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Neighbours young kids playing football in front of house.

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jimjam2313w · 16/07/2023 09:13

The kids are young. Like 8 years or less. They aren't really playing football, just bouncing the ball around. I heard them screaming and shouting and looked at CCTV to see the ball bouncing off our two cars. One is my classic and fragile 1977 classic.

I go out to tell the kids not to bounce the balls off the cars and (to my almost surprise) I find that neighbour mum and visiting mum are sitting there watching this. I explain that I'm concerned about my old car being damaged because it is fragile. Visiting mum reassures me that the children are being watched and that "we don't want any damage to happen either".

Anyway, I keep the cctv on as we are watching our movie and the ball once again hits out car. I go outside and both parents are gone. So I tell the children they should not be hitting my car with the ball.

What more do I do? Sometimes the responses here surprise me so I am reluctant to say that I would like to warn the neighbour one more time then speak to the community police officer. Neighbours new friends seem to smoke weed ALL THE TIME and community police officer will obviously smell this right away if they come along. I don't want that to happen. I just don't want to have football marks on my cars OR the mirrors broken off my classic.

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JudgeJ · 19/07/2023 09:51

AuntieJune · 16/07/2023 09:19

Kids being able to play is more important than a car. If they're doing it deliberately, that's different but if it's on the road, shit happens.

Someone with a classic car near me (terraces streets) has a cloth cover that goes all the way over his classic old car. Footballs wouldn't damage it though that.

Rubbish, children need to know that they are not the centres of the universe whatever their dear parents may tell them, in twee MN parlance they're part of 'a village' and need to learn respect for others.

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