Annoying neighbor kids GGRR!

[max13077]

Not to sound like a jerk but you need to get something in writing BEFORE they get hurt. With parents such as you describe, the only time they care about their kids is when they get hurt and there is potential money to be made from a lawsuit. If you get something in writing with the law before they get hurt, and God forbid they do, they won't have a leg to stand on cause the little rat b-tards shouldn't have been there in the first place.

I learned about this type of crap when a natural gas drilling company kept coming on my property over and over again. I had told them at least half a dozen times that in no way, shape, matter, or form were they to ever set foot on my land again. Then one day, I hear a truck pulling up the driveway, drive through my lawn, and into the field above my house!!!!

I about lost it and called the cops. They came and talked to everyone. Even though I had told them all those times (some of the guys on that team I'd told before), it didn't matter. I didn't have signs on my huge half acre plot of land. Therefore, I had no legal basis for telling them to leave...

 

[miss_thenorth]

A friend (hear I go talking about dogs again, but...) keeps her dog out in a pen during the day. the bylaw officer came into her back yard, checked to see if her dog had a tag on, then left a notice in her mailbox. Friend was not home at the time.

When she got home and found the notice, she called them up, and told them if they ever came on her property w/o permission again--she would call the cops and tell them her barbecue was missing strangely at the same time the bylaw officer was there.

I'm not sayng anything, just telling a story.....

 

[beekybuzzard]

You had better check into the codes for fencing in your state. If the fence is 6 ft off the line after a certain amount of time in most states the fence line is then considered the property line and you lose the right to that part of property. In SC and NC and about 15 or so other states it is only 3 years and if they moved in and the fence was there already it may be even less time.

And go ahead and beat me up on this but they are just kids. Around here we never knew what a property line was as kids, we played everywhere and at most peoples houses that were near. I have animals all over my 35 acres and kids roam around all the time. After the small effort of including them in some of the things I do around here both they and some of there parents come around and help out with chores quite often, and never being asked.

 

[miss_thenorth]

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Yes, but she has already asked them/told them to stay off her property. Any respectful kid should abide by these requests.

 

[Nupine]

That is awful!!

We haven't really had that problem. In Michigan, there was a 6 or 7 year old boy. He mom was mentally retarded, so he stayed there with his aunt. She cared nothing about him. His best friend was the dog that was there, who was also poorly treated. The poor boy had the vocabulary and speech of a 4 year old. He would stand at the fence and just watch me play with my animals. I would talk to him alot, because he was so bored. Sometimes I let him come over, but I had to stop because he kicked one of my injured chickens!! I was so mad. He used to climb the fence and try to get into our pool, he could have drowned. He had very few clothes. We called child protection and stuff, but they did nothing.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

As for fence and property line. Good point. I have a similar situation, but our attorney told us as long as we maintain the area on the other side of the fence, it is ours.

Liability - Really good point. We have horses, an in the ground pool and dogs. Our Home Owner's Insurance reflects it all because they say that if someone climbs our fence with padlocks and dies in our pool, their family can take us to court. Also, if they break in and one of our dogs attacks, they can take us to court. If someone rides our horse without our permission and gets hurt, they can take us to court.Something wrong with this picture.

Be careful saying your animals are potential danger. Our Insurance person said if you put up a "Beware of Dog" sign, you are asking for a court case. Really crazy.

 

[patandchickens]

And please be really REALLY careful if you do turn the electric fence on. Especially if it is pretty powerful as you've suggested. Electric fencing CAN INJURE OR KILL, even properly installed and running at proper charge levels, if someone gets hung up in it so they don't fall free or if someone contacts it headfirst. This is especially true for kids, and of course these *are* kids we're talking about.

I would strongly recommend putting lots of "warning - electric fence" signs all along the fence AND sending a letter to their parents (possibly 'return receipt', in fact).

And if it were me I think I would also erect a 'sight line' fence ON the actual property line, even if it were just a line of step-in posts and unelectrified string. Kids (and legal issues as well) do much better if there is a concrete visible line involved.

Good luck,

Pat

 

[mom'sfolly]

You might sound out the police attitude where you live. When I lived in NY, I lived on the edge of an iffy area of town, but my street was quite nice. My neighbor had three big dogs, and there had been some recent break-ins. When a couple of children climbed his privacy fence and were bitten, the mom complained to the police, the police talked to the neighbor and then told the mom that her kids were trespassing, and charges would be filed if they didn't drop the complaint about the dog.

You might try talking to the parents, but IMHO it won't amount to much. People who let their children run wild will not see that the behavior is unacceptable. They'll have blinders on, either the parents won't care enough or their children can do no wrong.

Good luck

 

[seedcorn]

1) It's a bad situation, feel bad for you and the kids.
2) you shouldn't have to be in this situation but you are.
3) Parents should be neutered and kids taken in by someone who cares, but that isn't going to happen.

What are your options?
1) Police--start a war w/neighbors that you can't win. They are trash and you aren't going to change that.
2) Shoot the neighbors--nice solution but you go to jail.
3) Hire hit man to do job--see #2.
4) Work w/kids to allow them to enjoy what you do and make them into helpers/friends. Impossible?--no idea; hard?--you bet; simplistic idea?--probably but ask yourself what choices do you have?

Bitch, whine, give yourself ulcers, early death--not worth it.

Again, feel for you as you are in tough spot, but find best solution and go for it.

 

[RubberChickenLubber]

Once when we were first married lived in a rental. We had a pitbull on a runner behind the house, and came home to the neighbor's kids taunting and throughing rocks at him. As soon as I got out of the car I went straight over to their parent's house. Thankfully, alot of Floridian's are deathly afraid of pits (and they had just moved from Fla), and I told them that we had a new pitbul and their kids were torturing him, and I didn't want them to get bit. After that, they just rode bikes through the front yard. We didn't live there long after that. I never walked into my neigbor's yard, my parents would have skinned me!