A woman was urged to call the police after some bizarre goings on around her home.
She explained that she’d been having some problems with the “neighbours‘ kids for years now” but hadn’t wanted to escalate anything properly thus far.
Detailing some of the things they’d been doing left others furious on her behalf, as she listed that they’d been “riding bikes through our lawn on rainy days,” ruining parts of it, “playing hide and seek” under their cars, “hitting” their cars “with balls,” and “slamming their bikes” into their front door.
“I’ve tried talking to their parents and asking the kids to stop, but nothing ever resolves the issues. The parents seem to dislike us for not wanting the kids to throw stuff at our cars,” she explained on Reddit’s ‘Neighbour’s From Hell’ thread.
She explained that the “situation had escalated” recently though, and had left her wondering what to do about it.
“About a week ago, I heard a baby screaming outside, so I checked the ring camera,” and she noticed that there was a baby running down the road in a nappy “screaming for his mum”.
She penned: “We ran out to see what was going on, and the toddler was running down our street straight for a busy road,” saying that they took the baby straight back to their neighbour, and the “door was wide open”.
The woman explained that the ‘baby sitter’ for the child was the dad of the baby’s 15-year-old sister, and when she gave the baby back to her, she got defensive saying that she was in the bathroom.
“I suggested locking the door or taking him with her upstairs, but she said she couldn’t lock the door and went back inside. The child’s parents came by when they got home and thanked us for not calling the police on them,” she explained, saying it was a bit “strange,” but she didn’t want to get authorities involved “at this point”.
Anyway, she explained that she left it and thought nothing more of it. Until the babysitter was with the kids outside her home, allowing them to “throw rocks” at her house.
She finished the post by sharing: “On the camera you can hear her telling them that we’re mean and all of this stuff and that she got in trouble because of us. The kids start throwing rocks at our house. She’s not stopping them.
“Finally, one of the kids, a different neighbour’s child that is part of the group we have issues with, chucks a big rock at our door. They all run away laughing. There’s a dent in our door; nothing I’m going to overreact about, but I’m not sure what the best next step is.
“I hate confrontation and dread talking to the parents. I’m not even sure if talking to them will do anything. Do I try talking to them? Do I call the police? Please help me.”
In the comments, people urged the woman to “call the cops because they’re damaging your property”.
Another fumed: “Seriously???? You have multiple amounts of property damage and have already talked to the parents with no change, and you do nothing. Now you see the neighbours endangering their child by leaving them with an incompetent sitter…and you do nothing.
“CALL THE POLICE!!! Call the non-emergency number and report them!!!!! Start a paper trail of the damage they have done to your property. Show the cops the video and the damage. Threaten the parents with the report and the videos and say you’ll be suing them (small claims court) for the damages.
“Even if you have no real plans of suing them, I’m pretty sure a visit from the cops and the threat of litigation will, most likely, scare them.
“Grow a spine and stop letting your neighbours walk all over you! Seriously? They dented your front door, and you’re STILL debating what you should do. Come on, my dude!”
Someone else wrote: “Stand up for yourself. You already have the camera. You already have footage, so start downloading the footage into a file so you have it and it doesn’t disappear in 60 days”.
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