Neighbour Problems!!

jojo1964

globetraveller wrote: »

I missed the bit about the adults who kick the ball over as they can't resist having a go. No wonder the woman is going demented. That does nothing but aggravate the situation.

Me too, it the opening post is a bit misleading.

SuzieSue

I was sitting in my garden a few minutes ago thinking how stressful it would be if I had to worry about next door's ball flying over the fence and hitting me in the face.

As it is, I have the most wonderful neighbours at the moment and consider myself very lucky.

SuzieSue

globetraveller wrote: »

I missed the bit about the adults who kick the ball over as they can't resist having a go. No wonder the woman is going demented. That does nothing but aggravate the situation.

Yes, it is frightening that the OP considers this to somehow excuse her son playing football in the garden. If her son NEVER kicks the ball over the fence, then there is no harm in him playing, but the first time he does it he should be stopped.

SuzieSue

sp1987 wrote: »

The odd ball from an enthusiastic child kicking a ball (that doesn't hit you in the face), fine.

C

So how exactly can anyone guarantee that it won't hit anyone in the face?

SuzieSue

Pink_butterfly wrote: »

I agree with a majority of posters. How DARE your son play football in his own garden. I think you, as parents, should be put in jail and your son should be put to work down the mines.

Well, I really hope that one day when you are elderly, you are unable to enjoy your garden for fear of being hit in the face by a football and I hope you enjoy every minute of it.

pararct

SuzieSue wrote: »

Well, I really hope that one day when you are elderly, you are unable to enjoy your garden for fear of being hit in the face by a football and I hope you enjoy every minute of it.

Presumably they won't be venturing out to do any shopping either in case they get run over?

panchenlama

seek a UN resolution for a ceasefire

Bogof_Babe

How can it be theft if the neighbour simply ignores the existence of the ball in her garden? She doesn't have to let "trespassers" into her garden, and she doesn't have to touch the ball. Why should the onus be on her? Why is she obliged to return it? It's nothing to do with her.

In a situation where the person whose garden the ball went into was wheelchair bound, or had such bad arthritis that they are unable to bend to retrieve the ball or throw it back, why should they be considered the villain, i.e. a thief? Just for living there?

I'm sure I read somewhere ages ago that you are not allowed to puncture or damage someone else's ball, but you are under no obligation to do anything to return it.

We used to get tennis balls in the garden, and as both sides and over the back had children we never knew where they had come from, so it was the luck of the draw whether they were chucked back to the rightful owner. If we'd got it wrong, were we guilty of some crime?

Sapphire

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

How can it be theft if the neighbour simply ignores the existence of the ball in her garden? She doesn't have to let "trespassers" into her garden, and she doesn't have to touch the ball. Why should the onus be on her? Why is she obliged to return it? It's nothing to do with her.

In a situation where the person whose garden the ball went into was wheelchair bound, or had such bad arthritis that they are unable to bend to retrieve the ball or throw it back, why should they be considered the villain, i.e. a thief? Just for living there?

I'm sure I read somewhere ages ago that you are not allowed to puncture or damage someone else's ball, but you are under no obligation to do anything to return it.

We used to get tennis balls in the garden, and as both sides and over the back had children we never knew where they had come from, so it was the luck of the draw whether they were chucked back to the rightful owner. If we'd got it wrong, were we guilty of some crime?

I would have thought that throwing anything into a neighbour's garden is a form of trespass. Apart from being very intrusive, it is potentially damaging and outright dangerous. A barking dog that does not actually go into a neighbour's garden is not.

Some parents today need to teach their children discipline, manners and consideration for others. I find it absolutely disgusting that the OP expects an elderly neighbour to throw back balls that his offspring has kicked into the neighbour's garden. What if the neighbour is unwell? An elderly person certainly deserves peace and quiet, and should not suffer this kind of intrusion.

The OP's post typifies the sort of selfish attitude that is prevalent today. It's not good for society or for the children themselves. It makes me really angry. :mad:

The OP is the problem, not the neighbour.

SuzieSue

pararct wrote: »

Presumably they won't be venturing out to do any shopping either in case they get run over?

What are you talking about??? What has going shopping got to do with being able to sit in your garden without fear of being hit by a ball? I assume they know their green cross code, so they should be able to avoid getting run over, but you expect cars on the road, you don't expect balls to come flying in to your garden.