Father catches neighbor giving his son’s basketball to their kid, claims it’s a birthday present: 'I felt bad for the kid, so I let him keep it'

Most of us remember childhood as endless hours playing outside and running through yards, shooting hoops, or tossing a frisbee. Inevitably, something always goes over the fence into the neighbor's yard. And when it does, suddenly a simple game becomes a small moral dilemma. Do you sneak back there and grab it? Do you knock on the door and politely ask for it? Or do you weigh the consequences of both and hope it magically disappears?

It's a scene straight out of The Sandlot, where a simple baseball ends up in a backyard guarded by a terrifying dog, and a handful of kids risk life and limb to retrieve it. Every kid knows that mix of fear, curiosity, and determination for the sake of whatever made-up game you and your friends were playing.

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