aurrrrggg!!!!

[Dave2000]

No respect for other people's property. I am curious about what the parents did.

Last year I had a tomato plant on the side of the house where we couldn't see it without making a special trip that direction (blind wall, nothing else on that side of the house). The neighbor's 8 year old son and his friend picked all the tomatoes off and threw them at each other!

Hard to say, they are... how should I put it? Not running a tight ship. We can't keep track of all the people that may or may not be living there, a car with flat tires sits in the driveway, they don't mow till you need a periscope to see where you're going, etc.

I sort of feel sorry for them right now though, they put in a raised garden early last year at the back of their lot but didn't think it through. Right next to their garden is a field full of weeds that another owner only mows once in a great while with a bush hog so it's a real pain to try to garden right there with all the weeds around, plus it doesn't get much sun there due to a row of trees. They didn't tend it and had poor results last year, then only a week ago they tore down the raised garden but by that I mean they only took down the wood planks and have three, 1' tall sections of dirt held together by giant weed roots. I'm wondering if they think that dirt is going to disappear without the wood around it.

Losing the tomatoes wasn't all that big a deal to me though, was only one of several plants and to be frank it was a bit of a pain to trudge to it to tie up, water, get fruit when it was distanced from everything else I was growing, I just didn't have the heart to throw it out as it was a leftover.

 

[Dave2000]

You would definitely be arrested!

We have 2 sets of new neighbors with young kids. The one set watches their kids pretty well, but the other not at all. One morning I woke up, got the kids ready and off to school, I had an appointment that morning so about 10 minutes after the kids left I went to get in my car and low and behold, there sat the one neighbors kids trikes. I had half a mind to just run it over, but I couldn't. Instead I walked it over to their porch and hung it oa their door. These are the same neighbors that throw a ball into my neighbors yard for theirdog to fetch and then got mad t me for kicking their dog when it tried to attack our puppy in OUR YARD! I told them that the next time I caught their dog in my yard I was going to shoot it. The firs time I catch one of their kids in my garden... I WILL spank them.

Where we used to live our back door neighbors had a large angry attack dog that would get through their dilapidated wood fence every now and then. I got tired of having to watch and wait till they got home to ask them to come get their dog so finally one day I just went out to pin it where we had a dog pin from a deceased pet, it bit me on the upper arm, then I filed a police report which resulted in the dog being taken away from them. I did wear a denim jacket so I had a bit of protection, that and a baseball bat. Probably seems a stupid thing to do but I'm fairly athletic and not scared by most dogs... and they sense that.

 

[dickiebird]

W C Fields (When asked : "How do you like children?") "Fried!"

Yes yes, my friends a very good answer!!!!

THANX RICH

 

[nachoqtpie]

I wouldn't shoot it to kill it... LOL I have a paintball gun for just those occasions. My immediate neighbor to the right use to have 2 little jack russell type dogs and they were MEAN! They would leave them outside with no food or water all day long and sometimes bring them in at night, but not often. Well, they would get out, and terrorize the neighborhood. Our lovely animal control would tell us that there was nothing that they could do, so I told them that when they came into my yard I was going to shoot them with a paintball gun and hung up. After that, I caught one of them digging in my garden and shot it with a bright pink paintball. It never dug in my garden again, and it took a couple more times before they decided that they didn't want to come in my yard at all. Finally they got rid of those dogs and got 2 American Bull dogs. Gorgeous creatures, but again... out all day with no shelter, no food or water to bee seen. They have an old john boat to play with and that's about it.

As for the neighbors kids... they're very absent with them. The first day that they moved in, the guy took them on a walk in their wagon. He hooked the dog to the wagon so that it was pulling the wagon and not him. They were gone for a couple of minutes and then I seen the dog barreling down the street with the wagon and kids. The dog decided that it wanted to go thru the grass and tipped the wagon on top of the kids who landed in the street. The kids start to cry and scream (as would I!) and the guy walks up and yells "Shut up! You act like such babies!" Neither kid is older than about 5. That's just the beginning of their wonderful parenting skills as well!

 

[digitS']

I love taking about neighbors !

In my 1st post, I said something about 2 incidents with children in the gardens/greenhouse. The 2nd turned out fine and I think it was not just because there was no damage done after the child's adventure into my greenhouse. If she had destroyed a flat of plants, I'm not sure if I'd have asked for more than a "token" restitution. Something to impress both parent & child with what is and isn't responsible behavior. As for my loss, I can mark it up to not having a lock on the gate, or something.

The 1st incidence with the 3 boys and their bikes in the garden, I'm afraid that I made enemies. How it would have all played out, I'm not sure since we moved the next year I believe it was. They also moved so the neighborhood went back to one of peace and tranquility .

My daughter kept track of the girl in the family just thru friends at school. Not all that long after the move, she was killed by a car while walking at night along a road. I wonder about the circumstances.

To give you an idea of how these kids were raised, we knew one as "Jesse" until his mother came out of the house one day and raised holy h**k with him. She used his full given name, "Jesse James!"

Come on! Big surprise to anyone that he was a holy tear in the neighborhood?! That kid was completely out of control unless you could briefly catch his attention with something interesting. This didn't always have the intended results anyway.

His sister once showed me a tiny handful of locust seeds that she had collected. Jesse was standing (or, bounding) nearby. I said that they were pretty but be careful, they are poisonous. Jesse, immediately took them from her and swallowed them!! I told his sister to run home and tell their mother and left it at that. Jesse was out & about on the road for the rest of the day.

I should say that the kids' father once arrived home just at sun-up, walking. He was literally so drunk that it was difficult to understand how he was able to move, on foot or otherwise. He seemed barely to recognize his home but went in off the road so he was no longer out in the public. I can't help but believe that Jesse James is no longer "out in public" either. He'd be in his late twenties by now.

In my "new" neighborhood we have a new neighbor. The lady next door met the guy and told me his name: "Rebel." Really?! Yes, she said that's the name his mother gave him. "Well, you know," says I, "these rebels are all alike." Probably shouldn't have said that - lumping people together like that - but, I made her laugh .

Steve

 

[desertlady]

Now my two young chickens learned how to fly in my garden !! Grrrr...

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

I love taking about neighbors !

In my 1st post, I said something about 2 incidents with children in the gardens/greenhouse. The 2nd turned out fine and I think it was not just because there was no damage done after the child's adventure into my greenhouse. If she had destroyed a flat of plants, I'm not sure if I'd have asked for more than a "token" restitution. Something to impress both parent & child with what is and isn't responsible behavior. As for my loss, I can mark it up to not having a lock on the gate, or something.

The 1st incidence with the 3 boys and their bikes in the garden, I'm afraid that I made enemies. How it would have all played out, I'm not sure since we moved the next year I believe it was. They also moved so the neighborhood went back to one of peace and tranquility .

My daughter kept track of the girl in the family just thru friends at school. Not all that long after the move, she was killed by a car while walking at night along a road. I wonder about the circumstances.

To give you an idea of how these kids were raised, we knew one as "Jesse" until his mother came out of the house one day and raised holy h**k with him. She used his full given name, "Jesse James!"

Come on! Big surprise to anyone that he was a holy tear in the neighborhood?! That kid was completely out of control unless you could briefly catch his attention with something interesting. This didn't always have the intended results anyway.

His sister once showed me a tiny handful of locust seeds that she had collected. Jesse was standing (or, bounding) nearby. I said that they were pretty but be careful, they are poisonous. Jesse, immediately took them from her and swallowed them!! I told his sister to run home and tell their mother and left it at that. Jesse was out & about on the road for the rest of the day.

I should say that the kids' father once arrived home just at sun-up, walking. He was literally so drunk that it was difficult to understand how he was able to move, on foot or otherwise. He seemed barely to recognize his home but went in off the road so he was no longer out in the public. I can't help but believe that Jesse James is no longer "out in public" either. He'd be in his late twenties by now.

In my "new" neighborhood we have a new neighbor. The lady next door met the guy and told me his name: "Rebel." Really?! Yes, she said that's the name his mother gave him. "Well, you know," says I, "these rebels are all alike." Probably shouldn't have said that - lumping people together like that - but, I made her laugh .

Steve

Sorry OP, not meaning to high jack the thread....But Steve, I was just telling my youngest daughter the other day (she is expecting her first child) that people and pets alike become what their names are. Your stories are fine examples of just that!