‘They never did it again': Resident gets even with neighbor's kids who dump trash over fence, throws trash right back into their backyard

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Eleonora Bader
Aug 3, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Having kids as neighbors can result in quite a hassle if their parents aren't doing their job right… These kids in particular were an absolute headache for an entire neighborhood, as they would constantly throw trash (among other things) over their backyard fence. One of the residents in the neighborhood had been moving some of the stuff that had ultimately ended up blocking the sidewalk for years. That is, until he ended up scrolling the neighborhood Facebook, finding out that he wasn't the only one who was absolutely fed up with their antics.

These kids' parents had been contacted too many times to count, and the general consensus was that they simply didn't care that their kids were being a bother. And the Parents of the Year award goes to… not these people, that's for sure. OP hatched a petty plan for revenge; his goal was to get these children to stop throwing their trash over the fence. To say he succeeded would be an understatement. To find out how exactly he got these kids to grow up, despite other people attempting to do so for years, scroll down. The full detailed account of events is below. For more, here is an employee who left the payroll tab open, allowing all other employees to see how much each person's salary was after his boss annoyed him.

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  • 01
    Plant - Posted by u/monstersof-men 7 hours ago 4 Children were playing "let's dump all our cr p over the fence" for years. I joined and won.
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  • 02
    Font - I have lived in my neighbourhood for six years. I run daily and walk the dog daily, when it's not -45℃ out, but since it's a newer area there aren't many paths. So I take basically the same sidewalks every single day.
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    Font - About four years ago I noticed there'd always be a pile of cron the sidewalk behind a specific home. We're talking a basketball, pair of shoes, half of some plastic toy, an umbrella, etc. Really random groupings of everyday life detritus, always on the sidewalk, always behind this house.
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  • 04
    Font - I have a short dog and also I am aware enough of the world that I know this stuff can affect say, a mother with a stroller or someone in a wheelchair trying to navigate around it. So when I'd come across it I'd always move it onto the grass because I didn't really know where it was coming from. Eventually I'd
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  • 05
    Font - see it get reported as litter on our local complaints app and the city would clean it up and that was that. Once or twice I took a garbage bag myself and threw it out. This happened for years.
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  • 06
    Font - I had to make a Facebook account for a job I took, and idly decided to join my local neighbourhood Facebook group. Scrolling back to read the drama, I came across a complaint about that house. Someone commented "try being their neighbour, it's like living by a
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  • 07
    Font - dump." By scouring the comments I found out these kids just do this constantly, the parents don't care and have been talked to by the city and the neighbours, and the colour of the house of the culprits (confirming which house it was.) The kids just thought this was fun.
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  • 08
    Font - So I decided - why not just throw everything BACK IN? I began doing this in 2021. Shoe? In their yard. Gatorade bottle? Yard. Dog poop bag? Yard. One time a whole Barbie was out there. I picked it up. Chucked it.
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    Font - See, the kids were never out when I was out. So no one really saw me throw it back in. One time we threw the same shoe back and forth six times. Six runs, I saw that di 1 glitter Velcro shoe. Six times, I tossed it back over their fence.
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    Font - This whole thing baffled me because I can't imagine the parents understood where all their sl t was going. I saw a whole raincoat, big toys, adult sneakers. Like, these children were taking stuff from the house to do this! It always slowed down in the winter but once the snow melted... it came back.
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    Font - One day I went for my run and one of those plastic tricycles was there. Something in me snapped. I moved it to the side and left it there. I ignored it for a few days. Then, I went for a walk with my dog. And I heard the kids in the yard.
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    Font - I picked that sucker up, stepped far back, and with all my might, whaled thats tinto their yard. I heard a shriek and the sound of breaking, and then silence. Then I walked up to the fence, and said "I better not see any of your garbage on this sidewalk ever again."
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  • 13
    Font - And then kept walking with my dog. Because really, what were the kids gonna do? The fence was higher than they were, it was not gated nor close to a walking path, so if they wanted to see me they'd have to go down six houses to come out to the path I was on. Their parents clearly didn't give a f',
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  • 14
    Font - This was fall 2022. I'm happy to report I haven't seen a single piece of garbage behind their house since. And yes, they still live there, their artwork is still proudly displayed in the windows.
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    Font - Suspicious-Hat-636. 5 hr. ago A friend of mine learned a hard lesson as a child living in Ventura, California. Growing up with two dóbermans in the family, he was tasked with poop duty. For over
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    Font - a year he would pitch the turds over the back fence into the neighboring orchard. One fine day, he I came home from school and was informed by his mother that there was a project that required his attention in the back
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  • 17
    Font - yard. Apparently the farmer who owned the property was a disgruntled by the accumulation of fe and used his tractor to dump the pile back over the fence. 623 Reply Share
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    Font - PrideMelodic3625 6 hr. ago +1 . Had this with my friends' entitled neighbors. Year after year their neighbors threw their grass cuttings over the fence onto my friends' field. Year after year my friends watched
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    Font - it pile up. Then when my friends started to build their forever home, in the field, they asked the ground workers to please put it all back where it came from.... perfect revenge. 222 Reply Share
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    Font - Edited Dwarf 2 hr. ago I feel bad for the kids. Literally throwing toys over the fence to get attention like a dog that hasn't been played with enough. Judging by what you say about the parents not caring, that's probably part of why they act out.
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    Font - reggie3408 2 hr. ago When I was a kid, maybe 8? My neighbor had a Halloween party and they took everyone's pumpkin on the street and smashed it in the road. I worked hard on my pumpkin.
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    Font - So a couple months later the cousins come to visit. I tell them. We go into the canyon with sticks and break off pieces of this big prickly pear cactus. Then launched them over the fence to the neighbors yard. Cactus on the roof, cactus in the pool, etc. Never heard anything about it.
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    Font - jxplasma 2 hr. ago It would have been really easy for them to "win" by just continuing to throw junk, because like, what were you going to do about it? Glad it worked out though.
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