I have pet rabbits, chickens and guinea pigs running around in my garden along with a my Westie - there is a green outside the font of ours and the same two boys keep kicking their footballl over into our garden. We've asked them to be careful as we have pets that could get hurt. The bird tables keep getting knocked over and Ive even had to remove the green house-I They've now started trying to climb over the walls by standing on wheelie bins that fall again our car. How can I stop them from doing this. I can't see why I have to leave my back gate unlocked to just anybody can walk onto my property.
Footballs kicked into garden
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Incredibly bad advice and please do not heed it. If you do put glass on the wall and one of the boys gets injured, you will have one huge compensation payout to make!
Perhaps take the concilliatory approach with the boys. Show them the problem from your perspective and they might play elsewhere.
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Speak to them again camly and then speak to the parents if it doesn't stop.
Whose bins are they climbing up on? If they're yours, can you take them into the garden? And if they belong to a neighbour, perhaps you can ask them to take them in?
They're children,playing football
Gerry Canning
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Spear is 100% correct .
Sometime when one of your animals is out of sorts ,( fib) and try to get the kids to come into your garden to see the issue. From experience, they grow up and generally mean no harm.
I do accept kids/gardens/balls/animals are a poor mix.
Could you then ask them to move Nets etc a little so at least fewer balls will end up in your (blood -Pressure!!)
Lots of footballs end up in my garden from rented house next door. It has been rented out for the last 20 years. About 8 different families have stayed there over the 20 years. For us the children never grow up, they just keep being replaced by new faces of the same age. We have broken fences, gutters full of tennis balls and the constant noise of footballs banging off our garage wall and echoing through our house.
I would never put glass on a wall or puncture a football. Try talking.
I would never put glass on a wall or puncture a football. Try talking.
They're other peoples' children.
Why can't they kick footballs into their own bleedin' gardens?"How are ye lads? Did ye ever hear of Antarctica? I have cousins down there who run a special football academy ....."
When my son was a small boy he played in the hay in a neighbours field. The old and wise man came along and a couple of boys were playing in the field.
He asked the boys if they would keep an eye on his stacks of hay for him. End of problem.
The boy is now 46 yrs old and the Old neighbour is dead RIP
Good luck with your problem Browtal
He asked the boys if they would keep an eye on his stacks of hay for him. End of problem.
The boy is now 46 yrs old and the Old neighbour is dead RIP
Good luck with your problem Browtal
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Bill Struth
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Whe I was 11 years old my fingers and hand required 19 stitches because of someone thinking it was a good idea to set glass in concrete on top of a wall. I still don't have feeling in part of my index finger, because the glass sliced through the tendon. The glass of course is hidden from view, so how this is supposed to be a deterrent I have no idea.
Btw, I was climbing the wall because I was trying to get my football back, the occupant of the house had moved out and the house was empty. My parents took a case on my behalf against the local authority (the house owner) and won.
It's totally annoying--if parents want kids outside playing ball then put them in front of your own house and let them kick the balls into it and wreck your own plants and walls. I've had my windows destroyed by kids kicking balls towards my home and my front door etc. Sick of it.
Or people who have no consideration for other peoples property and privacy.
It's a bit like people who have no interest in cars, or keeping it well. Just banging their car doors against other cars in the car park. They can't see what the fuss about that is either.
It's a bit like people who have no interest in cars, or keeping it well. Just banging their car doors against other cars in the car park. They can't see what the fuss about that is either.