Neighbours children looking into our garden

jimthemental

A neighbor of mine in college stopped a few kids from going through his garden by getting two of the cardboard things from inside loo paper and taping them together. He balanced them through a closed blind and lined them up to make it look like a set of binoculars was staring out at them. Creeped the little eejits out fairly quick.

iPlop

If the kids are that nosey, then maybe the parents are too, the kids got it from somewhere.My wifes friend is the worst kind of busy body I've ever seen.She used to send her kids out to see what the neighbors were doing when they either went out the back or front.Now the father was the complete opposite and was very embarrassed by her behaviour.

Captain Commie

had similar issue previously, no kids of my own, just very annoyed neighbour kids. would continually climb up the fence and peer over and always ask what im doing etc etc,

got to the stage where if my back door opened at all they were straight up the fence, got so annoyed with it and decided to have a chat with their dad whom i was on good terms with. Told him that i appreciate my privacy and that them always appearing like that and gawking into my house as well was not acceptable. Of course this was done whilst chatting over the fence and his kids were at their usual, lets just say they never looked over the fence again

fergpie

sabbotage the climbing frame when your neighbours are gone. next time they get up on it...... splat! they fall on their face and the climbring frame breaks. No more peerin over the wall.

sorted.

Tonyandthewhale

Fire cleanses all...

Smyth

next time they're on the frames have good old scream in the garden and start punching the grass

I have no idea what this will do

Wolfe Tone

Climb onto the climbing frame and superplex the kids off of it

opinion guy

dpe wrote: »

Our neighbour's kids do this all the time. Doesn't bother me at all, although I did draw the line when I came home and found them all sat playing in our driveway (not least because I could have easily run the silly little buggers over). I look at it this way; I lived in London for 15 years and barely spoke to any of my neighbours, here people are friendlier, which I found hard to deal with at first (being a naturally standoffish Englishman ), but kids playing out in the garden and the street has to be better than kids who are driven everywhere for "playdates" or just sit in the house playing Nintendo.

Aha I have the solution.

OP buy your neighbours kids a nintendo!

BengaLover

Move your washing line so it blocks their view..
Of course you would need to keep clothes hung out all the time, but it would be a small price to pay for some privacy..

Cookie_Monster

Neighbours children looking into our garden

I read children as chicken

*disappointed*

PandyAndy

Smyth wrote: »

next time they're on the frames have good old scream in the garden and start punching the grass

I have no idea what this will do

It made me laugh at least

questionmark?

Blast with piss, burn their house down, set a dog on them, sabotage said climbing frame, ring Joe Duffy, Kill them, Try talking to the parents outlining your grievances and state that you'd love for the kids to be friends but sometimes you need your privacy.

johndoe99

get your own child's climbing frame and position it at the same side and have your children do the exact same.

Delancey

Just goes to prove that kids are like farts - You love your own but hate everyone else's

Forest Master

Orando Broom wrote: »

Blast them with ****.

Blast them with tired lame jokes?

michelledoh

carolmon wrote: »

I had a similar situation, kids at the back had a slide in the garden and they'd climb up and hang over our wall, was no harm really just annoying.

I bought some trellis and attached it to the back wal and grew some climbing plants so it gives us a lot more privacy, our wall is about 8 ft now and it's a lot nicer to sit in the back garden without interruptions.

I was just going to suggest something similar! Like putting in taller fenches but the climbing plants are a brilliant idea.

Honestly i think you should talk to the parents. They don't know its a problem. I feel so sorry for you guys! Hope things get better!

Orando Broom

Forest Master wrote: »

Blast them with tired lame jokes?

If only he could get a Finnish person to stand in his garden.

Finns - Scarehumans.

xflyer

Phew, I thought it was my neighbour complaining. My two little brats, five and two climbed a tree branch and looked in at the neighbour. I was happily informed that they were talking to the lady. I told them in a loud and suitably stern voice not to do it again, hoping it carried across the fence.

Next they appeared with a little Easter egg each, which apparently the 'lady' had given them. Clearly she wasn't too bothered but then my two boys are rather charming. (I would say that, wouldn't I?)

So clearly the solution is to give them Easter eggs impregnated with some poison which will kill them. Or just chat over the fence to one of the parents and ask nicely, claim it's all the wife's fault as she overreacts. A bit of eye rolling helps.

On the other hand, to our left live two rather charmless children who have been known to climb up onto a shed which overlooks the garden armed with a hammer and bash away while looking in at us and commenting. Ther really are brats. They have their Mother on the edge of a nervous breakdown based on numerous screaming outbursts which rattle the walls sometimes.

It was annoying but was solved during a visit from a slightly older Dublin cousin who threw things at them. They never reappeared.

But at the end of the day they are just kids being kids. Annoying though it is.

OutlawPete

Go out a 3am and build the wall four foot higher.

pablomakaveli

irish-stew wrote: »

But seriously OP, they're kids, no, they're 5, are they really doing any harm?

One day their climbing fences then maybe the next they could be burning villages and raping and looting all before them. Better the OP nips this on the bud before it gets to that stage.

Undead

Talk to Joe.

jumbone

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CrackisWhack

Get one of those laser pen things, and shine it in their eyes when they get up on the climbing frame?

Plazaman

The next time they are on the frame, release a brace of ferrets into their garden. Each ferret should have a micro camera and a tiny vial of sulphric acid coupled with a small explosive device strapped to their backs which can be remotely detonated. Loudly drive you and your family away in your car beeping your horn and from a distance phone in to release the sulphuric. On your return, you should have scared children weeping and crying afraid to go outside again and lots of angried up ferrets roaming in packs in the back garden looking for revenge....... or vice versa.

jomc

Did your granny never tell ya!!!

A cat can look at a king!

they ust never said what happens afterwards

CrazyRabbit

1. Place Pedobear stickers in your back garden. Make sure the kids' parents see them.

2. Start preaching Satanism to the kids...within earshot of their parents

And if that doesn't get the parents attention....

3. Sneak out at night and put barbed wire on the climbing frame.

Unpossible

I think the OP already mentioned that he spoke to the parents and the parents spoke to the kids. Kids can be very headstrong, my three year old often ignores me until I have to raise my voice, but will try to go back doing whatever it was again as soon as my back is turned. They will grow out of it. In the mean time how about inviting them over to play with your kids more often? Their parents might be pushing them outside to play and they are bored.

In the end if its really bothering you then as others suggested plant trees/hedge or put up a taller fence.

Agent Smith

Murder the first Born. Where you'll get sent, the walls will be plenty high...

Saila

you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you!
...its always the quiet ones


and kids

Ahoy hoy

Place broken glass on top of the wall so when they lean on the wall they will rip their hands and arms to shreds. That will teach them to lean on your wall again.

Sonnenblumen

Ahoy hoy wrote: »

Place broken glass on top of the wall so when they lean on the wall they will rip their hands and arms to shreds. That will teach them to lean on your wall again.

And end up in Court where you can expect a big rip in your bank balance.

Hal1

Pepper spray the little scrots, that'll learn them! :pac:

gbee

Hal1 wrote: »

Pepper spray the little scrots, that'll learn them! :pac:

Ems, I think this deterrent is recommended for a different species.

karl tyrrell

When the neighbours go out jump the fence get a large jar of honey put it all over the climbing frame the wasps will come they will never look over your fence again.but just dont forget bee suit for your own kids:cool:

JJJJNR

Side splitting best thread in AH for ages' however I suggest flame throwers and BBQ sauce..

CatFromHue

its a tricky situation all right.

all i can think of is digging out your garden so its lower. by you being lower they wont have the angle to see you anymore.

regarding the kid looking in your kitchen window. have you thought about getting a one way mirror installed? the ones where its a mirrow on one side but from the other just a piece of glass.

TemptationWaits

Get your own climbing frame and stand on it staring at them in their garden while wearing a Pedobear mask you have fashioned.

no1beemerfan

bonerm wrote: »

Invite an African American (or a black person if you can't find an African American) to come live with you. The value of your neighbours property will plummet and they will sell up and move away.

FFS. That has to be the most stupid thing I've read an boards. You sound like a charming person. It says a lot about you.

Joe10000

no1beemerfan wrote: »

FFS. That has to be the most stupid thing I've read an boards. You sound like a charming person. It says a lot about you.

Spot on, he should get a couple.

Amalgam

irish-stew wrote: »

But seriously OP, they're kids, no, they're 5, are they really doing any harm?

According to The Daily Mail, they used a five year old to keep track of Bin Laden..

up for anything

kippy wrote: »

Is this what Irish Society has come down to?
I lived in a rural area with a house either side of us. Thankfully there were kids our own age living in both houses. There were no fences and as kids we "played" in each others back and front gardens - often having epic games of soccer/rugby and the likes.
Twas great to have people of a similar age nearby to play with and interact with.
I grew up with these people and the parents of the three families had a great break on turns from minding us.

I would embrace this as a parent, ask the other parents to knock a gate through the wall - get the kids to interact and play with each other. Provide some sand, a few buckets, some toy machinery etc and let them use their imagination.

(I realise how daft this post sounds in the context but its what I believe in)

I've had neighbours kids in and out of my house for what seems like forever but there are times when enough is enough and something starts to grate. For me it was when I was having a pee with the bathroom door open and suddenly in front of me appear two strange 9 year olds. That was it for me, front door locked and proper visiting procedures put in place - USE THE BLOODY DOORBELL. Luckily for me, I'm of the sit down variety but I do know a man who years ago had his jaw broken because the next door neighbour's 3 year old girl walked in, as was her habit, and saw him taking a piddle and went home and told her parents innocently that she had seen *****'s willie.

There is nothing more annoying than being stared at vacantly by children when you are in your own space and having to watch your behaviour because of it.

Dyr

I find phrases like "f**k off, you little pox" helpful in these situations

lastlaugh

Although they are only kids, I know having your privacy constantly breached is a real pain in the ass.
If you don't want to say it to the parents, get some 6 foot panel fences and bolt them to the wall. You should position them so that the kids can't see in from their perch.
You could also try to ignore them completely, hopefully their parents should hear them hassling you and tell them not to be so annoying.

fakearms123

I am so angry when I see these simple solvable questions about how to stop kids from looking into gardens, this is AH god damnit and I won't just sit here and let these kind of threads flood our great forum of After Hours, I should be replying to "How much fart do you need to inhale before you die" or "I kicked his face" threads :mad:

Build a higher fence than their climbing frame, it has been done before.