My neighbors have brat kids - need advice

If it's the grandparents house maybe they should be the ones you deal with.

Streetwiseguy wrote: Pick it up, bag it, and dump it on their front porch. "Your kids lost this over the fence." Repeat as required

FTFY.

minivan_racer wrote: If it's the grandparents house maybe they should be the ones you deal with.

Yeah, tell on him to his Mom, when she gets home. Ooooohhh, she gonna be pissed!.

etifosi wrote:

minivan_racer wrote: If it's the grandparents house maybe they should be the ones you deal with.

Yeah, tell on him to his Mom, when she gets home. Ooooohhh, she gonna be pissed!.

Not how I meant it but sure go be a tattle tell. It's a much more mature option than cutting toys in half or dumping E36 M3 on their lawn and making a show. Obviously this E36 M3bag can't keep his life together and probably doesn't give a berkeley if his juvenile delinquents are a terror, while the actual property owner might care about relations with their neighbors enough to do something.

Lof8 wrote: Now the problem is that these two little kids are throwing their garbage and toys over my fence almost daily. I used to be nice and send the toys back over the fence. I'm not doing that anymore. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Had a similar problem. Kids at the house behind us were throwing their toys(no real garbage) over the 4' fence where it landed in the wife's flower bed. Wife would throw them back over, but in the summer time it was a daily occurrence.

I said something about it to the parents and it stopped for about a week. When it resumed I let the stuff lay for a couple days. It just so happened that I saw the kids and parents in their yard one evening that was also trash night. So I took the trash can out, put all the stuff in it, and set the can out front for trash pickup.

I know they saw me do it, but they didn't say anything and we never had the problem again.

In reply to minivan_racer:

I think it's a great idea actually. I'd be tempted to threaten trash-tossing tots' pop with dropping the Mom Bomb before doing so.

"Do I have to tell your Mom or will you control your rotten berkeleying crotchfruit?"

Maybe hop on craigslist and look for someone throwing away a rear projection tv. They have BIG fresnal lenses that can melt metal and glass when aimed properly. If the kids want to help you out with science projects, and it sounds like they do,then they can learn all about solar power as their toys go away.

Kids, even brat kids, don't usually fully understand their actions and the consequences. Next time you have toys in your yard and see/hear the kids, call them over and tell them they need to get an adult. Explain to everyone from that point on ANYTHING that comes into your yard will be immediately put in the trash and will not be reclaimed.

I would go to the property owner. In the end it is there responsibility. I think they will be the ones that are served if the authority's get involved.

Streetwiseguy wrote: Pick it up, bag it, and hand deliver it to the front door. "Your kids lost this over the fence." Repeat as required

This. Talk to the grandparents politely but firmly the first time you deliver the crap, after that have a cop deliver it.

You could start tossing pages from disturbing porn magazines over the fence...

In reply to pinchvalve:

I would have thrown all my HotWheels over the fence if you were my neighbor when I was a kid.

Train the dog to poop in the area where the toys get tossed. Then return toys back over the fence that are then soiled?

Ya childish I know

Get a big trash can, and put it in your back yard. They toss something in your yard, put it in the can. When can is full,take a picture of it then put it out with your trash. Tossing it back to them just allows them to play with it. Save photos for future dealings with police/neighbors. The key is to have a sufficient quantity to impress anyone that sees the evidence. One soccer ball in your yard, and the complaint of it, just makes you look like a crazy neighbor.

Put a lattice extension on top so the fence is a couple feet higher?

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pinchvalve wrote: You could start tossing pages from disturbing porn magazines over the fence...

Nope. Bad idea.

You could try returning the toys with a wood chipper.