Have you ever told kids to get out of your yard?
Living in an apartment, I don’t have a yard, but I have told kids to get off my stairs (that lead up to my apartment).
Yes, but it was more the dog they brought in to poo in my yard that I wanted gone.
Yep
Back out my old house the kids climbed up in my maple tree while my dogs were in the house. Later I let the dogs out, they knew the kids were up in the tree and sat under the tree waiting.
It was getting dark, the kids parents were hollering for them to come home and my dogs had them all treed.
Finally I heard them yelling ‘LADY HEY LADY!!!’ and went out to investigate.
I made the dogs go in the house so the kids could come down and I yelled at all of them for climbing my fence to get into the yard, didn’t they know they could have gotten bit, and for climbing a tree that had power lines running through it, didn’t they know they could get shocked, and I’d better never catch any of them in my yard again.
There was another little boy who would open my gate and walk right in with all my dogs. One of my dogs bit him in the ass but fortunately all she did was catch his pants and pull them down. Then I had to hear how my dog was a pervert for pulling his pants down and he was telling his parents. I had to yell at him a few times before he got the message to stay the hell out of my yard.
Years ago at this house I had to yell at one. He lived on the street behind us and was friends with the kid across the street. We didn’t care that he cut through the yard instead of walking around the block but he’d leave the gate open and the dog would get out.
No amount of asking that he close the gate worked, but one day he cut through while the dog was out. I missed it but from what I heard not only could that kid really run but he could jump a fence without missing a beat too.
After that he started cutting through the neighbors yard.
Only once. Many years ago a family moved in next door. The kids were two girls maybe 7 and 8 yrs old. One day, not even a week after they move in, I hear my dog going nuts in the back yard. One of the girls had climbed over the 6 ft privacy fence into my yard. The other was sitting on top of the fence. The one in the yard was handing my cat up to the one sitting on the fence. The cat is yowling and trying to scratch them. The dog is barking his head off and thankfully not biting anyone. They got an earful from me right then and there about trespassing, stealing people’s pets and the dangers of entering a yard with a strange dog. Then I went over to the grandmother (she had custody of them) and told her what happened. They were always a handful, but never entered my back yard again.
No, but I sure glared at them. It was a bunch of kids walking with their mom; for some reason they felt that they needed to walk all over my landscaped yard, instead of staying on the sidewalk where they wouldn’t damage any of my plants.
No, but I have stood on my front lawn and yelled at people to slow down.
I do that in parking lots. I don’t know why people drive as fast as they possibly can in parking lots.
No, but I’m only in my 50s. Give it time.
Yup. We were leaving to go out and they needed to go home.
I’ve told teenagers trespassing in our apartment complex to get lost–they like to hang out in the back of the parking lot sometimes to smoke dope and hang out.
You know, I don’t believe I ever have. I have told plenty of adults to get out of my yard, though. In my old neighborhood, the people across the street liked to throw large parties, and the guests would spill all over the neighborhood, smoking and drinking and doing drugs, and leaving litter all over the place. I complained to the partiers at the time, and to the residents of the house the next day, but they never really paid much attention. Then I started walking our dog in the front yard, as opposed to letting her out into the back yard, right before we wanted to go to bed. Greta the German shepherd (her previous owners had named her) was very polite, very obedient, and totally under voice control, so I didn’t need to put her on a leash, even though it was really illegal for her to be unleashed. She knew exactly where the boundaries of our front yard were, and was in the habit of growling under her breath if she thought people were trespassing. Now, she was as friendly as she could be to people who we greeted and welcomed. But she was very suspicious of people she didn’t know, and who we didn’t greet.
Yeah, it was an asshole move on my part, and illegal, and passive-aggressive as hell. It also got my point across. The neighbors complained, once, and I told them that the dog needed to do her business every night, and that she knew where our boundaries were, and that she’d never go after anyone who wasn’t on our property, so as long as people stayed off our property, they were safe from her.
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I’ve lived in my house for 18 years now. I live near the end of a cul-de-sac, in the country on 2 acre lots.
Plenty of kids have come and gone over the years, and a lot of them have been on my property.
It would never occur to me to ask any kid to get off my property. They’re kids, doing what kids do. Unless any property damage was taking place, which it never has, I’m very happy having kids on my lawn. I like kids. I like to see them play and have fun.
Kids, not yet. But I’ve killed lots of shit.
Sometimes when the neighbor kids overstay their welcome, yes, but more of a “you need to go now”. One girl used to walk right in the backdoor when my daughter was not home, set herself down on the couch and ask for snacks. XD I think she was 6 at the time.
I have told kids to stop playing on the driveway just outside the window to my basement apartment. Or at least do some playing that doesn’t involve shrieking 10 feet from me. Seriously kids, you have hundreds of square feet of yard, as well as the driveway RIGHT BY YOUR OWN HOUSE.
That’s fair; they can go do it on a yard that I haven’t spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars working on. 
Yeah, I’m with that. My front yard is pretty small but I’ve put a bit of effort into the garden. When the neighborhood kids would play street cricket on the road (including my kids) the ball would often end up in my yard. My front fence is about 3 feet high max and one little bloke in particular would just run after the ball, hurdle the fence and bulldoze through the garden after it until I yelled at him to “Get the fuck out of my garden, dopey. Walk through the gate to get the ball, not trample my fucking garden”
Afterwards, he went through the gate and was careful about fetching the ball if it landed IN the garden.
Our last house in Florida was in a cul-de-sac. The neighbor on the right was a non-custodial parent, and I think to make up for that, she bought her son all kinds of crap that only got used on visitation weekends - like the trampoline in the back yard and the portable basketball net that she parked right on the property line. Oh yeah, and she was a bitch, but that has nothing to do with this specifically…
I did chase neighborhood kids off her trampoline a few times. The way the yards were situated, I was pretty much the only one who could see them, and if they’d gotten hurt, it could be a while before anyone saw them. And much as I disliked that neighbor, I didn’t want her getting hit with a neighborhood lawsuit.
I was pissed off about the basketball hoop, mainly because it was right at the street, and my yard sloped down from there. So every single time they missed, the basketball rolled thru my gardens and down to my house. Bad enough the ball was smashing my flowers, but the kids would run right thru the beds also. And her son never played with the stupid thing, even when he was there! Anyway, I spoke to those kids a few million times and they finally quit.
I’ll never understand why she didn’t just stick the hoop in her driveway. Well, actually, I do - she was a bitch, and she didn’t want the hoop to affect her quality of life. She didn’t care about anyone else… Sorry, it’s 9 years later, and she still pisses me off!! :mad:
No, I haven’t.
Neighbour’s kid keeps kicking his ball into my yard. I told him it’s okay for him to go and grab it himself, but I think his Dad told him that, despite my default permission, he should ask me to fetch it every time, which is annoying.