Neighbour Problems!!

wageslave

Errata wrote: »

Of course it does, and it's only 6' high at the neighbours side ! The fact that the OP's garden is sunk 3' lower isn't the nighbours problem.

It was the minute she had the fence built.

The reason I am so sure is because my Mother once had a wrought iron trellis added to her garden wall. The wall was only about 4ft on her side of the garden and the trellis added about another foot.

Although the entire structure was below 2 metres on my Ma's side it was far higher once you were in her neighbours garden.

The neighbour kicked up a hissy fit and the very expensive wrought iron trellis had to be removed.

My Mother never forgave her neighbour:(

clarkey888

2bFrank wrote: »

I cannot believe some peoples post on here. I am sooo glad that the kid playing football is not my neighbour, playing football...at all hours (well between 4-7pm weekday) accidently kicking a ball over a fence every now and again, Christ I would be on anti depressants’ by now. Makes my ex neighbours look angelic in comparison. I mean all they did was a spot of daily drug dealing, abuse and we had the odd knifing and shooting now and again, f**k all in comparison.

Seriously, if the only problem you have is a kid of 7 playing a bit of football in his garden, then the people complaining really need to know what bad neighbours are. Some people love to complain, and most get a kick out of it, don’t give them the satisfaction. Back when I was a kid, when we kicked a ball over the fence to the left, we would go round and get it, the neighbours had more important things to worry about, and more often than not, they would throw it back anyway if they were in the garden and they would often have a friendly chat. If it went over to the right, we were not allowed to get it because of all the crap such as rusted car parts, fridges and used needles in the garden.

Some people really are so petty.

finally, somebody else who agrees with me, and isnt talking b****cks about a young boy not being allowed to do what young boys do,

moneysaver

clarkey888 wrote: »

comparison between a drill at 6am till late in evening, and a young lad having a kick about? have a think before you post please.

well, i certainly do as i please in my house whilst respecting neighbours, a young boy playing in his own garden is far from disrespectful.

It was just an over exaggerated example i made, adjust my times if you like, I know what I meant if you did not.

If you read the OP 1st post, the young lad is not just playing in his own garden, a ball is getting kicked over in to a neighbours garden & this is just not on. Some people do not mind this happening & some people do, so if your neighbour does not like it then it has to stop end of story.



Moneysaver

Surbybird

clarkey888 wrote: »

i dont usually comment on other peoples threads, but felt i had to on this,

feel extremely sorry for the OP, and some people some time may realise what snobs they are (or sound like), it is only a football into a garden,

fair enough if who ever is kicking the ball is delibrately kicking the ball over or constantly kickin the ball at the fence causing damage etc.

has this lady ever been hit by the ball? im guessing probably not, so if/when she does get hit she then has reason for complaint.

i know what i would rather have, and that is a young lad playing football every now and again and the odd ball coming over, as opposed to a stupid noisy, s***ing dog.

rant over

Because of my neighbour's kids I rarely go out into my garden because their noise drives me (and all of the other neighbours) mad. They've just been bought a huge trampoline which the kids - and the adults in their house - use every evening, screaming and shrieking the whole time. They have a small garden relative to the size of the play equipment they've wedged into it so they are constantly right at our fence and now looking over it too.

Until the big playground equipment arrived and filled the space, they used to regularly play football in that small space. I had all 3 of my shed windows broken by their footballs being kicked over and when I returned the latest one and suggested that if they were going to continue to break my windows they might like to pay to replace them I was told by the father to 'F*** off and go and live on an island'. Nice man. The footballs continued to come over, along with screams and threats of reporting me to the police if I didn't give them back immediately.

I spoke to the police who said that if the parents made a complaint they'd have to come and speak to me about it. I asked what the situation was with my shed windows and he said I'd have to prove it was them who caused the damage and they weren't really interested apart from that. Ah, they said, they're just kiddies having a bit of fun and letting off steam.

They were more concerned about the rights of the children who owned the ball which used to come over daily, damaging plants and breaking windows, than they were about property damage.

So the next time a ball came over and hit my window, I gave it back, which it what I was told to do. However, it wasn't my fault that as the ball came over I was pruning a tree with a large knife and the ball landed right on the blade, so it went back over the fence in 2 halves.


K

plainsie

We got new neighbours about a 2 years ago. There are 7 children and they play football constantly. The ball is in our garden more than we are. The reason being we have been hit by the ball a few times. One time it was a really hard ball and hit my husbands head just above his glasses, glasses fell off ( luckilly didn't break as they had cost £260) He got angry and told them to be careful. The mother then called her father to come to speak to us and treat us like we were wrong to complain. We told them that they have to respect that we would like to sit in our own garden in peace. On top of that they have broken quite a bit of our fence and they don't even offer to repair it and every time they eat sweets, crisps ect they put the wrappers over our fence. But if we say anything we are the nasty neighbours.

heretolearn_2

I wonder how elderly she is? She may be genuinely scared of being hit for a good reason.

If a football smacked into my mum and she fell, it could mean the end of what remains of her mobility. She's already broken one hip and an ankle and now walks with a stick with a bit of a limp. she's a game old still gets out and about, but she is scared sick of falling again as one more time might be the one she never really recovers from. Last time it took her nearly two years to regain her confidence and start walking reasonably normally instead of tottering along in tiny terrified steps.

I don't see any reason to have balls going over at all. we are surrounded by kids playing football and have never had a single ball over our fence. Likewise my stepsons have played footie in the garden and not lost the ball ever. The OPs son must be doing it on purpose, surely, that many times in a few months.