to be incensed at this act of delinquency...

[Lauries]

Prior to having a 3ft fence erected, people treated our garden like an abandoned field - letting dogs off to go and shit in it, throwing litter on it, trampling all over it, lying in the middle of it in the sunshine!!

Today; nasty, arrogant little shite of a 9? year old paperboy saw fit to walk across the fence and then instead of walking down the driveway like a normal person decided to walk all down the middle of the lawn. Strange behaviour I thought...

Paper was deposited, cocky little bastard ran across the lawn right infront of the window and jumped over the fence!

Its a big garden, fence was expensive, expensive plants surround the fence, fence was OBVIOUSLY put up to mark a boundary and keep intruders out!

Thoroughly fucked off! Complaints have been issued against said child, will be sitting on doorstep with shotgun camera to catch the little weasel and break his face have a word with him next week.

Three guesses who'll be forced into footing the bill in case of damage!

wow you sound nuts

WSS!

Really? So I take it you don't mind having a lawn covered in dog shit, litter and children trying to damage your property then?

maybe you should put up a bigger fence

YANBU. We have the same problem. Our house is a corner plot and the world and his wife like to walk accross my front lawn to cut the corner (lazy f**kers!!)........kids even ride their bikes accross it! We tried to deal with the issue by growing a hedge all the way round but they just go through the gap (where I guess we should put a garden gate)

It drives me absolutely insane and shows a complete lack of respect. And what really gets me is all the parents who let their kids do it right under their nose!!! Grrrrrrr

The fence is 3ft tall.

Its already monstrous

taller fence with barbed wire around the top.

or a nice breezeblock wall with broken bottles concreted in to the top. that'll sort them out.

diamondsandtiaras I love you!
People don't understand unless they're unlucky enough to have it

EccentricaGallumbits - tempting

Why didn't you get out there and tell him off? I think it would be much more satisfying (and less alarming) to bollock him than to fantasise about smashing him in his little face.

I ran out there after him in my socks lol!
He was legging it down the road by this point.

I'll be there waiting next time though..

As much as it might be annoying, you do realise you sound like a mad old lady who shouts at her cats in made up languages, don't you?

Grow a hedge.... leylandii [evil grin]

no of course i wouldn't want the litter and people using it like public space

i wouldn't, however, have a problem with the papaer boy jumping over it while he's on his round. just like it doesn't bother me when the postie walks across my garden and over our low wall to next door

I'm afraid if you lived in my house this is what you'd be reduced to.

It wears you down to maddening levels when it happens all day and then when you fork out a load of money you don't really have and people do things like that!

thisisyesterday - the fence is tall and it is surrounded by expensive plants. In order to jump over it he would have to hold the post and put at least some weight on it. That is likely to damage my fence.

The plants were expensive, they are a good foot away from the fence, those are easily damaged as well.

did he damage them?

Not that I can see but if thats happening every week (Only happened today as fence has been up less than a week) it will damage it at some point.

Why don't you just ask him not to, FGS. When I had a paper round, I was encouraged to step over the walls and fences if I was delivering to houses next door to each other.

And the comment about "breaking his face" makes you sound really quite horrible. And he's nine(ish) years old? And he's a "nasty, arrogant little shite"?

Christ am I glad I never delivered your paper.

How can I ask him not to when he ran off?

I did actually say earlier i'll be waiting outsite next week to have a word with him.

You can't 'step over' this fence, it too tall. You have to JUMP it and put weight on it.

I'm very nice, genuinely.

9 year olds who are rude, arrogant and have little respect for others do exist. Not all obviously, but they do exist.

Funnily enough, you say that, but no one else I know would give £20 bonuses in cards to the paper boys at christmas!

I'm very easy to get along with, just not when you show complete lack of respect for my property.

buy some anti-climb paint then put notices all over the fence to warn people (like our weirdyneighbour has done)

9 year olds tend to have little idea how much fences and plants cost.

Landmines, that'll learn 'em.