Kids jump the fence to use neighbor's pool even though they didn't ask for permission, then act offended when neighbor reports them: ‘You ignored the sign that said private property’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 26, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

If your neighbor had a lovely pool on their property, surely you would have done everything to score an open invite to use it whenever you felt like it. Who wouldn't love to go over there after a long day of work, sip on a refreshing beverage, and swim in the cool pool? It's basically the dream.

However, a key element in this dream scenario is the 'invite' of it all. If your neighbor didn't, in fact, invite you over to use their pool, all you can really do is dream about it from your own place. It is totally up to them to decide who gets to use their pool and when, and even if you consider yourselves close friends, you can't really do anything to change that.

It seems like the neighbor in the story below did not get this memo, because she thought she could use her neighbor's pool whenever she pleased. Ignoring the 'no trespassing' sign at the neighbor's property, she told her family to jump the fence and enjoy the pool, which led to quite a legal dispute when the neighbor reported them to the police.

Keep scrolling to read what happened next.

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    "They wanted to 'cool down' on a hot summer day"
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    Neighbors sending their relatives to my house to try to use my pool without my consent

    The front of my driveway has a sign that reads Private Property No Trespassing as you pull up to the driveway. I have a fence up around my pool
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    to keep out unwanted animals and intruders with only way in is a key to unlock the gate. I have security cameras on certain places of the house pointing to the pool.
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    Last summer while I was away my phone alerted me my security camera had caught something, it was three kids that were in early. teens and one adult trying
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    to climb the fence to my pool. I immediately called the police and they told me they'd take care of it. The four didn't even attempt to leave they kept trying to
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    climb the fence and the fact the tarp covering the pool the only way to move it is a control button in my house. The day I get home my neighbor who must've
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    been watching for my car storms over and starts screaming at me, "My sister and her kids have a criminal record now because of you!"
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    I said, "So that's what my cameras detected. You should know my sign in front of my house says private property no trespassing!" She says she'll
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    see me in court when their court date comes up. The sister plead in court it was a hot summer day and they wanted to cool down so her sister insisted that they
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    go use my pool but to ignore the sign that said private property because her sister and I are good friends. My neighbor and I are not good friends.
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    PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING
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    I explained to the judge I did not give consent for neighbor to use my pool while I was gone. The judge saw all the evidence needed especially of the sign in my driveway saying
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    no trespassing and found the four in the family including my neighbor guilty of trespassing.
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    Suspicious-Local-280 Classic FAFO. I do not understand what goes through people's heads, honestly. "Oh look, someone else's property that I can use because I Want to!"
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    Bazoun Love the neighbour blaming you for her family's records, when it was in fact she that prompted all this.
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    jeophys152 Great friends that can use the pool any time, but doesn't have a key... yeah... That should have been the families first clue that they had to jump a fence.
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    rhonda19 It's why went I installed a pool I did one of those covers that automatically roll up and are very heavy. And the controls were inside the house. No way to open it from the pool area or anywhere except inside the house. It was great.
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    tacolamae And just think if something happened to one of the kids in your pool. They'd try suing you!
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