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By now, we all know that accidents happen. But the way people handle them afterward usually makes all the difference.

That’s what this homeowner found out after a neighbor’s child threw a foam boomerang that slammed into her house before bouncing off her car parked in the driveway.

In fact, the toy hit so hard that the home’s security camera picked up the sound.

Yet, the accident itself wasn’t what caused the problem. Rather than knocking on the door or apologizing, the mother walked through the yard, grabbed the toy, and left without saying a word.

After checking the camera footage and finding a scratch on the car, the homeowner took the frustration to the neighborhood’s community page. And as you may have guessed, that only made the situation worse.

Read on to see who you think crossed the line here.

Why do parents act like this?

Yesterday, my neighbor decided to play with her kids in the street in front of my house. Cool, it’s summer—have fun.

However, her kid then threw a foam boomerang toy on a day so windy it blew my next-door neighbor’s trash can over, and it smacked into my house.

It hit hard enough that I could hear it on the security camera (the one we installed because we’ve had issues with property damage before), then it bounced off my car. After that, the mother came galivanting through my front porch and yard to retrieve the toy.

Even after the post, the woman completely missed the point.

I don’t know who she is. I’ve never spoken to her, and now all I know is that her kids are throwing toys at my house. I would’ve loved to speak with her, but she didn’t knock on the door or say anything, and I don’t know who she is.

I was rightly upset and put her on blast in the community page, saying exactly this: “The toy your kid threw scratched my car. There is a park less than two minutes away. The least you could do is not do it again. The mark is the same blue as your toy, as you can see. So please be courteous to your neighbors. Also, shame on you.”

The lady commented, saying, “It’s only foam, and I didn’t see it hit anything besides the house. I can give you a $50 gift card.”

She just wants people to leave her car alone.

I didn’t want money. I just wanted you to be respectful of the things I work hard to have. I don’t have kids, so please don’t let your kids wreck my car. Now she wants to sue me for slander because I put her on blast.

Yeah, maybe I’m a Karen, but ****, please just leave my car alone.

If you had just knocked on the door and said, “Hey, sorry this happened,” I genuinely wouldn’t have been as upset. Instead, I found out because my security camera went off while you trampled through my yard, walked around my car, and onto my front porch to get the toy.

At the very least, she learned an important lesson.

I wouldn’t have put you on blast because I wouldn’t have been furious that you threw something at my property and walked away like it was no big deal.

It’s not major damage. It’s a foam toy. But that thing still hit hard enough to be picked up on a security camera.

I guess the lesson here is just call the cops. You can’t expect people to do the right thing, even when it’s caught on camera.

This whole thing sucks. I just wish they had given me the courtesy of a heads-up instead of leaving me wondering what the hell happened and checking to make sure their toy hadn’t damaged my stuff.

Eek! Of course, this parent’s actions weren’t right, but not all parents are like that.

Let’s see what the readers over at Reddit think about all this.

That’s one way to keep people out of your yard.

This is a great point.

Here’s someone whose neighbors do something similar.

This is too funny.

It’s amazing what a simple apology could’ve done.

If the neighbor had knocked on the door and simply apologized for what happened, this probably never would’ve turned into such a big deal.

Most people are willing to give someone grace when they take responsibility for an honest mistake.

However, at the same time, posting about it in the neighborhood group probably wasn’t the best move either. Giving the neighbor one chance to make things right first would’ve been a much better place to start.