Neighborhood Treats Woman’s Backyard As Everyone’s Property, She Asks The Internet For Advice
There’s a line between being kind and getting taken advantage of, and TikTok creator @s_hubby14 thinks that her neighbors expect her family to fall into the second category.
Recently, the mom uploaded a video to air her grievances with children showing up to play in her backyard swing set whenever they please, and worst of all, without asking for permission.
Lost and confused, the woman asked her followers what they thought about the situation and how she should proceed.
Image credits: Karolina Grabowska (not the actual photo)
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“Okay, let me ask you a question. And yes, this is me literally crouched down hiding in my own house.”
“Do other people’s neighbors do this? We have an open backyard, which means that there’s no fences and we can’t put fences up because we don’t have a pool.”
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“So our neighbors just come into our backyard and literally play on our structure and don’t ask us. They just play, like they own it, like it’s a communal backyard, just because we don’t have fences.”
“The first couple of times, I didn’t care because I’m like, whatever. I let my kids go out and play with them. But now it’s just so weird to me.”
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“They have a pool. What if they came home and I was just in their [goddamn] pool? Like, this is so weird to me.”
“My husband thinks I’m overreacting, but I work in a law office and this is just screaming liability.”
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“What if one of them gets hurt, then our homeowner’s insurance is the one that’s getting sued? Whose side are you on? Am I crazy? Or is my husband just too nice?”
“They’re hiding behind the swing set so that I can’t see them. I think it’s because they’ve caught me recording them before. I don’t give a [damn]. This is weird and I don’t like it. Like, who does that?”
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The mom’s video has been going viral
@s_hubby14 Sound on… Are you team #beneighborly or are you #getoffmylawn ? #weirdneighbors #neighborhood #neighborhoodplayground ♬ original sound – 🧿🧿🧿
And she’s seemingly conflicted
Most of the people who saw the clip are team get off my loan
But a few disagree with them
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If this is the US, then they can absolutely be sued if someone gets hurt on their play equipment, even if they were there without permission. If they can't put up a fence they need to post "No Trespassing" signs and clearly state to the parents that no one can be on the equipment unless invited.
My grandma had a trampoline in her back yard for the grandkids. She ended up having to put up "No Trespassing" signs and a padlock on the enclosure zipper to keep the neighborhood kids out of it.
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I lived rural and my neighbor had horses. One day a family out "site seeing" stopped on the side of the rode and approached his fence. The horses ran over to see if they would feed them and they thought it would be a great picture to put their young child on the back of one of the horses. The horse didn't like it and bucked. The kid fell into the barbed wire fence and got several puncture and scratch wounds on his arms, torso, and legs. The family tried to sue. It didn't go anywhere, but the guy had to waste time and money defending himself and hiring a lawyer. I am totally team "Stay off my property!"
We have horses where I'm from and we'd sometimes bring apples to feed them. If anyone got nipped fingers tho, we weren't going to sue anyone and we definitely weren't getting in the same fence with a horse we didn't have 1:1 time with before. But some of the city slickers that came through on vacation were just stupid
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I'm assuming that the reason that they can't put a fence up is that they live somewhere with a HOA. Only in the 'Land of the Free' are you prevented from erecting a fence by interfering neighbours.
Or fences are expensive. We did our own with wire but not everyone has the tools or skill set to do their own fences
Load More Replies... If this is the US, then they can absolutely be sued if someone gets hurt on their play equipment, even if they were there without permission. If they can't put up a fence they need to post "No Trespassing" signs and clearly state to the parents that no one can be on the equipment unless invited.
My grandma had a trampoline in her back yard for the grandkids. She ended up having to put up "No Trespassing" signs and a padlock on the enclosure zipper to keep the neighborhood kids out of it.
Load More Replies... I lived rural and my neighbor had horses. One day a family out "site seeing" stopped on the side of the rode and approached his fence. The horses ran over to see if they would feed them and they thought it would be a great picture to put their young child on the back of one of the horses. The horse didn't like it and bucked. The kid fell into the barbed wire fence and got several puncture and scratch wounds on his arms, torso, and legs. The family tried to sue. It didn't go anywhere, but the guy had to waste time and money defending himself and hiring a lawyer. I am totally team "Stay off my property!"
We have horses where I'm from and we'd sometimes bring apples to feed them. If anyone got nipped fingers tho, we weren't going to sue anyone and we definitely weren't getting in the same fence with a horse we didn't have 1:1 time with before. But some of the city slickers that came through on vacation were just stupid
Load More Replies... I'm assuming that the reason that they can't put a fence up is that they live somewhere with a HOA. Only in the 'Land of the Free' are you prevented from erecting a fence by interfering neighbours.
Or fences are expensive. We did our own with wire but not everyone has the tools or skill set to do their own fences
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