The next door children and their friends keep running threw my yard .Plus throw trash in my yard.What can we d

Question

The next door children and their friends keep running threw my yard .Plus throw trash in my yard.What can we d

Answer 1

Call the police on them and their parents.

Answer 2

put up an electric fence or trip wire use your imagination  hope this helps!!

Answer 3

have a fence built or talk to their parents and/or the police

Answer 4

Why don't you fertilize your yard with lots of cow manure? I'm sure they won't run through your yard after that.

Answer 5

Send them a letter telling them not to do it.

Answer 6

My parents had problems for a long time with teenagers running through our back yard after they got off the bus stop.  They didn't object to that, but feared the liability if one should fall and hurt themselves.  So, they put up a pathetic little fence and a Beware of Muffin sign (my folks had a pathetic minipoodle, cute but harmless).  In the meantime, they planted some shrubbery and after a couple of years of that growing, they removed the fence. Voila! No kids running through the yard.  

As far as the trash, I'd go talk to the neighbor.  They may not be aware of what is happening and you can just ask if they could do a 5 minute pickup periodically.

Answer 7

Forget approching the children.  Kids are kids, plus you my cause a little kid to over react emotionally cause the parents to get hyped up.  talking to hyped parents leads to nothing but more trouble.

Be up front with the parents.  Don't forget to be polite, good people have bad behaving kids too.

Hi, I'm form next door.  I've been living in this neighborhood for ____ yrs.  I don't mean to be the grouchy old neighbor, but I see that you have very active, playful kids and I am having a problem with your kids running threw my property, and throwing trash.  I would like to do some nice things in my yard and would sure appreciate it if your kids stayed out of my yard.

Forget approching the children.  Kids are kids, plus you my cause a little kid to over react emotionally cause the parents to get hyped up.

Answer 8

Honestly, there is very little you can do about this.  If you start hollering at them, or anything like that, they're just going to call you names and do worse things to you.  They have all day to bother you, and you have other things to do.  My suggestion is, ignore it and they will go away.  When you say "trash" I assume it's just a piece or two here and there.

Now, if somebody dumps a lot of trash in your yard, you can call the police and report them for littering, but otherwise, I'd just ask them to pick it up... or pick it up and throw it away yourself.  Really, life is too short to get your panties in a bunch over stuff like this.

Answer 9

All of the above, plus a large, prominently displayed "No Trespassing" sign.

Answer 10

build a fence...or talk to the parents of the children

Answer 11

Tell their parents. I'm sure they'll help deal with it.

Answer 12

Plan A: You need to firmly tell those children, it's not allowed.(works better with younger children..)

Plan B:You need to have a serious talk with your neighbours

Plan C:Call the Police.(this could be messy:P)

A fence would help too, but it's costly..

Answer 13

Landmines! I would complain to the parents and tell them you don't appreciate their kids littering your yard.

Answer 14

Well to be honest no matter what you do there is a chance that after you speak to the parents of stop the children your relationship will potentially change. So be prepared as some parents will be like its no big deal and it wont change anything and look at you like you are in the wrong for even asking,

Talk to the parents first, then if nothing happens start stopping the children and making them go around. If the parents complain about you stopping there children then explain to them that you asked them first and it has not stopped.

You can call the local police department and report it but more then likely by the time they come out the kids will be long gone. They also will possibly require that you put out "No trespassing signs". At that point you will need to be able to show them where the kids live and they should go to there house and speak to the parents. Locally where I live I was told that at that point they would tranfer the info to the juvenile dept and that if they are seen by the police they can be fined.  

As far as the trash complain to the parents. I had a neighbor who after every party trash ends up in my yard. I started waiting untill late at night then picking up any garbage that was in my yard and throwing it in there yard. At a party they throw last year where I saw a kid throw a cup into my yard I  said something to the kid and called the house,spoke with the 17 yr old son I have not had a problem and they even walked my yard after that party and picked up the trash there guests left. Since then I have not had any trash issues. But this was happened after 3 years of dealing with the trash after there parties.

Good luck and keep your cool involve the police if need be.

PS

If nothing works then you can always wait until after dark then throw the garbage into there yard. Thats what i did for 3 years .

Answer 15

Talk to their parents.  If that doesn't work, call the police.