DS and mates playing football in garden

[SoccerMum1]

Hey all,

First time posting but a long time lurker - in a bit of a predicament

DS 16 and 14 are having a few mates round on Sunday and are wanting to play footy in the garden (all sounds reasonable right), but here comes my problem - they're wanting to use fruit to hang up in the nets to aim at.

They've seen a video on youtube (showed me earlier, think it was ). Apparently they're gonna hang up a load of fruit and take it in turns to try and hit it, scoring different amounts of points. Apparently they'll be using the left over to practise kick ups with and use the fruit as a footy instead

AIBU to think it'll make a load of mess and be a bit expensive? Both DS are dead keen on it as they reckon it'll be fun to hit and destroy it? DS16 say's he'll pay for the fruit and tidy up but i'm not so sure - think it's messy and not a good use of his money? Don't wanna be a killjoy though - AIBU?

16 and your complaint is he wants to kick a ball at fruit, if only all 16 year olds done that instead off getting drunk smoking weed and running round the streets with knives. Let him do it infact buy the fruit for them!!

Ha ha, I think if it's not going to make waste for your neighbours and not attract rodents then fine ... I also feel a bit weird though, wasting perfectly good food when there are plenty of those who go without. Could you use rotten fruit or something that someone wouldn't eat? It just seems wasteful to ruin food

update - please see www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4749184-ds-14-fruit-football-again