^ You reminded me of a local occurrence here from a few years ago. Guy had a mailbox. Some kids decided it would be fun to knock it down (I wasn't one of them). Guy sets it back up, only to be knocked down again. This repeats several times. Guy, predictably, gets fed up, sets it back up, but this time, reinforces it with thick beams of wood sunk into the ground. It wasn't going anywhere. So the kids simply torched it.
Moral: Don't shout at kids to leave your property alone without a direct threat of bodily harm (and a gun in your hands). Doing so only eggs them on.