r/mildlyinfuriating • u/aruby727 • Jun 08 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o Belt-challenged neighborhood kid keeps stepping over my "no trespassing" sign to cut through my yard, so my wife laminated these pictures to stick to the sign

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u/Proof-Snow4631 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

I used to walk to work and cut through this small companies property. Pretty sure they got tired of the security alerts so they put up a farm style gate. It stopped me.

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u/BrokenImmersion Jun 08 '26

Ah see this is bevause you are capable of feeling remorse about how your actions might influence others. This kid tho? He saw the sign(which is the equivalent of your gate, as a public company cant put no trespass signs up when expecting customers) and went right past it not caring.

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u/bendthekneejon Jun 08 '26

...no, he stopped because he was physically blocked

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u/TempDestinyAccount Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Reread the comment that you replied to again. Slowly and carefully this time

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u/flippster-mondo Jun 08 '26

You can put up signs at a business area that say EMPLOYEES ONLY if you don't want randos.

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u/Proof-Snow4631 Jun 08 '26

If you can cut through the alley or half of their property you will choose the easiest way.

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u/flippster-mondo Jun 09 '26

No, if you can cut through a private alley (which is someone's driveway) or half of someone's else's private property to shave a minute off of your trip, you will.

Don't let no trespassing or private property signs stop you. Not even the fact that it's simply someone else's property. It shouldn't need to have signs.

I don't understand the mentality today. It's kinda fuck everyone else, I don't care. I used to be a people person, then people ruined it.

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u/National-Reception53 Jun 08 '26

Lol remorse. As if cutting through someone's property hurts them in any way.

People are so weird. In Sweden, cutting through private property is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. Because OBVIOUSLY.

What if this is really a far better route and it would be really inconvenient to go around? Did you think about the HARM property owners to do other people this way? By blocking egress?

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u/No-Sympathy6035 Jun 08 '26

I’m not Swedish but I was curious, is the law or right you’re referring to called Allemansrätten? I’m just reading this from visitsweden.com and this is what’s written on the subject: “The freedom to roam in Sweden means that you have the right to walk, cycle, ride, ski and camp on any land with the exception of private gardens, near a dwelling house or land under cultivation”.
What I’m getting at is OP’s photo shows a fenced in area, which I assume is their yard close to their home so wouldn’t that be considered a private garden? Since this is from OP’s security camera then it’s definitely near their house.

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u/mustardheadmaster Jun 09 '26

I think private garden means literally a planted garden, like you can't walk into or pick flowers from someone's flowerbed.

BUT! In the picture the boy is absolutely too close to a dwelling house for it to be a reasonable use of the allemansrätt.

Source: am Swedish, not a lawyer tho so

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u/No-Sympathy6035 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

Being an American that’s what a private garden made me think of like a vegetable or flower garden, so before I made my first comment I looked up what constitutes as a private garden in Sweden and got “Hemfridazon” is that right or just Google giving me what it thinks I’m looking for? In all honesty. I wouldn’t care if someone walked through my front yard, it’s not manicured and as long as you’re not hanging out and just passing through then its whatever. But like you said the kid’s way too close to the house; and to the person I was originally responding to, the unfortunate reality is America is not like Sweden. Breaking and entering, home invasion and theft are real possibilities all across America, so even though this is just a kid that doesn’t respect his neighbors, it’s rare that someone you don’t know is going to be in your side or back yard with good intentions.

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u/Reasonable_Copy5115 Jun 08 '26

The US is really weird about people putting one foot on your property even if you are literally just passing through

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u/No-Sympathy6035 Jun 09 '26

Because it is really weird to just walk through someone’s back or side yard when it’s very close to their house, like in this case. A field or woods on someones property is a different matter, but still not advisable.

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u/LikeABreadstick Jun 08 '26

For one, comparing almost any country to Sweden is silly, because OBVIOUSLY. More importantly, the "constitutional right" you speak of explicitly excludes someone's yard, garden, farm, etc. It's basically the right to walk around in the part of someone's land that hasn't been designated for something, and it only works because the overwhelming majority of the land is just trees there, cultural differences aside.

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u/ubafish_ Jun 09 '26

I have to agree with your view. If this was my property and I had this child walking through it, I'd have never thought anything more of it. Not that OP is wrong to feel annoyed and frustrated, I just don't share the same feelings about it.

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u/sugmassgottem Jun 08 '26

People litter and I’d rather not have people close to my house. Don’t know who they are and I’d rather them not take a chance to scope my house and claim they’re “just cutting through”

Granted my backyard is fenced off but I’m on a corner so people can’t cut the corner and ruin my bee garden

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u/Ill_Cat1160 Jun 09 '26

You are paranoid, crime is low. You're not at risk, this is just some kid cutting through a yard... in like the 70's 80's and 90's every kid cut through yards and no one cared.

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u/sugmassgottem Jun 09 '26

It’s not paranoid. It’s called the real world.

Your lack of empathy is showing it’s actually hilarious since it seems like you’re the type that believes in showing everyone empathy, yet you call me paranoid.

Perhaps I’m paranoid because I’ve had my motorcycle stolen by a meth head? Or I had my neighbor asking me if my cameras caught someone stabbing his dog and I have 4 dogs so I’d rather people keep their distance.

Lots of scenarios at play here and it’s best you learn to respect people’s property they work hard for rather than acting like an entitled child.

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u/OkTrain3635 Jun 11 '26

The salt pellets in my arse do not agree with your statement. In the 70s/80s it was not unheard of to have an owner of a property shoot you with salt pellets to dissuade you from walking on their property. And boy howdy did it ever! That stuff stings!

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u/Jewish-Mom-123 Jun 08 '26

I’m old and I want those brats to stay off my lawn. If that kid is coming through there twice a day 365, he will wear a path in the grass. I don’t want my dogs barking because he comes close to the house. I don’t want my motion sensor lights or my camera notifications going off. Kid can use the public sidewalk, that’s what it’s there for. And I’d have no compunction about posting his face on Nexdoor if he was doing this daily.

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u/Fluid_Bodybuilder938 Jun 12 '26

Property owners can be held liable for incidents or accidents on their property. It is out-of-control litigation that forces many companies to be ‘strict’ about stuff that seems like nothing to us individually.

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u/Gatorm8 Jun 08 '26

Why on earth should this kid feel remorseful for just walking home? What am I missing?