Isn’t it weird when parents ignore the bad things their children do?

In today’s story, one woman explains that some kids in her neighborhood threw garbage over their fence, and the parents didn’t do anything to stop them.

Eventually, she couldn’t take it anymore and decided that she would make the kids stop by getting revenge.

Check out the full story!

Children were playing “let’s dump all our crap over the fence” for years. I joined and won.

I have lived in my neighbourhood for six years.

I run daily and walk the dog daily, when it’s not -45C out, but since it’s a newer area there aren’t many paths. So I take basically the same sidewalks every single day.

There was a pattern to the mess…

About four years ago I noticed there’d always be a pile of crap on the sidewalk behind a specific home. We’re talking a basketball, pair of shoes, half of some plastic toy, an umbrella, etc.

Really random groupings of everyday life detritus, always on the sidewalk, always behind this house.

I have a short dog and also I am aware enough of the world that I know this stuff can affect say, a mother with a stroller or someone in a wheelchair trying to navigate around it. So when I’d come across it I’d always move it onto the grass because I didn’t really know where it was coming from.

She noticed that the neighbors weren’t happy about it either.

Eventually I’d see it get reported as litter on our local complaints app and the city would clean it up and that was that. Once or twice I took a garbage bag myself and threw it out.

This happened for years.

I had to make a Facebook account for a job I took, and idly decided to join my local neighbourhood Facebook group. Scrolling back to read the drama, I came across a complaint about that house.

Someone commented “try being their neighbour, it’s like living by a dump.”

There were some problematic children there!

By scouring the comments I found out these kids just do this constantly, the parents don’t care and have been talked to by the city and the neighbours, and the colour of the house of the culprits (confirming which house it was.)

The kids just thought this was fun.

So I decided – why not just throw everything BACK IN?

I began doing this in 2021.

She started her revenge…

Shoe? In their yard. Gatorade bottle? Yard. Dog poop bag? Yard.

One time a whole Barbie was out there. I picked it up. Chucked it.

See, the kids were never out when I was out. So no one really saw me throw it back in.

One time we threw the same shoe back and forth six times. Six runs, I saw that glitter Velcro shoe. Six times, I tossed it back over their fence.

She wondered why the parents didn’t stop the kids.

This whole thing baffled me because I can’t imagine the parents understood where all their stuff was going.

I saw a whole raincoat, big toys, adult sneakers. Like, these children were taking stuff from the house to do this!

It always slowed down in the winter but once the snow melted… it came back.

Things got worse!

One day I went for my run and one of those plastic tricycles was there.

Something in me snapped.

I moved it to the side and left it there. I ignored it for a few days.

Then, I went for a walk with my dog. And I heard the kids in the yard.

I picked that thing up, stepped far back, and with all my might, whaled that stuff into their yard.

She made it LOUD AND CLEAR!

I heard a shriek and the sound of breaking, and then silence.

Then I walked up to the fence, and said “I better not see any of your garbage on this sidewalk ever again.”

And then kept walking with my dog.

Because really, what were the kids gonna do? The fence was higher than they were, it was not gated nor close to a walking path, so if they wanted to see me they’d have to go down six houses to come out to the path I was on.

Finally some peace!

Their parents clearly didn’t care.

This was fall 2022.

I’m happy to report I haven’t seen a single piece of garbage behind their house since.

And yes, they still live there, their artwork is still proudly displayed in the windows.

That’s some bad parenting! Wouldn’t the parents notice the junk pile behind the house too?

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this story.

This user shares a story from their childhood.

This user knows the kids needed to learn a lesson.

This user shares another weird neighbor story.

This person is dealing with a similar situation.

This person’s friend had an interesting childhood.

It sounds like the revenge was effective!

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