A Storm Blew His Porch Swing Into the Neighbor’s Yard—and Now They’re Refusing to Give It Back
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Gee whiz, I guess the idea of being a good neighbor is a foreign concept these days… It sure seems like it! And this story is just one more depressing example.
A man explained why he’s having some serious beef with a neighbor who is playing hardball…with a porch swing.
Check out what’s going on in this neighborhood!
Neighbors stole our bench swing and then pointed it facing our property.
“We moved to our current house back in January.
We have a situation and if anyone has advice it would be appreciated.
When we moved here, our house had a bench swing installed and facing the creek in our backyard. We also had a swing set. A few months ago, we were hit hard by flooding and it took out the bench swing and the swing set, carrying them hundreds of feet.
The swing set ended up mangled in the trees on the edge of the property line, and the bench swing went into our neighbor’s property across their driveway into some thicket (we live in the country).
We spent a couple of weeks trying to clean up after and got the swing set down and out (it was metal and bent around a lot of things), but the bench swing was still there.
These folks sound pretty difficult…
Right after getting the swing set fully out of the trees, the neighbors put up No Trespassing signs, preventing us from going into their property and cutting out the bench.
We figured it’s fine, we’ll leave it, and when see them we’ll talk to the neighbors and ask to get it out. At that point we hadn’t met them yet.
Every time we’ve seen them since they stuck the sign up, they’ve avoided us like the plague, have called the cops in us (for literally no reason, and they’ve sided with us each time), have yelled at us for getting close to their property line (but not even on their property), driven by slowly while my kids have been playing outside…the list goes on.
This is ridiculous!
We haven’t had a chance to remove the rest of our belongings due to this. We’re trying not to be jerks or do anything illegal by trespassing but we’re also not sure why they have such an issue with us.
Now to the main reason for the post.
Oh, hell no!
That bench swing? I noticed it this morning…hanging on posts on their property, in a way that they can watch what’s going on in our yard once the leaves fall off the trees.
How do I know it’s our bench?
It wasn’t there before, the old bench isn’t in the thicket anymore, and our bench had a very specific pattern to it. They didn’t even offer to give it back after not letting us get it, they just took it and used it.
I have photos of it pre-flood taking it away so I can confirm it’s ours.
Is there anything we can do to get it back, sans calling the cops since they refuse to talk to us?
Would they even do anything?
Are we out of luck because it was on their property for a few months (even though they wouldn’t let us legally retrieve it to begin with)? It’s not the end of the world but at the same time, it’s a serious ‘what the hell?’
They have no trespassing signs EVERYWHERE and seem like they have a screw loose so I don’t think going up and knocking on their door is an option either as I don’t want to get shot at or have the cops called on us for no reason again.”
Reddit users spoke up.
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This reader had a lot to say.
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Another person weighed in.
If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who stops helping his neighbors out with his snowplow after they complain about his farm.
And this reader offered some advice.
Are his neighbors total psychos, or is it just me? I think I’m right about this one! How weird!
All this fuss over a porch swing…
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