Neighbours young kids playing football in front of house.

[jimjam2313w]

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.

Kids should not be having any balls go near cars no matter where they are parked or be on anyone else's property

Parked cars sit unused 95% of the time taking up acres of road space. You have a classic car just incase you fancy a quick polluting 'pop to the shops'. Meanwhile Europe burns in a heatwave.

What a load of bollocks
Just report them @jimjam2313w
Sadly No-one really cares about about what they smoke so I wouldn't worry about that, its their problem , don't make it your concern

A car parked on the road is not on private property.

i cannot tell you the number of dents my mums car got from being parked in a school car park. Repeatedly having balls bounced off them is damaging and that was a new car.
there was one mark which was a complete imprint of a football, hexagons and all. That one wouldn’t polish out

You know the main emissions are from creating the car.
so the greenest thing to do is to continue to use perfectly usable cars.

@Sigmama would you rather a car was driven 24/7

Vegetables, strange logic, how about not buying one in the first place

I used the pop to the shop analogy not the op. And if she’s having to drive to one she’s driving anyway.
depending on what her classic is it may be more economical than her daily.

you seem really angry about something that makes zero sense.

Toomuchlaundry, it just shows how fucked up and wasteful private car ownership is

It exists already. It’s already made. It’s used the earths resources to be made.

it’s not a strange logic. It’s fact. The greenest car to drive is the one you already own.

Def agree the cover is a good idea, if you're going to leave a fragile car on a public road that people are allowed to use in ways you don't want them to. You can't make people agree with you about appropriate use of public space and your vehicle's priority over the ways other people want to use it. It's a different strokes for different folks issue. So I think my starting point would be to do what I could to make the car less vulnerable.

I wouldn’t let my child play ball around neighbours vehicles or play in the road/street. If my child damaged someones car I would absolutely be responsible for any damage so I wouldn’t take the risk in the first place

Not really.

op might have had it since 1977. Hardly wasteful.

wasteful is scrapping perfectly useable good condition cars and creating new ones.

Vegetables, ah but the op's anger is acceptable?

I believe If you have a cover on a vehicle on the road you have to have the number plate showing to ensure it’s legal etc.

At her property being damaged unnecessarily

yes

If your car is that fragile, why are you parking it on the street?
Find somewhere else to park it.

I am totally cool with kids playing, making noise, etc. We lived here 15 years without kids bouncing balls off the car. No need for it to start now. The kids can play in front of their own house (next door) and maybe hit the ball off dad's dar or two work vans that he has parked there. Somehow, they are deciding to play in front of our house instead.

Its actually safer for them to play in front of their own house because then there is a chance that cars flying into the cul de sac will see them before running them over. We are right on the edge and there is a wall that prevents people seeing kids playing there.

@Sigmama why is it okay to damage property? If it was a bicycle being damaged would you feel differently? Or someone’s vegetable plot?

Kids should be able to play in the streets, cars should not dominate every aspect of life

Even new cars will get damaged by balls being repeatedly bounced off it

The car is very important to me. I owned it and sold it because of financial hardship. My son, then in primary school, turned to me and said "why did you sell our car?" It broke my heart and I fought to get the car back, eventually achieving this.

My son is now 19 and we still drive in it together.

@Sigmama , go and start your own thread, you are spectacularly missing the point and derailing the post so shoo

Laundry, my bike has been damaged several times when left outside, (usually by a large vehicle) - part and parcel of leaving a vehicle in a public space