Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

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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 😕

It has happened a few times in our local park, parents just standing there while their kids decapitate the daffodils. Heaven help anyone who points out that the flowers are there for all to enjoy. Of course very little ones do not understand this concept but this is the opportunity to teach them a basic life lesson

This is what man traps were invented for!

Seriously, the child's parents need to be told that their child trespasses on your property and stole flowers.

😆😆😆. No, they haven’t. I don’t have anger issues. But I won’t stand for people taking the piss out of me and stealing of damaging my property.

What's the solution when folk have been repeatedly asked not to crush the plants, though?

My dad finally solved his problem by erecting a 7 ft Frankenstein chickenwire and whatever else he could find in the shed between his garden and the next door neighbour's.

The next door neighbour's son had ambitions to play for Rangers, but only seemed to be capable of kicking balls over the original 3 ft fence. Their own garden was a hymn to gravel, concrete and orange wood. The finishing touch was the clothes line pole painted silver and edged in orange, with a Union Flag flying from it.

The ball problem isn't too bad round my way - I have more bother with dog walker intruding and then gallumphing their way through the garden to find small balls belong to their dogs.

If it's a football, I generally just put it on top of the hedge so that the owner can collect it. The one time that damage was done, I'm fairly certain that my neighbour's idiot adult sons were guilty - I had to replace a greenhouse pane.

Says it all...just teach kids to respect other people and their property.

No, taking every single one is really rude

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous responses to this I have read. It certainly would not have filled my neighbours with joy to see us children in the estate picking their gardens bare when I was a child. We knew well not to be picking things from other people's gardens. My grandfather (who would be over 100 if alive today so from a very different generation) was a keen gardener and was always telling off us grandchildren not to pull the heads off his begonias. We knew we dare not touch them. I short I don't think those of us that think the girl should not have done this are the ones that have changed. It is those who think this is sweet and lovely and that the OP should pay for the bulbs, tend to them only to provide joy for others, the child and her mother, instead of getting weeks of enjoyment out of them herself.

Super sweet...rubbish.🙄

Least the mum tried to make amends with dropping off a pot to you

I’d be gutted.

Yeah like you’d turn a hosepipe on an 8 year old!

Keyboard warrior at its finest!

I hear that sprinklers are the best option: they give plausible deniability.

@Bitofanchange@Bitofanchange I’m not a keyboard warrior at all. I would have no hesitation in turning my hose on anyone who was trespassing and stealing my property if I could catch them - I don’t care if they’re 8, 18, or 80, people should know better than to steal. My house and garden are my property, which I’ve spent most of my life working for, and having been burgled in the past, had my car broken into, and things stolen from my garden, of course I would do something harmless to chase someone off if I saw someone damaging or stealing my property .

Obviously a pot plant doesnt really compensate - but at least the mother has obviously recognised the wrong and made some sort of apology. Hopefully the child has also received the sort of telling off my mother or grandmother would have given me had I done such a thing. No-one would have considered this "sweet" when I was a kid.

I doubt many people (in real life) consider it sweet today either.

I do not see giving the child something to look after as "rewarding" her for theft.

It takes a village etc.

If the parents aren't teaching the child to respect other people's property, perhaps a neighbour giving her a small pot of plants to look after, herself, might.

I'd be furious if my flowers had been picked by a child or an adult but I would not go round with all guns blazing if a child had done this. Her parents need to do better.

Taking any of them is really rude when they belong to someone else.

So many people here trying to rationalise and excuse poor behaviour. Makes it obvious why there are so many entitled and feral kids running around now.

She’s probably mortified. I’d have bought potted daffy as a replacement, personally, but something is better than nothing.

I'd be pissed off if I'd spent time doing my garden to make it look nice, and someone decided to ruin it. Okay so she might have had an innocent reason for doing that, but I would still be knocking on the door, explaining, and making sure the mum knows to talk to her DD about what she should/shouldn't be doing.

No it's not rubbish or "super sweet"

Yes! I like seeing them but my god leave my roses and tulips alone!

Nah you wouldn’t 🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

Ah. Thanks 💐 ! appreciate that
trying to send a laugh out whenever I can

Poof, straight over your head!