Kids with footballs - Our Rights

viv_andersons_nana said:
Next it comes over, I would throw an ever so slightly smaller back over the fence. The time after that, I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball than that over. If it happened again, I’d thrown an ever so slightly, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back. And then the next time, when it came over the fence, I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball back. Not so you’d notice, but just ever so slightly smaller. If it happened again I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back over the fence. If it happened again I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back over the fence. The next time it happened, I’d throw over an ever so slightly, again, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back. If it happened again, I’d throw an ever so slightly, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller, again, not so you’d notice, but I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball back over the fence. I’d keep doing this this for several days, just throwing back an ever so slightly smaller football, not you’d so notice, but just an ever so slightly football back over the fence until they were playing with a marble-sized football. And how much damage can a marble-sized football do, really. Everybody’s happy.
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You are Harry Hill and I claim my £5
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Next it comes over, I would throw an ever so slightly smaller back over the fence. The time after that, I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball than that over. If it happened again, I’d thrown an ever so slightly, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back. And then the next time, when it came over the fence, I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball back. Not so you’d notice, but just ever so slightly smaller. If it happened again I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back over the fence. If it happened again I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back over the fence. The next time it happened, I’d throw over an ever so slightly, again, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller ball back. If it happened again, I’d throw an ever so slightly, not so you’d notice, but an ever so slightly smaller, again, not so you’d notice, but I’d throw an ever so slightly smaller ball back over the fence. I’d keep doing this this for several days, just throwing back an ever so slightly smaller football, not you’d so notice, but just an ever so slightly football back over the fence until they were playing with a marble-sized football. And how much damage can a marble-sized football do, really. Everybody’s happy.
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You are Harry Hill and I claim my pound of chops.
 
Get a Jack Russell. It will "play" with the ball when it comes over and throw it back when it's finished "playing" - completely deflated. They will soon stop sending balls over.

Our Jack Russell used to love playing football but it always ended up puncturing the ball. Great dog though,
 
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For around £80 you can get a ‘stop that ball’ net and post system, put it up by your fence, if they then somehow manage to kick it over that then they’ve done it on purpose and you can be shown to have taken reasonable steps as a neighbour. I know you shouldn’t have to, but for a smallish cost it may give some peace of mind.

Stop That Ball
 
We bought a house on Chesterfield's old ground (now sold) and they left a fenced seven a side pitch size section of grass in the middle of the estate. A couple of people bought a place just for the location/history. One of the neighbours used to complain about the kids kicking balls around, saying 'I didn't realise they would play football here' and several of the other neighbours pointed out it was an old football ground. Don't think I made any friends by remarking that there hadn't been any football played there except for the odd occasion when Boro or York visited.
 
Bit of a pile on here but I can relate to OP a bit. We used to live in a house with the only bit of grass next to it for about a kilometre and we'd always have people playing football against our house, which rattles like f**k every time it hit it.

I gets old very fast when footballs are hitting plant pots or even you when you're sat in your garden trying to relax. Doorbell going off 5 times a night and so on... ours escalated a lot as well to the point they were cutting house wires etc

As above you legally have to give it back so there is little you can do. You need to be wary of having disputes with neighbours a if you need to sell (presuming you own) you'll need to declare anything you've gone to council or police about.

If it's really bad I'd consider moving - life is too short! Otherwise kids will grow up and it will eventually go away but depends if you can put up with it that long.
 
Madeinbrazil said:
I live next door to 2 lads not even secondary school age , longstanding issues with footballs coming into garden. We've got a 6ft Wooden fence.


This pm after 1st time came over again, the eldest lads mate, asked for the ball I said I was busy, they would have to wait.

They then came and knocked on my door , I didnt answer, they shouted through the letter box then booted my front door.

Later today my partner was called names by the eldest lads mate. It's now escalating.

We're reasonable people but had enough. Never got on well with the parents either.

Luckily we've got a couple of locks to put on the walk through and drive through gates. So they can't get to the front door. Any other practical, legal , realistic suggestions?
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Rub poo over the ball and throw it back over the fence.
 
Madeinbrazil said:
Dear me !!! My neighbour over the road has 3 of the kids balls in his house deflated that he didn't give back.
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What's your neighbour over the road hanging onto useless deflated footballs for? Do they add a certain ambience, a certain Je Ne Sais Quoi to his home?

And you want to take a leaf out of this prize meff's book?
 
We had a Mackam live over the back of us? Usually used the garage wall but occasionally the ball went over his fence and he was a miserable sod.
 
This brings back memories of being a kid. Playing football was all we did, all of the neighbours were great and if the ball went into someone's garden you could knock and they would return it. One fella on our road was an absolute nightmare, however. The ball didn't go into his garden often but on the odd occasion that it did, he would point blank refuse to give you it back.

One time it was particularly frustrating as the ball I was playing with had been given to me by my Grandad who'd not long passed away. As you can imagine my mam and dad weren't happy and I think my dad hopped his fence and got that one back after he'd refused to return it.

Another occasion, different ball. Knocked on his door, refused to give it back. My dad went round a couple of hours later to ask for it back. At this point he stated he didn't have the ball any more, he had taken it to Redcar Police station (we lived in Middlesbrough) and handed it in as 'lost property'. Crazy but true. The police turned up at our house a couple of hours later as he'd called them saying my dad was threatening him (he didn't, I heard their full conversation). The two police officers said don't worry about it, we know you've done nothing wrong but we have to attend. They basically said they were sick of him wasting police time.

All of this over a bl00dy football! Mental!

The moral of the story is... just throw it back 🤣 👍 .
 
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