious injuries". FOX 29 Philadelphia. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  22. ↑ "Nicky nicky nine doors definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". Collins Online Dictionary. 26 September 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  23. ↑ Clough, Alexandra (23 February 2010). "Family of boy shot and killed during ring-and-run prank near Boca may never see settlement after shooter files bankruptcy". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  24. ↑ "Stupidshow.com: on joue à sonne-décriss". La Presse. 2 May 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  25. ↑ Johnstone, Eloise (13 September 2012). "Clowning around can end in tears". Bendigo Advertiser. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  26. ↑ "tok-tokkie | Definition of tok-tokkie in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  27. ↑ "Diccionario Chileno / Definición de: Rin-rin raja". Diccionario Chileno. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  28. ↑ "Juego Tradicional (Colombia): Tín tín, corre corre. - ppt descargar". slideplayer.es. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  29. ↑ "Definition of 벨튀 in Korean". NAVER Dictionary. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  30. ↑ "「ピンポンダッシュ」の意味や使い方 わかりやすく解説". Weblio辞書. 3 August 2022.
  31. ↑ "Town Police Clauses Act 1847". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  32. ↑ Forsyth County, Georgia, USA is very strict on trespassing, and Disturbing the Peace and "Ding Dong Ditch" (their version of this) is considered a crime in that county, and the fine is $100.
  33. ↑ "Gov. Beshear's 197 pardons include Louisville man charged with shooting 12-year-old boy in 2011". wrdb.com. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  34. ↑ "Victim's family 'outraged' after man who shot 12-year-old boy is pardoned". wrdb.com. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  35. ↑ Whigham, Nick. "Cole Peyton shooting, Obama forces through gun control". news.com.au. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  36. ↑ Blakinger, Keri (2 January 2016). "Oklahoma honor student, 14, shot in the back while playing 'ding dong ditch' - NY Daily News". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  37. ↑ "Retired SFPD inspector faces felony charges in Marin County after prank escalates". 18 February 2021.
  38. ↑ Ortiz, Aimee (25 January 2020). "'Doorbell Ditch' Prank Led to Crash That Killed 3 Teens, Officials Say". The New York Times.
  39. ↑ Medina, Eduardo (16 July 2023). "Man Who Crashed Into Teens After Doorbell Prank Gets Life in Prison". The New York Times.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.