‘I’d appreciate some competent parenting:' Neighboring kids keep tossing toys into next door year and parents do not care, neighbor teaches them a lesson

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  • "You’ll never do that again"

    I live deep in the heart of suburbia in an upper middle class area. We had a nice semi-private yard until the neighbors directly behind us. sold their home and moved. The new people, who have two teen aged sons and have been there for four years now, cut down all the trees and shrubs
  • on their side of the fence which transformed my nice private yard into a semi public space. We weren't happy but there was nothing we could do about it since it was their yard. We did plant shrubs on our side but it's still not as covered as it was before they moved in.
  • Now the shrubs at least partially obstruct their view of my yard. They put a basketball set up on their patio and their two extremely uncoordinated sons are constantly outside playing sports and tossing bricks against the backboard. They also love kicking soccer b lls,
  • tossing tennis balls and throwing crocs around. Again, their yard so, as much as I don't like it, I keep my mouth shut. I loved playing sports as a boy and I wasn't the greatest athlete but I was always respectful of my neighbors and kept my balls in my own yard
  • and, when I didn't, was nice and apologetic about it. The two kids behind me aren't like that at all. Once they moved in, their balls, and crocs, were regularly my yard as well as their next door neighbors yards. At first,
  • they'd either ring my bell to ask for them or, if I saw them, I'd just toss them back over the fence. But how much is too much? It was happening weekly. Then they'd stop coming over to ask and their bills would just sit in my yard until I tossed them over. Last
  • summer, I just collected them near my side of the fence behind my shed and let them sit there until late autumn until I finally tossed them back. This year, a soccer ball was in my yard. Soccer balls aren't inexpensive. We let it sit there for a good two weeks. When
  • our landscaper came to do the lawn maintenance, we told them they could have the ball. We haven't had a ball in our yard since. EDIT: I'm not the crotchety old man. If they came and asked for the balls, I'd happily give them back but they don't.
  • They sort of forget that they came over the fence. Personally, I'd prefer they come get them. Yes, I've spoken to the parents but they don't care either. I'm also not complaining that they're using their own yard. Cutting down the trees was their decision
  • and, although it does affect me, I didn't say a word because it's not my property and they can do what they want in their yard. After being nice and throwing them back for 4 years, how much longer should I keep doing it? It's
  • happened multiple times in a day and it's very annoying. The kids are teenagers and are just kicking the balls and throwing them all over sometimes. They should know better. Now they can play with other balls.
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  • Vast_Sweet_1221 I had balls coming over my back fence regularly. The kids on the other side always came over and apologetically asked if they could retrieve them. But one day a metal tipped arrow came over. I grabbed it and headed to my neighbor's house. Dad answered the door. I
  • house. Dad answered the door. I handed him the arrow. He said to me, "Hold on a moment." "John!!" "Uh, yeah Dad?" "Is this yours?" <squirm> "Uh yeah." "What do you have to say to Vast Sweet?" Much groveling unfolded. I was a teenage boy myself. I appreciated witnessing some competent parenting.
  • Marvinator2003 Went out to mow my lawn one day and as always, walked the yard looking for odd things that I didn't want to become projectiles. Kid's toys (my kids) apples from the apple tree, stuff like that. This day I find ROCKS. I began picking them up when I realized the sheer number AND the fact that they
  • made a path, so to speak, from my above ground pool to the back fence. Not hard to figure out that the neighbor's kids had been throwing rocks to see who could get one into the pool. (Not even close) I
  • took a handful of them around to the neighbor's house and showed them to her. Her kid in the background turned white when I explained where I had found them. Never saw that again.

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