Homeowner puts an entitled parent in their place after catching the neighbor's son trespassing on her property, then Dad arrogantly defends his kid: 'IT'S FINE FOR KIDS TO DO THAT!'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 12, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

Ahh, breaking and entering—a childhood pastime. 

Nothing screams 'fun childhood' like a casual B&E. While many of us have accidentally thrown our fair share of frisbees into Old Man Bigbee's yard next door, the audacity of simply jumping the fence to retrieve it is a tale as old as the Sandlot. Unless you're prepared to meet the consequences of your invasion—ie: through the lips of a slobbery dog, an angry neighbor, or a particularly ferocious chicken—your childhood self wouldn't dare hop the fence without permission. 

Welp, the entitled parent in this next story seemed to think otherwise. 

After repeatedly encouraging his kid to simply invade his neighbor's property at his leisure, the neighbor caught on. Catching the kid red-handed in her yard, this avid gardener could only assume that the kid was acting independently of parental guidance and sought to set the record straight. Little did she know she'd have to do some parenting of her own… For the dad. 

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  • Neighbours think their kids are entitled to break into my yard Σ For context, I have 4 chickens who live in a cosy coop at the end of my back garden. One of them,
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  • Whiskey, has survived a fox attack, is 8 years old and still laying eggs, and we affectionately refer to her as our guard chicken or "the snitch" because she will scream for us if any intruders
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  • (usually squirrels) enter our yard or any of the other chickens escape. It was a nice, sunny Sunday morning and I had my friends over
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  • for brunch when I hear Whiskey screaming and look out the window to see the neighbour's kid crouched down next to my chicken coop. Me: Hey, what are you doing?
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  • Kid: I'm just getting my ball back! Me: Wha- get out of my garden! Kid: That's not very nice! Me: Well it's not very nice to break into other people's gardens!
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  • At this point he climbs back into his garden through a gap in the fence at the very back of the garden. Meanwhile I've gone to knock on their front door to speak to their parents, assuming that they must not know this was happening.
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  • Me: Hi, did you know your son was breaking into our garden? Dad: (immediately yelling) Is it okay, what you said to my son? Me: What, telling him he can't break into our property?
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  • Dad: He's just a kid, it's okay for him to do that! Me: Um no, legally he can't. I don't want random kids messing about with my chickens!
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  • Dad: You threatened my kid! You swore at him! Me: I never threatened him, I just wanted him off my property! Dad: IT'S FINE FOR KIDS TO DO THAT! You know what, I don't
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  • have to listen to this (goes to slam the door in my face but stops when I step forward onto their doorstep, but not into their house) Me: How would you like it if I broke into your garden?
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  • Dad: THEY'RE KIDS, IT'S OKAY! You're threatening them! Call the police! At this point my unfortunate tendency to cry when I'm angry started to get the better of me so I
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  • stepped back and yelled that I wanted to speak to the police actually because I had done nothing wrong, then went back into my house. I did end up calling the non emergency line and the
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  • operator I spoke to reassured me that they were definitely not entitled to break in, kids or not, and even if I swore at them (I was unsure because I do swear a lot in general without even noticing, but
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  • my friends who witnessed the whole thing assured me that I hadn't) I hadn't broken any laws. So now we have to fix the fence gap and hope that the unhinged
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  • adult man living next door who thinks it's perfectly fine to wander onto people's yard without permission doesn't decide to do that again himself. I'm starting to doubt that this was the first time
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  • the kids had broken in, as Whiskey had been screaming all day Saturday (much more than she would for a squirrel or bird) but I couldn't see anything when I checked.
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  • HMS_Slartibartfast Motion Sensor + sprinkler = wet child, just something to think about. May or may not work depending on how your garden is laid out.
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  • naranghim Fix the fence and put cameras up, just in case the dad decides you went too far in blocking his kid's access to your garden and "modifies" the fence so the kid can get in and out of your yard.
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  • I'd contact the police again and request that they go over and have a chat with the dad about how it is not okay for kids to trespass on someone else's property and that it is in fact his responsibility to make sure that his kids know that.
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  • JEWCEY Cameras, cameras, cameras. What he said was it was ok, what he meant was - they've done it before and will do it again.
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  • His attitude also proves he thinks he owns your yard and all rights to it. Someone like that I will not teach their kid to do the right thing, they'll teach their kid to do the wrong thing, because they're sure they're right and they want you to know it.
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  • Prove them wrong. Next time, call the emergency police line to report trespassing. The kid will learn, even if their idiot parent does not.
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