Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

[Lucylooloo2]

Just that really, had lots of notifications of movement on the doorbell camera and lo and behold a kid (8ish years old) from a few houses down with a bunch of daffodils in her hand.

Checked mine in my front garden when I got home and Every. Single. One. has been taken.

I’m just really sad tbh. Know there are much bigger problems in the world but they were a little spark of joy for me 😕

A tree? 😮 Good grief.

Do you not think getting the police involved is more than a tad heavy handed?

A word with Mum or Dad is plenty at this stage.

8 yo is still at the stage were we want them to be able to build trust in the police. Want them to realise the police are there to help them.
Not scare the blinking shit out the poor kid.

There's a similar problem round our way. I now only buy cheap planters, weigh them down and inscribe the bottom with "Stolen from [number and postcode]."

I gave up buying clay pots - I can't afford to replace them all - and my age combined with a few medical complaints mean that it takes me too long to rectify damage done by thieves who take them to sell on or as to give to presents to others.

(I lost a beautifully planted arrangement - if I say so myself - close to Mother's Day one year. I just about gave up after that.)

I agree, I’d want to know so I could talk to DD about it.

It would concern me if she was just waltzing into peoples gardens because firstly, “stranger danger” and secondly she should know to respect other peoples things at 8.

The child’s logic may well have been “pretty flowers” but there’s nothing wrong with having a polite chat and letting the mum know. I would then as a mum just address it with DD like “hey, I love that you wanted to do a nice thing for me but we’ve made the neighbour very sad by taking away her flowers. Let’s go to the garden centre and get neighbour some nice flowers to replace and replant the ones we’ve taken and in future we don’t take what doesn’t belong to us”.

This would be my imagining of the right outcome for the child, the mum and the OP. Lessons learnt and the world put right again.

We have private property signs up already as well as beware of the dogs. Honestly those in camper vans just don’t care, I won’t describe where they dump their chemical toilets 🤢

There you go! Sorry meant to post lastnight! They are a great price - £2 per pot or 3 flowers for £5 x

And now the photo is under review argh!

I agree! ⬆️ I know 'it's only daffodils' BUT it's also theft & disrespectful. Life lesson to be learned.

100% this. At 8 years she's not a little kid and should no better. It's stealing in my view.

I agree with all the other posters saying that an eight year old should know better. When my daughter was three, let alone eight, she knew that you don’t trespass on people’s private land and you don’t steal anything from anyone, ever. But apart from that, why was an eight year old wandering the streets stealing from people’s gardens without any adult supervision?

In Fife, thieves were digging up mature bushes etc from front gardens during lockdown.

Then, just after we were coming out of lockdown, thieves went into Letham Glen near Leven and stripped out all the bedding plants the council gardeners had just put in.

It’s bratty behaviour and she should know better

I can understand a child seeing the pretty flowers and wanting to pick them. I cannot understand why a child thinks it’s ok to go into someone else’s garden to steal them. Particularly not ok when she has flowers in her own garden but didn’t pick them

Mother’s Day is over a week away! I would be really annoyed if my child picked flowers from a neighbour’s garden.
I would definitely go and speak to child’s parents so they can explain to child that it is not appropriate to do that.

I would be really annoyed. A child that is old enough to be out on their own is old enough not to trespass and steal flowers from people's gardens.

its theft.
itsnot sweet at all

Aww, that’s so sad for you, I know how that feels. I wonder if you could give them a couple of bulbs so that they can grow some next year?

They have them in their own garden. Not picked.

And broken shelters would be repaired next year (may be even sooner), and vandalised by graffiti walls would be repainted next year and swines would learn not to touch others' property next year. Attitudes like that (silent acquiescence to horrid ASBO behaviour by decent citizens) lead to the country being ruined in every respect. That and the importation of the worst the world has to offer, be it customs, people, attitudes, films, products and diseases.

yes, a quiet word with the parents. Hopefully they'll buy you a bunch (or give yours back) as an apology.

WHAT? They already have them in their own garden, which the girl left untouched, preferring to steal the OP's.

Going into your neighbours garden and stealing their flowers is not super sweet. People really have no manners or standards anymore. Pathetic!

It's nice to know you'd be fine with a neighbours (young) DC entering your garden and stealing things that belong to you.

I have to say... buying a quid bunch of daffs from Aldi really would not make up for my front garden having none in because some 8yo decided to pick them all.

Exactly!

And those children love your wrought iron wall art and think the gnome is sweet and want those in their bedroom... just take it!