In the early 70's we had a kid across the street that (at midnite) used to ring door bells and run.
One of the neighbors waited up, caught him and smack him in the nose with one of those old silver Ray-O-Vac flashlights.
Then he drags the kid home and we see him and the kid's father yellin' on the porch. The father grabs the kid, smacks him on the back of the head and pushes him into the house.
He missed school he next day but when we saw him again...OUCH, he probably woulda taken another hit from the flashlight instead of the beatin' his father handed him....