To think that bouncing a fucking basketball for hours is the most annoying thing you can do in a garden?

[RiddleyW]

I KNOW there’s nothing I can do but it’s driving me insane. INSANE.

It’s a tiny garden and it’s CONSTANT and it’s keeping my 3 year old awake.

Plus every time it comes over it destroys a plant.

He’s smashed a load of tiles on their extension roof with it too. Neighbour has placed a blanket over the roof so he now can’t see that his tiles are all smashed.

Kicking a football against a metal shed has to be a very very close second. Yesterday is was 3 hours of noise

Stop throwing it back over?

For hours? Yes that's bloody irritating. My DS has a loud bouncy ball and I'll let him do it for a while but not too early or late and not for a long time in one go.

I feel like there are lots of things that are totally reasonable to do (have 30 kids having a water fight in the garden, having a loud party on a Saturday night, having a bonfire) but would be unreasonable to do all the time.

I think I am going to start keeping the balls. They’re really heavy and presume not cheap.

That would drive me nuts. When I was young playing tennis on the walls of my Grannie's close resulted in her neighbour tearing strips off me and my pal. I adopt similar approach espec past teatime - if they're old enough to be out unsupervised throwing a ball roof height they are old enough to be at the park doing it not disturbing sleeping toddlers.

YANBU

Our neighbour's son used to do that. But he grew and they moved.

This too will pass .......

I’ve had some taking apart pallets with what sounds like a sledge hammer all day. It’s been fairly irritating, he takes a lot of breaks. Two straight hours would have been fine but all day for 6 pallets is taking the piss.

No.
What about playing drum and bass at loud volume for hours on end?
Or, come to that, any music that is too loud.
What about a poor dog just left to bark?
What about shouting and aggression?
What about constant loud swearing ?

There's probably LOADS of things that would be far worse than a youngster practising a skill, and keeping fit.

Football against a shed and bouncing a basketball carry equal weight in the f*ing annoyance stakes IMO. My neighbours are driving me mad with it today!!! 😡🤬🤬🤬

2 of them Knocking a tennis ball into the metal garage door for hours is annoying. We have courts open to all down the road.

I know I could have worse neighbours - he’s a perfectly nice boy but it is thoughtless on the part of the Dad. As a few people have said it would be fine sometimes but every evening it’s really maddening.

We used to listen to his bloody squeaky trampoline all weekends and holidays but that was more bearable as it finished earlier and we didn’t have a kid being kept awake.

YANBU

YANBU! It's a form of torture.

Can you play loud, annoying music through open windows. Something that he won't like.
Opera?
Heavy metal?
Barry Manalow?

Have you told him it's annoying?

I only say because my son plays basketball a lot on our driveway. The other day I bumped into the neighbours from three doors down, and they mentioned that every so often they hear DS's basketball thump thump thump. I was mortified and immediately asked if it was a problem and said I'd stop him if so.

(They said it wasn't a problem at all, but if they'd said it was then we'd limit it.)

I’ve asked a couole of times to stop when DS has been kept up. He does for a bit and then starts up again.

Stupo by "not a problem at all" you do realise they meant "are you f'ing joking of course it's a problem and we are really hoping you take the hint"?

I don't know, the constant squeak squeak squeak (and inevitable shrieking) of kids on a trampoline for hours is just as bad!!

If the ball comes into your garden, you are not allowed to keep it. You have to hand it back. Such a shame that the ball got punctured on a screwdriver though.

Oh yes I know EXACTLY what you mean. My nn son who is 8 does this on their patio. He also throws/kicks the ball against the conservatory for hours on and off. Worst thing is we have huge gardens with lot of grass yet he insists on playing right next to our back doors.

Really nice family but with no thought of their noise levels (loud voices, instruments at all hours, blasting tv/music left on in their conservatory for hours and hours).

You have my sympathy!

You may be on dodgy ground keeping the ball but absolutely nothing to stop you taking it into your house for "safekeeping" till they work up the courage to say sorry for it coming into your garden and asking politely for it back. You would also be within your rights to be too busy to come to the door on the first couple of times of asking too. Also no issue with asking them when they are coming round to sort out the damage they have done to your plants.

My old neighbours used to have large boozy loud parties to which I was not invited on into the night with me sat alone listening unable to really watch TV as I couldn't hear it over them and assorted kids running up and down the stairs

Worse still was the Community Centre behind the house that set off a loudspeaker and Chart Hits at 9am On a Sunday for "Family Fun"

Oh yeah by keeping the ball I did mean making him come and knock. It’s still going but amazingly DS is now sleepinh through it.

Barry Mannilow annoying Belinda? Are you on glue???