I live in a terraced house, lived here for 10 years with no issues at all with my neighbours we very much keep to ourselves.
One neighbour has their grandchildren round a lot, the eldest boy who is around 8 years old stays in the garden for long periods of time which doesn't bother me at all, I have had so many balls and toys come over my fence that I've lost count of the amount of times that I've thrown them back over for them.
We had an issue this weekend whereby the boy again lost a toy over the fence, we are having building work done so the garden is dangerous and the home is noisy during the day.
I went to carry something into the garden and found that the boy had jumped over the fence to retrieve the toy that he lost, the fence is 6ft so there is quite a drop the other side.
I told him that what he did was dangerous not only because of the debris in the garden but the drop from their fence to my garden could have caused injury, he said that his grandparent knocked on my door for me to throw it back but didn't get an answer as we didn't hear it.
My neighbour has been round and shouted at me because I 'told off' her grandson, I preceded to tell her that not only shouldn't he enter my property without permission but he could have got injured whilst climbing over and if I find toys in the garden I always throw them back over.
This has caused tension which I didn't want as we have never had a run in before however I feel like I had to say something.
Should I have kept my mouth shut? I would love to hear your opinions on this.