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What would you do?

13 replies

funtobewith · 15/10/2010 13:12

I have found a hole in my childrens trampoline which someone has flicked,chucked a lit cigerrette onto and its burnt a hole.

We have recently fallen out with the neighbours and I dont know what to do?.

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funtobewith · 15/10/2010 13:14

Bump anyone please?

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ChasingSquirrels · 15/10/2010 13:16

if it is a big hole I would get a new jump mat, if it is a little hole I'd leave it a while but keep checking on it.

FerminaUrbinoDaza · 15/10/2010 13:18

TBH There's not a lot you can do, except mend the hole if that's possible.

funtobewith · 15/10/2010 13:19

Im so peed of,I know there is nothing I can do because I have no proof?,thanks for replying.

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SolidButShamblingUndeadBrass · 15/10/2010 13:21

It may have been carelessness rather than malice anyway, if neighbours (or their guests) smoke.

ragged · 15/10/2010 13:21

Cinders from our own chimney put a hole in ours when it was about... 3 weeks old? :(. But the matt has lasted fine (5 years now) and never got bigger (self-singed edges don't fray, you see).

As for neighbours causing it, that's a major hassle! I'd move the trampoline away from their property, I guess, if poss.

funtobewith · 15/10/2010 13:23

Thank you.

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JamieLeeCurtis · 15/10/2010 13:23

What a bummer - but I agree you can't accuse with no proof. Hope you can find an amicable way of resolving yor argument with them Let your anger abut this die down first though.

AuntiePickleBottom · 15/10/2010 13:24

would your home insurance cover it

funtobewith · 15/10/2010 13:27

Its no worth it its old anyway,Im just cross as it is my ds's.

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AuntiePickleBottom · 15/10/2010 13:33

most insurance do old for new, so she could have a brand new trampoline

Clumsymum · 15/10/2010 13:43
  1. You have no proof. You think it's probably your neighbours who did it. It might not be.
  1. Even if you could prove the neighbour did it, trying to do anything about it would, most likely, make a bad situation worse. As with all bad behaviour, your best tactic is to ignore it. IF the neighbour has done it, deliberately to annoy you, you are plying into his hands to tackle him about it.

Difficult/inconsiderate neighbours are a pain, but the best way to manage the situation is to break off all contact with them.

We don't get on with our neighbours particularly well (he is a rude, uncouth so-and-so, altho she's ok).
I remember sitting on our patio one day last summer when their (grown-up) son came to visit them. As he went into their house, he turned and spat his used chewing gum over the fence, onto our patio !!

Internally, I was INCANDESCENT with rage. DH persuaded me to just ignore. I know it was the right thing to do.
We haven't spoken to the neighbours since. We ignore them, they ignore us. It works.

funtobewith · 15/10/2010 14:04

Thank you very much for the kind advice I needed a level head,Smile.

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