Kids with footballs - Our Rights

18MFC76 said:
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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... Or take the ball to Redcar police as per the top tip.
 
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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Just throw the ball back, but make sure not to leave the knife stuck in it.
 
I’ve been working from home all week. My neighbour has three lads and this week they’ve had mates round all week, as they’ve got footy goals in the garden. The noise has drove me nuts at times, but thankfully they manage to keep the ball in their own garden mainly.

When it does go over they just wait until I return it, so can’t complain.
 
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