Entitled Woman Doesn’t Understand How Private Property Works, Calls Police On Neighbor After She Won’t Let Her Kids Play In Her Yard
Neighbors are somewhat of a controversial subject, unless you don’t know them. Other times, you love them or hate them. And if the former happens, you’re the luckiest person out there, but sadly, the latter is pretty common too.
This neighbor drama comes from 29-year-old Redditor u/IrnBruDependant who doesn’t have her own kids but has been living with her little sister for the past ten years. “We have a trampoline still in our back garden from when she was younger,” she wrote in a post on r/EntitledParents.
Unsurprisingly, the neighbor’s 4 kids couldn’t hide their excitement seeing that trampoline as the weather started to get better. “They asked if I could let the kids use the trampoline one day, so I was like sure, but only for a bit because I have friends coming over for some drinks,” the author recounted. Little did she know, it would be almost impossible to make them leave her garden and it would end in crying.
But this was just the beginning. The author soon realized that the kids were constantly coming to play in her garden even after she repeatedly told them and their mom not to. The tension between neighbors reached a boiling point until the neighbor drama exploded.
Recently, a woman shared how her neighbor kept sending her 4 kids to play on the trampoline in her private garden despite being told not to
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The author also clarified a couple of details about the whole situation
People showed their support for the author and many thought that her neighbor is crazy
I don't know how the laws are in the UK, but this is a hard NO for liability reasons in the US. If those kids get injured (which is almost required when playing on a trampoline) then the property owner is responsible. Yes, you are responsible for looking after trespassers.
IANAL but ISTR that taking 'ordinary care' to secure an attractive nuisance will provide substantial protection from trespassers who hurt themselves on your property. I would guess that putting a lock on it would count as ordinary care.
Load More Replies...Amazing how some parents think that everyone else should worship their brats lol
Mom was looking for some free babysitting, smh. It's always irked me when you see the young children sent out of the house at 8ish in the morning, to run wild in the neighborhood without being checked up on, and don't go home until dark. A lot of these neighborhoods are not as safe as they were when we were younger. We have several kids like this right now and for the past couple years. It's worrisome at times with people driving like bats out of hêll and kids running into the roads. You never know when something could happen to one of them. I would feel awful.
Load More Replies...Yo this Karen is out of her mind, the writer was beyond kind to let her children jump on the trampoline for 3 hours. Now Karen be thinking she and her children own the place. Just buy a trampolines for your children and quit being a Karen.
That's true. Trampolines come in many sizes. Including small ones that's a little over a meter in diameter.
Load More Replies...Motion sensor garden sprinklers. We use them to keep the squirrels out of the garden, would work on children too I imagine.
Except my neighbours bought a trampoline a couple of years ago, and on a hot day, the kids LOVED hopping on the trampoline with the sprinkler going underneath! They stopped one day, and I quickly asked their mom if I could water my plants real quick (only one water tap and the back of our semi-attached house, and water is included in our rent, so it's unlikely the landlord would put in another one just for me, weirdly there are two at the front of the house.) Anyways, I was watering and one of the boys came back out, and started crying because I was using the water. I finished and reattached their hose to the spout, saying I just needed to borrow the water while they were inside and all was well again.
Load More Replies...At times i think we have more polite neighbours in India than these idiots... I never understood such kind of behaviour...
I would've just invited my friends over and asked them to help me flip the thing over. It's hard to use if the bouncy mesh is against the ground.
There's been cases where people have gotten hurt on other peoples private party and were able to file a lawsuit against them and in some cases were actually able to win a settlement. A few years ago a womans kid drowned in her neighbors pool after she popped the lock on the pool gate and left her kid there unsupervised while the owner was at work. There wasn't a camera so the woman fed the lie that the gate was unlocked and her kid snuck in while she was doing laundry. She actually won the case for a sizeable settlement. Moral of the story, have cameras and really good locks to cover your a*s. People today are entirely to entitled to be trusted and will do their damnedest to get something for nothing at everyone else's expense.
Writer is 100% in the right here. F--k the neighbor for being such an entitled Karen.
my next-door neighbor continually gave the hate look, a.k.a. "the Mean Mug", whenever in the front yard. He would wait until I mowed my yard usually late evening Sunday just so he could mow his while glaring at me. So I put up a 12' tall screen of plants so I didn't have to put up with this. He complained to the Karen-dominated HOA that I had to remove the screen because I put it up without permission. He finally moved, good good riddance, the replacement neighbors are all comparatively nice & tame... more answered prayer, thanks, Lord... It cost a lot of $$$ to take down the screen.
So you destroyed the trampoline instead of donating it to another family (not the neighbours) that could have enjoyed it?
Reasonable question but to be fair these things can rot (especially in UK weather!). It's why you see videos of kids bouncing and suddenly disappearing through the trampoline fabric.
Load More Replies...I worked for many years in Glasgow, all over the city and in some of the worst areas. Top tip, if you're in a rough area don't give stuff to people, don't lend anything and don't leave anything outside. If you're seen to be letting people have stuff then everyone will ask and you will be taken advantage of. This sounds horrible but until you get to know them really well keep them at arms length. I've lived in places like this and it's like 'jail rules' apply. Some of the very best people live there but so do the worst - until you know who's who then keep it tight..
In murica this is what they call an ‘attractive nuisance’. You’re responsible for injury. What kind of upbringing did someone have to not understand the concept of private property?
My ex & I looked at a house with a small pool in the back yard, reasonably priced, gated, etc. THEN I noticed the 5 kids next door and said HELL NO. I knew it would be nothing but trouble. Your children are YOUR responsibility to entertain, not MINE.
Itching powder might have been fun… oh no, sorry, next doors’ crotchfruit might be allergic. Opera appreciation parties around your fire pit might be more annoying than rap. I’m going to try that one when my neighbours start up their karaoke machine this summer. You are NTA. She is and her kids probably will be too. A load of Karens in the making
Imagine raisiing a child to be an entitled pain in the a**. How cruel. Could you do worse for your child than to raise it to be an 'entitled' little sh*t?
Load More Replies...The funny thing is that KAREN tells her she is being a karen; neighbor definitile have a mental illness which includes narcisistic trait
If if you can afford it getting motion detector hooked up to your sprinklers. What a shock
As this happened in Scotland which doesn’t have trespassing law you can only get them charged with criminal damage
Just how do you keep people out of your private space then? If they're free to trespass, what is the owners liabiliy? If you lock youir gate and they break in are they criminal? In the US we're liable if they trespass which I think is ridiculouse.
Load More Replies...Also, the fact that the neighbor fabricated a story about the OP hitting her children is disgusting, and shows just how horrible of a person she is!
Wasn't she afraid one of the kids would fall from the thing and hurt themselves? The backyard trampoline is called America's most dangerous toy by the American Association of Pediatrics. I never understood how the same parents who will put a helmet, knee & elbow protectors on their kid to ro ride a bike would install a trampoline that has a 36% chance of breaking a bone, a 42% chance of a neck or head injury. As to the water sprinkler idea? Forget it! Water on a trampoline would be twice the fun! I'd be shocked at the way the kids disrespected the OP by telling her they weren't going to leave, but with parents like they have I'm surprised one of the kids wasn't picking the lock! I don't know what you call a male Karen, but her husband had some steel ones to pick a lock all so his kids will be out of his & his wife's hair for the day. It had to be a day since mom sent them out with a breakfast bar & water! I guess it's a good thing the OP didn't have a pool!
Maybe they could go jump on the family car, (JK)...though we used to live next to some peeps who kids actually did that at night after the grownups refused to get them a trampoline :/
Some comedian said: My neighbor won't loan me his nine-iron golf club. It's iron! But he'll give him kids in a second! (Hate the everyone thinks their kids are special.)
I can believe much of this story, but it is unclear where the theft charge has come from. Burglary is a valid offence in this scenario, as a trespasser committing theft or criminal damage is considered a burglar, but where is the theft? What was taken? Using something without the owners consent is not theft in UK law unless the intention is to deprive the owner of the thing.
Why destroy it though? OP could have sold it. It does cost a pretty penny, so even used she would have made some money on it.
It was a A 10+ yr old trampoline subjected to the Scottish elements. Not worth a thing I’m afraid x
Load More Replies...I mean, she didn't have to destroy the trampoline, I would have just taken a pic, posted it on a for sale site, and taken the mat (aka 'the jumpy part') off of the trampoline in the meantime. My neighbours did that every winter, just took the springs and mat off, and left the frame up, then put them back on in the spring. Or she could have posted it on a 'free' site as first come, first served, bring your own dismantling tools and transport, if she thought it was too old to sell for much money, I bet it would have been gone in a snap!
Why would you slash the damn thing though? Advertise it on a local platform for free and have someone else take it away an enjoy it. God, I hate pointless waste!
Not pointless if the material was old enough to be a liability as has been stated in comments. I'm told they can't weather for too many years. Obnoxious 'neighbor' sounds just nasty enough to sue if any of her precious little 'enabled' got a boo boo.
Load More Replies...Sounds like the jumpy part was old enough to be a liability.
Load More Replies...too many winters outdoors will render the bouncy part a liability and nasty neighbor sounds like just the one to take advantage if one of her cast-off brats got a boo boo. She locked, they broke - It was wise to take the precaution.
Load More Replies...It’s not perfectly good. It’s ten years old. It was dangerous to be using it in the first place
Load More Replies...I don't know how the laws are in the UK, but this is a hard NO for liability reasons in the US. If those kids get injured (which is almost required when playing on a trampoline) then the property owner is responsible. Yes, you are responsible for looking after trespassers.
IANAL but ISTR that taking 'ordinary care' to secure an attractive nuisance will provide substantial protection from trespassers who hurt themselves on your property. I would guess that putting a lock on it would count as ordinary care.
Load More Replies...Amazing how some parents think that everyone else should worship their brats lol
Mom was looking for some free babysitting, smh. It's always irked me when you see the young children sent out of the house at 8ish in the morning, to run wild in the neighborhood without being checked up on, and don't go home until dark. A lot of these neighborhoods are not as safe as they were when we were younger. We have several kids like this right now and for the past couple years. It's worrisome at times with people driving like bats out of hêll and kids running into the roads. You never know when something could happen to one of them. I would feel awful.
Load More Replies...Yo this Karen is out of her mind, the writer was beyond kind to let her children jump on the trampoline for 3 hours. Now Karen be thinking she and her children own the place. Just buy a trampolines for your children and quit being a Karen.
That's true. Trampolines come in many sizes. Including small ones that's a little over a meter in diameter.
Load More Replies...Motion sensor garden sprinklers. We use them to keep the squirrels out of the garden, would work on children too I imagine.
Except my neighbours bought a trampoline a couple of years ago, and on a hot day, the kids LOVED hopping on the trampoline with the sprinkler going underneath! They stopped one day, and I quickly asked their mom if I could water my plants real quick (only one water tap and the back of our semi-attached house, and water is included in our rent, so it's unlikely the landlord would put in another one just for me, weirdly there are two at the front of the house.) Anyways, I was watering and one of the boys came back out, and started crying because I was using the water. I finished and reattached their hose to the spout, saying I just needed to borrow the water while they were inside and all was well again.
Load More Replies...At times i think we have more polite neighbours in India than these idiots... I never understood such kind of behaviour...
I would've just invited my friends over and asked them to help me flip the thing over. It's hard to use if the bouncy mesh is against the ground.
There's been cases where people have gotten hurt on other peoples private party and were able to file a lawsuit against them and in some cases were actually able to win a settlement. A few years ago a womans kid drowned in her neighbors pool after she popped the lock on the pool gate and left her kid there unsupervised while the owner was at work. There wasn't a camera so the woman fed the lie that the gate was unlocked and her kid snuck in while she was doing laundry. She actually won the case for a sizeable settlement. Moral of the story, have cameras and really good locks to cover your a*s. People today are entirely to entitled to be trusted and will do their damnedest to get something for nothing at everyone else's expense.
Writer is 100% in the right here. F--k the neighbor for being such an entitled Karen.
my next-door neighbor continually gave the hate look, a.k.a. "the Mean Mug", whenever in the front yard. He would wait until I mowed my yard usually late evening Sunday just so he could mow his while glaring at me. So I put up a 12' tall screen of plants so I didn't have to put up with this. He complained to the Karen-dominated HOA that I had to remove the screen because I put it up without permission. He finally moved, good good riddance, the replacement neighbors are all comparatively nice & tame... more answered prayer, thanks, Lord... It cost a lot of $$$ to take down the screen.
So you destroyed the trampoline instead of donating it to another family (not the neighbours) that could have enjoyed it?
Reasonable question but to be fair these things can rot (especially in UK weather!). It's why you see videos of kids bouncing and suddenly disappearing through the trampoline fabric.
Load More Replies...I worked for many years in Glasgow, all over the city and in some of the worst areas. Top tip, if you're in a rough area don't give stuff to people, don't lend anything and don't leave anything outside. If you're seen to be letting people have stuff then everyone will ask and you will be taken advantage of. This sounds horrible but until you get to know them really well keep them at arms length. I've lived in places like this and it's like 'jail rules' apply. Some of the very best people live there but so do the worst - until you know who's who then keep it tight..
In murica this is what they call an ‘attractive nuisance’. You’re responsible for injury. What kind of upbringing did someone have to not understand the concept of private property?
My ex & I looked at a house with a small pool in the back yard, reasonably priced, gated, etc. THEN I noticed the 5 kids next door and said HELL NO. I knew it would be nothing but trouble. Your children are YOUR responsibility to entertain, not MINE.
Itching powder might have been fun… oh no, sorry, next doors’ crotchfruit might be allergic. Opera appreciation parties around your fire pit might be more annoying than rap. I’m going to try that one when my neighbours start up their karaoke machine this summer. You are NTA. She is and her kids probably will be too. A load of Karens in the making
Imagine raisiing a child to be an entitled pain in the a**. How cruel. Could you do worse for your child than to raise it to be an 'entitled' little sh*t?
Load More Replies...The funny thing is that KAREN tells her she is being a karen; neighbor definitile have a mental illness which includes narcisistic trait
If if you can afford it getting motion detector hooked up to your sprinklers. What a shock
As this happened in Scotland which doesn’t have trespassing law you can only get them charged with criminal damage
Just how do you keep people out of your private space then? If they're free to trespass, what is the owners liabiliy? If you lock youir gate and they break in are they criminal? In the US we're liable if they trespass which I think is ridiculouse.
Load More Replies...Also, the fact that the neighbor fabricated a story about the OP hitting her children is disgusting, and shows just how horrible of a person she is!
Wasn't she afraid one of the kids would fall from the thing and hurt themselves? The backyard trampoline is called America's most dangerous toy by the American Association of Pediatrics. I never understood how the same parents who will put a helmet, knee & elbow protectors on their kid to ro ride a bike would install a trampoline that has a 36% chance of breaking a bone, a 42% chance of a neck or head injury. As to the water sprinkler idea? Forget it! Water on a trampoline would be twice the fun! I'd be shocked at the way the kids disrespected the OP by telling her they weren't going to leave, but with parents like they have I'm surprised one of the kids wasn't picking the lock! I don't know what you call a male Karen, but her husband had some steel ones to pick a lock all so his kids will be out of his & his wife's hair for the day. It had to be a day since mom sent them out with a breakfast bar & water! I guess it's a good thing the OP didn't have a pool!
Maybe they could go jump on the family car, (JK)...though we used to live next to some peeps who kids actually did that at night after the grownups refused to get them a trampoline :/
Some comedian said: My neighbor won't loan me his nine-iron golf club. It's iron! But he'll give him kids in a second! (Hate the everyone thinks their kids are special.)
I can believe much of this story, but it is unclear where the theft charge has come from. Burglary is a valid offence in this scenario, as a trespasser committing theft or criminal damage is considered a burglar, but where is the theft? What was taken? Using something without the owners consent is not theft in UK law unless the intention is to deprive the owner of the thing.
Why destroy it though? OP could have sold it. It does cost a pretty penny, so even used she would have made some money on it.
It was a A 10+ yr old trampoline subjected to the Scottish elements. Not worth a thing I’m afraid x
Load More Replies...I mean, she didn't have to destroy the trampoline, I would have just taken a pic, posted it on a for sale site, and taken the mat (aka 'the jumpy part') off of the trampoline in the meantime. My neighbours did that every winter, just took the springs and mat off, and left the frame up, then put them back on in the spring. Or she could have posted it on a 'free' site as first come, first served, bring your own dismantling tools and transport, if she thought it was too old to sell for much money, I bet it would have been gone in a snap!
Why would you slash the damn thing though? Advertise it on a local platform for free and have someone else take it away an enjoy it. God, I hate pointless waste!
Not pointless if the material was old enough to be a liability as has been stated in comments. I'm told they can't weather for too many years. Obnoxious 'neighbor' sounds just nasty enough to sue if any of her precious little 'enabled' got a boo boo.
Load More Replies...Sounds like the jumpy part was old enough to be a liability.
Load More Replies...too many winters outdoors will render the bouncy part a liability and nasty neighbor sounds like just the one to take advantage if one of her cast-off brats got a boo boo. She locked, they broke - It was wise to take the precaution.
Load More Replies...It’s not perfectly good. It’s ten years old. It was dangerous to be using it in the first place
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