Neighbours Basketball Hoop

Diceicle

Hi All

Thought I'd post this for a bit of a sounding board more than anything.

My neighbours kids inherited a massive basketball hoop/stand contraption some months back. I've never seen them use it.

The only ones who do use it are some young lads from somewhere else - another part of the estate best guess.

My home opens onto a public path of a cul-de-sac. So no driveway. The lads will usually set up the hoop about 7ft from my front door. I'll tell them to shift and they'll do so grudgingly. Though they'll typically move to the front of the house where my car is parked.

My problem here is the risk the basketball poses to front windows etc - particularly if I'm not home at the time.
Neighbours seem to have divested all interest and responsibility of the hoop.
I don't want my home to become the courtside seats for the local basketball court.

Have spoken to the neighbor once already but feel I'll have to raise it again to get some action in place and have him remove this nuisance.

What would you do?

Lumen

It's really quite difficult to smash a double glazed window with a basketball.

dhaughton99

Lumen wrote: »

It's really quite difficult to smash a double glazed window with a basketball.

It would certainly put a large dent on your car roof or bonnet. Not to mention the noise.

Sleeper12

dhaughton99 wrote:

It would certainly put a large dent on your car roof or bonnet. Not to mention the noise.

That's sort of part of life when you live in an estate.

Samuel T. Cogley

Sleeper12 wrote: »

That's sort of part of life when you live in an estate.

I live in an area many would consider pretty rough and 99% of the kids have a healthy respect for other people's property.

GG66

Diceicle wrote: »

Hi All

What would you do?

I'd remember that I always hated the neighbour that stopped us from playing ball and having fun. Then try to balance that with knowing young kids are enjoying themselves

Lumen

dhaughton99 wrote: »

It would certainly put a large dent on your car roof or bonnet. Not to mention the noise.

Ah, now you're moving the basketball hoop.

Samuel T. Cogley

Help them move it down to outside their own gaffe.

Diceicle

Lumen wrote: »

It's really quite difficult to smash a double glazed window with a basketball.

Agreed though the windows I'd be concerned about (the ones near the door) aren't double glazed.

Diceicle

GG66 wrote: »

I'd remember that I always hated the neighbour that stopped us from playing ball and having fun. Then try to balance that with knowing young kids are enjoying themselves

But try and balance that again with property damage and quiet enjoyment of my home.

Diceicle

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Help them move it down to outside their own gaffe.

Just the way the houses are positioned its not really possible.

OldMrBrennan83

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Browney7

You could join in and do an overzealous slam dunk which may solve your problem...

Diceicle

Patww79 wrote: »

Get rid of it yourself some night.

It's massive. And kinda heavy. I'd need someone with a big van or a flatbed to come by about 12 or 1.
Who is also in the Lucan area and needs to make an easy 100 bucks.

hawkelady

I'd say you were inundated with pm's once you mentioned the €100?? Yeah ?

John_Rambo

I had a friend with a similar problem, it was a trampoline abandoned by neightbours, it got blown around the street in the storms. He bought a bike lock in Halfords and locked it to the owners gate. It was dismantled soon enough.

average_runner

Diceicle wrote: »

It's massive. And kinda heavy. I'd need someone with a big van or a flatbed to come by about 12 or 1.
Who is also in the Lucan area and needs to make an easy 100 bucks.

Think outside the box, unscrew the basket.

breeno

average_runner wrote: »

Diceicle wrote: »

It's massive. And kinda heavy. I'd need someone with a big van or a flatbed to come by about 12 or 1.
Who is also in the Lucan area and needs to make an easy 100 bucks.

Think outside the box

3 points for one of those if I remember correctly.

worded

No one owns it?

Have monkeys in a tree

Remove tree

No tree = no monkeys

the_pen_turner

sell it on done deal.

Samuel T. Cogley

the_pen_turner wrote: »

sell it on done deal.

I'm up because 4 doors down the asshole's dog is barking and howling the estate down. He throws it out during the day too. You, Sir, are a genius!

Hitman3000

Diceicle wrote:

Agreed though the windows I'd be concerned about (the ones near the door) aren't double glazed.

I find if you make friends with the kids it can work out for the better. Help them find somewhere for the hoop that it bothers no one.

Steve The Barman

Blast them with Pish

Sleeper12

Sleeper12 wrote: »

That's sort of part of life when you live in an estate.

Absolute bull, it's opinions like this that excuse property damage.

Op at the very least I'd run the kids every time they start playing with it, properly run them away completely not just move where they play. Better option would be get rid of the hoop though or "dismantle" it.

amtc

Community gardai?

My parents had a nightmare with children kicking ball against a garage door...my mam was recovering from a hip operation and not only the noise when trying to rest but the fear of being hit when she was trying to exercise.

Community guard came an explained.

izzyflusky

If it were my mother she would have probably called a certain councellor from Lucan to complain. He sorted an issue once for her and now she has the poor man tormented when any issue comes up, but in fairness he usually does solve them lol.

amtc

amtc wrote: »

Community gardai?

My parents had a nightmare with children kicking ball against a garage door...my mam was recovering from a hip operation and not only the noise when trying to rest but the fear of being hit when she was trying to exercise.

Community guard came an explained.

If that was my mother I'd have had intervened long before calling any guard.

Diceicle

hawkelady wrote: »

I'd say you were inundated with pm's once you mentioned the €100?? Yeah ?

No offers....yet

Diceicle

worded wrote: »

No one owns it?

Have monkeys in a tree

Remove tree

No tree = no monkeys

A family across the road from me 'own' it but take little responsibility for it.
Their kids don't use - I've seen them play with it for I guess 10-20 minutes in the months its been here.
We all live in a sort of cul-de-sac part of the estate. The hoop isn't kept in their drive -its just left out on the road.

Diceicle

the_pen_turner wrote: »

sell it on done deal.

I'd actually pay someone to take it away.

Diceicle

amtc wrote: »

Community gardai?

My parents had a nightmare with children kicking ball against a garage door...my mam was recovering from a hip operation and not only the noise when trying to rest but the fear of being hit when she was trying to exercise.

Community guard came an explained.

Dont think it will / don't want it to come to community guard level - spoke with the dad of the house almost 2 weeks ago. So will approach him again. After that a permanent solution will arise.

dhaughton99

Sleeper12 wrote: »

That's sort of part of life when you live in an estate.

The way I see living on an estate is that if you give them an inch and they will take a mile. That’s why we have had to put up with horses, scramblers and drug dealing from one family for years because no one would take a stand.

Teyla Emmagan

Just take it down.

blade1

Just cut the hoop off it.
It's useless without a hoop.

tretorn

My mothers neighbours had a similar issue to this, the hoop was attached to an ESB poll and the neighbours near the pole kept getting the ESB to take it down, the Dad who put it up would just attach another hoop and on it went for months.

The neighbours who complained were new and the other man had lived all his life on the road, the hoop wasnt that near the new neighbours house and they were out all day working and were childless.

The new neighbours moved on and the man who kept putting up the hoop committed suicide.

Samuel T. Cogley

tretorn wrote: »

My mothers neighbours had a similar issue to this, the hoop was attached to an ESB poll and the neighbours near the pole kept getting the ESB to take it down, the Dad who put it up would just attach another hoop and on it went for months.

The neighbours who complained were new and the other man had lived all his life on the road, the hoop wasnt that near the new neighbours house and they were out all day working and were childless.

The new neighbours moved on and the man who kept putting up the hoop committed suicide.

Jesus Christ.

OldMrBrennan83

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Teyla Emmagan

tretorn wrote:

The new neighbours moved on and the man who kept putting up the hoop committed suicide.

That's very sad but it was hardly over a basketball hoop!

n!ghtmancometh

Few kids playing basketball and the responses here range from destroying the hoop, calling the guards or getting in touch with a public representative. Bloody hell. You live in an estate and don't own the public roads, let the kids be ffs.

OldMrBrennan83

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tretorn

No, it was inexplicable, no warning, no indication at all.

I just think the rowing was all so pointless every time I pass the pole where the hoop was.

It had nothing to do with the basketball hoop, the people complaining never spoke to a single person living on the road and they eventually bought a detached house on its own site somewhere else. We grew up on that road and we drove the neighbours completely insane knocking on their doors and running away and organising treasure hunts which involved hiding clues in neighbours daffodils and tulips. we played football and rounders and hopscotch from very early morning to very late at night, these children who played the basketball are much better behaved and as I said the hoop was across the road from all the houses, it was all very petty.

The OPS situation does sound very different. I think I wouldnt do any more complaining, wait a few weeks and just get someone to remove it in the middle of the night.

Cushie Butterfield

Those yokes can be hazordous when parking if you forget it’s there. You could report it to the council as illegal dumping/danger to kids/obstructing disabled, blind or elderly etc & see if they remove it: http://fixmystreet.ie/reports/South+Dublin/Lucan

Worth a try!

sunrainmooncl

Buy a lock and put it on the hoop. If the ball can't fit in, it's useless!

blade1

Patww79 wrote: »

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Good fences make good neighbours!

amtc

Royal Fit Python wrote: »

amtc wrote: »

Community gardai?

My parents had a nightmare with children kicking ball against a garage door...my mam was recovering from a hip operation and not only the noise when trying to rest but the fear of being hit when she was trying to exercise.

Community guard came an explained.

If that was my mother I'd have had intervened long before calling any guard.

I wasn't in the country.

WoollyRedHat

Have you considered moving?

Diceicle

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Have you considered moving?

Dragged it a good bit down the road previously - before I'd confirmed who was the owner.
It came back.


Also - its very heavy - this is basically a free-standing adult basketball hoop.

Mrs OBumble

Patww79 wrote: »

Kids and neighbours need to be kept in line.

Shooting hoops in a public place is not out of line.

Befriend the kids. That way ehen they start to get up fo real mischeif they will do it a good long way away from your place.

titan18

They're kids, so best thing to do is for your and other adults to be seen using it, and they'll see it as uncool and never go near it again.

pauliebdub

My solution would be to dismantle it, at least get rid of the hoop and take it to the dump.

WoollyRedHat

Diceicle wrote: »

Dragged it a good bit down the road previously - before I'd confirmed who was the owner.
It came back.


Also - its very heavy - this is basically a free-standing adult basketball hoop.

No no, I mean packing up, and moving out entirely.