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Balls in the garden...

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VelvetSpoon · 17/06/2017 15:04

I don't get on with my neighbours. I find them and their DC noisy and irritating and I shall be bloody glad when they move (hopefully soon as they are very overcrowded in their current house).

Anyway their DC are always playing ball in the back garden. The balls often end up in my garden (they have loads). I've thrown about 4-5 over weekly when gardening.

The other week I caught one of them twice letting himself into my garden to get his ball. The second time I asked him to leave my garden.

Since then they've been knocking on my door daily for their balls back. Normally about 10 mins after I get in when I've got better things to do with my time!

Today (after they woke me up by all screaming in the garden at 730am) I've just seen there are again 5 balls in the garden.

I am fed up of giving them back time and again. Tempted to chuck them in the bin, or prickly them with something sharp. WIBU?

I do understand balls go over fence having had 2 children myself but mine managed 1 ball a month over at absolute most not 5 daily!

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LakieLady · 01/04/2020 17:38

Tell them you've got coronavirus and they'll get it if they touch anything you've touched, so you won't let them have them back until they come round in full proptective clothing and with anti-viral spray.

Or even that you've picked up all the balls without thinking, so they're now contaminated and will have to be destroyed.

rachela74 · 01/04/2020 17:53

Quite true, but mine haven't.

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