‘I’m sick of my neighbours kicking their football into my garden – it’s so distressing’

A man was left flabbergasted after requesting that his noisy neighbours get their child to stop kicking their football into his garden – as they said they wouldn’t stop

It can be difficult when you have neighbours who are louder or more disruptive than you are, and it can be especially distressing if they refuse to tone it down after you speak to them.

One man was left ‘speechless’ after his neighbours refusal to do anything about their son who was repeatedly kicking their football over the fence and into their garden.

The unnamed man took to Reddit’s ‘neighbours from hell’ forum to explain that his girlfriend is pregnant, and if they are not expecting the ball to smash into the fence then it ‘scares the s**t’ out of them – leaving the pair distressed and wondering why their neighbours are so ‘inconsiderate’.

He wrote: “Basically, our neighbours have a football net at the bottom of their garden. Our houses are in awkward positions so their back garden kind of joins right next to our house.

“What started as occasionally the dad and his son playing football is now a daily occurrence where two or three footballs come into our garden if they miss the goal.

“It’s not just us having to throw the ball back. It’s very distressing to have the ball smash into the joined fence which can scare the s**t out of us if we don’t expect it coming.

“Both mum and dad neighbours know my girlfriend is pregnant and continue to let it happen. They’re very inconsiderate and tend to be quite loud neighbours anyway but we can’t escape every evening trying to chill out with footballs coming into our garden and banging on the fence.

“I like my privacy and feel I shouldn’t have to deal with this just because our neighbours have a hyper little kid who doesn’t know any better.

“I’ve already knocked and asked if they could tone it down so this would be the second time me having to confront them. How can I deal with this without falling out?”

He then offered an update which annoyed him even further, leaving him ‘speechless’.

He wrote: “UPDATE: I spoke to them and they’ve basically told me there’s nothing they can do. Can’t believe it. No consideration at all. Their defence is that they have a rule to cut it off by 7pm so it doesn’t go on until late in the evening. I’m speechless.”

In the comments, people were appalled that the man had confronted the neighbour politely and they refused to do anything.

One wrote: “Our neighbours kicked a ball into our garden. Unfortunately by the time we got to it out Jack Russell had completely deflated it. Oh noooo. Hasn’t happened again!”

Another fumed: “See. I’d keep the balls. Oh, I thought they were gifts for the baby that’s coming. Maybe if you didn’t kick them in our yard…”

Someone else agreed saying that they were taking advantage of their kindness, writing: “Keeping the balls is a good way to solve the issue. Some people take kindness as a weakness. If it was me, I’d probably give them one last chance though, and tell them after this, the balls will not be returned.”

Another Redditor told of a similar experience they had, commenting: “Hubby and I had this EXACT problem in our old house, except our neighbor [sic] next door had a basketball hoop in the backyard pointing directly into our yard.

“The kids would throw the basketballs all.the.time. in my yard. I suggested to the parents to turn the hoop so it goes into their yard, which was possible as we had fairly large backyards. They said nope sorry. So I refused to answer the door when the kids would knock. They FINALLY changed the position of the basketball hoop!”

What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments.