Neighbours children looking into our garden

pow wow · 28-04-2011 09:57AM

Awesome movie.

OP - ignore them. Just give them a menacing face and say nothing. They tell their parents, so what, no-one heard anything. Menacing face also works when driving behind cars with kiddies who have their snotty noses glued to the rear window. I used to have an alcoholic neighbour who would hang over the dividing fence, sauced off her face, either peering in the kitchen window or trying to chit chat with me when I was in the garden. A mixture of menacing face/middle finger worked. That and I eventually moved.

phasers · 28-04-2011 10:00AM

New idea!

Wear earphones whenever you leave your house. Failing that, pretend to be wearing earphones.

bonerm · 28-04-2011 10:04AM

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.

Sky King · 28-04-2011 10:04AM

Get one of those plug-in high frequency teenager deterrant things and hook it up outside your gaff. It'll drive the kids mental and neither you nor their parents will be able to hear it as an adult's high frequency hearing deteriorates over time.

Sonnenblumen · 28-04-2011 10:04AM

What's this, if looks could kill or what?

I would be more surprised if young kids were not curious. Really, young kids do things like this, and if you make an issue of it, you're more likely to encourage it, and they could end up inviting other friends to join in! Soon you'll have more spectators.

Is it not harmless? Kids have a great ability to press buttons especially if they see interesting reactions, simply igniore them, and they'll lose interest and find something else to do.

But if it comes unbearable, you can plant a screen and/or instal a trellis screen etc.

Sonnenblumen · 28-04-2011 10:05AM

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.

Haw haw haw - not funny.:(

robbie_998 · 28-04-2011 10:08AM

I had a bigger problem just like that with travelers as per my thread about it.

Solution... wall got bigger, neighbors dog got hungry and a jeep got burnt out.

result.... they moved out !

martic · 28-04-2011 10:16AM

dclane wrote: »

Their kids are 3 and 5.

Well I never..... children at the age of 3 and 5 asking questions seems really really strange that one:eek::eek::eek:
What I do is let my kids play with the neighbours kids and there doesn't seem to be any problem at all, plus you have the added bonus of your own kids not always being under your feet asking you stupid questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64tOb0IqWZo

beertons · 28-04-2011 10:24AM

Get a copy of the anarchists cookbook and stick it in an envelope and post it to yourself. When you pick it up with your letters, fly next door and post it into theirs. Ooops, the post man made a mistake. They'll think you're a nutter, send it back over to you, and you'll never see their kids again.

R P McMurphy · 28-04-2011 10:34AM

Make loads of money and buy an estate house rather than living in a house on an estate

swingking · 28-04-2011 10:55AM

Roide your missus out in the garden and give them something to look at

kippy · 28-04-2011 11:01AM

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)

CreepingDeath · 28-04-2011 11:26AM

kilkenny flyer wrote: »

Get one of those plug-in high frequency teenager deterrant things and hook it up outside your gaff.

There's a free Android phone app called "Dog Whistler Lite", it produces tones from 0.01 khz - 22.00 Khz.

So all you'd need would be an earphone cable from the phone to a hifi, to amplify the sound.

* Note : I wouldn't run it for extended periods of time if you start hearing all the nearby dogs barking.

dpe · 28-04-2011 11:36AM

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.

Dun laoire · 28-04-2011 11:39AM

irish-stew wrote: »

Blast em with.....

A water hose.

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

In fairness it would p1ss you off too after a while, i know it would bother me. They're only kids i know but still.....

There's not alot you can do except maybe to talk to the kids folks, if you get on they will understand. Other than that you'll just have to wait until they grow out of it and hope the feck yer man next door got the shhhhhnip. :pac:

MIRMIR82 · 28-04-2011 11:53AM

REALLY - is this what After Hours has become:rolleyes:

hondasam · 28-04-2011 11:56AM

MIRMIR82 wrote: »

REALLY - is this what After Hours has become:rolleyes:

meaning what ?

MIRMIR82 · 28-04-2011 11:57AM

hondasam wrote: »

meaning what ?

meaning - we are actually going to give ligit advice now:eek:

Sea Sharp · 28-04-2011 11:58AM

You should do what the hot lady who lives behind me did and put up a cheapo wooden fence that is taller than the existing wall.

:pac:

Orando Broom · 28-04-2011 12:02PM

kippy wrote: »

Provide some sand, a few buckets, some toy machinery etc and let them use their imagination.

Another developer giving his children the start!

This type of behaviour has ruined the country.

jimthemental · 28-04-2011 12:16PM

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 · 28-04-2011 12:32PM

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 · 28-04-2011 12:36PM

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 · 28-04-2011 12:43PM

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 · 28-04-2011 01:04PM

Fire cleanses all...

Smyth · 28-04-2011 01:34PM

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 · 28-04-2011 01:36PM

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

opinion guy · 28-04-2011 01:43PM

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 · 28-04-2011 01:45PM

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 · 28-04-2011 01:45PM

Neighbours children looking into our garden

I read children as chicken

*disappointed*

Neighbours children looking into our garden

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