What is wrong with some people (More neighbour drama)

adouglasmhor

aileth wrote: »

I didn't know this. When I asked the PCSO about them he just outright shut me down. Thank you.

PCSO? you might as well have asked the cat.

dandelionclock30

Is your house an end house Aileth? To me it sounds like they are winding you up on purpose.Its best to totally ignore them as a reaction is what is wanted.

dinosaur7

If you do any damage to the ball you could certainly be liable for criminal damage. However, each time the ball hits your wall it is a legal trespass and you could take out a civil law action, seeking an injunction to prevent the neighbour from doing this. If the injunction is breached it then becomes a contempt of court, which is a potentially imprisonable offence.


Balls do occasionally land in other people's gardens so, although this is also technically a trespass, I doubt the wisdom of attempting to make a claim. However, the persistant banging of the ball against your property when you have asked her not to do it is a repeated and deliberate trespass.

aileth

tea_lover wrote: »

It needs to be above a certain height (think it's something like 2 metres, but check that one) depending on where you use it.

I think this would be the tricky part.

I've attached a picture here of the wall: http://postimg.org/image/p6ecgfm29/

The lower part and ramp up is all our property, it is a set of stairs leading to the back garden. She gets in by either climbing along the wall, or by dragging a bin up the stairs and going up with the bin. Now, the fence/gate at the top of the stairs is about six foot-ish, so under two metres, but from the main path up to the top of the fence where the red berries of the pyracanthas are, that is a good eight feet I would say, so over two metres.

If I were to put the strip along the fence at the top of the stairs and where the berries are with a sign, would I still be okay?

Yes, the house is an end house. I'm more than sure they're doing it deliberately, and in the past we have ignored her, but there's only so much we can take. Her making false allegations against us really is the straw that broke the camel's back.

Georgiegirl256

aileth wrote: »

We've taken to making sure the ball 'accidentally' comes into contact with dog sh*t each time it comes over, before we hand it back. She probably doesn't notice though, thanks to her own troll-like odour

As much as I have sympathy for you (and I really do) having to live next door to neighbours like that, I have to take issue with the above comment.

As well as being equally as childish, it's also extremely stupid and dangerous. Surely the dangers of dog poo are well known?

aileth

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

As much as I have sympathy for you (and I really do) having to live next door to neighbours like that, I have to take issue with the above comment.

As well as being equally as childish, it's also extremely stupid and dangerous. Surely the dangers of dog poo are well known?

It was a tongue in cheek comment. We don't actively make sure it goes in poo, but we have a dog and she KNOWS we have a dog. Sometimes the ball has landed in poo, and we've handed it back with a smile. We always make an effort to clean up after him, but if her ball comes in contact with some, then it's not our problem. She's quite happy to kick her child's football into a garden where she knows there is a dog and thus the danger of dog poo.

micky2phones

aileth wrote: »

I was given some advice that if the kids or she actually hurt herself on them, they could sue me.

I'm more than willing to do whatever it takes, but what I'm not willing to do is give her ammunition. I've been advised that if I damaged the ball in whatever way, I could be held liable for criminal damage, as apparently regardless of the ball being in our garden, it is still her property.

Hi, i had trouble many years ago were the kids were sent by their mum and dad to play outside my house.

The only way i stopped them was to get a football, bat and ball and a few friends and play outside their homes, with ball hitting door and windows a few times, they came out to say they now know what i had put up with and it stopped.

What i could not understand was 5 minutes away was a park, with play area, tennis court, cricket pitch, football pitch, bowls, wildlife area and lots of grass area to play in. Ten minutes the other way was a small park with swings etc and small area grass

Georgiegirl256

aileth wrote: »

It was a tongue in cheek comment. We don't actively make sure it goes in poo, but we have a dog and she KNOWS we have a dog. Sometimes the ball has landed in poo, and we've handed it back with a smile. We always make an effort to clean up after him, but if her ball comes in contact with some, then it's not our problem. She's quite happy to kick her child's football into a garden where she knows there is a dog and thus the danger of dog poo.

The phrase "we've taken to making sure the ball "accidentally" comes into contact with dog sh*t each time it comes over" suggests otherwise.

I'm not sticking up for her in any way, shape or form' it must be a nightmare to have to live with. If it's her that's doing it rather than her kids, it does sound like she's got some sort of grudge against you for some reason.

aileth

micky2phones wrote: »

What i could not understand was 5 minutes away was a park, with play area, tennis court, cricket pitch, football pitch, bowls, wildlife area and lots of grass area to play in. Ten minutes the other way was a small park with swings etc and small area grass

This is a big factor for us too. We hardly live in a concrete jungle. We are LITERALLY one minute walk from one of the biggest parks in the city, which has huge green open spaces and football goals. 30 seconds the other way there is a huge patch of grass which most kids in the area use for football if they don't want to walk to the park.

I really struggle to understand why someone would try and cause such confrontation and end up having the Police involved all because they can't be arsed to walk for 30 seconds.

pearl123

If it is your wall then build what you want on it. I would get something thorny to trail down over the brick.
Something that grows that's a little dense and has heavy thorns, as long as it does not over-intrude on the pathway.


And to be blunt it's not exactly an attractive wall! Otherwise padlock access to you property.