Do you allow children to walk along neighbours' low garden walls?

[JohnnyFedora]

Do you let your kids walk on people's walls, like their low garden walls?
I don't, my kids are allowed on "public" walls and stuff, but I think it's a bit disrespectful to have them do it on private property.

I don’t, because I know some people wouldn’t like it.

But I wouldn’t remotely care if a child walked on my wall.

Find me a case of a successful claim where the parents of a child have sued a homeowner for their child being injured while walking on their wall - I am genuinely curious if this exists.

A Google suggests it doesn’t but I am open to have my mind changed…

No, that's stupid. Never on a private garden wall.

Yes...as long as it's a public wall and not someone's private property.

The coping stones on the top of my wall are attached with gorilla glue (as a temporary measure) so it would not be joyless if I objected to your children walking on my wall. It would be in order to stop further damage to the wall and to your children.

Does that happen much?

I live in an American suburbs where nobody has a wall around their front garden. It seems there are many here who would sniff mightily at that.

Posters who allow this what happens if the wall breaks in some way, do you apologise and offer to pay for damage?

Likewise. Provided they didn't crush my plants, I'd be happy to see them enjoying themselves.

Definitely not!

Read more: www.boredpanda.com/neighbor-sued-injured-kid/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=bp_1542970&utm_campaign=bored-panda&utm_content=image

Do posters allow their DC to walk on Devon hedge?

Yes, when they were little. And likewise had no problem with others walking on our wall. It would not have occurred to me that that this was a problem, I've never IRL come across anyone objecting to this. I've also never experienced a child breaking a wall by walking on it. I'm not say it couldn't happen, but it's not really very likely ime.

Not successful though.

No, they're older now but when they were little no, not on private garden walls.

Anecdotally I have a low wall out front which a local kid used to walk on holding mum's hand, I warned her the bricks were loose, she let him keep doing it. Of course he fell, mum got rather less sympathy than she bargained for when she moaned about it.

Oh come on, be serious 😂

An article from Bored Panda detailing a loosely written case about garden ornaments with no checkable information in it FROM AMERICA! is absolutely no proof at all that anyone in England has been sued by a parent for a small child falling off a low wall…

The children doing that to mine meant the bricks at the end broke away and I lost count of the number of times I heard a thud and scream from an effectively unsupervised child from the highest point around twenty past three - the parents didn't seem to think that walking along something that rose to five foot high in the middle with concrete on one side and brick path on the other side of the drop might have been a bad idea.

If I were able to get planning permission (it's specifically restricted as the house is built up to reduce flood risk), I'd make it six foot tall or replace it with blackthorn hedging. Instead, I've planted lavender, rosemary and other bee attractive plants to make it slightly less appealing to children, parents and local addicts wanting to sit on it to drink and wait for their dealer to drop off.