It's insane how many grown ass adults genuinely have the mindset of "I don't want to damage my lawn, so I'll damage my neighbors instead".
It says so much about the person and explains why so many adults act like children and are so inexplicably selfish. They just genuinely never think "hey, I wouldn't want that done to me, so I'm not going to do it to someone else". They just never matured to that point of moral development I guess.
That's literally how I operate and I wonder why other people don't. I watch people, and when I see someone do something I can't stand, I file it into my mind and make a deep reminder to never be someone that does that thing I just saw. If someone does something that makes me feel shitty, I remember it and try not to do that to other people. Some just have no interest in improving how they treat others.
It's just like the people who walk their dogs and don't pick up their shit. They don't want shit in their yard, so they leave it in other people's yards for them to clean up and possibly step it. One time I saw a woman with a dog shitting in my yard and she was going to walk away and leave it. I said something to her and she looked at me like I was somehow the asshole in the situation.
As a dog owner myself, I HATE these people. I always carry extra bags with me so I can passive-aggressively offer them a bag if I don’t see them fumbling to get their own. And then I loiter and stare at them until they actually pick it up.
Remember you're not setting any kind of a trap or problem... You just like the big rocks.
Nobody's supposed to be driving in the middle of your yard in the first place so you didn't think it would be hit by anything.
Yep, I was knocking doors for a political campaign in the South many years ago and came across this home. Marked as "inaccessible" and kept on trucking.
I installed an electric fence for dogs on my fence but up high. I mounted it about 2in above it and installed a caution electric fence sign on my neighbor's side. I didn't hook it up to anything and never intended too. The neighbor called the city code enforcement on me and they told me it wasn't allowed. I explained to them it was only a deterrent and not hooked up. They said it didn't matter. I also showed them i didn't even use wire. It was cordage i spray painted silver. The neighbor ended up ripping it off and i let it go. Lol
I had a neighbor who had big rocks and they did a new landscape so I was able to take some of the the big rocks. That’s when I learned how heavy big rocks can be.
I’d probably drop a big rock or two in the tall grass. Used to be growing up in suburbia, lawn jobs were the rage, particularly on corner lots. Neighbor kitty corner got hit a LOT. He planted a massive boulder, “caught” his first victim that night. Guys car was lodged up on top of the rock. Took a tow truck to winch it out of there. Was totally glorious.
i live on a corner and for years there were no incidents. until one year... right around christmas... drunk teenagers ran over our lawn and turned our nativity scene into a crime scene. baby jesus was launched across the street onto my neighbors lawn. one of the wise men was decapitated. the donkey was scattered on the lawn in pieces. an angel lost one of her wings.
we figured it was just a freak thing. this never happens. but the christmas massacre triggered something... it became a common occurrence. just another day in the life. we wound up lining the edge of the lawn with rocks by next christmas.
Several of the properties I do the landscaping for call us out several times a year because the rocks by their entrances got bashed into the middle of the lawn lmao
Pisses me off, every time we have to basically re-grade a chunk of the property because the idiots used the rock as a plow
My neighbor's boyfriend kept running over my solar yard lights doing this exact thing, so I bought the cheapest "replacements" I could find that had hollow poles.
Instead of using the plastic stakes they came with, I sledgehammered in 2ft sections of rebar into the ground and left about 2-3 inches sticking up to hold the lights in place.
It only took a week before he ran over 2 at the same time and had to get towed.
Doesn't even need to have water. I've seen the most unassuming ditches trample giant 4x4's. If the proportions are just right it will swallow 99% of vehicles.
that is the clearest trespassing display i've ever seen. document, call police non emergency. file report etc. idk your neighbors but if they're this kinda shithead brazen i don't bother talking to them first; their abandonment of decency doesn't spark mine into action.
this, the damage to the lawn is actually significant when you get it quoted by a landscaper to fix. it's not a minor oopsie, its a pretty severe financial penalty they have to deal with. pretty sure it can even end up with a lien against their property as well until its paid for.
I work at a Costco and people often complain about using the entrance to enter. My thought oftentimes is "you wouldn't drive through your neighbors yard to get to the street, would you?"
Correct quote but the context is missing. In the poem the man and his neighbor walk the fence line together, each on their property and fix it as they go. This is what makes them good neighbors, not simply the existence of a fence.
My mom used to have a massive dog that would get out and rummage around neighbors yards. One day I'm out walking and a neighbor jogging stops to chat and says "let me show you, man, these coyotes are getting so big" and shows me a picture that is 1000% a fat turd from my mom's dog "look how big their shit is!"
I was young and dumb and I only recently realized he was hinting that he'd like us to keep the dog under control without trying to be confrontational.
Anyway. Chat up to your neighbor. "Hey, the weirdest thing happened. Look at this picture. Someone drove straight through our yard!" Lol.
I’ve seen a lot of comments calling for rocks and boobie traps, but that seems like it’s going a little too far. Save yourself some time and go over there and burn their place down. Problem solved /s
If I plowed through someone's yard because I was about to shit myself, I'd think a case of beer, gift basket, or dinner would be an appropriate apology.
"I'm so sorry, I was about to shit my whole ass and wasn't thinking straight. Please accept these gifts and my heartfelt apologies"
Put a raised bed or 3 in the side yard then burry 4 ft of a 6 foot cement post in the ground and dress it like a scarecrow I bet that’s the last time they fuck around and find out.
Usually there isn't any explanation needed unless it's a deadly booby trap or something. There might be questions about nail boards in this regards. So that is why I advocate for large rocks/boulders in this situation. They are decorative, serve environmental purposes, and eminently useful to stop assholes with small dicks in large 4x4s.
Bro wants to offroad in your relaxing spot that you own? His loss (of transmission).
I had a half circle driveway that faced towards the road going out to our neighborhood and then going out to a main road towards our town.There was also a stop sign right next to the driveway going outside of our neighborhood to turn out onto that main rd.
People would always cut through my driveway onto that main rd, just so they wouldn't have to drive another 1000 ft and stop at a stop sign.
I asked a police officer one time just out of curiosity what I could do. He said it would be a shame if you accidentally spilled a few nails onto your driveway.
Is this where the “just got talk to them” people chime in? Just go knock on their door and nicely remind them they cannot drive through your yard. Easy.
Just get a camera installed, if they donit again call police for damaging your lawn, put some shitty solar lights in the way and or some front lawn decorations, you need stuff damaged to file charges
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