Neither of the first two options, and I certainly have provided no evidence that they are my opinion (Other than of course, the evidence that people have misconstrued from my words).
I am advocating that light strand should stop being so damned passive-aggressive and tell the woman what she’s doing wrong. Instead of bitching about it on the internet, she should do something about it. I think if she had’ve been more forceful with this woman earlier, this might not have happened.
Sure, she has no obligation to do such a thing, but to me, it makes much more sense than the action she is taking now. I believe there was a conflict, and light strand didn’t resolve it properly, and is still failing to.
As I explained in my earlier post. Especially if it was the first time it happened (the child trespassing), it probably did not in the least occur to Light strand that this woman was so braindead that she NEEDED to be told in some other way than the QUITE obvious (to any normal human) way that it had already BEEN told to the woman that her child was not welcome to just trespass whenever she wanted to.
That isn’t being passive-agressive. Have you not figured out from the responses here that it really wouldn’t occur to anyone that carrying a screaming kicking child home to its parents and saying “she was in our house” isn’t a VERY obvious statement of disapproval?
Again, to any NORMAL person, the above action of carrying the kicking screaming child home and saying “she was in our home” alone would be quite clearly a statement of “this is not acceptable, don’t do it again”. Not realizing that she’s dealing with a braindead moron is hardly being passive-agressive on light strand’s part.
And again, I seriously doubt that light strand’s husband said this with very much charity or niceness. It’s neither light strand’s, nor her husband’s fault that this woman doesn’t get quite normal and obvious communications. There’s no “more forceful” necessary. Unless as this woman has NOW proved to be, the person is way beyond normal in being able to comprehend normal communication.
To you, it can’t possibly be that the woman is an idiot, neglectful and simply doesn’t care, as is likely the case, you’re being ridicously charitable in suggesting that instead, she simply wasn’t told in the “proper terms” and therefore it’s not really her fault that her child wanders.
Is it your argument that no one could possibly be a bad parent, that it’s just that they haven’t been told “in forceful enough terms” what needs to be done?
Sigh…
…IS a very obvious sign…
I suck at proofreading.
It has been said that this woman believes that the neighbourhood is her daycare centre. A damned stupid thing to believe in the US, but why the hell didn’t light strand bother to correct her? Perhaps this could’ve been avoided if light strand had.
And that is my point, I am not stating that it is light strand’s fault, I am not denying fault on the mother’s part, I am merely saying this could’ve been avoided had she bothered to resolve the conflict. You wouldn’t think that would take 2 pages to get across.
Perhaps she didn’t learn how this woman felt until after the fact? Or perhaps that was the woman’s response to her saying, “Hey lady, your kid keeps roaming the neighborhood”. And the mother simply waved away any attempt to explain with, “Well, back where I come from, we do it THIS way.”
It sounded like light strand was saying that this woman is refusing to accept that her new country is different from the old one.
Go You Big Red Fire Engine I’m going to guess that you do not own your own home. I try not to provoke the neighbors. Living next to someone who hates you is a very bad idea. You seem to think that I should walk up to her and tell her that I think she’s an idiot.
I am very sure that she knows her child is unwelcome in my home unless invited. I am also very sure she is aware that her child is not welcome to molest my dogs. I am very sure she knows that it is not a good idea to let her kid get hit by a car (if that ever does happen due her lack of supervision). Basically her mother; and father too since he lives there as well; are lazy-asses who think others should keep their daughter safe.
Only three more days of house arrest for the dogs
Other than the house arrest, was there any other repercussions? Did they say anything about the peephole in your fence? Was the mother cited for letting her child tresspass or anything like that?
Nothing so far. The reason they let me keep the dogs at home, instead of taking them in, was because she was trespassing. But that’s all the folks at Animal Control can tell me. The police haven’t been contacted, as far as I know.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but acc. to the lawyer who represented me in my dogbite lawsuit, you can put up a 10 foot privacy fence and nail 100 “Beware of Dog” signs. If a young child, or, by extension, someone who is too young to understand the notion of trespassing, somehow gets into your yard, you are still 100% responsible for any injuries sustained by your dog. Strict liability and all that. And if they decide to sue you, you will almost certainly be liable for “pain and suffering” as it is difficult to get bit without experiencing pain.
I’d say that if they called Animal Welfare, the lawsuit is not far behind. Prepare for it by writing down everything that happened now. It took 2+ years for my case to finally make it to arbitration, and I was amazed at the details I forgot.
I thought I read somewhere that putting up “beware of dog” signs actually do more harm than good, because you’re admitting your dog is dangerous or some bullshit like that.
The first news story I heard this morning was of the poor 10 year old girl taken and killed by her neighbor. It could have been the little girl who was bitten.
This neighbors child could walk uninvited into the wrong home. Thank goodness the OP isn’t one of the crazy ones out there.
The responsibility should be 100% the parents. 100%.
I have a mentally challenged second cousin who is now 19. She was NEVER allowed to roam the neighborhood. Her mom has had to make many sacrifices to insure her safety, but she’s done it without complaint.