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A neighbor should not get a say in who walks through someone else’s property.

One Australian man and his father learned that after allowing an older woman to use their yard as a shortcut.

The new neighbors took issue with it because their dog barked whenever she passed.

Soon, they started confronting the woman until she felt too uncomfortable to return.

Then, after her husband died, the situation escalated into threats against the father.

Read on to see what happened next.

Neighbor’s business to care who goes into our property?

Needed to rant. This takes place in Australia, as I’m living with just my dad. We have lived here for probably five years now while he’s retired and I’m working. Before all this, we had a nice neighbor who minded his own business but sadly passed away due to old age.

New neighbors moved in, and everything seemed to be going well. They renovated what seemed to be a shed at first into an actual home with actual fencing, and we seemed to live in peace. They occasionally have parties, but they were respectable and ended them on time.

However, this all changed the moment they got a dog.

At first, the dog wasn’t an issue.

Firstly, we never really paid much mind to the dog. Even our dog doesn’t start its territorial barking. What started this downfall was another neighbor of ours. She’s a nice old lady who’s constantly caring for her sick husband and likes to take her small dog for a walk.

Because the old neighbor had passed away and these new ones moved in with all their fences, her only shortcut to the main road, and a way to avoid disturbing other dogs in the street, was gone.

We, however, offered to let them walk through our yard. It basically turns a fifteen-minute walk to the main road into thirty seconds. As this happened, the new neighbors’ dog would bark.

Then, they yelled at the older lady.

A couple of days later, I was informed that these neighbors had apparently shouted at her in OUR yard.

How bad was it? Well, they made the poor woman cry on her way home. My dad, who noticed all this, confronted them, calling them out for their blatant rudeness. They seemed to think they were in the right, making up excuses like they were just protecting the old lady’s small dog from their friendly dog, thinking it would kill it.

After this confrontation, we no longer speak to them, and vice versa.

The old lady tried to continue walking her dog through our yard, but his wife was such a petty slob that she insulted her as she walked away. Unfortunately, she had to stop coming to our house because the new neighbors had basically scared her away.

Now, he’s just hoping it doesn’t get worse.

Cut to the present. My dad still visits her now and then, especially this week as her sick husband had sadly passed away. They wanted to keep talking back in my dad’s shed, so they proceeded to walk back to our house with flashlights due to it being dark.

Here’s the new neighbors again, butting in, but worse. My dad had to send the old lady and her daughter away while this neighbor threatened physical harm toward my dad. Luckily, my dad showed restraint, even when armed, and we have now reported this incident to the police.

But seriously, what the actual heck? They act like they own the entire street or something, and it’s really starting to become a headache for both of us. I worry it’s actually going to escalate.

Wow! That does sound like a pretty volatile situation.

Let’s see how the readers over at Reddit feel about the whole thing.

This person thinks the story is sus.

Here’s someone who wonders about the permit for the shed.

Great idea!

If you enjoyed this post, check out this story about a man who stopped salting his neighbors’ driveways when they wouldn’t stop driving through his yard.

That’s what it sounds like.

Those neighbors need to worry about what happens on their own property.

The father had every right to let the woman use his yard, especially when it saved her such a long walk.

Once the neighbor started making threats, though, this stopped being a simple disagreement.

Hopefully, the police report makes it clear that he cannot keep intimidating people whenever he feels like it.