My backyard is on a hill, and the neighbor’s kids decided to sled all the way down it, slam into the top of my retaining wall, knock a bunch of shit off (breaking two big terra-cotta planters in the process) all while screeching like banshees. Needless to say, I’m not super happy with them or their parents.
So I hear the commotion, step out the back door, and literally and instinctively yell the thing.
Spring project # 185: Install a fence, possibly electrified and razor-wired.
I mean, when the kids are actively destroying your property it hits a bit different than if they’re just chilling on the grass. I don’t think this qualifies as grouchy old man-speak
Good fences make good neighbors
Ain’t that the truth. But so does, like, good parenting.
I did just buy this sign to put on it:
I’m pretty sure if you are in a suburban area you can’t actually electrify it.
I don’t think there is any ordinance about the sign though lol
Not sure. I’m in unincorporated suburbia so it might just require signage?
Regardless, there definitely (okay, probably) isn’t an ordinance about detecting someone touching it and making it make a “bzzzztttt” sound lol.
Now you’re Thinking With Portals
yeah that’s not “get off my lawn” energy. “get off my lawn” is specifically for when no harm is being done
Bah! Get this post offa my computer! (Shakes fist at computer screen). /s
I’m pretty sure there’s a GI Joe PSA covering this exact situation.
Wow outta nowhere from the top rope
Porkchop Sandwiches!!
If those were my kids, they would be installing the fence and razor wire for you.
…or at least fixing the damage they caused.
Have you considered how to help them? Move the planters. Pad the retaining wall so nothing to slam into?
Boss move is to help kids play, and play safely.
Until they get hurt and the parents sue you
Fr. Do something nice like duct tape crash pads to a wall, then suddenly you’re liable for kids trying to crash hard enough into it to get concussions or spinal compression
0/10, not worth
I said the boss move was to make it safe for the kids to play.
Parents suing is hardly a thing outside of the venal littigious shithole of the US. Normal people don’t do that.
Nobody ever wants to sue their neighbors. Its an insurance problem.
The kids’ health insurance denies their claims when they find out the injury might be covered by the neighbors homeowners insurance, and their insurance ALSO says go pound sand.
Now you need a court order telling which insurance has to pay.
Like they said, a USA problem.
Nope. That’s parenting someone else’s kids.
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
I’m sorry if you were neglected when young, leading you to think this opinion is normal or healthy or anything but selfish.
Edit: It’s called being a excellent human being and member of your community.
Indeed, but at least I’m funny and a snappy dresser.
Funny remains to be seen, considering the rest of your attitude.
Let’s hope those kids grow up happy and healthy with good outlets for play and socialization.
The “get off my lawn types” tend to get upset when nicky-nicky nine-doors, a flaming bag of shit on the doorstep or houses getting TP’d or egged because the kids were raised selfish with no sense of community. The irony of cause and effect is usually lost on those types.
Nope. That’s being part of a community.
I’ve been upset at people causing property damage since I was like 9. I worked hard and paid for my shit, don’t touch it. I still rage a little inside when people lean on cars (it seems like its a VERY little known fact how soft most cars clearcoat is and how the tiniest amount of dirt if touched leaves a scratch that has to be removed by buffing or worse, destroying a layer of clearcoat in the process).
Now, politicians? They don’t/shouldnt get that luxury of property being untouched when you allow/cause a facist party to come to power.
Just keep the response proportional, i.e., the level of dog poop flung over into their yard until the PARENTS acknowledge this and make redress.
I pay neighborhood kids to jump my fence and catch the chickens to get them out of my yard.
Please get on my yard.
Understandable.
